Many of us love visuals. When you land on a website, it’s the visual images that draw our attention first, don’t you agree? They say you have only a few seconds to grab your website visitor’s attention. Yes, a few SECONDS! And if you fail, people leave. No wonder people spend so much effort to make websites visually appealing.

As you know, it’s very easy to insert images into a post or a page in WordPress. But what if you want to showcase multiple images – like a portfolio – in a very attractive way?

Well today I am going to teach you about WordPress image galleries!

Click Video to learn, and read below…

Image Gallery

An image gallery is a group of images, typically shown in a grid view (there are variations). Works really well when you want people to see many small-size images at once instead of one at a time.

Image Gallery is already included as a part of WordPress’ media uploader function, but I find its features pretty limited. My favorite gallery plugins are Foo Gallery and NextGEN Gallery. They both give you many options to arrange your images and add effects so that your images will pop.

Here is an example of the standard Image Gallery that is build into WordPress. You can click on each image to enlarge.

You can read more about using the standard image gallery with the Classic Editor in the WordPress official documentation

And Here is a sample image gallery made with FooGallery.  You can click on each image to enlarge.
(Note the first image links to a page on this site, and the last one links to an external website)

 

Another popular image gallery is the NextGEN GalleryI will leave that up to you to try out.  (I had found it confusing so I opted to not use it)

 Although these three galleries seem very similar, I find the  FooGallery plugin the easier to use on, and gives you the most functionality.

So try out one of these image gallery plugins, or look for other gallery plugins in the WordPress plugin depository, and let me know what you think!

See also my other article on the difference between an Image Slider and an Image Gallery

(originally published in June 2015, Updated October 2025)

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