Gallery Manager free WordPress plugin

Gallery Manager is the most innovative state of the art WordPress Gallery Management tool which enables you to organize image galleries easily in your WordPress backend. Furthermore this gallery plugin adds a beautiful awesome javascript lightbox effect (touch-enabled, responsive, optimized for both, mobile and desktop, web browsers) to all links pointing to an image anywhere on your website. This includes images in your posts, galleries, pages, sidebar widgets and anywhere else on your website.

Lightbox

All links pointing to an image will automatically opened in a responsive lightbox. You do not need to care about any tag attributes or link classes, the plugins takes care about that for you. When using the default [gallery] shortcode the images will get a “previous”, “next” and a slideshow button. The gallery itself uses your themes gallery style and keeps your common identity untouched.

Gallery management features

• Organize image galleries separated from posts or pages
• Centralized gallery management. Enjoy a single location where you can see and manage all your galleries
• Automatically generated index page with all galleries
• Every gallery has its own page with unique URL
• Taxonomies to classify your galleries: Categories, Tags, Events, Places, Dates, Persons, Photographers.¹
• Both, tags and categories, are disjunct from your post tags and post categories
• Supports gallery comments²
• Supports featured images as gallery thumbnails²
• Supports excerpts for your uploaded galleries² (the same way you already know from regular posts)
• Excerpts can contain a text description and a random set of preview images
• Supports WordPress user permissions and capabilities¹
• Supports the WordPress menu system and enables you to add all components of your galleries to any menu
• Import and export directly via the official “WordPress Importer” by Automattic Inc.

Lightbox features

• Javascript lightbox support for all linked images on your website
• Has “Previous” and “Next” buttons
• Shows image title and description
• Lightbox is touch-enabled, responsive and mobile-friendly
• Supports swipe function for touch screens – works with every smart phone and tablet
• Awesome image slideshow function
• Indicator thumbnail images below the full size image
• Uses the full screen size for presenting your image

General features

• SEO conform URL structure for all kind of pages
• Supports WPML flawless
• Supports the WordPress theme template hierarchy and the parent-child-theme paradigm
• Supports user defined HTML templates
• Supports RSS feeds for the gallery index and for the comments of each gallery
• Custom thumbnail sizes¹
• Fully compatible with all existing themes with archive template
• WordPress filter to modify your galleries code and style
• Widget to display random images from your galleries in the sidebar
• Widget to display galleries as list in the sidebar
• Widget to display the gallery taxonomies as list or cloud in the sidebar
• Applies your themes gallery style
• Completely translatable – .pot file is included
• Includes a bunch of filters to give you the control of the behavior of this piece of code
• Clean and intuitive user interface
• Works great with WordPress Multisite
• Personal one-on-one real-time support by the developer¹
• No ads or branding anywhere – perfect white label solution¹

¹ Available in Gallery Manager Pro.
² Your theme needs to support this too.

Gallery shortcode

Of course you can use “exclude” and “include” parameters in your [gallery] shortcode like you already know from the traditional gallery shortcode. The Gallery Manager plugin does not touch the mechanic of the default [gallery] shortcode.

Settings

You can find the settings page in your Dashboard -> Settings -> Galleries.

Template files

All plugin outputs can be changed via user defined HTML templates. Just put the templates you want to overwrite inside your theme folder (no matter if parent theme or child theme). You can find the default templates in the plugin folder in “templates/”. You can find a list of the available template files in documentation of the pro version. Please do not modify the original templates! You would lose all your modifications when updating the plugin!

Questions and support requests

Please use the support forum on WordPress.org only for this free lite version of the plugin. For the pro version there is a separate support package available. Please do not use the WordPress.org support forum for questions about the pro version or questions about my services! Of course you can hire me for consulting, support, programming and customizations at any time.

Pro Version

Gallery Manager is available as premium version too. In the premium version you can use all options and features which are restricted in the lite version.

Possibly even more important, buying the premium edition gives you access to me and my support team. You can email us your questions about usage of the plugin or your problems in setting it up and we will assist you in no time!

Languages

• This Plugin is available in English.
• Diese Erweiterung ist in Deutsch verfügbar. (Ulrike Seddig)

Translate this plugin

This plugin is community translated. You can help translate it or improve existing translations on the official translation plattform.

You can find the Translation.pot file in the languages/ folder in the plugin directory. The textdomain of this plugin is “fancy-gallery”.