Psychologist Albert Mehrabian’s studies demonstrated that 93% of the communication process is nonverbal. It was scientifically proven that the human brain deciphers image elements simultaneously, while language is decoded in a sequential manner, hence, taking more time to process.
If you want to start a website with a focus on images it is important to find the best WordPress gallery plugin to make sure your works stands out.

NextGEN Gallery

Features:

• Powerful functionality
• Centralized gallery management
• Advanced customization options: edit, change gallery title and description, reorder, resize thumbnails, etc.
• Two main display styles: Slideshow and Thumbnail or display Imagebrowser galleries and Singlepics.
• Slideshow Galleries: choose from a vast array of options for slideshows, including slideshow size, transition style, speed, image order, and optional navigation bar.

Price: Free| Downloads: 11,480,383 |Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars

Envira Gallery

Features:

• Responsive WordPress gallery plugin
• Simple to use; drag and drop photo re-ordering;
• Cross-browser compatibility
• Extra features: add PinIt! buttons, enable protection against download, enable full screen mode and deep linking to specific images in the lightbox mode;
• Need more features? Install one or multiple Envira Addons to extend what you can do.

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Fast Gallery – Premium WordPress Plugin

Details| Price: 17$

If you want to set up a beautiful gallery in less than 1 minute, Fast Gallery is the solution for you.

Features:

• 5 types of gallery (Prettyphoto, Photobox, Magnificer Popup, Fotorama, Custom URL)
• Custom color for each gallery (Main color with opacity and Secondary color)
• Responsive / Fluid
• Video tutorial and dummy content included to help you set up your content in no time

Justified Image Grid

Details|Price: 28 $

The plugin has many important features and offers incredible customization options. We shall mention just some of them.

Features:

• Automatically align images to a justified gallery keeping their original aspect ratio
• Responsive
• Facebook, Flickr and Instagram compatibility: visually select your single or multiple photo albums to load.
• Pull videos from Youtube, Vimeo and images from 500px, Pinterest, deviantART, Stumbleupon, Imgur, Tumblr, WordPress.com – using a regular link to Feed URL converter tool.
• Natively HDPI display or Retina Ready
• 337 unique settings and shortcode attributes that you can change for each gallery
• Multiple free lightbox options bundled: a customized prettyPhoto with social sharing, ColorBox, Magnific Popup by Dmitry Semenov, PhotoSwipe
• Magnifier icon (can be changed) in the middle of the transparent color overlay

Media Grid

 Details|Price: 18$

Features:

• Quick Setup (1 click set up 10 presets styles)
• Custom attributes and Item categories
• Static and single image item types
• Sliders and Lightbox video item types
• Inline video, Audio, Custom content item types
• Inline text and spacer item types
• Grid builder
• Shortcode Wizard
• WooCommerce integration
• Responsive

 Essential Grid

With Essential Grid you can display, in a highly customizable manner, portfolios, blogs, galleries, WooCommerce shops, price tables, services, product sliders, testimonials and anything else you can imagine.

Details|Price: 25$

Features:

• For usage examples : http://essential.themepunch.com/
• Super Easy to use for beginners
• Boxed, full-width, full-screen layouts
• Adjustable rows/columns/spacings
• WooCommerce compatible
• 25+ Example Skins Included
• Responsive
• Visual Skin Editor: customize your own skins easily
• Extensive documentation & tutorial videos

Fancy Gallery

Details|Price: 24$

Features:

• Thousands of layout and hover effect variations
• Different navigation types
• Different color themes
• Widgets included: Display a single album, create a list of album links, display latest/random media
• User-friendly AJAX admin
• Upload different types of media
• Many options for customizing your galleries
• HTML Generator to use galleries on external websites
• Multiple Image Upload
• Auto-Thumbnail (you don’t need to create thumbnails by yourself)

Go

Details|Price: 22$

Features:

• Visual Composer compatible.
• 2 Filtering types (classic isotope and opacity change).
• 4 default styles (FLEX, DOOR, VARIO, DELUX).
• Responsive grid layout or horizontally slider layout (up to 10 columns).
• Flexible, percent based grid system with customizable vertical and horizontal spaces.
• Huge Admin Panel with tons of options.
• Unlimited portfolios.
• WooCommerce support – Product showcase.
• Image+video(Vimeo, Youtube, Screenr, Dailymotion, Metacafe)+audio support (Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Beatport)
• Supports all modern browsers (including IE8)

PhotoMosaic for WordPress

Details|Price: 17$

Features:

• Works with WordPress’ native gallery system. Simply select “PhotoMosaic” from the template field when you create your gallery
• Create Galleries  from a list of images, images attached to a post/page, and categories and tags in any taxonomy (default and custom)
• Fully Responsive
• Masonry Layout
• Customizable columns, width, padding, and more!
• Supports Lazy Loading

Meteor Slides

Meteor Slides is the simple way to create slideshows and publish them with a shortcode, widget, or template tag. The slideshows scale with responsive and fluid themes to fit any device and have touch support.

 Details| FREE

 Gallery Share

 Details|FREE

Features:

• Easy to set up and install
• Brings the power of Facebook photo comments to your website
• Your visitors can even tag their Facebook friends on a photo on your website