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Gallery by BestWebSoft – Customizable Image and Photo Galleries for WordPress

Gallery by BestWebSoft – Customizable Image and Photo Galleries for WordPress

Description

Gallery by BestWebSoft is the best responsive gallery plugin for WordPress, designed to help you create unlimited image galleries with albums and categories in just a few clicks. Customize your gallery’s appearance, add comments, and organize images effortlessly.

Perfect for photographers, artists, bloggers, and businesses who want to present their images professionally, boost engagement, and improve user experience.

Key benefits:
* Fully responsive galleries that look great on any device
* Unlimited albums, images, and categories
* Multiple sorting and layout options
* Easy-to-use interface with no coding required
* Supports all popular image formats and WordPress media library
* Multilingual and RTL ready
* Detailed documentation and tutorial videos available

Experience the power and flexibility of Gallery by BestWebSoft today!

View Demo
YouTube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aydaTdOpaRM

Free Features

Pro Features

All free features included plus:

  • Additional gallery layouts:
    • Grid (default)
    • Masonry
  • Display image text:
    • Under images
    • On mouse hover
  • Configure lightbox:
    • Image size
    • Background color and transparency
    • Gallery item slug customization
  • Image crop position control:
    • Horizontal and vertical alignment
  • Social Like buttons integration:
    • Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest
  • Lightbox helper options:
    • Buttons and thumbnails
  • Enable watermark for gallery image:
    • Text
    • Image
  • Image optimization [NEW]
  • Select target attribute (self/blank) for external URLs
  • Add descriptions and buttons with URLs inside lightbox
  • Single gallery pagination support
  • Configure galleries individually or globally
  • Network multisite support and configuration
  • Priority support with response within one business day (Support Policy)

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Documentation & Videos

Help & Support

For questions or assistance, visit our Help Center: https://support.bestwebsoft.com/

Affiliate Program

Earn 20% commission by promoting BestWebSoft premium WordPress plugins and themes — https://bestwebsoft.com/affiliate/

Translation

If you want to contribute or update a translation, send PO and MO files to BestWebSoft Support.
Use Poedit to work with translation files.

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Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

Gallery by BestWebSoft Add beautiful galleries, albums & images to your WordPress website in few clicks.

Installation

  1. Upload the gallery-plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Click ‘Add New’ in the ‘Galleries’ menu and create your gallery page.
  4. Adjust global settings in WordPress admin panel under “Gallery” > “Global Settings”.

FAQ

How do I use the plugin?

  1. Go to ‘Galleries’ > ‘Add New’ in WordPress admin.
  2. Add or upload images via the ‘Add Media’ button.
  3. Save your gallery.

See detailed instructions here: How to Use Gallery Plugin

How to override plugin templates safely?

Template files are located in /wp-content/plugins/gallery-plugin/templates/.
To customize without losing changes during updates, copy templates to your theme folder:
/wp-content/themes/your-theme/bws-templates/

Example:
Copy /wp-content/plugins/gallery-plugin/templates/gallery-single-template.php to
/wp-content/themes/your-theme/bws-templates/gallery-single-template.php

Do NOT edit plugin core files directly.

I’m getting “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_post_thumbnail_id()” – what to do?

Your theme likely lacks thumbnail support. Add this to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘theme_setup’ );
function theme_setup() {
add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );
}

This will enable thumbnails and fix the error.

How to change image order in a single gallery?

In the WordPress admin menu, go to “Galleries”, select your gallery, and reorder images via drag-and-drop.
Make sure the plugin setting Sort images by is set to Sorting order in the Gallery.

Problems with RTL languages and lightbox on iPad/iPhone?

  1. Replace <html <?php language_attributes(); ?>> with <html> in your header.php.
  2. Remove direction: rtl; from body CSS and apply it to the main wrapper element instead.

Example for Twenty Eleven or Twenty Ten themes:
`css
body {
/* remove this /
/
direction: rtl; */
}
.hfeed {
direction: rtl;
}

Reviews

January 5, 2026 1 reply
For years great (free) plugin / gallery to show all my photos as photographer. Unfortunately recently my old galleries are no longer visible in Direct Admin / Dashboard. A white screen appears. On my website they are still online. New galleries (thumbnails to larger photos) can’t be added.According to support BWS this could be due to using another plugin or theme. I have already checked that; deactivate all plugins except BWS gallery and installed another theme but problems still exists. I also added another plugin / gallery which is working fine. Their solution should be: give BWS access to all my usernames and passwords of Direct Admin / Dashboard and FTP after full backup. For security reasons I won’t give.
May 8, 2021 1 reply
Client has been using free version for a few years, but called me when they couldn’t change the settings or add a new gallery. Reinstalled entire website – updated WordPress, Theme and all plugins to latest version – now at least they can create new galleries but the settings still don’t work. I’m guessing this is a con to force you to go pro – but having had no business for over a year the client will not spend any money especially as WordPress now appears to have support for galleries “out of the box”. Just a real pain for them to have to move everything into a new galery as the site has over 1500 photos (after pruning from over 3500)
March 8, 2018
The BestWebSoft team were able to successfully update my Gallery-Pro from an older version to the newest. Major incompatibilities, but they got it fixed. It was with great relieve that I saw the 30 some galleries back, and working! BWS support did a great job, in a reasonable time. Thanks Roger
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Contributors & Developers

“Gallery by BestWebSoft – Customizable Image and Photo Galleries for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

V4.7.9 – 16.05.2026

V4.7.8 – 14.05.2026

V4.7.7 – 20.01.2026

V4.7.6 – 23.12.2025

V4.7.5 – 10.03.2025

V4.7.4 – 03.03.2025

V4.7.3 – 28.10.2024

V4.7.1 – 23.09.2023

V4.7.0 – 23.03.2023

V4.6.9 – 27.09.2022

V4.6.8 – 10.09.2021

V4.6.7 – 28.01.2021

V4.6.6 – 27.03.2020

V4.6.5 – 16.03.2020

V4.6.4 – 01.11.2019

V4.6.3 – 04.09.2019

V4.6.2 – 17.06.2019

V4.6.1 – 09.05.2019

V4.6.0 – 29.03.2019

V4.5.9 – 08.02.2019

V4.5.8 – 24.12.2018

V4.5.7 – 03.09.2018

V4.5.6 – 27.08.2018

V4.5.5 – 08.03.2018

V4.5.4 – 15.12.2017

V4.5.3 – 05.12.2017

V4.5.2 – 28.08.2017

V4.5.1 – 18.07.2017

V4.5.0 – 06.04.2017

V4.4.9 – 13.02.2017

V4.4.8 – 04.01.2017

V4.4.7 – 03.01.2017

V4.4.6 – 13.10.2016

V4.4.5 – 19.09.2016

V4.4.4 – 15.09.2016

V4.4.3 – 17.08.2016

V4.4.2 – 15.07.2016

V4.4.1 – 27.06.2016

V4.4.0 – 15.04.2016

V4.3.9 – 18.03.2016

V4.3.8 – 19.10.2015

V4.3.7 – 18.09.2015

V4.3.6 – 09.09.2015

V4.3.5 – 11.08.2015

V4.3.4 – 10.08.2015

V4.3.3 – 07.07.2015

V4.3.2 – 24.06.2015

V4.3.1 – 09.06.2015

V4.3.0 – 18.05.2015

V4.2.9 – 28.04.2015

V4.2.8 – 12.02.2015

V4.2.7 – 09.02.2015

V4.2.6 – 24.12.2014

V4.2.5 – 06.11.2014

V4.2.4 – 15.10.2014

V4.2.3 – 19.09.2014

V4.2.2 – 07.08.2014

V4.2.1 – 11.07.2014

V4.2.0 – 15.05.2014

V4.1.9 – 11.04.2014

V4.1.8 – 02.04.2014

V4.1.7 – 31.03.2014

V4.1.6 – 05.03.2014

V4.1.5 – 12.02.2014

V4.1.4 – 06.02.2014

V4.1.3 – 15.01.2014

V4.1.2 – 25.12.2013

V4.1.1 – 13.12.2013

V4.1.0 – 6.12.2013

V4.0.9 – 29.11.2013

V4.0.8 – 22.11.2013

V4.0.7 – 15.11.2013

V4.0.6 – 8.11.2013

V4.0.5 – 1.11.2013

V4.0.4 – 28.10.2013

V4.0.3 – 18.10.2013

V4.0.2 – 11.10.2013

V4.0.1 – 02.10.2013

V4.0.0 – 24.09.2013

V3.9.9 – 13.09.2013

V3.9.8 – 04.09.2013

V3.9.7 – 26.08.2013

V3.9.6 – 13.08.2013

V3.9.5 – 07.08.2013

V3.9.4 – 24.07.2013

V3.9.3 – 18.07.2013

V3.9.2 – 11.07.2013

V3.9.1 – 02.07.2013

V3.9 – 28.05.2013

V3.8.9 – 16.05.2013

V3.8.8 – 22.04.2013

V3.8.7 – 10.04.2013

V3.8.6 – 26.02.2013

V3.8.5 – 14.02.2013

V3.8.4 – 25.01.2013

V3.8.3 – 04.01.2013

V3.8.2 – 03.01.2013

V3.8.1 – 21.12.2012

V3.8 – 20.12.2012

V3.7 – 23.10.2012

V3.6 – 03.10.2012

V3.5 – 27.07.2012

V3.4 – 24.07.2012

V3.3 – 12.07.2012

V3.2 – 27.06.2012

V3.1.2 – 15.06.2012

V3.1.1 – 13.06.2012

V3.1 – 11.06.2012

V3.06 – 01.06.2012

V3.05 – 25.05.2012

V3.04 – 27.04.2012

V3.03 – 19.04.2012

V3.02 – 12.04.2012

V3.01 – 12.04.2012

V2.12 – 27.03.2012

V2.11 – 26.03.2012

V2.10 – 20.03.2012

V2.09 – 12.03.2012

V2.08 – 24.02.2012

V2.07 – 17.02.2012

V2.06 – 14.02.2012

V2.05 – 18.01.2012

V2.04 – 13.01.2012

V2.03 – 12.01.2012

V2.02 – 11.01.2012

V2.01 – 03.01.2012

V1.02 – 13.10.2011

V1.01 – 23.09.2011

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