I’ve been looking at WordPress plugins for photo galleries (so maybe this is for superuser.com), and I’ve been very frustrated so far. It seems like what I’d like to do would be a very common use case:
- Admin: Be able to upload multiple pictures (at a time)
- Admin: Be able to assign a “gallery” to those pictures as I upload them
- User: Be able to go to a page with a (paged) list of all galleries
- User: Be able to click on gallery and view the images (again, probably paged) in that gallery
- User: Be able to click on an image to get larger/largest sizes
- User: Be able to leave comments on individual pictures (this is a “nice to have”)
The images/galleries could be totally independent of posts/pages, but it would be nice to be able to embed those images/galleries into posts/pages when necessary.
Is there anything out there like this that I’m missing? I’ve tried a handful of plugins and none of them seem to be for a use case anywhere close to what I’m looking for. One of the reasons I’m trying to use WordPress is to reduce time spent coding everything I want.
Check out NextGen Gallery. It’s a great image gallery plugin for WordPress.
Try taking a look at the this NextGen site for a walkthrough of all it’s features.
Here are two other alternatives that look like they may fit what you’re looking for (of course, you may have already tried them unsuccessfully):
PhotoSmash Galleries
Post videos and photo galleries
Good Luck!
Tag Gallery may be of interest to you. You can manage your media via tags from the built in Media Library of WordPress and this plugin builds galleries from your tags. Pretty nifty.