I need to create a gallery like this where clicking on the thumbnails loads a new image and caption in the area above the thumbnails:
I always prefer to not use plugins, but in this case I think I might be forced to as the in-built gallery system for WordPress doesn’t work for me (there’s no easy way to remove images from the gallery set without deleting them, no easy reordering and captions seem difficult to implement).
Would NextGen be the best choice for this, or is there a paid option that’s worth looking at and can this be easily styled?
Thanks for any pointers
For simple galleries, I usually code something up using Magic Fields. It gives the client an easy to use interface for adding images via the media library, with drag-and-drop reordering. Then I’ll use a jQuery slider on the front-end, or I’ll write my own.
I used Galleria (not a plugin) and custom coded functions up for wp gallery to do exactly the same as you require except the thumbs were listed vertically to the right of the large image.