How to create a photo gallery in wordpress
Wordpress Media Gallery
Earlier to make a photo gallery in wordpress we need to use different types of plugins. Certainly this process was not so comfortable. But after the release of 2.5, it has become easier to add photo gallery in wordpress site. All you need to follow the below mentioned steps to integrate a photo gallery in wordpress site.
- First of all you should go to “write” option from dashboard.
- In the next step click on image icon.
- Choose the image you need to add in gallery.
- Next to insert the photo gallery you need to click on insert button.
By following the above mentioned ways you can insert photo gallery to your wordpress site. You can do this for increasing the beauty of your site. This is the simple way of inserting photo gallery. Moreover, you can insert photo gallery to your site with the help of plugins. You will find some advanced features in this plugins. Now we are going to describe the details of some plugins.
1. Nextgen Gallery Plugin
This is a great plugins to crete photo gallery in wordpress. You can create photo gallery by using this plugins. This is a CMS plugins. Through this plugins you can upload zip files and extract it to create photo gallery with photos. In this plugins you’ll find a lot of features. Let’s have a look the features of this plugins
- Choose Photos: Make a file with images and create albums.
- Upload Zip Files: You need to upload zip files contains images.
- Slideshow: You can create slideshow of your images.
- Javascript: You can use nice image effect through javascript.
- Language: Convert to 15 languages.
- Watermark: You can add watermark to make your photos more beautiful.
- Sidebar: To enhance the beauty of your site you can show images in sidebar.
- TinyMCE: You can add gallery tags by using TinyMCE functions.
- CSS: By using CSS style sheet you can create nice design to your blog.
- Meta Data: IPTC or XMP Meta data and others are very easy to add with this plugin.
2. PhotoXhibit Plugin
PhotoXhibit is really a cool plugin. To make photo gallery in wordpress you can use this. This plugins has some cool features. In this sense this is a great plugins. You can use this plugins to create photo gallery with your photos. You can add photos from picasa or flickr any time. All you need to install this plugins and use it to make a perfect photo gallery to wordpress site.
