I am a wedding photographer that is interested in having full control of how my users view my website. It was very important for me to have a quick loading gallery that also opened the images quickly in full screen to showcase the quality of the work. I think hands down the JIG thumbnails + Photoswipe is the best way to showcase photography on WordPress. The fact that it easily integrates with real media gallery is the icing on top making WordPress feel like an actual full photography website. I have been running some tests and Google definitely likes the way that JIG is serving up my image thumbnails with alt tags and descriptions. It even links to the high resolution version, so it's a win for search engines and my users! I have been recommending it as “the best WordPress gallery” to all of the Facebook groups I am part of!

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Will Pursell
willpursell.com
written in Canada
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We have a lot of albums (why not when Flickr gives you 1TB !!!) and we have been searching for the last few years for a decent WordPress gallery or Flickr integration to display them. Because we are on VPS we have limited storage but otherwise good specs. Yours is by far the best (and easiest) one we have found so far that also allows us a lot of flexibility with source files. It has already replaced more than 170 individual pages on the site with just the 10 parent pages where we can now display the links to the underlying galleries without having to have a page for each individual gallery. We are very pleased with the functionality. We also purchased FooBox lightbox as that seems to fit our needs very well too.

Over the last few years we have used Gallery2, Coppermine and Phoca gallery when the site was on Joomla, and then we used NextGen gallery when we switched to WordPress. We've been using the 'Awesome Flickr Gallery' since NG was bought out and have always viewed it as a temporary solution. Yours does everything we want (so far) and we are very happy with it.

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Scott MacKenzie
viewfromthesouthstands.com
written in Canada
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