Category: Gallery Reviews

Name: FooGallery

This Gallery was really fun to play around with. There are sooooo many settings that I have full control over, including border size, colors of icons, what icons show up, what the controls look like, and even what the image loading animation would be if its required for larger files. I personally never even had to see them because everything loaded quickly but it was something I never even considered. Furthermore, the appearance is very pleasing. It has the option to use default colors, or the colors of your theme. That makes it look very good when clicked on. Additionally the lightbox works perfectly and even has some new options compared to previous reviews such as a full screen button. Overall I can’t wait to explore more on this theme. I give this gallery a 5+ star review

Name: Photo Gallery

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This gallery was incredibly easy to use. There is a tab on the sidebar that lets me create different galleries. Then in a post or on a page, I can click “add Photo Gallery” next to add media and from there select a gallery. However, the appearance was very normal. I have a feeling that a lot of that is the images I used, which was mostly just plain screenshots from other reviews. Additionally however there was a very nice animation of the image you are hovering on zooming in. The lightbox was very appealing. It surrounding the image in black, included a horizontal list of images in the gallery at the top, and offered forward and backward buttons. overall, I give Photo Gallery a 5 star review

Name: NextGEN Gallery

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”2″ display=”imagebrowser” maximum_entity_count=”500″]This gallery was very easy to use. There is a tab on the sidebar that lets me create different galleries. Then in a post or on a page, I can click “add gallery” next to add media and from there select a gallery. However, the appearance was lackluster. I only have access to 3 different views and one of them is not for a series of images, but a word cloud. Additionally a issue I have taken is that once I am in the lightbox, I cannot go between each image. There is not button inside the lightbox, only in the small UI part of the image view. Additionally, clicking through the gallery was slow, and required a little loading second every time. Overall I give it a 3 star rating.