Build a complete photography gallery workflow
NextGEN Pro and NextGEN Plus are paid editions for the NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin, designed for photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals. They extend a gallery management workflow that supports batch photo uploads, metadata import, photo organization, and the creation of multiple galleries and albums.
Use galleries to contain and present photos, then organize related galleries into albums for easier browsing. Photos can be added, deleted, rearranged, or imported from a ZIP file or folder. The Insert Gallery Window helps place galleries and albums in the WordPress editor without requiring shortcodes, while a shortcode system remains available for users who prefer it.
Present images with flexible layouts
The paid gallery experience supports multiple ways to showcase images, including mosaic, masonry, tile, filmstrip, slideshow, thumbnail, imagebrowser, and other gallery presentations. Gallery settings can control dimensions, styling, timing, transitions, controls, and lightbox effects.
NextGEN includes responsive galleries for phones and tablets, including Android and iOS devices. The Pro Lightbox provides a fullscreen responsive viewing experience with mobile gesture support. Themes and animations give you additional ways to shape the appearance and movement of each gallery.
- Use albums to organize collections of galleries.
- Group images with manageable tags.
- Apply image or text watermarks.
- Protect images from right-click and drag-and-drop downloading.
- Customize individual gallery features and presentation settings.
Sell, proof, and deliver photography
For photographers selling their work, the paid capabilities include eCommerce for individual images or complete galleries, with payment processing through Stripe and PayPal. Digital downloads support delivery of purchased images, while print fulfillment can send orders to customers through automated print lab fulfillment with zero commissions.
Image proofing lets customers select the photos they want to purchase, creating a practical review and selection process before an order is completed. Automatic tax calculations can calculate sales tax when required, and coupons can provide discounts or incentives for gallery sales.
Manage galleries across your workflow
Gallery permissions let you customize who can read, edit, and publish galleries. Lightroom integration can automatically sync and create galleries from Adobe Lightroom without requiring updates to the website. Social sharing and search tools help visitors find and share images, while backups provide an additional gallery management capability.
These tools suit portfolio sites, client proofing projects, photography sales pages, print businesses, and websites that need more than a basic image grid.
Installation and setup
Add NextGEN Gallery to WordPress, then create galleries and albums through the gallery management tools. Upload or import photos, organize them with tags, choose a display style, and insert the gallery or album into your content. Configure presentation, proofing, sales, delivery, and permissions according to your workflow.
