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Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery

By 10Web

E-commerce & Shopping /

Reviewed by Omar Dabbas

Trusted WordPress expert with 20+ years of experience evaluating plugins for the WP ecosystem.

Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery Review - In-Depth Analysis

Photo Gallery is a powerful image gallery plugin that allows you to create responsive galleries with beautiful lightbox effects. It offers various layout options and supports unlimited photos and videos.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.91/10

User Rating

4.5/5 (based on 1581+ reviews)

Active Installations

100,000+

Update Frequency

Outstanding It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

7.78 / 10 (High Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Photo Gallery is the leading plugin for building beautiful mobile-friendly galleries in a few minutes.

If you’re looking for a user friendly and feature rich plugin to add responsive galleries and albums to your website, Photo Gallery plugin can be the best option for you. It’s simple to use yet packed with powerful functionality, allowing you to create anything from simple to complex photo galleries. Photo Gallery comes packed with stunning layout options, gallery and album views, multiple widgets and a number of extensions that take its functionality even further.

Photo Gallery provides a number of view options to organize your galleries and albums in beautiful views, including Slideshow, Thumbnails, Masonry, Image Browser, Extended and Compact Album, Blog Style, Mosaic. The layouts give you the flexibility to customize them to match your needs.

You can display your media content in a responsive lightbox that comes with 15 slideshow effects, supports social sharing, full width view option, filmstrip, image commenting, lightbox autoplay and many more options that make your lightbox look awesome.

The plugin allows you to include both videos and images within a single gallery. The WordPress Plugin supports YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Flickr or Dailymotion videos within Galleries. It’s also possible to add audio tracks for the image slideshow.

With the watermarking feature of the Photo Gallery plugin you can add text or image watermarks on the photos in your galleries and albums, and protect them from illegal use. Right click protection will protect your images from unlawful distribution.

Comparing to Alternatives

Photo Gallery by 10Web is one of the most established gallery plugins on WordPress.org, but the category is crowded with actively maintained rivals offering similar or more modern feature sets.

Top alternatives

Strengths

Large, long-standing user base with a strong overall rating
Generous free version with lightbox, watermarking, and right-click protection
Simple setup that many users describe as quick and beginner-friendly
Wide range of customization options for gallery and lightbox appearance

Weaknesses

Extensive history of security vulnerabilities compared to many alternatives
Forces its own lightbox, limiting flexibility for users wanting third-party options
Poor Gutenberg integration with no live editing preview
Conflicts reported with other image optimization plugins

User Sentiment Analysis

With 1,581 ratings, the plugin holds a strong 4.5-star average, and over 81% of reviewers give it 5 stars. However, roughly 9.2% of reviews are 1-2 star, pointing to a vocal minority frustrated with specific issues.

Positive highlights

"Très facile à utiliser par des menus très explicites" — mariemuller
"I've discovered this plugin in 2018... glad to see the plugin is still awesome" — shumustudios
"Easy to use. Quick to setup a gallery – had it done in minutes. Free – and not so many nagging upgrade requests" — edlewjr
"Un plugin sencillo y práctico para crear galerías fotográficas" — megalitosmyr

Common complaints

UI seen as confusing and overly complicated for basic gallery setup
Lack of Gutenberg support, with no live preview while editing
Plugin blocks third-party WebP optimizers and pushes users toward its own paid solution
Forced use of the built-in lightbox, removing the option to use alternative lightbox plugins

Weaknesses

Long, ongoing history of vulnerabilities including critical SQL injection and XSS issues
Support described as slow or dismissive of technical issues like PHP warnings
Update cadence sometimes seen as too slow given the plugin's complexity and conflicts with themes

Who Should Use This?

Best for

Users wanting a free, feature-rich gallery plugin with built-in lightbox, watermarking, and privacy protections, and who are comfortable applying updates promptly to stay secure.

Not ideal for

Site owners who need tight Gutenberg integration, want to use a custom lightbox, or are cautious about plugins with a long track record of security vulnerabilities—including several critical SQL injection and XSS flaws over the years.

Pricing & Value

Free version includes

The free version offers a genuinely capable gallery builder with customizable lightbox, watermarking (text or image), right-click protection, and various layout options, all without aggressive upsell prompts according to several reviewers.

Pro version (30 - 100 USD / year)

The premium version reportedly extends compatibility features such as WebP image serving, which some users found is blocked in the free version to encourage upgrades, alongside additional gallery styling and functionality typical of 10Web's premium tier.

Final Verdict

Photo Gallery by 10Web remains a popular, capable choice with a large satisfied user base and a genuinely useful free tier. However, its extensive vulnerability history—including multiple critical SQL injection and XSS flaws over the years—is a serious concern that shouldn't be overlooked, even though many issues have been patched.

Given the number of mature alternatives like FooGallery, Meow Gallery, and Envira that offer similar or better Gutenberg support without the same security track record, cautious users may want to weigh those options carefully. Existing users should prioritize staying on the latest version, while newcomers should factor security history heavily into their decision.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery plugin.

Photo Gallery

Image Gallery

Responsive Gallery

Screenshots

FAQ

Adding images to photo gallery is pretty straight forward. On the left menu select Photo Gallery > Add Galleries/Images > Add new.
The standard gallery is designed for including both regular images, as well as media from social networking websites, such as Flickr, Instagram and etc.

Name. Specify the name of the gallery.
Slug. Specify the alias in your website for the gallery.
Type. Choose the Mixed type.
Description. Fill in the information you would like to share with the gallery. The description will be visible with some of the gallery views.
Author. This indicates the author of the gallery. It automatically includes the name of the logged in user, who has added the gallery.
Published. Choose whether to publish the gallery or to leave it for the further publication.
Preview image. Indicate the image which will be used to preview the gallery. If you leave it blank, it will automatically pick the first uploaded images included in the gallery.

You can add photos by clicking Add Images button.
Photo Gallery plugin is using both standard WordPress Media Library, as well as a Photo Gallery File Manager. You can either click on Media Library button (in advance enabling it from General Options section of the Options menu) and select images to be imported into the Photo Gallery File Manager or click on Upload files and upload the desired images from another location. After uploading images you should mark them and press Add button.

Instead of uploading images you can embed images/videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Flickr (only images) and Dailymotion.
The following buttons do not work with the Embedded images- Crop, Resize and Reset. In addition you cannot add Watermark over the Embedded imaged.
Here are the standards for adding embedded videos/images:
Images
Instagram: http://instagram.com/p/ykvv0puS4u, if you want to add the image together with the post, you can add _post at the end of the URL.
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sui-fong/15250186998/in/gallery-flickr-72157648726328108/
Videos
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa4RLje-yM8
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/8110647
Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xexaq0_frank-sinatra-strangers-in-the-nigh_music

Bulk Embed. This option will allow adding more than one images from specific social media (currently only Instagram account, but more options will be added with the upcoming updates) into the standard gallery. You should keep in mind that the images will be added without the possibility of auto-update.
Instagram user. Set the name of the Instagram user without additional symbols, e.g. jaredleto.
Number of recent instagram posts to add to gallery. Specify the number of images you want to add from the stated Instagram account.
Instagram embed type. Choose to use only the image content of the Instagram post or the entire post.

To publish gallery plugin widgets, go to Appearance > Widgets. Here select the widget option you want to add to a custom location. Afterwards drag and drop the selected widget into the custom location, fill in the options and press Save button.

WordPress Standard Tags Cloud (Premium Version)

Tag Cloud. This widget is included as a hosted widget for the WordPress standard Tag Cloud. It will display the tags added to the albums and images of Photo Gallery. After the click, the images using the tags will be displayed in Thumbnails view.
Title. Provide a title for the tag cloud.
Taxonomy. Select Photo Gallery from the provided options.

Photo Gallery Tags Cloud (Premium Version)

Photo Gallery Tags Cloud. This dynamic widget allows having rotating tags or images. After clicking on the tag a separate page will be opened displaying images corresponding to the tag. In case of images, the images will display with a pop-up.
Title. Provide a title for the dynamic tag cloud.

Choosing Text type
* Open in. Set the tags to open up either in separate page or lightbox view.
* Number. Provide the number of tags you want to display. If you leave it to 0 all tags will be displayed.
* Dimensions. Specify the width and height for the dynamic tag cloud.
* Transparent background. Choose whether to have a transparent background or not.
* Background color. Choose the background color for the tag cloud.
* Text color. Choose the tag text color
* Theme. Choose the theme, which will be applied to the gallery/album corresponding to the tag.

Choosing Image type
Show tag names. Choose whether to display tag names or not.
Open in. Set the tags to open up either in separate page or lightbox view.
Number. Provide the number of images you want to display. If you leave it to 0 all images will be displayed.
Dimensions. Specify the width and height for the dynamic image cloud.
Background color. Choose the background color for the image cloud.
Text color. Choose the tag text color.
Theme. Choose the theme, which will be applied to the gallery/album corresponding to the image/tag.

Photo Gallery Slideshow (Premium Version)

Title. Provide a title for the slideshow.
Select Gallery. Specify the gallery you want to use for the slideshow.
Filmstrip height. Define the filmstrip height in pixels.
Slideshow effect. Select the effect to apply to the slideshow.
Time interval. Define the time interval between the images in seconds.
Enable shuffle. Choose whether to have shuffle for the slideshow images or not.
Theme. Choose the theme to be applied to the gallery slideshow.

Photo Gallery Widget

You can add album and gallery images into a custom location. After click the users will be redirected into compact album view, if it is an album. If it is a gallery included in the album it will open up in Thumbnails view. The images will be displayed in a lightbox.
Title. Provide a title for the widget. Choose whether to display an album or gallery.
Select Gallery/Select Album. Select the gallery/album to be displayed with the widget
Choose whether to display random or the first/last specific number of images.
Number. Provide the number of images to be displayed with the widget.
Dimensions. Specify the width and height of the widget.
Theme. Choose the theme, which will be applied to the gallery/album.