If you are using WordPress as for your blog or website it is fairly common to need to add a photo gallery to your web site.  If your focus is on art of photography the need is obviously critical and CustomWeb2 has complete themes to meet your needs - CW2 WP Folio, CW2 Darcy and CW2 Personal Gallery.  However, if the images are just a part of your web site,CustomWeb2 and the WordPress community have more options for you.

If you are a member of the Cw2 Club you might consider using two themes.  For example

1. Your primary website or blog is at www.your-domain-name.com
2. Install a 2nd copy of WordPress with a photo theme at www.your-domain-name.com/photo
3. From your primary site you can link to the photo pages on your second instance

Another option is to use a WordPress Gallery plugins. We’ve collected 5 great plugins that can add a gallery to your blog or website.

NextGEN Gallery

The famous NextGen Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash sideshow option. Features include custom templates, AJAX thumbnail generator, sortable Albums, Zip file uploads, Watermark function, Lightbox Effects, Sidebar Widget, Flash Goodies and much more.  They have a NextGEN Gallery demo site.  This plugin has been downloaded over 700,000 times!

WP Photo Album

This plugin is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your WordPress site. You can find the plugin admin section under Manage then submenu Photos.

• Manage and create albums
• Move photos to and from albums
• Upload and delete photos
• Adjust thumbnail and full view picture sizes

Page Flip Image Gallery

FlippingBook Wordpress Gallery is an excellent way of working with images in blogs. You download photos, and the plugin creates a small photo gallery out of them. If you need to post several pictures, you don’t have to make large posts. It offers a very convenient way to look through the pictures, leafing through the pages. You just have to double-click to print images out. This plugin creates a true interactive book!

Lazyest Gallery

Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation - it is anything but lazy as it provides a host of photo management features including:

• Automatic thumbnail and slide creation
• Comment on Images and Folders
• Show thumbnail folders of your gallery in your posts and pages
• Arrange your folders and images by date, alphabetically or manually
• Widgets for Random Image and Folder List
• Add captions to folders and images

Inline Gallery

This plugin offers a way of including large numbers images in your blog posts. The plugin does no processing on the images (except for getting the image metadata), so it’s lightning fast. You can have multiple galleries per post and the plugin is integrated with the WordPress’ WYSIWYG editor.

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