Cleaner Gallery

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 89% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ certainlyakey

   8.6y ago

   This may not be needed as strongly starting from WP 3.9 but still a good choice for larger flexibility if you don’t want to override gallery code.

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2. ★★★★★ Dano at Porkopolis

   10.5y ago

   Clean code and design and does exactly what it says and then more. Also works well with WP Gallery Custom Links and WP Featherlight (lightbox) plugins. Very good stuff! Thanks, Justin.

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3. ★★★★★ Carlos Pinedo

   10.7y ago

   Excellent!!!!, Don’t look any further.

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4. ★★★★★ TheCraig

   10.9y ago

   That says it all… great plug-in

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5. ★★★★★ dwell

   10.9y ago
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6. ★★★★★ zephirnl

   11.2y ago

   –edit– After some clarification from the plugin author I modified this comment and the rating to go from 2 to 4 stars. Probably works well but I was unaware it cannot be used at the same time as Jetpack tiled gallery layouts. –/edit– Breaks the front end part of the jetpack tiled galleries. Was not able to verify the rest of the functionality of this plugin.

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7. ★★★★★ colarikbrothers

   11.4y ago

   I really like how this plugin extends the default WP [gallery] shortcode and adds options in the settings to integrate the WP default ThickBox.js. In addition, he provides basic list of strong alternative LightBox scripts that you can download and install.

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8. ★★★★★ kerec

   11.5y ago

   Great stuff, thank you – i wish i discovered it earlier. Are you planning to add options for further customizing / removing classes (ie. column count etc) ? Even if not – it’s still a must have.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.1.0 Introduce the Cleaner_Gallery class, which allows for better code reuse and consolidates all the gallery functionality. Add support for Schema.org microdata. Added the .gallery-columns-x class. Added the .gallery-size-x 1.1.0
2. — Version 1.0.0 License change from GPL v2-only to GPL v2+. Rewrote large chunks of the plugin from the ground up. Galleries are now HTML5+, using the and tags. Dropped the caption link setting because captions in WordPress can now have 1.0.0
3. — Version 0.9.1 Remove the default feature of overwriting the columns if gallery has too few images since users have asked for this. 0.9.1
4. — Version 0.9 Important! Users sould re-save their settings after updating to version 0.9. Completely overhauled the plugin settings page to use the WordPress settings API. Added the option of loading the Cleaner Gallery stylesheet. M 0.9
5. — Version 0.8 Important! Users sould re-save their settings after updating to version 0.8. Completely recoded the plugin from the ground up for a much needed code overhaul. Added support for the Colorbox script. Added the cleaner_gall 0.8
6. — Version 0.7 Recoded much of the plugin to be more efficient. Added the cleaner_gallery_id() function to make sure multiple galleries in a single post have different IDs but the same class. Added cleaner_gallery_defaults filter hook. 0.7

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 72 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 48 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-11-29 3K+ → 2K+ down after 567 days in tier
2. 2023-05-12 4K+ → 3K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Responsive Lightbox & Gallery 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 3 shared tags A
• Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox 100K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B
• Lightbox with PhotoSwipe 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A
• J jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries 4K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D
• W WP-Slimbox2 Plugin 3K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags D
• WP Featherlight Disabled 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags C

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Cleaner Gallery: 2K+ active installs, 4.8★ (23 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/cleaner-gallery