Easy Image Gallery

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 56% 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. ★★★★★ carlospwk

   3.8y ago

   My site had crashed totally and most likely this plugin was the cause. The admin-page.php file had a syntax error on line 18, an extra comma when there should be none. When I fixed this, my website was back up. Yeah, I was running an older version of PHP, thanks for pointing that out. Sorry for the bad review, I fixed my rating 🙂 This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by carlospwk.

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2. ★★★★★ iamsahmad

   8.5y ago

   I am using this plugin for almost 2 years, I liked this plugin until the new version came up and I installed. They changed the whole script and everything for the plugin you cannot use the previous shortcodes. The shortcode id is a joke, after every refresh the shortcode ID change. In short don’t use it for your projects. This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by iamsahmad.

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3. ★★★★★ wyntonfranklin

   9.5y ago

   Great plugin. Looks good. Works good. Exactly what I needed

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4. ★★★★★ MrBW

   10.8y ago

   …from the native WP image gallery. Why use this? You cannot jump from one image to the other. The gallery just adds the images to your page with a link to the full sized image file….WP can already do that out-of-the-box. An image gallery should have the feature of moving from one picture the other in full-size!

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5. ★★★★★ krishnakanth

   10.9y ago

   Hi,once add a photo to gallery and remove it and add it again and remove it do it again and again.After that add one more image and remove.Finally remove all the images and save.You can find all the images are getting saved from the comma seperated hidden variable “image_gallery”.I fixed from my end please find the same for comment below.

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6. ★★★★★ baldheadslick

   10.9y ago

   Very easy to use plug-in that does the job. One thing I’ve noticed is that it’s slightly off centre. I had a single image above which was centralized and then a gallery of 2×2 images below and it was noticeable. Tried centralizing in the editor but it does nothing. I’m sure there’s a simple fix for this.

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7. ★★★★★ Vlasta Ott

   10.9y ago

   Appreciate the metabox and other simple working ideas. Thanks

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8. ★★★★★ Ishko

   11.1y ago

   I’m just another happy user. Thanks to the developper.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.5.5 Security: Escape gallery IDs in lightbox HTML attributes (fancybox, prettyPhoto, luminous) to prevent stored XSS via shortcode or post meta. Security: Sanitize gallery IDs on save and in the [easy_image_gallery] shortcod 1.5.5
2. — Version 1.5.4 Fixed vulnerability report Tested up to WordPress 6.9.4 1.5.4
3. — Version 1.5.3 Fixed XSS report about prettyPhoto library Tested up with WordPress 6.8.3 1.5.3
4. — Version 1.5.2 Tested up with WordPress 6.8 Fixed XSS report 1.5.2
5. — Version 1.5.1 Change required PHP version Tested up with WordPress 6.1 1.5.1
6. — Version 1.5 Has been added separate menu for the plugin Fix: Link to larger images 1.5

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

1. Medium · 6.4 Easy Image Gallery <= 1.5.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Gallery Shortcode Post Meta ↗
   2026-03-20 CVE-2026-4766 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.5.3 No patch available
2. Medium · 6.4 Multiple Plugins <= (Various Versions) - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via prettyPhoto JavaScript Library ↗
   2025-07-02 CVE-2025-2540 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.5.2 Patched in 1.5.3

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 48 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Plus 24 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-08-02 5K+ → 4K+ down after 398 days in tier
2. 2025-06-30 6K+ → 5K+ down after 289 days in tier
3. 2024-09-14 7K+ → 6K+ down after 255 days in tier
4. 2024-01-03 8K+ → 7K+ down after 213 days in tier
5. 2023-06-04 9K+ → 8K+ down after 206 days in tier
6. 2022-11-10 10K+ → 9K+ 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★ · 2 shared tags A
• Image Gallery Block 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• Simplelightbox 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D
• Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery 300K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag B
• Imsanity 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
• Firelight Lightbox 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A

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Easy Image Gallery: 4K+ active installs, 4.6★ (41 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/easy-image-gallery