Photoswipe Masonry Gallery

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1. ★★★★★ Josh Journey

   2.3y ago

   Photo Swipe with a little flare of Masonry. Worked right out of the box and even supports touch screen monitors with URL hash support. Navigating and zooming in the photo works beautifully. Better than most lightbox plugins.

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2. ★★★★★ User966

   5.7y ago

   Would you have any idea as to why the popup doesn’t load on click? Whenever I click an image it just goes straight to the image itself on a blank page. This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by User966.

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3. ★★★★★ LuisRomero

   5.9y ago

   I love it but I installed some lazy load plugins but gallery does not work (i.e. Lite Speed Cache) Please, improve it. Thanks.

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4. ★★★★★ dualaudi

   5.9y ago

   Updated as I’m pretty sure I was writing on the wrong plugin author. This is a great plugin. This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by dualaudi. This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by dualaudi. Reason: Wrong plugin

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5. ★★★★★ vita3111111111

   6.4y ago

   overall, not bad

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6. ★★★★★ mattewre

   6.4y ago

   Based on thriveweb/photoswipe-masonry is probably the best free masonry plugin for WordPress. Unfortunately I’m experiencing a severe bug: images are loaded both as thumbnail and full-size when page loads. This bug have been reported by other users on WordPress 5, I hope it will be fixed.

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7. ★★★★★ Atanas Antonov

   6.5y ago

   Thank you for your brilliant job!

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8. ★★★★★ Andrews32

   6.6y ago

   Created a new gallery (set up full size images), but all its images are thumbnails! Deactivated. ========= Установил, создал тестовую галерею. Картинки выбрал большие, в свойствах галереи тоже выбрал полный размер картинок, однако про просмотре галереи, все картинки – маленькие (превьюшки 150*150). Удалил!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.2.32 Readme update 1.2.32
2. — Version 1.2.19 Readme update Added responsive styling for figure 1.2.19
3. — Version 1.2.18 Security update 1.2.18
4. — Version 1.2.17 Bug fix – Push error 1.2.17
5. — Version 1.2.16 Security update Bug fix 1.2.16
6. — Version 1.2.15 Security update 1.2.15

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.4 Photoswipe Masonry Gallery <= 1.2.14 Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2022-02-24 CVE-2022-0750 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.2.14 Patched in 1.2.15

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

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-03-25 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-03-24 6K+ → 7K+ up after 4 days in tier
3. 2026-03-20 7K+ → 6K+ down after 426 days in tier
4. 2025-01-18 8K+ → 7K+ down after 369 days in tier
5. 2024-01-15 9K+ → 8K+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-01-14 8K+ → 9K+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-01-13 9K+ → 8K+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-01-12 8K+ → 9K+ up after 3 days in tier

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).

• P Photospace Responsive Gallery 900+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags D
• Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery 300K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Photo Gallery by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Image Gallery 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B
• Gallery : FooGallery 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Envira Gallery – Image Photo Gallery, Albums, Video Gallery, Slideshows & More 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Gallery by Visual Portfolio 60K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A

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Photoswipe Masonry Gallery: 6K+ active installs, 4.5★ (46 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/photoswipe-masonry