Responsive Gallery Grid

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90 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 64 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 20% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 14 months ago; the previous band took 14 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Josh Journey

   1.5y ago

   This is one of the best gallery plugins created for WordPress, displaying images in a visually striking way regardless to their aspect ratio. Far more exciting than Masonry and other modern displays. I love the ability to hover over images and see them get bigger making for a fun browsing experience. Works well with a lightbox of our choice. The bottom gallery row is very well spaced out making it even more beautiful. It comes with many display options and works with media offloading.This plugin comes highly recommended. 😊⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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2. ★★★★★ Julien G.

   1.9y ago

   I was looking for the source of the problem of non-admin users being blocked, a problem that’s been going on for months, and it turns out that it’s your plugin! I’m amazed that it took you so long to realize this and propose a corrective update.

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3. ★★★★★ abitofmind

   5.2y ago

   Clean, elegant and timeless look & feel – The grid is elegant. – The bubble effect onHover is great. – It’s minimal, and hence timeless and good. – This look & feel will age well, my intuition tells me. Interaction & Responsiveness – Lightbox is really minimal, UI elements subtle. -> Content is king! – Next/prev via swipe or tapping arrow-buttons or arrow-keys on keyboard devices. – Close via “X” or ESC-key or tapping background – Zoom control really nice – Double click/tap zooms in to fit-viewport, works perfect on Mobile and Desktop. – Pinching on touch devices zooms image perfectly smooth to your liking, background zoom factor remains unaffected. Perfection! – Pinching via Trackpad (on MacBook Pro with macOS 11 Big Sur) zooms image and page in the background. Not completely perfect, but when pinching back to normal zoom level, the effect is gone again. Immersion factor & interactions could get more perfection I have created a support ticket entitled “Feature proposals for perfect interactions + immersion factor customizable” in the public support section of the plugin at WordPress.org. Linking is not allowed in reviews. Look it up there if interested, summary here: – Initial zoom factor — With safe margin -> this is the default, as it is now — Fit -> The image touches two sides of the viewport — Fill -> The image touches all sides of the viewport – More styling options of the prev/next/close icon-buttons for ensured visibility with fullscreen imagery – Support swipeClose – Swipe gesture on touch devices to close gallery – Image transition FX — None, just linear moving (requires pre-fetching of 1 detail image in each direction): A fast “flick-through mode”. — Fade out/in: The current effect. Possible downside: You shortly focus on the gallery in the background, then again focus on the image which meanwhile faded in. Can be an experience you want or not. We could already mitigate that if we can set Lightbox bg-color to a degree where the background is fully or merely invisible. — I don’t not need any other FX, as I like the minimalism of Responsible Gallery Grid. But it is thinkable to may extend that over time.

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4. ★★★★★ mikhmich

   5.9y ago

   Works with the native WP Gallery. Optimal set of features. Simple. Fast. Got the premium version with no thinking.

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5. ★★★★★ rizn

   6.1y ago

   Its exactly what i was looking for! No need for large gallery-plugins, which are not working or not like expected. This plugin uses the wp-gallery and makes it looking perfect on desktop and mobile! THANX

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6. ★★★★★ BiT024

   6.5y ago

   Great working plugin with even greater personal support. Highly recommended and exactly what I was looking for. When having an issue with compatibility with a different plugin the developer helped me out in a fast and friendly way, resolving the issue together with the developer of the other plugin. Top notch plugin and customer service!

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7. ★★★★★ crowerks

   7.1y ago

   Exactly what I was looking for: an easy to use, customizable gallery plugin that integrates easily (within classic block) to the native wordpress gallery shortcode. Excellent!

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8. ★★★★★ James Revillini

   7.3y ago

   don’t eff around. get this one.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2026-10-19 Version 2.4.2 PRO: New “Below the image” captions option, also shown below the image in SimpleLightbox. Set the number of caption lines with the –rgg-caption-lines CSS variable. PRO: Fix “Custom style” captions not showing. (https://r 2.4.2
2. 2026-07-30 Version 2.4.1 Fix empty galleries on WPML translated pages: render the images the query returns, even when another plugin remaps the attachment IDs. 2.4.1
3. 2026-06-30 Version 2.4 Add support for the Block Editor (Gutenberg) and the new gallery block. The plugin now automatically replaces the default gallery block with a responsive gallery grid. Add a “WP default lightbox” option that uses WordPre 2.4
4. 2024-11-22 Version 2.3.18 fixed bug that locked out non-admin users and caused conflicts with ajax requests Tested with WP version 6.7 2.3.18
5. 2024-06-04 Version 2.3.17 PRO: Fix plugin update checker 2.3.17
6. 2024-06-04 Version 2.3.16 Tested with WP version 6.5 Show captions in builtin lightbox Add permissions check to rgg_admin_init function 2.3.16

All 4 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (2.4.2). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 4.4 Responsive Gallery Grid <= 2.3.14 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-10-30 CVE-2024-4091 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 2.3.14 Patched in 2.3.15
2. Patched Medium · 4.4 Responsive Gallery Grid <= 2.3.10 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-03-19 CVE-2024-1664 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 2.3.10 Patched in 2.3.11
3. Patched Medium · 5.4 Responsive Gallery Grid <= 2.3.13 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2023-09-01 CVE-2023-41659 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 2.3.13 Patched in 2.3.14
4. Patched Medium · 6.4 Responsive Gallery Grid <= 2.3.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode ↗
   2023-01-17 CVE-2023-0060 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 2.3.8 Patched in 2.3.9

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-08-29 5K+ → 4K+ down after 411 days in tier
2. 2024-07-14 6K+ → 5K+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2024-07-12 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2024-07-11 6K+ → 5K+ down after 364 days in tier
5. 2023-07-13 7K+ → 6K+ down after 372 days in tier
6. 2022-07-06 8K+ → 7K+ down after 491 days in tier
7. 2021-03-02 9K+ → 8K+ down after 212 days in tier
8. 2020-08-02 10K+ → 9K+ down after 701 days in tier

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Responsive Gallery Grid: 4K+ active installs, 4.7★ (66 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/responsive-gallery-grid