You can turn your wordpress into a photoblog using some wordpress photo gallery themes given here or using some photo gallery plugins for wordpress. Following are the top wordpress photo gallery plugins to convert your wordpress blog into a photoblog.
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NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is the most popular and widely used photo gallery plugin for wordpress. It helps to create a full integrated image gallery in wordpress with a flash slideshow option.
Top Features:
- Templates : You can add custom templates for your theme.
- Media RSS feed : Add the Cooliris Effect to your gallery.
- Role settings : Each gallery has a author.
- AJAX based thumbnail generator : No more server limitation during the batch process.
- Copy/Move : Copy or move images between galleries.
- Slideshow : Full integrated flash slideshow.
- Sidebar Widget : Show a slideshow, random or recent picture at your sidebar.
- Tag support for images : Append related images to your post, create a image tag-cloud.
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Yet Another Photoblog
Yet Another Photoblog is an yet another top wordpress gallery plugin! Using Yet Another Photoblog plugin, you can convert your wordpress blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.
Top Features:
- Easy image upload – All wordpress post-features can be used.
- On the fly thumbnail generation – Use multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them: Thumbnail generation gets controlled by the theme.
- EXIF data processing and output.
- Self-learning EXIF filter – Your own cameras tags can be selected to be viewed.
- Ping additional update-service-sites when posting a photoblog entry.
- Nearly every WP-theme can become a photoblog in virtually no time.
- Out of the box configurable “latest images” sidebar widget.
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Flickr Photo Album
If you are using Flickr, Flickr Photo Album plugin will suit you the best. It allows you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your wordpress blog.
Top Features:
- Display your Flickr photo sets and Flickr videos as albums on your site.
- Search engine friendly URLs.
- Complete control over the look and feel.
- Show or hide your photos that have been marked ‘private’
- Flickr notes and Flickr comments are supported
- Adds a new Flickr icon to your media bar which allows you to easily add Flickr photos to any blog post.
- Use WordPress shortcodes to easily insert photos from an album into a post (and also Flickr videos).
- Supports WordPress Widgets: Pull in your recent photos into your sidebar.
- Use a popup overlay to display your photos.
- Allow your visitors to leave comments without leaving your blog (via third party commenting services).
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Flickr Gallery
Another Flickr based image gallery plugin which allows you to quickly and easily incorporate your Flickr photos into your wordpress pages and posts.
Top Features:
- A quick gallery of your recent photos, photosets and most popular photos.
- Easy database caching.
- Displays the photos from one photoset.
- Displays all of a user’s photos with given tags.
- Displays the results of a custom search.
- Inserts a single photo into your content.
- Embeds Flickr’s flash movie player for videos.
- Authenticate to display your private photos.
- Lightbox script makes it easy to browse photos without leaving the page.
- WordPress MU Support.
- Pagination in galleries.
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PhotoSmash Galleries
PhotoSmash Galleries is another top gallery plugin which makes it easy to create photo galleries in your wordpress posts or pages. It has flexible and simple models for designing custom gallery and form layouts, utilizing your own custom database fields, html, and css.
Top Features:
- User contributable photo galleries – allow your users to upload images to galleries.
- Media RSS is enabled, supports PicLens.
- Link gallery thumbnails to various destinations including full-size image, related post, and WP Attachment Page when using Media Library integration.
- Add images to the WordPress Media Library so you can use them in blog posts and even the Standard WordPress Image Gallery features.
- AJAX photo uploads from within Posts and Pages.
- Star Ratings for images.
- Control who can upload images: admin only, authors & contributors (and higher), or registered users and higher.
- Moderate images uploaded by registered users (Admins and authors are automatically approved).
- Receive email alerts for new images that need to be moderated.
- Integrates with popular image viewing systems like Lightbox and Shadowbox.
- Create Custom Upload forms using simple tags and HTML.
- Create Custom Layouts using simple tags and HTML.
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PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin
PhotoQ is yet another popular wordpress photo gallery plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time.
Top Features:
- Convenient queue-based photo management.
- Batch uploading of photos to your photoblog.
- Hassle-free, fully automated posting of photo posts.
- Compatible with virtually any theme; Auto-configuration for popular photo themes.
- Compatible with WordPress Networks (formerly WPMU).
- Photo Watermarking to protect your photos.
- Possibility to add custom metadata to photo posts.
- Automatic generation of thumbnails and alternative image sizes.
- Integration with Lightbox, Shutter Reloaded and similar libraries/plugins.
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Flash Photo Gallery
It helps to create a Flash Photo Gallery like one provided in Adobe Photoshop CS2 Flash Web Photo Gallery templates.
Top Features:
- Compatible with WordPress and WordPress MU.
- Create and manage multiple Flash Photo Galleries.
- Customize galleries by specifying titles, colors, thumbnail size and a lot more options.
- Uses the wordpress built-in media uploader to add photos to.
- Multiple photo galleries can be added in any page or post using a simple short code.
- Uses SWFObject for embedding swf.
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WP Photo Album
A simple wordpress photo gallery plugin designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your wordpress blog.
Top Features:
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