Social Gallery is the ultimate lightbox plugin for WordPress. Your images deserve to be experienced and shared, to spark a response as they travel the social web, and to work for you by generating more fans and more Likes for your content. That’s why Social Gallery photo viewer transforms a stunning photo gallery into a full social experience.
Your awesome image gallery…
With this quick and responsive lightbox you can present your images in a beautiful grid layout, and users can view each one in epic full screen. The Social Gallery WordPress photo viewer plugin is compatible with NextGen Gallery, Justified Image Grid and Essential Grid, giving you outstanding flexibility and convenience to work with your existing gallery in the way that best suits you. You can also experiment with some eye-popping animations and transitions between images, including bounce in, flip or spin out effects, for a powerful and dynamic image gallery that captures the viewer’s imagination.
…becomes an interactive social sharing experience!
Making your WordPress, NextGen or Justified Image Grid photo gallery interactive and social guarantees that your users get the most out of your images – and so do you! With Social Gallery, you will enjoy more Likes and Shares, Comments and Pins, across every popular social network. You can tag people in photos (just like Facebook), and your users can add instant comments within the image gallery.
Make it your own
Your complete lightbox WordPress plugin is easy to install and fully customizable. The themes and framework give a familiar Facebook feel, but you can apply your own branding for a truly unique and personal photo gallery. Why send your users to Facebook to view and share your images? Drive your traffic to your own site without losing the momentum of intuitive social interaction. The Social Gallery lightbox plugin is mobile and tablet ready, using the mobile add on or your gallery’s existing mobile lightbox. With the Social Gallery WordPress photo viewer plugin there’s no limit to when and where your users can browse your unique photo gallery and share your content.
The name really does say it all – Social Gallery photo viewer is a premium lightbox plugin that does your images justice, while inviting your users to engage, interact and share in the most organic way. With Social Analytics, you’ll be able to see the difference for yourself!
Fully Customizable
Easily tweak your Social Gallery from the options screen
Choose your Lightbox Skin
Customize colors, links and descriptions
Change margins and image sizes
Choose Facebook Comments, Disqus, or neither!
Intuitive User Experience
Users can browse the images on your blog post by clicking the left or right arrow keys
Users can click on the right side of the image to move horizontally to the next image, or the left side to go back
Users can Like, Pin, Tweet and Comment on every blog post image you enable
Set dynamic CSS3 animations for the opening and closing of Social Gallery
Ultimate Social Sharing
Uses jQuery and the latest scripts for Facebook integration, Twitter Tweet It buttons and Pinterest Pin It buttons, as well as Linked In, Google Plus (Google+), StumbleUpon and Tumblr – enjoy 3x, or even 5x+ more engagement!
Now works with Disqus Comments system
Choice of Social Gallery pages framework or other fallbacks, including hashbang solution to distinct image comments
iPhone and iPad compatible!
Lightweight and Fast
Modern CSS and jQuery enhancements
Compressed jQuery (JavaScript) and CSS for faster loading
Lightweight JavaScript (double minified!)
Selectively loaded CSS3 animations, to reduce page load time
Faster than the original Lightbox, and now even faster than older versions of Social Gallery!
Lightbox Features
The ultimate social lightbox
Facebook-style image viewing
Facebook’s 1 billion+ users will be familiar with Social Gallery
3x more opportunity for visitors to Like and Share
Fully Customizable – 50+ new options in V2
11 Preset “modes”, including NextGen and Justified Image Grid compatibility
NextGen gallery plugin support
Leverage all your existing blog posts
Base bar and side bar specific to your blog
Works with posts, pages, widgets and themes
Image library and social gallery pages
Full screen mode
40+ CSS3 animations and transitions
Enhanced media navigation for users
Add custom HTML descriptions New: Now “Per Image”!
Lightweight JavaScript for fast loading and performance
Custom URLs and SEO friendly
Earn more with lightbox ads (Google AdSense)
Multiple browsers supported (IE7+, IE10, Safari 3+, iOS Safari, Chrome 3+, Firefox 3+, Opera 10+)
Integrates directly with WordPress – you get an extra menu item for Social Gallery, where you can manage everything; including settings, image library and update engine
Works out of the box with 99% of WordPress themes
Even if you have a totally custom theme, it only takes a minute to set up Social Gallery
Replaces any old lightbox plugin
Super easy install Now with a Wizard
No coding required!
Detailed documentation, with examples