WordPress or not, pretty much every website on the internet used images or gifs. Incorporating images in your websites helps pass some messages across to your readers and visitors better than texts would. Interestingly, WordPress, as the best and most used content management system (CMS), comes with some photo gallery features built-in as a part of its core functionalities.
However, as with many core functionalities of WordPress, the default image gallery that ships with the CMS lack some basic and advanced features users might need. Luckily, there are plugins that allow users do much more than a standard WordPress gallery.
Asides adding basic images, gallery plugins allows users add sliders, videos, hover effects, animations, custom presentation and more. These gallery plugins are available on hundreds and thousands, and choosing one or your website could be confusing and overwhelming.
The list below contains seven of the best WordPress photo gallery plugins that sport just the right features you need, easy to use and setup, doesn’t slow down your website’s speed, and puts you in total control of your site’s visual contents in terms of aesthetics, how they are/will be displayed, and also what they’d contain.
If you really want to make the most of your photographs, INSTALLING a purpose-built WordPress gallery plugin is highly recommended.
7 Best WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins 1. Envira Gallery
Available in free and paid versions, Envira Gallery is a popular and easy-to-use WordPress gallery plugin. Some highlight features of this plugin is its drag and drop gallery builder and how easy and quick it is to create custom, mobile-friendly image galleries. To add, Envira isn’t the type of plugin to interfere with your website’s performance or speed.
The paid version brings more premium features like image watermarking, access to more gallery templates, password-protect your images, image download restriction etc. Envira Gallery also supports WooCommerce integration; this is perfect for individuals who want to sell images on their WordPress websites.
2. NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is also a renowned plugin for organizing your image gallery on your WordPress website. Some basic features of the free version of NextGEN Gallery include image batch upload, thumbnail editing, image grouping into albums, and a number of other easy-to-use features that can up image publishing on your WordPress website.
However, the paid version comes with additional perks like social sharing, premium templates and layouts, image commenting, and e-commerce integration.
3. WP Photo Album Plus
Although not a totally popular gallery plugin, WP Photo Album Plus is a powerful album plugin that comes with more customization options than the average regular free gallery plugins. WP Photo Album Plus allows your website visitors comment on your images and likewise rate them. However, it isn’t exactly as easy to setup as other galley plugins.
Some key features of this plugin include full control over metadata, front-end uploads, bulk imports, up to 10 custom metadata fields, lightbox overlay system and up to 20 widgets.
4. Foo Gallery
When mentioning the best WordPress photo gallery plugins, Foo Gallery cannot be left out. It comes with a handful of templates, creation of responsive custom galleries, and full retina support for high-resolution monitors and displays. It likewise ships with the Envira-esque style of drag-and-drop gallery organization.
The paid premium version of the Foo Gallery plugin comes with features like gallery filtering, hover effects, infinite scroll, and video support.
5. PhotoSpace GalleryWith PhotoScape Gallery, you can upload multiple photos at once, organize your gallery via drag-and-drop, modify thumbnail dimensions, create multiple galleries, add captions and descriptions and other advanced gallery options like pagination and keyboard control. PhotoScape Gallery is used by many WordPress websites and boasts of a 4.5/5.0 rating.
6. GMedia Gallery
GMedia Gallery sports a comprehensive interface that allows website owners and administrators work with unlimited imaces, albums, audio files, slideshows etc. This plugin also comes with a special import feature allows the smooth transfer of your galleries between websites. Need to extend the default functionalities and features of your WordPress media library, you should install the GMedia Gallery plugin.
7. Photo Gallery by WD
Feature and functionality-wise, this plugin is quite similar to Envira Gallery. Photo Gallery by WD lets users display their galleries in 10 different views (mansory, filmstrip, slideshow, thumbnails, mosaic, etc.) The plugin also comes with 4 widgets that works perfectly with almost any WordPress theme and templates.
Photo Gallery by WD also comes with video support, image watermarking, eCommerce integration, unlimited album, unlimited galleries, mixed (video + pictures) gallery support, and right-click protection.
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There was really no fuss around the Vivo Y71 and the Vivo Y71i follows in the same pattern. Only now, it has trimmed down features and is like a Lite version. Some features like a fingerprint scanner are absent which invariably means it is cheaper. More of an budget smartphone, it brings quite a handful of feature to the table It has a simple design and looks good at it even if you could quite see the budget status in its build.
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Now, pertaining to how the smartphone looks, there is a sturdy clean budget design on the Vivo Y71i. It has a well polished smooth back and feels soothing to the touch. There is a black finish as well as a gold finish too all having a decent 7.8mm thickness. It features the traditional bezel style, however, there’s a measure of bezel reduction seen here especially at the side.
Visuals are not really that strong despite being of a fairly large size. Going up to 6.0-inch in size the resolution is only at 1440 x 720 pixels and of course, it is LCD. In its defence, the Vivo Y71i is a budget smartphone and most of its peers are very much the same.
Battery and CameraThe Vivo Y71i can easily get through the day if usage doesn’t exceed normal. Carrying a 3, 360mAh inside, it puts it in the same leagues as other mediocre battery smartphones. However, quick charge doesn’t really fit into the picture here with the rest of the specs.
Optics is quite simple on the smartphone and involve the use of a single camera on both ends of the phone. At the back is an 8MP camera while the front of the phone is home to a 5MP selfie cam.
Hardware and SoftwareIt doesn’t really have much power from the looks of things considering there is only Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 processor with four cores. As for the GPU, you’ve got an Adreno 306 and a 2GB RAM added to the whole thing. You’re going to need the storage expansion which can go up to 256GB because the smartphone only comes with 16GB space built in. In segue, it has the Android 8.1 Oreo made into Funtouch OS.
Vivo Y71i Pricing and AvailabilityThe smartphone will cost you about 45, 000 Naira depending on the deal and your location.
Here are a few specs of the Vivo Y71i:
General Features Platform: Android 8.1 Oreo (Funtouch OS 4.0) Processor: Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 GPU: Adreno 308 Memory: 2GB RAM Colours: Black, Gold Dimension: 155.9 x 75.7 x 7.8 mm Weight: 150g SIM Type: Nano SIM SIM Count: Dual SIM Display Display: 6.0-inch, IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 1440 x 720 pixels Screen Protection: – Camera Rear Camera: 8MP camera, 1080p Video@30fps Rear Camera Features: Autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama Front Camera: 5MP camera, 720p Video@30fps Storage Built-in Storage: 16GB Memory Card Support: Yes, up to 256GB Bundled Cloud Storage: – Network Support 2G GSM: Yes 2G CDMA 1X: – 3G WCDMA: Yes 3G CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 8(900), 38(2600), 40(2300), 41(2500) Internet & Connectivity GPRS: Yes EDGE: Yes 3G/WCDMA/HSPA: Yes HSPA+: 42.2/5.76 Mbps CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: Yes WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Hotspot: Yes Bluetooth: Yes, v4.2 with A2DP, LE NFC: – Infrared Blaster: – USB Port: MicroUSB 2.0 Messaging SMS/MMS: Yes Instant Messaging: Yes Push Emails: Yes Email Protocol: – Entertainment Music Player: MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player Video Player: MP4/H.264 player FM Radio: Yes Loudspeaker: Yes 3.5mm Jack: Yes Navigation Navigation: Yes, with A-GPS,GLONASS Maps: Yes Sensors & Control Digital Compass: – Accelerometer: Yes Proximity Sensor: Yes Light Sensor: Yes Barometer: – SpO2: – Pedometer: – Heart Rate Monitor: – Gyroscope: – Fingerprint Scanner: – Iris Scanner: – Face Unlock: Yes Intelligent Digital Assistant: – Motion Sensing / Gesture Control: – Voice Control: – Other Features Video Streaming: Yes Active Noise Cancellation: Yes Wireless Charging: – Built-in Mobile Payment: – Water Resistant: – Dust Resistant: – Image Editor: Yes Video Editor: Yes Document Viewer: Yes Document Editor: Yes Battery Battery: 3, 360mAh non removable Li-Ion battery Talktime: – Standby Time: – Fast Charging: –The post Vivo Y71i Specs and Price appeared first on Nigeria Technology Guide.
