The gallery plugin WordPress photographers actually enjoy using.
Meow Gallery brings eight stunning layouts to your WordPress galleries: from Tiles and Masonry to Carousel and Map. It works seamlessly with Gutenberg, serves every image at the size it needs, and never locks you in.
Eight Beautiful Layouts
Tiles, Masonry, Justified, Square, Cascade, Horizontal, Carousel, and Map for any situation.
Gutenberg Block
Create and edit galleries directly in the WordPress editor with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Light and Fast
Responsive, retina-ready layouts that serve each image at the size it needs, with your photos kept in the HTML for SEO.
Non-Intrusive Design
Deactivate it anytime and your galleries fall back to native WordPress. No lock-in.
Infinite and Lazy Loading
Images load lazily, and Pro adds infinite scroll for galleries with hundreds of photos.
Carousel and Map
Pro adds a swipeable carousel and a map of your geotagged photos.
Meow Gallery and Meow Lightbox were born the same afternoon: their first lines of code were written eight minutes apart, on August 8, 2016.
I am a photographer in Tokyo, and every gallery on my travel blog Offbeat Japan runs on it.
It upgrades the standard WordPress gallery instead of replacing it. Switch it off anytime and your galleries are still there.
The Map layout (Pro) places your photos where they were taken, using their GPS data.
How Meow Gallery works
The WordPress gallery makes a grid, and that is all. Meow Gallery adds beautiful layouts and stops there: no page builder, no screen with ninety options.
Good to know: Meow Gallery needs PHP 8.1+. The Map layout (Pro) also needs an API key from Google Maps, Mapbox or MapTiler.
Free & Pro Versions
Free Version
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Nice layouts
Our special and recommended “Tiles”, but also the common ones such as Masonry, Justified, Square, and Cascade.
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Gutenberg Block
If you are using the Gutenberg Editor, you can easily manage your galleries and preview them in realtime.
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Compatibility
It uses the natural gallery system of WordPress. You can start using the Meow Gallery and all your galleries will work right away. You can also uninstall it, and your website will still work.
Pro Version
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Everything from the Free Version
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Carousel Layout
Display your images in a beautiful carousel (you might know this layout as slider).
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Map Layout
Instead of a gallery of images, a map will be displayed. The GPS written in your photos will be used.
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Infinite Loading
If you have huge galleries, with hundreds of thousands of photos, this feature will make it doable and smooth.
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Animations
Sleek animations.
Get Pro, from $29/year
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Reviews from WordPress
My long awaited one and only Gallery
Gallery Plugins can be annoying and only in some rare cases, you are free to take care of your pictures and not struggling with the installation and setup of some mediocre program.
Meow Gallery is easy to set up and displays pictures beautifully, serving them pretty fast. I was so happy to came across this fine tool, that I switched some of my websites galleries to meow – along with the other tools (Lightroom Sync, Lightbox u0026amp; Media Cleaner) it worked like a charm […].
Simple solution, great looking gallery
I have used all kinds of gallery solutions in the past but they all introduced a lot of extra stuff which sometimes got broken in future releases. So I decided I wanted to use the standard WordPress galleries but with a nicer way to display them. Enter Meow Gallery. Lightweight, excellent algorithms for generating the galleries and … based on standard WordPress media library and standard WordPress galleries. I went through a mega effort to replaced all my, partially broken, galleries from legacy plugins (NGG anyone?) with Meow. So far I’m extremely happy with this move.
Super great, especially the override
A very nice split between free and paid versions. Both worth their value. But the jewel is that it overrides existing native WordPress galleries: so if you have many already… you do NOT have to do all over again. And if you have to deactivate the plugin for testing or other reasons… no problem. This is the unique and best feature ever. User-first.
