Lloyd Gallery – Photo Gallery & Albums

Most gallery plugins hand you a builder, a dozen layouts and a page of settings. Lloyd Gallery takes the opposite approach: uploading your photos is the only step.

Create an album, drop in a folder of photos straight from your phone or camera, and press Publish. Lloyd Gallery turns them the right way up, resizes them, makes them fast to load and lays them out in a clean, full-width gallery with a full-screen lightbox. Your visitors get a gallery that looks professionally made. You never have to open a photo editor or a settings screen.

It is built for the people who actually keep a website up to date: clubs, schools, charities, venues, event organisers, small businesses, and the agencies who build sites for them. If you can drag a folder onto a page, you can run your photo gallery.

Uploading is the only step

• Drop in anything. Individual photos, a whole folder, or a zip file. Hundreds at a time, each with its own live progress bar.
• Photos are always the right way up. Phone photos that would otherwise appear sideways are rotated automatically.
• Fast-loading images, automatically. Every photo is resized for different screen sizes and saved in the modern WebP format when your server supports it. Visitors on phones download small images, visitors on big screens get sharp ones.
• iPhone photos. HEIC photos are converted automatically when your server supports it. If it doesn’t, Lloyd Gallery tells you so clearly, instead of adding photos that show up broken.
• Friendly error messages. If a file is too big or can’t be used, you’re told why, once, with the affected files listed underneath. Anything worth retrying gets a Retry button.
• Use what you already have. Pick photos from your Media Library instead of uploading them again. The same photo can appear in as many albums as you like.

Albums built in, free

Albums aren’t an extra or an upgrade here. They’re the heart of the plugin.

• A photo gallery page, made for you. Activating the plugin creates a “Photo Gallery” page that lists every published album with its cover photo and date. Add it to your menu and you’re done.
• Every album gets its own page with a clean, readable address, such as yoursite.com/gallery/summer-fair/.
• Event dates. Give each album the date it happened. Albums show their date, and you can sort by date or name.
• Drafts and previews. New albums start as drafts, so you can add photos and check the preview before anything goes live.
• Cover photos. The first photo becomes the cover automatically. Click the star on any other photo to change it.
• Descriptions. Add a line or two about the album, shown above its photos.

A gallery that looks great

• Justified photo grid. Photos are laid out in neat, full-width rows, the way photo sites like Flickr do it. Nothing is cropped, there are no awkward gaps, and portrait and landscape photos sit happily side by side.
• Full-screen lightbox. Click any photo to view it full screen. Swipe and pinch to zoom on phones, use the arrow keys on a computer.
• Slideshow. Press play in the lightbox for a hands-free slideshow, with a choice of speeds.
• Captions appear under photos and in the lightbox.
• Gentle animations. Photos fade in as visitors scroll, for a polished feel that never gets in the way.
• Looks right on every screen, from phones to large monitors.

So easy anyone can manage it

• One simple screen for all your albums, with Published and Draft tabs and bulk publish, unpublish and delete.
• Everything saves as you go. Rename an album, write a caption or change a date and it saves the moment you click away, with a small confirmation so you know it worked.
• Arrange the photos in an album by dragging them into the order you want.
• Rotate, caption or remove any photo right where it is, without a trip to the Media Library.
• Select several photos at once, including a whole range with Shift, and remove them in one go.
• Your photos are safe. Removing a photo from an album, or deleting a whole album, never deletes the photos from your Media Library. Anything permanent asks you to confirm first.
• Ready as soon as it’s installed. The defaults are chosen so you never need to visit the settings page. If you want to, you can adjust image quality and sizes there.

Works with your website

• Add galleries anywhere with the Lloyd Gallery block. Show a single album, or the full list of albums, on any page or post. Shortcodes are available too.
• Album Grid pattern. Want a different look for your album list? Insert the “Lloyd Gallery: Album Grid” pattern and rearrange it with ordinary WordPress blocks.
• Works with block themes and classic themes.
• Menus. Add the Photo Gallery page, or individual albums, to your site’s navigation like any other page.
• Search engines. Albums are proper WordPress content, so SEO plugins such as Yoast SEO and Rank Math include them automatically. Each album page also tells search engines about its photos.
• Lightweight. No jQuery, and styles and scripts only load on pages that show a gallery.
• Any language. Every word can be translated, right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew included.
• Multilingual sites. With Polylang, translate your albums into every language on your site. Visitors see each album, its gallery page and its captions in their own language.

Your photos stay yours

• Everything runs on your own website. Lloyd Gallery doesn’t connect to any outside service, doesn’t track your visitors and doesn’t load anything from other servers.
• Location data stays private. Phones store where a photo was taken inside the file. Visitors only ever see resized copies, which leave that out.
• If you ever delete the plugin, your albums and photos are kept.

Lloyd Gallery Pro

Want even more? The Lloyd Gallery Pro add-on gives you:

• Your own album order. Drag and drop whole albums into exactly the order you want on your Photo Gallery page, instead of sorting them by name or date.
• Password-protected albums. Share an album with only the people who have the password, perfect for private events, members and clients.
• Import from other gallery plugins. Move your existing Modula galleries into Lloyd Gallery albums in a few clicks.
• Every future Pro feature, included.

Support the plugin for free

If you’d like to help other people find Lloyd Gallery, you can turn on a small “Photo gallery by Lloyd Gallery” link under your galleries in Settings → Lloyd Gallery. It’s off unless you switch it on.

Lloyd Gallery is made by Lloyd Communications.

Credits

The lightbox is PhotoSwipe 5.4.4 by Dmytro Semenov, MIT licence, included as its own published minified files. Its full source code is on GitHub. Lloyd Gallery’s own code is included as written, with no build step.