Pile Gallery
Create beautiful sortable and stackable galeries from your WordPress posts and media items. If you’d like to take a look at the plugin in action I suggest taking a look at the Pile Gallery home page.
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Pile Gallery shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 40+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 12 years ago, and scores 31/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (40+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 11 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.1 (latest is 7.1)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support
Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Pile Gallery stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| gallery | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 1 reviews
About Pile Gallery
From the official readme · v1.0.7Description
Create beautiful sortable and stackable galeries from your WordPress posts and media items. If you’d like to take a look at the plugin in action I suggest taking a look at the Pile Gallery home page.
Pile Gallery can use any categories, tags or any custom taxonomy and create stacked galleries from your posts based on them. It will take the featured image of each post in a category and put them in a pile. The pile can be clicked to be expanded with a nice animation. The resulting images can then be clicked to go to the post or image.
A number of things can be customized on the back and the front end to make Pile Gallery more awesome. I am working on adding more andmore features, so if you need something, let me know 🙂
- Gallery source
- Animation delay
- Random rotation
- Columns
- Gutter
Pile Gallery should also work on all your devices like tablets and phones. It is completely responsive, going into a one-column layout on smaller screens
I’d like to say a special thank you to Pedro Botelho for his Codrops Post upon which we based the Javascript functionality of the plugin. Take a look at his work, it’s awesome!
Installation
- Upload
pile-gallery.zipto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Unzip
pile-gallery.zip - Activate plugin
Changelog
No need to update, this is the first version :)
1.0.7
- Added WordPress 4.1 Support
1.0.6
- Fixed media categories not showing up if empty
1.0.5
- Updated for new pricing
- Fixed a class name error
1.0.4
- Removed an unnecessary function
- Updated language file
1.0.3
- Made sure only posts with images show up in post galleries
- Added an images per pile option
- Fixed an issue with media piles not showing up
1.0.2
- The ACF_LITE definition now uses a hook so it may be removed
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FAQ
Pile Gallery: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 18, 2026
Is Pile Gallery free?
Yes. Pile Gallery is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Pile Gallery safe to use in 2026?
Pile Gallery shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 40+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 12 years ago, and scores 31/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Pile Gallery?
Pile Gallery is active on 40+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 6,189 times since it launched in September 2014. It was downloaded 72 times in the last 30 days.
Does Pile Gallery work with WordPress 7.1?
Pile Gallery is officially tested up to WordPress 4.1.42, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Pile Gallery last updated?
The latest version, 1.0.7, was released on December 16, 2014 (12 years ago).
Who makes Pile Gallery?
Pile Gallery is developed and maintained by danielpataki.
What are the best alternatives to Pile Gallery?
The most popular alternatives to Pile Gallery are Smart Slider 3 (800K+ installs), Slider, Gallery, and Carous… (500K+ installs) and Photo Gallery, Sliders, Pro… (300K+ installs).
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