Photo Gallery – Responsive Image Gallery & Lightbox

Sell photos and work with clients (Pro)

With Photo Gallery RB Pro :

• Sell digital downloads and prints from any gallery: through WooCommerce , or a built-in checkout with Stripe and PayPal
• Protected downloads : buyers get the original file through signed links that expire, with a download limit
• Private originals : while a gallery sells downloads, the originals wait in a closed folder and visitors reach a copy of up to 1600 px; off sale, every file goes back as it was
• Client proofing : behind a password or personal links, clients pick photos, comment them and send their selection; you get an email with a list for Lightroom, and every selection under Photo Gallery → Proofing, filtered by gallery, date and client, with CSV export

Layouts

• Grid with a choice of thumbnail shapes
• Masonry
• Justified (Flickr-style rows)
• Tiles: five mosaic patterns
• Slider: slide, fade or coverflow, with arrows, dots, thumbnails and autoplay
• Columns for desktop, tablet and phone; spacing, corner radius, shadows
• Filter buttons by tag, “Load more”, infinite scroll or page numbers

Hover effects

Zoom, fade, caption move, grayscale, blur and 20 effects inspired by Codrops’ Hover Effect Ideas: Lily, Sadie, Honey, Layla, Zoe, Oscar, Marley, Ruby, Roxy, Bubba, Romeo, Sarah, Chico, Milo, Selena, Apollo, Steve, Jazz, Ming and Duke. Optional 3D tilt and appear animations.

Lightbox

• Images and videos (YouTube, Vimeo, MP4)
• Slideshow with progress bar
• Zoom and pan, swipe on phones, keyboard navigation
• Thumbnails strip, captions, camera info
• Sharing: Facebook, X, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, copy link; the native share sheet on phones
• Fullscreen and download buttons
• A link to each open image (#hash), so a shared link opens the same photo
• Dark and light themes

Style

Colors for overlay, text and accents, any Google Font or the theme’s font, title and caption sizes. Advanced users can override any value from the theme with CSS custom properties ( --photo-gallery-rb-gap , --photo-gallery-rb-accent , …) and style inner parts with ::part() .

Works with

• Block editor: the “Photo Gallery RB” block with a live preview
• Shortcode: [photo_gallery_rb id="12"] , any setting can be overridden: [photo_gallery_rb id="12" layout="masonry" columns="3"]
• Elementor widget and Divi module
• The classic “Photo Gallery RB” widget from version 1 keeps working

External services

The gallery itself works on your site alone. These services are only contacted when you use the feature that needs them:

• YouTube Data API (Google) — a YouTube feed asks it for the videos of the channel, playlist or search you entered, with your API key, from your server. The answer is cached. Terms , Privacy .
• YouTube and Vimeo players — a YouTube or Vimeo video item shows the service’s thumbnail (i.ytimg.com for YouTube), and its player (youtube-nocookie.com, player.vimeo.com) loads in the lightbox when a visitor opens the video. YouTube Terms , Google Privacy , Vimeo Terms , Vimeo Privacy .
• RSS / Atom feeds — an RSS feed item reads the feed address you entered, from your server; its pictures are loaded from that site by the visitor’s browser.
• Google Fonts — only when you type a Google font name in a gallery’s Style settings: the visitor’s browser loads the font from fonts.googleapis.com. Privacy . Switch it off with the pgrb_load_google_fonts filter.
• Sharing buttons in the lightbox are plain links: nothing is sent until a visitor clicks one, and then the browser opens Facebook, X, Pinterest, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram or the email app with the photo’s address.
• WordPress.org — the Protect tab installs our companion plugins from the WordPress.org plugin directory when you click its button.

The Pro key adds Instagram (Meta), Vimeo, Flickr, Unsplash, Dribbble and Twitch feeds, and payments through Stripe and PayPal: see Social feeds and Selling photos .