Simply the Best Gallery Plugin

I’d been reluctant to use NextGen because for some reason, a while back, I remember negative reviews, things about speed, etc…

So we’ve been using Envira gallery (a highly rated competitor) for a couple years… but, it’s been getting slower and slower to the point of being unusable. In fairness, their support tried to figure it out, but the bottom line is their core programming for how gallery pages load, specifically Masonry, causes 30+ second page loads. They also have a dizzying (and completely unnecessary array of options for page loading and pagination and too many frigging plugins (you want to do that? you need a plugin – you want mobile? another plugin, you want pagination, another plugin.) OMFG it was ridiculous. But the speed… SLLLOWWW.

So, reluctantly we knew we had to change our gallery plugin. NextGen is the most widely used, so we bought the pro plugin and installed it. And WOW. Without ANY setting issues or trying to figure out anything, it immediately worked, and FAST – the exact sane gallery with exact same images loads INSTANTLY in NextGen and takes 20 or more agonizing seconds in Envira.

So we did what was no small task and switched over 30 photo galleries on our event site over from Envira to NextGen. We haven’t looked back.

Had a question for their support and it was answered within a few hours.

Highly recommend it, you can’t go wrong for speed, features, ease of setup, etc.