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15 Must Have WordPress Plugins for a Photo Blog

By Aaron Vergisi posted in Web Design Tools on 14-03-2010

15 Must Have WordPress Plugins for a Photo Blog

Photos can do a lot of talking. No wonder! Photo blogs are gaining popularity.

Its all about images, photos and blogs. If photography is your devotion then photo blog is your shrine.

So here are 15 plug ins that can make your work easier than before.

Image Headlines

One of the most rated word press plug ins, this creates images automatically for your title entries. Advanced form of non-standard fonts and a smoother rendering is guaranteed. The latest version has an integrated WordPress administration interface under WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn added with soft-shadows behind the text.

PhotoQ WordPress Photoblog Plugin

The perfect companion for photo enthusiasts! With this plug in you tend to forget the fuzzy approach of waiting for long hours to upload your original pieces. All that you have to do is to upload your photos into the plug in queue together with the information and, the rest is magic!

Photo Dropper

You can add Creative commons licensed Photos from Flickr with this plug in to your post. By activating this plug in you have to adhere to the Creative Commons licenses for all photos you post to your blog.

Flash Photo Gallery

Flooded with quite a number of attractive features, this plug in is an all rounder. It is compatible with WordPress and uses the integrated media up loader to add photos to your blog. This plug in can create, customize and manage multiple Flash Photo Galleries all at the same time. Not enough? It allows you to add multiple photo galleries in any post with just a single code.

WP-Cycle

This WordPress plug in helps in uploading images from your computer, and it then create a slide show of the images. The user can have ample time to use the link by pausing the slide show. This plug in is quite highly user friendly that the image itself acts as a link to the specified URL when active.

Post Videos and Photo Galleries

One commonly recommended plug in that can meet all the needs of your blog. To be more specific, the plug in can automatically upload, resize and organize your photos. From the menu to slide shows, it helps you to manage all that! Need more? It supports your iPhone/iPod, too.

NowThen Photo Display

With this plug in you can let your readers see your status by displaying your latest NowThen mobile pics in the photo gallery. One of the most frequently downloaded plug ins of WordPress.

G4B Photo Gallery

A free and flexible plug in, one of the top recommended. Its most striking feature is its ability to upload an entire album with just a single keyword. It can support thumbnail and full view cropping.

Fotos Photo Album

This easy to install plug in allows you to share your favorite photos in your blog.

D13 Gallery

Adding thumbnail photo galleries to your blog is now as easy as it can be! You can search for an image with just a easy HTML-like tag to your post. The plug in generates a complete gallery to meet your need automatically.

Photobook

With this plug in you can very easily link to your facebook account and import all your photos and albums to your blog. You can even import from multiple accounts. It also features a sidebar widget which can show case random pics or can be allotted for the recent ones. For greater details refer

Lazyest Gallery

The plug in will make thumbs and slides to your satisfaction. Need more? Adding captions for folders and images, showing images in your posts with some basic code, easy full viewing of full size image, and uploading new images from WordPress Admin… all are fun with this remarkable product.

Lightbox Plus

With this plug in, the user can see larger versions of the pics he is interested in without leaving the current page. The plug in also features to display simple slideshows. The ability to use the dark or light background, which dims the page, also serves to highlight the image being viewed.

Photocrank

This powerful script allows your visitors to interact and caption around your photos increasing the functionality of your images. It enables your site’s visitors to add and contribute contents like graphics, text bubbles and more. Visitors can respond to each others contents using this plug in which eventually adds to the blog life.

Picasa

This plug in is for local integration of Google’s web-galleries into blogs, boards and any other web pages. The plug in after initialization looks for links and checks them for their link to the gallery. If yes, then the link is hidden and changed to gallery’s content. These links make sure for casual style.



  • I was searching the web and I came across your site. Keep up the excellent work.
  • You can create a photo blog using wordpress easily. There are many wordpress themes available for photo blogs. Here, we have collected 10 most elegant wordpress themes; you can choose anyone out of these to share .
  • Flash Photo Gallery is awesome and one can easily use image gallery for their site. It supports all major image formats and to use this there is no requirement of any knowledge regarding to flash, anyone can use it.
  • These sound like some useful plugins. I might try a few out and see which one works best!
  • Great list of WordPress plugins..Your readers that have photo intensive WordPress blogs should be concerned about page load speed. I would suggest using WP Smush.it (and no I don't have any affiliation with this plugin). This is a great tool for compressing your images on the fly during publication. Also, you can manually go through your media library and compress existing images as well. I do wish this process could be automated.
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