I think wordpress is one of the best blogging CMS (content management system). Its very easy to install and very easy to use but if you need to place your images in the format of image gallery or light box, you need to install plugings, here i am listing some best plugings available for the image or light box gallery in wordpress.


1. Featured Content Gallery: With this plugin you can create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere in your post.

click here to download Featured Content Gallery plugin

2. NextGEN Gallery: This is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option with a Flash slide show option.

click here to download NextGEN Gallery plugin

3. Shutter Reloaded: This plugin is almost similar to Lightbox, Thickbox.


click here to download Shutter Reloaded plugin

4. Flickr Photo Album : This plugin allows you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site.

click here to download Flickr Photo Album

5. Random Image Selector: This plugin will generate an tag for a random image selected from a specified folder.

click here to download Random Image Selector plugin

6. Dynamic Content Gallery: This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured content using either the JonDesign SmoothGallery script for mootools, or a custom jQuery script.

click here to download Dynamic Content Gallery plugin

7. PhotoSmash Galleries: This plugin makes it easy to create photo galleries in posts or pages that your users can upload images to.

click here to download PhotoSmash Galleries

8. Lightbox Plus: This plugin allows you to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page. Lightbox is able to add a lightbox to WordPress gallery images, display simple slide shows, video, forms and external content in overlays.

click here to download Lightbox Plus plugin

9. Lazyest Gallery: This plugin creates a photo gallery from your existing photo directories.

click here to download Lazyest Gallery plugin

10. FlickrRSS: This plugin allows you to display Flickr photos into your site.

click here to download flickrRSS plugin