Highly customizable gallery plugin with sliders, lightbox, vertical gallery, and batch image upload for WordPress.
As of April 2026, Gallery with thumbnail slider is a WordPress slider plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 3.8/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 44K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 31% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
The plugin is highly customizable. You can adjust size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, vertical gallery, carousal slider and more as per your needs. It also lets you batch upload images at once when you have a lot of images and not enough time.
You have a host of functionalities to choose from:
* Thumbnail slider
* Lightbox Gallery/Slider
* Vertical Gallery/Slider
* Enable/Disable image Alt/Caption text
* Pagination and navigation Switch
* Slider loop Option
* Add unlimited images in a slider
* Pause interval timer
* Slide autoplay and much more.
Here’s a link to the demo and documentation for the plugin. This will help you learn more about its features and how to use it.
Demo | Documentation
For any feedback or queries regardin…
This slider plugin really is the best out there in my opinion. It’s easy to understand and you can make beautiful, full function sliders.
I tried all the free alternatives to this (10+ other plugins, all the big name ones). None of them worked to create a thumbnail gallery. This plugin works great. It’s fast, free, and free from ads!
Things I would like to see in future versions:
– Control of the thumbnail bar location. Currently it defaults below the gallery, but it would be good to have the option to place the bar on the side of the gallery.
– Set the max width of the slider, and adjust the slider height to the maximum content (while keeping the image aspect ratio). Other plugins allow this basic functionality.
I put in the shortcode added images, nothing..
This plugin is only for displaying thumbnails. You cannot attach links to them and you have to create a static page to display the slider in the top page. Definitely better to try other sliders that can display thumbnails and include links.
At first, I had difficulty in deciding the proper settings for the thumbnail gallery on my own. I tried different combinations, but none of them looked good in the end. I searched if I could find a guideline or something like that but couldn’t find any.
But then, as I contacted the team, they were very fast to get back to me and had gone through all pages one by one and specified the best adjustments for each of them. All pages look very well now.
Thank you all for your support!
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
– Fixed issue
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