Meow Gallery
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4.9(193 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Meow Gallery is a WordPress block plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 193 reviews. It has been downloaded 493K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 18% this week. Support resolution rate: 50%. Top alternative: Spectra Gutenberg Blocks – Website….
4.9/5193 reviews
10K+active installs
50%resolved
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Meow Gallery is the lightweight, polished gallery solution for WordPress. Built from scratch for simplicity, appearance, and speed. Features a Gallery Block, shortcode support, or works as an override for the standard WordPress gallery. It’s responsive, retina-friendly, with modern layouts, and tightly optimized.
Stop fighting bloated gallery plugins that turn your WordPress into a slower experience! 😘
Meow Gallery focuses on what actually matters: Beautiful Layouts and Performance. Check out our official site and see the layouts in action to get started.
Core Features
🎨 Beautiful Layouts
Choose from Tiles, Masonry, Justified (like Flickr), Square (like Instagram), Cascade, and Horizontal. Pro version adds Carousel and Map layouts.
🚀 Performance First
Built from scratch with mode…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very good plugin
by what1·1 month ago
Great looking gallery, easy to set up, variety of options, functionality is top notch.
Highly recommended.
Delightful gallery plugin with beautiful output
by Alena·2 months ago
Refreshingly easy to set up and configure. Works seamlessly with WordPress Media Library and provides a gallery and collection management. The free version is genuinely generous with both Tiles and Masonry layouts. Integrates perfectly with Meow Lightbox.
Simply the best
by micdt·3 months ago
There are gazillions of gallery plugins out there, but I don’t hesitate to recommend this one – always. Sometimes less is more in the end. Meow knows what he is doing. From a photog’s POV. Which is good.
- This topic was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by micdt. Reason: typo
Great gallery plugin without bloat
by davesam·3 months ago
Migrated away from jetpack gallery to this plugin, same quality without the bloat
super great, especially the overide
by fff654·3 months ago
a very nice split between free and paid versions. Both worth their value.
But the jewel is that it overides existing native WordPress galleries: so if you have many already … you do NOT have to do all over again. And if you have to deactivate the plugin for testing or other reasons … no problem. This is the unique and best feature ever. User-first.
Download Trends
Today: 92Yesterday: 117This week: 765Period total: 129K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.4
61.0%
v5.3
13.9%
Other
10.6%
v5.2
8.1%
v5.1
6.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
5.4.5 (2026/02/25)
- Fix: Validate the gallery sorting order so it only accepts ASC or DESC values.
- Update: Refactor the gallery function to support options for preview.
- Fix: Ensure collections correctly update the lightbox.
- Add: Improve accessibility by adding keyboard shortcuts to jump to the start or end of the focused gallery.
- Fix: Correct the manager’s layout override logic so shortcode and block settings behave as expected.
…and 6 more changes
Contributors
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