Add a template to NextGEN Gallery that provides multiple-file downloads for trade/media galleries
As of April 2026, NextGEN Download Gallery is a WordPress gallery plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 102K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 50% this week. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
Add a template to NextGEN Gallery that provides multiple-file downloads for trade/media galleries. NextGEN Gallery is one of the best gallery plugins for WordPress because it is very flexible and has a nice, simple admin. This plugin adds a new gallery template that lets you select multiple images from the gallery to be downloaded as a ZIP archive.
NB: the Photocrati version of NextGEN Gallery can impact the performance of your server, and not all of the old plugin’s functionality works. You might want to consider using NextCellent Gallery instead — it’s a fork of the original NextGEN Gallery with continued support and compatibility, without the performance impacts.
NextGEN Download Gallery is targetted at creating “Trade/Media” areas on websites, allowing jo…
perfetto ed affidabile
It does what it says. Flawlessly. Great addon!
Works great.
Would be awesome if if you could add the functionality easily into the other gallery options. I’m writing a custom template to just have the download all button so I can put it under the Pro Thumbnail Grid.
Also would be wonderful to have a button that automatically finds the currently displayed id number.
I just built this on a test server and blew my client away. It was exactly what he was wanting: the ability to download some or all images.
I can’t wait to put it live on his site, and use on other projects!!!
Easy to install and use once you read the installation page properly 🙂
Great support.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
The full changelog can be found on GitHub. Recent entries:
Released 2023-12-05
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