NGG Smart Image Search
NGG Smart Image Search provides a smart search and display functionality for images in selectable arbitary collections of NextGEN galleries.
4.9(13 reviews)
·400 active installs·Updated 9 months agoAs of April 2026, NGG Smart Image Search is a WordPress image search plugin with 400 active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5.4+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Top alternative: Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin.
4.9/513 reviews
400active installs
11K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
NGG Smart Image Search will provide a highly customizable search and display functionality for images in NextGEN Galleries. Search results can be displayed in various layouts including all original NextGEN galleries.
You find more infos and examples on the plugin website.
An image search will be carried out across title, description, filename and tags (as configured per widget or shortcode) of all images in arbitary selectable NextGEN search galleries. There are two search modes available. The basic search mode will look for images which satisfy at least one of the search terms (logical or). The extended search mode will look for images which satisfy all search terms (logical and).
The search result list can be displayed in various ways.
- you can use any of the native NextGEN Galleries to…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.5.4+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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Changelog
3.4.3
This is a recommended security update and fix, uploaded 2025-06-17.
*Fixed: security issue with unsanatized hidden parameter in the browser source code page enabling some kind of SQL Injection vulnerability
*Fixed: html page formatting issues for paged search results
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