Ninja Galleries lets you easily create image galleries by tagging your images and then assigning those tags to a gallery page.
As of April 2026, Ninja Galleries is a WordPress image plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 12K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
Version 1.0.1 fixes the PHP Warning that exists in v. 1.0. Please upgrade as soon as possible.
Note – In order to use Ninja Galleries, your theme must have post thumbnails enabled. If you do not, you can still install Ninja Galleries, but there will be no functionality.
First off, Ninja Galleries is based upon the excellent Media Tags plugin by Paul Menard. If you are looking to simply tag your images, then Media Tags is the plugin you need.
Because Media Tags 3.0 is the tagging system used by…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.1.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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