A very simple, easily customisable image gallery. Uses shortcodes to display your picture gallery and/or slideshow.
As of April 2026, No Frills Gallery is a WordPress images plugin with 10 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
No Frills Gallery is a simple image gallery with optional slideshow feature. There are a number of gallery plug-ins for WordPress, but many
are either too complex, too rigid or too expensive for some developer’s needs. No Frills Gallery has been developed for simplicity, but also
for customisation. Thanks to it’s use of shortcodes, which are generated after you have chosen your specific requirements, both the gallery
and slideshow can be placed anywhere on the site, either in a page or as part of a sidebar, header or any content area via either the standard
shortcode or PHP’s do_shortcode syntax.
The styling has remained purposefully simple, allowing you the flexibility you need to build on your own style. All front-end stylings can be
view in the /css/no-frills.css file…
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.8.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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