PhotoSwipe Masonry takes advantage of the built in gallery features of WordPress. The gallery is built using PhotoSwipe from Dmitry Semenov.
As of April 2026, Photoswipe Masonry Gallery is a WordPress gallery plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 46 reviews. It has been downloaded 172K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 14% this week. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
PhotoSwipe Masonry is an image gallery plugin for WordPress built using PhotoSwipe from Dmitry Semenov. photoswipe
PhotoSwipe Masonry takes advantage of the built in gallery features of WordPress. Simply use the WordPress admin to create a gallery and insert it in the page.
You may need to adjust the size of the thumbnails to suit your theme in the settings.
Options are under Settings > PhotoSwipe
The PhotoSwipe Masonry gallery plugin allows you to:
Via the options panel you can modify:
Some other features include:
See a demo here
Photo Swipe with a little flare of Masonry. Worked right out of the box and even supports touch screen monitors with URL hash support. Navigating and zooming in the photo works beautifully. Better than most lightbox plugins.
Would you have any idea as to why the popup doesn’t load on click? Whenever I click an image it just goes straight to the image itself on a blank page.
I love it but I installed some lazy load plugins but gallery does not work (i.e. Lite Speed Cache)
Please, improve it. Thanks.
overall, not bad
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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