Polaroid Gallery is a CSS3 & jQuery Image Gallery plugin for WordPress Media Library.
As of April 2026, Polaroid Gallery is a WordPress image plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.8/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 82K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
Polaroid Gallery is a CSS3 & jQuery Image Gallery plugin for WordPress Media Library. It is used to overlay images as polaroid pictures on the current page or post and uses WordPress Media Library. Using Polaroid Gallery you add unique view for your blog posts. Polaroid Gallery adds feeling of old good times.
It is quite easy to use. All you need to do is to create standard wordpress gallery. All other things Polaroid Gallery will make for you by its own. Once you try it you love it.
Polaroid Gallery has translations for the following languages:
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For more information visit WordPress Gallery support.
Plugin in use:
Demo 1
Demo 2
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This plugin is not compatible with WordPress 5.5 and jQuery 1.12.4.
Advise is to look for a different plugin.
Easy to use. Great Work!
I like the plugin Polaroid Gallery, because it is easy to use and is well integrated into the wordpress system without using own folders etc.
One wish is a touch-friendly handling on mobile devices.
This plug-in is easy to use and very nice. Almost perfect. Why almost? Because it’s incredibly slow in Opera (v12) 🙁 Other browsers are ok.
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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