Transforms the native WordPress gallery to a responsive gallery, respecting image proportions.
As of April 2026, Responsive Gallery Grid is a WordPress responsive plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 66 reviews. It has been downloaded 202K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 36% this week. Top alternative: Responsive Menu – Create Mobile-Friendly….
Transforms the native WordPress gallery to a responsive gallery, respecting image proportions. Includes SimpleLightbox, but also compatible with most third party lightbox plugins.
This is one of the best gallery plugins created for WordPress, displaying images in a visually striking way regardless to their aspect ratio. Far more exciting than Masonry and other modern displays. I love the ability to hover over images and see them get bigger making for a fun browsing experience. Works well with a lightbox of our choice. The bottom gallery row is very well spaced out making it even more beautiful. It comes with many display options and works with media offloading.
This plugin comes highly recommended. 😊⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I was looking for the source of the problem of non-admin users being blocked, a problem that’s been going on for months, and it turns out that it’s your plugin!
I’m amazed that it took you so long to realize this and propose a corrective update.
Clean, elegant and timeless look & feel
– The grid is elegant.
– The bubble effect onHover is great.
– It’s minimal, and hence timeless and good.
– This look & feel will age well, my intuition tells me.
Interaction & Responsiveness
– Lightbox is really minimal, UI elements subtle. -> Content is king!
– Next/prev via swipe or tapping arrow-buttons or arrow-keys on keyboard devices.
– Close via “X” or ESC-key or tapping background
– Zoom control really nice
– Double click/tap zooms in to fit-viewport, works perfect on Mobile and Desktop.
– Pinching on touch devices zooms image perfectly smooth to your liking, background zoom factor remains unaffected. Perfection!
– Pinching via Trackpad (on MacBook Pro with macOS 11 Big Sur) zooms image and page in the background. Not completely perfect, but when pinching back to normal zoom level, the effect is gone again.
Immersion factor & interactions could get more perfection
I have created a support ticket entitled “Feature proposals for perfect interactions + immersion factor customizable” in the public support section of the plugin at WordPress.org. Linking is not allowed in reviews. Look it up there if interested, summary here:
– Initial zoom factor
— With safe margin -> this is the default, as it is now
— Fit -> The image touches two sides of the viewport
— Fill -> The image touches all sides of the viewport
– More styling options of the prev/next/close icon-buttons for ensured visibility with fullscreen imagery
– Support swipeClose – Swipe gesture on touch devices to close gallery
– Image transition FX
— None, just linear moving (requires pre-fetching of 1 detail image in each direction): A fast “flick-through mode”.
— Fade out/in: The current effect. Possible downside: You shortly focus on the gallery in the background, then again focus on the image which meanwhile faded in. Can be an experience you want or not. We could already mitigate that if we can set Lightbox bg-color to a degree where the background is fully or merely invisible.
— I don’t not need any other FX, as I like the minimalism of Responsible Gallery Grid. But it is thinkable to may extend that over time.
Works with the native WP Gallery. Optimal set of features. Simple. Fast. Got the premium version with no thinking.
Its exactly what i was looking for! No need for large gallery-plugins, which are not working or not like expected. This plugin uses the wp-gallery and makes it looking perfect on desktop and mobile!
THANX
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
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