A WordPress gallery using Google Drive as file storage
As of April 2026, Image and video gallery from Google Drive is a WordPress gallery plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 39 reviews. It has been downloaded 142K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Downloads are up 40% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Smart Slider 3.
Image and video gallery from Google Drive is a plugin for WordPress that connects your site to your Google Drive. With this plugin, you can select any folder in your Drive or a Shared drive and the plugin will convert it into a gallery, displaying any photos or videos in a page or a post on your website. Any folders and their subfolders will also be displayed in the gallery as nested galleries.
All the data is sourced from Google Drive with nothing but the plugin configuration being a part of your website. This enables your site to load faster as the images are loaded from Google and not from your hosting provider. It may also save you costs for your site hosting, as the big files of the gallery are not stored as part of your site. On top of that, if you ever decide to move or reinstall…
This works great. It is a little nerdy getting it setup in Google – the key is making sure to ‘publish’ your app and not leave it in demo mode. I like that I can use the Google Drive app on my phone an have the images show up right away on my website. This is a fantastic replacement for Photonic users.
This plugin is only for the specific country in which the plugin has been developed.
Having said that, there is a complete lack of correct description of how to configure the plugin. Tried to translate to my language but just got an error after trying to create a google drive api. Without a correct description, this plugin is completely unusable. The link in the program to the documentation directs you to a page that has nothing at all!
I’m working on finding another plugin now that might work with sensible explanations!
This is a great plugin, saved me a lot of time!
Worked as described
Great plug-in but I get hit with an error every week or so. Rather than showing the photo gallery it’ll just say “unknown error” it isn’t too bad as I just have to revoke and re-grant access to google drive in the settings, but it can be annoying as I don’t want to be monitoring my site for when the error occurs.
I would love feedback; if there’s anything I’m doing that’s causing this error to happen.
Thanks, Andrew
| WordPress | 4.9.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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