Are you looking for the best plugins to manage images on your WordPress site? Images help bring life to your content and boost engagement. In this article, we will share some of the best WordPress plugins for managing images more efficiently on your website.
1. Envira Gallery
Envira Gallery is the best WordPress photo gallery plugin in the market. It allows you to create beautiful and mobile-responsive image galleries in WordPress with just a few clicks.
Envira is optimized for performance, so your galleries load fast. It is also the most SEO friendly photo gallery plugin for WordPress. Envira has tons of features like albums, image tagging, watermarking, proofing, and so on.
There is also a WooCommerce addon which allows you to add an online storeto sell your photos.
2. Soliloquy
Sliders allow you to drive user’s attention to your most important content with beautiful image slideshows accompanied by text, call to action, and animation. However, Sliders can also slow down your website speed which affects user experience and SEO.
Soliloquy is the best WordPress slider in the market today. It is noticeably faster than any other WordPress slider. It is also the most easy to use with tons of features like featured content slider, carousel, slider themes, lightbox, etc.
3. EWWW Image Optimizer
Images take longer to load than text, and this affects your website speed and performance. The best way to deal with this is by optimizing your images for the web.
EWWW Image Optimizer is the best WordPress plugin to automatically optimize your images in WordPress. It comes with powerful tools to compress images without affecting quality.
4. Imsanity
Imsanity allows you to set a maximum image height and width for WordPress uploads and automatically resizes large image files. It can also perform bulk resize on older uploads based on your settings.
For detailed instructions see our guide on how to bulk resize large images in WordPress
5. Require Featured Image
Sometimes you or another author on your site may forget to add a featured image to the blog post before publishing. This may affect your site’s layout, and if you are automatically sharing posts on social media, then those sites will just pick any image from the article as post thumbnail.
Require Featured Image plugin does not let you publish a post until you add a featured image. It will remind you that you haven’t added a featured image and will disable the publish button until you add a featured image.
For more details, see our guide on how to require featured images for posts in WordPress.
6. Featured Image Column
WordPress does not show whether or not there is a featured image available for a post on the ‘All Posts’ screen. To see if a post has featured image, you will have to edit it.
Featured Image Column solves this problem by adding a featured image column on the posts screen. For more details, see our article on how to add a featured image column in WordPress.
7. Default Featured Image
As the name suggests, this handy plugin allows you to easily set a default featured image to use as fallback for posts that do not have a featured image available. Simply install and activate the plugin, and then head over toSettings » Media page to upload a default image.
For alternate methods, see our article on how to set a default fallback featured image in WordPress.
8. Featured Video Plus
This plugin allows you to add a featured video to your WordPress instead of a featured image. Simply add the video URL, and it will automatically fetch the video thumbnail. It supports YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Soundcloud, Spotify, etc.
For more details, see our guide on how to add featured video thumbnails in WordPress.
9. Image Widget
Normally, if you want to add an image to your WordPress sidebar you will have to manually add it inside a text widget using HTML. Image Widget plugin adds a widget that you can drag and drop to a sidebar and then select or upload an image.
For detailed instructions, take a look at our article on how to add an image in WordPress sidebar widget.
10. Featured Images in RSS & Mailchimp Email
As the name suggests, this plugin enables featured images for your RSS feed. If you are using MailChimp to send posts via email to your subscribers, then those users will also see featured images for posts.
For an alternate method, see our tutorial on how to add featured images to WordPress RSS feed.
11. Regenerate Thumbnails
When you upload an image, WordPress automatically saves it into multiple sizes. These sizes are defined in Settings » Media page. WordPress themes can also add their own image sizes to be used for thumbnails. If you activate such a theme, WordPress will start saving images in those new sizes as well. However, it will not recreate new sizes for older images.
Regenerate thumbnail allows you to quickly regenerate all image sizes in WordPress. For detailed instructions, please take a look at our guide on how toregenerate thumbnails and new image sizes in WordPress.
12. External Media
This plugin allows you to link or import files from Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, Instagram and any other external file into WordPress. This offers you an easier way to work on images stored on your Google Drive or Dropbox accounts by accessing them directly from WordPress.
For detailed instructions, see our guide on how to connect Google Drive to your WordPress media library.
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