10 Best Easy Image Collage Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Easy Image Collage has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Easy Image Collage
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WP Colorbox
Closest match4.3 (23) 5,000+ active installsView image, video (YouTube, Vimeo), page, inline HTML, custom content in lightbox. Add jQuery Colorbox lightbox effect to your WordPress site.
Shares the gallery, image, photo tags on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, no update since August 16, 2025.
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4.6 (30) 2,000+ active installsEasy Photography Portfolio is an elegant portfolio gallery plugin designed for Photographers. Install the plugin, add portfolio entries and galleries …
Shares the gallery, grid tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since February 27, 2021.
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4.3 (26) 1,000+ active installsMakes local copies of all the linked images and pdfs in a post, adding them as gallery attachments.
Shares the gallery, photo tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since February 24, 2017.
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4.6 (71) 40,000+ active installsSimple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox.
Shares the gallery, image, photo tags on WordPress.org. About 13 times the installs, last updated March 25, 2026.
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Firelight Lightbox
Paid version available4.8 (359) 200,000+ active installsFormerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.
Shares the gallery, image, photo tags on WordPress.org. About 67 times the installs, last updated July 16, 2026.
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4.4 (89) 20,000+ active installsWP Lightbox 2 adds stunning lightbox effects to images and galleries on your WordPress site.
Shares the gallery, image tags on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, last updated January 31, 2026.
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4.9 (201) 10,000+ active installsTired of slow, bloated gallery plugins? Here is the answer! ☺️ Polished, beautiful galleries that are blazing fast. No bloat. Enjoy! 💕
Shares the gallery, image tags on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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5.0 (88) 20,000+ active installsAdds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. No lock in and no dependencies.
Shares the gallery, image tags on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, last updated May 28, 2026.
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4.0 (29) 60,000+ active installsA lightweight extension of Advanced Custom Field (ACF) that adds Photo Gallery field to any post/pages on your WordPress website.
Shares the gallery, photo tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated December 26, 2025.
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4.7 (206) 30,000+ active installsGallery Custom Links allows you to link images to a specified URL. Tested with WordPress Gallery, Gutenberg, the Meow Gallery and others.
Shares the gallery tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
Switching from Easy Image Collage: common questions
What is the best alternative to Easy Image Collage?
WP Colorbox is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 5,000+ active installs with a 4.3 out of 5 rating.
Which Easy Image Collage alternative has the most users?
Firelight Lightbox, with 200,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Easy Image Collage alternative is rated highest?
Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 88 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Easy Image Collage alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Easy Image Collage score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Easy Image Collage on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
WP Colorbox is the closest match to Easy Image Collage by the data we track, and Firelight Lightbox has the widest reach with 200,000+ active installs. Gallery Custom Links shipped the most recent release, on August 20, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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