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Gallery for Google Photos — WordPress Gallery Plugin

Gallery for Google Photos – share your albums right on your site

by bPlugins · WordPress.org page · Website

v1.3.0 Tested up to WP 7.1 PHP 7.1+

Gallery for Google Photos has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 12,357 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on September 6, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Gallery for Google Photos at a glance

Active installs
1,000+
Total downloads
12,357
Downloads, last 30 days
–
available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is Gallery for Google Photos well maintained?

Support threads resolved
No open threads
nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum
WordPress compatibility
Current
tested up to WordPress 7.1, the current release is 7.1

Features

The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.

  • Drag-to-Reorder: Rearrange selected photos in the editor
  • Frontend Sort Dropdown: Visitors reorder by Newest, Oldest, or Random
  • Photo Count Badge: Show a “125 photos” badge above the gallery
  • Preview Limit & View All: Show the first N photos with a button to reveal the rest
  • Import / Export: Copy a gallery’s styling and layout as JSON to reuse elsewhere
  • Shortcode Support: Embed anywhere outside Gutenberg with [google_photos id=..]
  • Guided Empty States: Polished empty and not-connected states with clear next actions
  • Modern React Dashboard: Demos and help built into wp-admin
  • Theme Compatible: Works with any theme; supports wide / full alignment

Gallery for Google Photos reviews and ratings

6 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews
2.7 out of 5

6 reviews

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  • reviews are true, this is a total waste of time

    i tried many plugins but i finally come back to this one as suggested by AI. it's just stupid to setup all the things (like the Client ID, Client Secret, Refresh Token) and the documents just ask you to add them? so useless and a total waste of time!

    zinizcheng77

  • Google photos API got nuked - plugin is dead

    Since April 2025 Google removed public API access of the photos library entirely. The "Photos Library API" can now only access photos that were created through the API, which is completely useless, and there is no replacement other than using a plugin based on web-scraping a shared album link. Or you can reverse-engineer the private API of the official Google app or website, but who has time for that? Another step-up in evilness for Google (they can go and choke on a c*ck), and 3 stars for the effort to make the only API-based plugin for this. Back to scraping it is - at least it costs Google more money in traffic and webhosting.

    novgorod

  • Good Plugin

    Working well. You just need to read the instruction well to create the API token.

    weetameal

  • Massive hard

    This has what seems like 500 pages of google stuff to try and do first get a degree from mit then take a week off if you want to install

    gnfb

  • Probably the worst plugin I ever dealt with.

    So many things wrong with this plugin starting with the horrible instructions. You activate the install the plugin, activate it...then what? There are no instructions - you have to go hunt them down. And unless you have a deep knowledge of Google API's don't waste your time. Even after I finally got everything set up, the plugin and Google API would not connect to each other. An hour out of my life gone with nothing to show for it.

    massebooks

  • Very good and fast support

    One of the best plugin to take Google Photos and Google Album into a wordpress post. The description for integrating Google Photos is very detailed. Anyone can do that!

    uweha

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Details

Import your Google Photos into WordPress and show them as responsive grid, masonry, carousel, or story galleries via block or shortcode.

The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.

Rankings Gallery for Google Photos competes in

Tags

  • album
  • block
  • gallery
  • Google Photos
  • photos

More from bPlugins

Version
1.3.0
Last updated
Sep 6, 2026
First published
May 12, 2024
Requires WordPress
6.5
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
7.1
Pricing
Free on WordPress.org

Gallery for Google Photos FAQ

What does Gallery for Google Photos do?

According to its WordPress.org readme, Gallery for Google Photos offers Drag-to-Reorder: Rearrange selected photos in the editor, Frontend Sort Dropdown: Visitors reorder by Newest, Oldest, or Random, Photo Count Badge: Show a “125 photos” badge above the gallery, Preview Limit & View All: Show the first N photos with a button to reveal the rest and Import / Export: Copy a gallery’s styling and layout as JSON to reuse elsewhere.

How many active installs does Gallery for Google Photos have?

WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for Gallery for Google Photos as of September 7, 2026.

Is Gallery for Google Photos still maintained?

Yes. The last release was on September 6, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Is Gallery for Google Photos free?

Gallery for Google Photos is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.