A free alternative to Envira Gallery, offering responsive image galleries, lightbox support, social sharing, SEO optimization, and custom CSS styling.
Gallerized is a free and open source WordPress gallery plugin that allows users to easily create beautiful, responsive image and video galleries. It is an excellent alternative to the premium Envira Gallery plugin.
With Gallerized, you can showcase your media in clean, modern galleries using one of the included gallery templates. Galleries are fully responsive so they look great on all devices. The plugin supports both images and YouTube/Vimeo videos in your galleries. There is also support for lightbox functionality to display larger media when clicked.
Useful features in Gallerized include social sharing buttons to help your galleries go viral, fullscreen mode for distraction-free viewing, SEO optimization such as metadata and schema.org markup, custom CSS for styling your galleries, and more.
As an open source project under the GPLv2 license, Gallerized is completely free to use. It lacks some of the premium features and dedicated support of Envira Gallery but provides an excellent free alternative focusing on ease of use and an intuitive, user-friendly interface.
In summary, if you want to add responsive, customizable image and video galleries to your WordPress site for free, Gallerized is a great choice to consider over a paid option like Envira Gallery.