Been using it for the last one week. Really awesome product !!!

Plug-in works well creating a gallery and optimising large images to improve load times on mobile or desktop devices.

I love nextgen galleries, makes adding galleries to my website so easy!

I like it, got the lifetime pro plan. Goes on sale regularly, especially Black Friday.

NextGen used to be a great product. But it hasn't been updated in years. It has the the same options it had 5 years ago, and the ecommerce plugin is a joke. I just spent nearly a month with their support team trying to fix an upload issue..

Beware of spam. This plugin adds the admin email to their email list. The link to unsubscribe requires deactivating browser security/privacy plugins to unsubscribe. Head shake.

I have been testing a number of options for setting up a small boutique Stock Image site. So far, this one has ticked more boxes for me than any others out there. The things that stand out for me is that it comes with a great, lightweight WP theme that is easy to customize, does full 5000 px width, has no bloat but gets the job done. It is reading all of my image tags, titles and captions on import. No need to import with Lightroom for that, like other Plugins. Importing was fast. 800 full size images uploaded in about 10 minutes. The plugin does site-wide search. Not all do! The search engine could be faster, but I could still be missing something on that. I have only been working with it for a day now. Overall, the plugin is well thought out and feature rich!

I'm a professional photographer, and I'm trying to find a Wordpress alternative to my Photoshelter site. NextGen appeared to be the best of the available gallery plugins. I heartfeltedly assure you, it is not. Based on its performance - plus its customer support - it's arguably one of the worst, if not the actual worst.

I tested it for a while in presales mode and reported issues with absurdly slow upload speeds and images failing to upload, among other issues, and the customer support basically said "gosh nobody's ever had those issues before, that's so weird", and that they would not be able to help at all unless I actually purchased the wretched plugin.

Idiot that I am, I did purchase it - admittedly with a hefty discount - and guess what? The upload speeds are still glacial, the images still fail to upload, the gallery management is still chaos, the frontend layouts aren't an improvement - and what benefit do people actually get from using this abominable plugin?

I've paid for it, surely I should be able to get some use out of it - oh no, the uploader is still useless.

DO NOT USE THIS PLUGIN.

Edit: My upload speed is 100MB, so bandwidth is not the problem. Time to resume using Flickr, perhaps?

This is the best WordPress plugin for galleries that I've found.

I was concerned with learning to use a new platform (WordPress) with new components as well. The NextGen Gallery is very easy to learn and use! I only use the free version just because it is a small site and there is no need for the paid one. However, if I were using it more, would absolutely get the paid one.