justin owens A sketchblog

Extreme Gallery-fication

I’ve had mixed feelings about the gallery software I’ve been using on this site. It has some nice features, but it’s rather bloated and runs kinda slow. Maiki has a basic install of it that seems to run better, but I’m still not convinced. Part of that comes from needing to use the wpg2 plugin to integrate gallery into WordPress.

I recently came across a different gallery option for WordPress entitled nextGEN Gallery. I’ve been testing it out and so far I really like the results. The only thing it doesn’t do for me is video files (for my animations), but otherwise I think it’ll do the job.

My test galleries:
Color Photography
B&W Photography