Are you finding it difficult to manage image Galleries on your WordPress site? If yes, a new plugin called Rocket Galleries brings in the good news for you, thanks to Matthew Ruddy

A very simple gallery manager for WordPress powered sites with intuitive panel on your WordPress admin to manage it easily.

Rocket Galleries is the gallery manager WordPress never had. Easily create and manage galleries from one intuitive panel within WordPress. Simple, easy to use, and lightweight.

By Matthew

Some of the important feature of Rocket Galleries are:

• This plugin is lightweight, with no Javascript needed and minimal CSS at less than 0.3kb!
• Bulk image uploading, integrated with new WordPress Media Library
• A built in template loader, allowing you to create your own gallery templates for your theme
• Developer friendly, with huge scope for customization using built-in actions & filters

Installation & How to use Rocket Galleries?

The installation process of this plugin is straight forward and simple, just go to Plugins > Add New & find Rocket Galleries to install and active the plugin.

Once the plugin is installed, you will get the option for Rocket Galleries on your WordPress admin, which will work like a custom post type.

To add images into the gallery select the add new option under galleries and upload images or select from your existing images in media library.

To display the galleries you need to add the following codes where you want to display

In a post/page: Simply insert the shortcode below into the post/page.

[rocketgalleries id="1"]

In your theme: To insert a gallery in your theme, add the following code to the appropriate theme file.

<?php if ( function_exists( "rocketgalleries" ) ) { rocketgalleries( 1 ); } ?>

Don’t forget to replace “1” with the ID of the gallery which you wish to display.

Matthew has made this plugin developer friendly by making it real easy to integrate with any theme with template loader which allows developers to create their own gallery templates and use your own HTML, CSS and Javascript easily.