Meow Gallery is the lightweight, polished gallery solution for WordPress. Built from scratch for simplicity, appearance, and speed. Features a Gallery Block, shortcode support, or works as an override for the standard WordPress gallery. It’s responsive, retina-friendly, with modern layouts, and tightly optimized.
Stop fighting bloated gallery plugins that turn your WordPress into a slower experience! 😘
Meow Gallery focuses on what actually matters: Beautiful Layouts and Performance. Check out our official site and see the layouts in action to get started.
Core Features
🎨 Beautiful Layouts
Choose from Tiles, Masonry, Justified (like Flickr), Square (like Instagram), Cascade, and Horizontal. Pro version adds Carousel and Map layouts.
🚀 Performance First
Built from scratch with modern code. No legacy bloat, no unnecessary features. Just clean, fast galleries.
🔌 WordPress Native
Works naturally with WordPress and Gutenberg without hacking it. Use the Gallery Block, shortcode, or override the standard WordPress gallery. Switch back anytime—no lock-in.
📱 Responsive & Retina
All layouts are fully responsive and retina-ready for crisp images on any device.
Compatibility
Since Meow Gallery works with WordPress naturally, it’s compatible with most plugins and themes:
- Lightbox: Use any lightbox you prefer. We recommend Meow Lightbox for the best experience.
- Lightroom: Fully compatible with Photo Engine for media organization and Lightroom sync.
- External Links: Use Gallery Custom Links to add custom URLs to your images.
- Audio: Add audio to images with Audio Story Images.
SEO-friendly with automatic sitemap integration (works with Yoast SEO and others).
Pro Features
- Infinite/Lazy Loading: Faster page loading and smoother experience
- Carousel Layout: Dynamic slider/carousel that can also work as a hero
- Map Layout: GPS-based photo display for travel galleries
- Animations: Bring your galleries to life with smooth animations
You can find more information on Meow Apps: Meow Gallery.
Screenshots
The Justified layout lines your photos up in even rows and keeps the shape of every image.
Tiles mixes big and small photos into a magazine-style grid that adapts to each photo's orientation.
Masonry stacks photos in columns, perfect for a mix of portrait and landscape shots.
Add the Meow Gallery block, pick a layout, and see the gallery live in the editor.
The Galleries manager keeps your galleries in one place, each with its own layout and a shortcode to use anywhere.
Set the default look of every layout: gutters, row height, columns and density for desktop, tablet and mobile.