If you're a keen photographer, you'll want to show your work off online. Whether you're an enthusiastic amateur, a professional needing a portfolio site, or you've been hired by a photographer to build a site for them, WordPress makes it easy to create a gallery site and show your images to the world.
In this chapter, we'll see how to use the most popular free WordPress gallery plugin out there—NextGEN Gallery. Here's what you'll do:
Install a theme for your gallery site
Install the NextGEN Gallery plugin, which adds more flexibility than what's provided by WordPress' built-in galleries
Create some galleries
Create some posts to place your galleries in
Edit images in your gallery right in WordPress—no image editing software is required
Create an album with multiple galleries in it and use a page to display that
Add your galleries to your site's menu and widgets
So let's get started!