Portfolio websites are the most popular nowadays. One of the best free WordPress Plugin you can find on the internet is Visual Portfolio.
WordPress Plugin, Visual Portfolio, Posts & Image Gallery WordPress plugin, helps every creative, agency, or photographers get access to the powerful tools they need to showcase their beautiful works and attract more love from their potential and existing customers.
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Create beautiful, clean, and powerful photo galleries and portfolio layouts using the Visual Portfolio gallery plugin. It is easy for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for professionals. Whether you’re a photographer, agency, or anything in between, Visual Portfolio will boost your online presence.
? Visual Gallery Builder
Build your portfolio and gallery blocks with no coding knowledge. Thanks to Gutenberg page builder you are able to create and customize galleries visually.
Convenient visual block editor with support to various layouts such as Masonry, Justified, Tiles, Grid, and Carousel. A well thought out design, powerful features, and years of development by the nK team make Visual Portfolio a game-changing Portfolio and Gallery plugin that will level the WordPress showcases playing field in your favor to help increase visitors engagement.
? Optimized to be Fast as Native
Despite the rich functionality, the Visual Portfolio is optimized as much as possible, to be fast and lightweight.
Due to the modular code structure, all scripts and styles are loaded only when they are needed for the current page that displays your gallery. So, your pages will never load unused features.
Pictures are not loaded in the main thread due to lazy loading. Moreover, our plugin is compatible with third-party WebP providers and image optimization plugins.
Smart adaptive image sizes fully supported in any gallery, created with Visual Portfolio plugin.
? Layouts
Our gallery plugin shipped with popular layouts such as Masonry and Justified (Flickr). Every feature optimized and works seamlessly with all of these layouts, you just need to set up and go with no headache. See it in action:
- Masonry Gallery
- Justified (Flickr) Gallery
- Tiles Gallery
- Grid Gallery
- Slider Gallery (Fade, Carousel, Coverflow)
? Visual Effects
Showcase your portfolio items ang gallery images with clean and beautiful visual styles. See it in action:
⚙️ Easy to Customize
The gallery block with live preview includes a lot of design settings that are point-and-click, no coding knowledge required. If you’re a bit more adventurous, the custom CSS module and PHP filters are set up to be easily used by developers.
? Portfolio Post Type
Custom post type portfolio will ensure all your portfolios to keep in a single post type. In this way, you can distinguish your portfolios from other post types. Taxonomies are used to categorize your portfolio types, it will help you to group and sort your portfolios. Moreover, you can use these portfolios as a source for your showcase gallery using Visual Portfolio block.
? Posts Query Builder
Fine-tune the source of your galleries. Display posts, portfolios, and any other post types, filter by taxonomies, author, and date ranges, include or exclude specific posts, and much more options.
?️ Photo Galleries
Create galleries using image sets right inside block editor, just drop your images and the gallery is ready. You can create unlimited galleries with different styles, there is no limitation.
⚡ Powerful Lightbox
Visual Portfolio uses only modern solutions, and lightboxes are not an exception. High performance, mobile optimization, retina-ready, and a wide range of features available in Fancybox and PhotoSwipe plugins, that you can choose for your gallery lightboxes.
Mobile Optimized
Looks great on every device. Swipe to navigate, spread/pinch to zoom in/out supported on touch devices.
GPU Accelerated
Hardware accelerated animations for better performance and seamless user experience.
Smart Loading
Gallery images are responsive and loaded progressively using lazy loading on demand.
Social Sharing
You can allow users to share photos on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest with social sharing buttons.
? Video and ? Audio Support
Visual Portfolio plugin allows you to work with audios and videos within a single gallery. You just need to copy the URL of the video or audio and it will work automatically in the popup gallery. The full list with supported vendors see below (mostly thanks to the Pro plugin).
Supported Video Vendors:
- Youtube
- Vimeo
- IGTV (Instagram)
- TikTok
- Twitch
- Facebook Video
- DailyMotion
- Wistia
- VideoPress
- TED
- Rutube
- Metacafe
- Coub
- Self Hosted Video
Supported Audio Vendors:
- Spotify
- SoundCloud
- Mixcloud
- Beatport
- Self Hosted Audio
? SEO-Friendly
Visual Portfolio plugin is built keeping SEO and performance in mind by defining proper structure and tags. Furthermore, due to optimization, it is lightweight and fast when it comes to page load.
?️ Multilingual
Visual Portfolio adds a new layer of compatibility for WPML. All blocks are compatible with it and ready for translation. https://visualportfolio.co/documentation/multilingual/
? Built For Developers
Visual Portfolio gives you a wide range of filters and actions to customize every part of your gallery. Also, it allows you to overwrite templates and change it in the theme directory. Moreover, you can customize separate portfolio lists using custom CSS and CSS Variables.
? Visual Portfolio Pro
The Visual Portfolio plugin is also available in a professional version which includes more features and enhanced performance! Learn more about Visual Portfolio Pro
In order to maintain the free version of the plugin on an ongoing basis, and to provide quick and effective support for free, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. The Pro version allows you to:
- Social Integrations
Automatically fetch posts from your social networks to display in gallery on your site. - Stylish interaction effects
- Hover Tilt Effect
- Custom Hover Image – useful for animated GIFs
- Caption Move Style
- Theft Protection
- Watermarks – add your logo on top of your images to make them harder to steal
- Password Form – add a password to gallery blocks and send it to your clients
- Age Gate – Protect visitors from viewing adult content
- Responsive Breakpoints Settings
Manually control the screen sizes, which used by the automatic responsive function to adapt your gallery layouts. - Instagram-like Image Filters
Improve visual look of you gallery images by adding filters on your normal or hovered images. - AJAX Improvements
Requests properly cached and links preloaded before you click. - Advanced Query Settings
Filter by Author, Date Range, Ignore Sticky Posts, exclude posts without Featured Image, and much more… - Popup Gallery for Posts and Pages
Display posts and pages in popup iframe, not only image and video galleries. It’s like works preview in Dribbble and Behance, but on your own site. - Popup Gallery Deep Linking
Makes URL automatically change when you open popup and you can easily link to a specific popup image. - White Label
Possibility to use your brand name and logo instead of our “Visual Portfolio”.
Find much more portfolio and gallery features of Visual Portfolio Pro today!
? More Features
- Lightboxes for Standard WordPress Images
Image lightbox available for Visual Portfolio galleries as well as for standard WordPress images and galleries in your content. - AJAX Loading and Pagination
Every dynamic part of the Visual Portfolio plugin is using AJAX to update the gallery content in live mode.
Organized galleries and portfolio lists will make your website look more professional, easy to navigate and result in a better user experience. We prepared 3 types of paginations for you:- Infinite Scroll
- Load More button
- Paged pagination
- Filter
Filter your gallery and portfolio by taxonomies (mostly categories and tags). Let users select a category and see the relevant items. - Sort gallery items by date and title
Users may sort gallery items by date and title. - GIFs Support
Our plugin automatically displays the animated GIFs in photo galleries. Also, you can show the animated GIFs on mouseover with the Pro plugin. - Items Gutters
Manually adjust the spacing between gallery and portfolio items. - Images Lazy Loading
Images lazy loading boost your page loading speed. You don’t need to worry about it, just use your beautiful images in the gallery, Visual Portfolio will do all the work for you. - Images Aspect Ratio
All built-in gallery layouts support custom image aspect ratio. You don’t need to crop the image manually. - Images Focal Point
Sometimes it is very important to specify the focal point so that the custom aspect ratio does not cut off important parts of the photos. For example, people’s faces on the portrait photos. - Custom Links for Gallery Images
By default, gallery images will contain the links to original images. You can manually set the custom links, for example, to a website or Youtube video. - RTL Support
Visual Portfolio natively supports RTL languages, proper styles loaded automatically, without user interaction. - Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder support
There is a helpful widget for Elementor and shortcode for WPBakery Page Builder, which will let you select one of the available Saved Layouts and output it. - Responsive and Mobile Ready
Visual Portfolio and Galleries are completely responsive and mobile ready – layouts automagically transforms to display perfectly on your screen size. - Custom CSS
Deeply customize the look of your gallery using custom CSS and CSS Variables.
