Looking for the best plugins to manage images on your WordPress blog? Images help bring your content to life and drive engagement. In this tutorial, we are going to share some of the best WordPress plugins to more effectively manage your images on your site.
1 - Envira Gallery
Envira Gallery is one of the best photo gallery plugins on WordPress. It allows you to create beautiful responsive mobile image galleries on WordPress with just a few clicks.
Envira is optimized for performance, so your galleries load quickly. It is also the most user-friendly SEO photo gallery plugin on WordPress. Envira has tons of features such as albums, watermarking, and so on.
There is also a WooCommerce extension that allows you to create a shop to sell your photos.
2 - Soliloquy
Sliders allow you to keep the user's attention on your most important content with beautiful image slideshows accompanied by text, a call to action, and animation. However, sliders can also slow down the speed of a website which affects user experience and SEO.
Soliloquy is one of the best plugins for slider on WordPress. He is definitely faster than most sliders. It's also the easiest to use with tons of features like one-on-one content, a carousel, themes, a viewer, and more.
3 - EWWW Image Optimizer
The images take longer to load relative to the text, and this affects the speed of your site and therefore its performance. The best way to deal with this problem is to optimize your images for the web.
EWWW Image Optimizer is the best WordPress plugin to automatically optimize WordPress images. It comes with powerful tools to compress images without affecting its quality.
4 - Imsanity
Imsanity allows you to set a maximum height and image width for WordPress downloads and automatically resizes large image files. It can also bulk download and resize based on your old settings.
5 - Require Featured Image
Sometimes you or another author on your site may forget to add a featured image to an article before posting. This can affect the layout of the site, and if you automatically share the articles on social media, then the image displayed may be another image or no image at all may be displayed.
Requiring a featured photo which is literally the name of this plugin does not allow you to publish an article until you've added a featured image. It will remind you that you haven't added a featured image and will disable the post button until you have added a featured image.
6 - Featured Image Column
WordPress does not display whether or not there is an image in the front page for an article in the list of articles. To see if an article has an image in front of you, you will have to edit it.
Featured Image Column allows you to solve this problem by adding a featured image column to the article list.
7 - Default Featured Image
As the name suggests, this handy plugin lets you easily set up a featured image and lets you use it if there are posts that don't have a featured image selected. Just install and activate the plugin, then go to " Settings> Media To add the image to one by default.
8 - Featured Video Plus
This plugin allows you to add a featured video to your post instead of a featured image. Just add the video url, and it will automatically download the video thumbnail. It is compatible with YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Soundcloud, Spotify, etc.
9 - Image Widget
Normally, if you want to add an image to your sidebar on WordPress, you will need to add it manually in a text widget using an HTML tag. "Image Widget" adds a widget that you can drag and drop onto a sidebar, then select or upload an image.
10 - Featured Images in RSS & Mailchimp Email
As the name suggests, this plugin will add images to your RSS feed. If you use MailChimp to email articles to your subscribers, then those users will also see the featured images for the articles.
That's all for this list of plugins, I hope you find a plugin that will help you.
