It’s simple, it’s elegant and it works!   There are so many fancy this and super that gallery options out there for WordPress, but when it comes to it, Shadowbox JS for WordPress is one of my favorites.  It does one thing and does it very well.   That is to open media in a shadowbox.  Seems simple enough right?  And it is.

When you install Shadowbox JS it essentially takes any media link, be it an image, a url, a video, a music player, whatever…  and opens it in a shadowbox right overtop of the existing page.  This is great for several reasons.

Photo Galleria is a simple, yet elegant, WordPress plugin for photographers and designers who want to beautify their WordPress photo galleries using an elegant jquery script. The Photo Galleria plugin synchronizes Galleria with WordPress’ built-in media manager. Simply upload photos as normal and the Photo Galleria plugin will create a photo gallery with fade-in and fade-out effects common on flash-based websites. All the transitions happen inline without having to navigate to multiple WordPress attachment pages. Pretty neat, eh?  But it’s not all peaches and cream…