Free version works well, might need a little polishing…

The excellent news is that this plugin works. It’s simple to use: upload a 360º image to the Media Library, assign it to a Panorama, and then place a shortcut somewhere in the middle of your article, and it will “just work”.

There are, of course, a few limitations — at least, on the Free version (they might have been fixed for the Pro [paid!] version, though; I simply cannot test that <i>it just works</i> in all circumstances, because it will depend on your setup and how much control you have over it (i.e., hosted on a cloud service somewhere … or used in a shared hosting environment).

Notably, from the perspective of the (human!) manager, it’s not that easy to figure out how things work. Panoramas are special and are a taxonomy on their own; they are inserted into articles using old-fashioned shortcuts, not fancy Gutenberg blocks.

That said, the results are very reasonable, and this plugin is not limited to merely display “traditional” 360º images; it can also work with more exotic formats (such as Google Street View!). If you don’t wish to waste your time searching for the “perfect” plugin, the free version of Panorama Viewer should be more than adequate for most people’s needs.