Title: image gallery? plugin? something else?
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# image gallery? plugin? something else?

 *  [bratty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bratty/)
 * (@bratty)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-gallery-plugin-something-else/)
 * Hi
 * what I want to do is recreate the graphics gallery at my site using wordpress.
 * [http://lab.stargate-brats.net/graphics.php](http://lab.stargate-brats.net/graphics.php)
 * is how it is now. I link to pages that I manually created and I use php to display
   the contents of a folder. I have some pages with just static 100×100 images, 
   and other pages with thumbnails that pop up larger images, and a couple of pages
   allow downloads of zip files that have screen caps in them.
 * Im guessing I need an image gallery script or plugin, that lets me have both 
   thumbnailed and non thumbnailed galleries.. but maybe not. Im new to wordpress,
   and just setting up my site in a test directory for now, so Im a bit unsure what
   would be the best way to do this.
 * do I use a gallery or a plugin? or create “pages” in wordpress (and find a plugin
   to allow php so I can just upload the images into a folder) and then link to 
   the pages Ive created? make the pages manually and then somehow set the page 
   up to use the same templates as my wordpress site?
 * or is there a better way?
 * I’d like to avoid using coppermine, 4image, gallery and anything else that is
   bloated as Im trying to keep my file count down, and Ive used them before and
   didnt really like them.
 * any suggestions for what I could do?

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 *  [jinsan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jinsan/)
 * (@jinsan)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-gallery-plugin-something-else/#post-199110)
 * try Simple PHP Gallery do a google or search here. It’s not bloated. Seems you’re
   not sure what you want in terms of features.
 *  Thread Starter [bratty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bratty/)
 * (@bratty)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-gallery-plugin-something-else/#post-199112)
 * yeah I use Simple PHP Gallery on another site I manage, but Im not sure about
   using for this. its ok for the images with thumbnails.. but it doesnt do static
   images does it? If I remember you have to upload a thumbnail for each image, 
   and that means uploading the same image twice for the 100×100 images. (unless
   you can give the thumbnails the same name as the original. will check that)
 * I know what I want feature wise, for my site… Im just not sure how to go about
   doing it in a way that makes it easy for me to update.
 * All I really want is to be able to have both the thumbnailed and non thumbnailed
   images. I want it to be easy to add 8-10 new images at once, and to create a 
   new category if I need to. Thats about it. any thing else like comments and stats
   etc are a bonus.
 *  Thread Starter [bratty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bratty/)
 * (@bratty)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-gallery-plugin-something-else/#post-199141)
 * I asked on the Simple PHP Gallery forum, and you need thumbnails with that one,
   and I dont need them. I dont see the point in having them for 100×100 icons. 
   So.. yeah. any other ideas anyone?

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 * Last reply from: [bratty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bratty/)
 * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-gallery-plugin-something-else/#post-199141)
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