Sonido Gallery

Build beautiful, responsive image and video galleries entirely from the WordPress admin. No builders, no bloat: images stay in your Media Library, galleries render with a lightweight CSS grid and open in a PhotoSwipe lightbox with zoom, swipe and keyboard navigation.

Download free from WordPress.org Installation

100% free GPLv2 or later Requires PHP 7.4 Translation ready

Features

Everything you need, nothing you don't

Sonido Gallery keeps your content in WordPress and your pages fast. Here is what the free version ships with — all of it fully functional, nothing locked.

Gallery management

Custom post type "Galleries"
Sortable image list with caption editor
Pick images straight from the Media Library

Video items

YouTube videos with automatic covers
Self-hosted video files
Accessible video modal with focus management

PhotoSwipe lightbox

Zoom, swipe and keyboard navigation
HTML captions visible inside the lightbox
Touch-friendly, retina-aware

Layout & visuals

Responsive CSS grid, gap and rounding control
Three thumbnail sizes: thumbnail / medium / large
Captions below or as overlay

Shortcode first

[sonido_gallery id="123"]
Per-instance size, columns and layout override
Works in the block editor and page builders

Developer API

Layout registry with one filter
Filterable item types for add-ons
Theme-overridable templates and item markup

Screenshots

See it in action

Sonido Gallery meta box with sortable image list and caption editor — Gallery meta box with sortable image list and caption editor

Sonido Gallery frontend grid with the PhotoSwipe lightbox open — Frontend grid with lightbox open

Sonido Gallery settings page with layout, captions and visuals controls — Settings page — Layout, Captions, Visuals

Installation

Live in under a minute

InstallFrom Plugins → Add New, search for "Sonido Gallery" and click Install Now.
Create a galleryOpen Galleries → Add New, pick your images from the Media Library and write your captions.
Embed itCopy the shortcode shown in the gallery editor — [sonido_gallery id="123"] — into any page or post.

For developers

A small, stable extension API

Register your own layout

Hook sonido_gallery_loaded and call Sonido_Gallery_Layouts::register() with a template path — your layout appears in the per-gallery selector automatically.

Add custom item types

Extend galleries with new item kinds via sonido_gallery_allowed_types and sonido_gallery_normalize_custom_item. Vimeo support ships in Pro — your own types work the same way.