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WordPress is a great blogging platform that lets you have full control over the blog. Since, it is free and an open source platform, it offers multiple functional features that make any blog stand out. Images, considered to be vital for the visual appearance of a blog, can be easily managed with the help of several plugins. Thus, if you want to improve the quality of your blog, it is essential that you learn a bit more about these plugins.

10 Best WordPress Plugins to Enhance Image Quality

1. SEO Friendly Images:

To get more traffic to your blog, it is important that SEO is carefully handled. SEO Friendly Images adds ALT and TITLE attributes to images, making it easier for search engine crawlers to index the blog posts. The plugin creates the tags with W3C compliance.

2. NextGEN Gallery:

Having seen some 5 million downloads already, NextGen Gallery proves why it is the most trusted photo gallery plugin. It has a powerful engine that uploads, manages image galleries and has the ability to batch upload, import meta data, edit thumbnails and carry out other kinds of editing.

3. WP Photo Album Plus:

There is a lot that you can modify and control with the help of WP Photo Album Plus. A ‘Photo of the Day’ sidebar widget can be used to highlight different photos every day. The widget also lets users comment on the photos. To use this plugin, you do not need to know any codes too.

4. Flickr Photo Album:

Flickr Photo Album lets you integrate your Flickr photosets with your WordPress blog. Flickr Photo Album has a simple template that is fully customizable. Two of its attractive features include an overlay display library and third party comment service.

5. Lightbox 2:

To run the Lightbox plugin, you will need to have basic knowledge of JavaScript. To run Lightbox 2 you will need to incorporate ColorBox (an image overlay tool) into your WordPress site. The specialty of this plugin is that it allows users to enlarge the image without having to leave the current page. The plugin is extensively used for running automatic slideshows on the site, including video etc.

6. Lazyest Gallery:

Lazyest Gallery takes the help of two settings takes photos from an existing directory and creates a gallery. The two settings are image directory and gallery page. This plug-in enables creating of folders, sub folders, thumbnail pages, and slide shows automatically from the gallery. For those, who avoid using the WordPress server for uploading images, this is an easier alternative with its FTP auto-indexing integration option.

7. Shutter Reloaded:

Though Shutter Reloaded works similarly to the Lightbox, the amazing part about this plugin is that everything happens below 10KB and without using any external library. Basically Shutter Reloaded intuitively understands the display area ad resizes any picture accordingly and places it on the desired location.

8. Easy Image Crop:

The Easy Image Crop, as the name suggests, lets you crop images and get instant results of it. The plugin as a WYSIWYG editor that makes the cropping job easier. It is quite easy to run the plugin and you can start using the plugin as a user with edit_posts permissions.

9. Yet Another Photoblog:

With the help of this plugin, it becomes very easy to run a photoblog that you always wanted. Without being too intrusive, the Yet Another Photoblog plugin has a thumbnail generation tool that makes it easy to upload images.

10. Thumbnail Viewer:

Thumbnail Viewer works with image formats such as png, gif, jpeg, jpg and bmp and can be used to overlay images on a blog page. This plugin runs on JavaScript and is considered a minimalist image viewer.

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