Companies Using NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is the oldest of the four gallery plugins I profiled: its wordpress.org listing dates from April 2007, Imagely develops it, and Imagely says it's part of the Awesome Motive family. A domain counts here when its pages load files from the plugin's folder, or from NextGEN Pro's or Plus's. Our October 2026 crawl finds 23,180 live domains, 5th of 29 in Photo Galleries and 3rd among distinct gallery plugins, with 14,021 matched to a company.

One product, two rows

Our catalog has a second, older rule for the same plugin, listed as "NextGEN Gallery" with 16,565 domains, 6th in the table. It reads the plugin's script path and meta tag. 15,922 domains carry both rules, about 96% of the older row, so it adds almost nothing this page doesn't already count. Never add the two together, and don't read the 6th row as a rival.

Sales signal: size the NextGEN market at about 23,000 live domains, not the nearly 40,000 you'd get by summing both rows.

Half installs, half galleries

I opened 45 random live domains. 41 home pages loaded NextGEN, and 20 of those showed a gallery, slideshow or gallery widget. That's between Photo Gallery by 10Web (4 of 34) and FooGallery (34 of 42). Some NextGEN files load site-wide, so the count mixes sites showing galleries with sites that only have it installed. 8 of the 41 also loaded NextGEN Pro, Imagely's paid plugin, and on four of them the home page ran little more than its Instagram or Dribbble link scripts.

Sales signal: about one site in five shows a paid NextGEN install, a much easier upgrade or replacement conversation than with free-only users.

Steady, with a dip that's ours

The chart reads 20,480 in June, 21,776 in July, 21,325 in August, 22,483 in September and 23,180 in October. Neither the rise nor the August dip is demand: the domains we crawl turn over every month, with dead sites dropping out and new ones added, and our detection changed over the same months. 3,337 domains have dropped NextGEN on at least one hostname since we began tracking it in March 2026, and when I rechecked, 472 of them still loaded it on another hostname.

"NextGEN's customers are the smallest of the four gallery plugins I profiled, and the least likely to be new. Three in four have ten or fewer staff, and only 4.2% were founded this decade." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: this is a mature, stable base. Expect replacement cycles and site rebuilds, not a wave of new installs.

Small, long-established customers

75.54% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees, against 65.68% to 68.01% on the other three gallery-plugin profiles. The 2000s account for 27.14% of founding years, the highest of the four, and only 4.2% date from the 2020s. There are 66 companies above 1,000 staff, and they usually run NextGEN on a side site: Sparkasse Freiburg's lokalist blog, the City of Vienna's 48er-Tandler shop, the University of Bucharest's anniversary site, Enerpac's blog.

Sales signal: the typical NextGEN owner is a sole trader or tiny firm whose site was built years ago. Rebuild, hosting-migration and care-plan offers fit better than enterprise software.

Photographers and property sites

Construction leads at 9.01%, but photography is 2nd at 4.29%, against 2.76% on FooGallery's profile and outside the top ten on the other two. Real estate is 7th at 3.17%, and about 190 property sites load iHomefinder IDX beside NextGEN. In my sample, one music photographer's site carried NextGEN Pro's print price lists and cart.

Sales signal: for print labs, proofing tools, client-gallery platforms and photography-business software, NextGEN's list is the best-targeted of the four, by industry mix.

Where they are

The United States has 4,572 matched companies, then Germany (1,978), the United Kingdom (1,055), Italy (687) and the Netherlands (524). Germany's ratio, about two companies for every five American ones, is higher than Photo Gallery by 10Web's and lower than Responsive Lightbox & Gallery's. Italy ranks 4th here, ahead of its place on the other three profiles, and Hungary (122) makes the top 15.

Sales signal: German and Italian agencies will find NextGEN sites a solid local list of small owners with ageing WordPress builds.

Next to the other gallery plugins

There's no migration table on this page. Slider Revolution shares the most sites with NextGEN: 1,967, 8.49% of the 23,178 we checked for co-installed technology. The gallery rivals share far fewer, 334 for Photo Gallery by 10Web, 260 for Responsive Lightbox & Gallery and 29 for FooGallery. Most domains ever seen with a pair still run both, so none passes our switching tests. FooGallery's free version ships a migrator for NextGEN galleries, yet we don't see sites moving over in any number.

"Only 29 domains run NextGEN and FooGallery together, and we see no corridor between them. NextGEN sites mostly stay NextGEN sites." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: rival gallery vendors face a sticky base. The opening is a full site rebuild, when the gallery gets chosen again.

The stack around it

Shares are of the 23,178 domains above. Page builders are rare: Elementor is on 8.87% and Divi on 4.76%, against 34.34% Elementor on FooGallery's domains. Slick loads on 21.16% and jQuery UI on 24.32%. Google Analytics runs on 42.07%, and consent tools are thin, with CookieYes on 4.87% and Cookie Notice on 3.84%.

Sales signal: low page-builder and consent-tool rates point to older, hand-maintained sites. For consent vendors, neither CookieYes nor Cookie Notice reaches 5% here, so the field is open.

What it costs

The core plugin is free; version 4.5.2 shipped on 1 October 2026 and 4,341 wordpress.org ratings average 4.3 stars. Imagely's pricing page (checked 14 October 2026) shows introductory first-year prices of $69.50 for one site, $99.50 for three, $139.50 for five and $199.50 for 25, renewing at full price ($139 to $399 a year).

Sales signal: introductory prices renew at double, so the first renewal is when paying NextGEN owners are most likely to shop around.

Key takeaways

1. 23,180 live domains, 5th of 29 and 3rd among distinct gallery plugins; the 6th row is the same product.

2. Half galleries, half installs: 20 of 41 sampled home pages showed a gallery.

3. The smallest customers of the four: 75.54% have 1 to 10 staff, and only 4.2% were founded in the 2020s.

4. Photography is the 2nd industry, at 4.29%.

5. About one sampled site in five loads the paid NextGEN Pro.

How to use this list

Filter by industry (photography, real estate) and country, and never merge it with the older NextGEN row. For the full list of 23,180 NextGEN Gallery domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io. Our guide to technology detection methods explains how two rules can count one product.