Introduction – Brief Overview of the Plugins
Envira Gallery simplifies the process of creating visually appealing photo and video galleries through its user-friendly drag-and-drop gallery builder. The plugin offers a range of gallery themes and robust addons that facilitate efficient organization of images using albums and tags. I have employed Envira Gallery across multiple websites. It is optimized effectively to enhance web and server performance, ensuring optimal speed.
NextGEN Gallery represents another widely used photo gallery plugin boasting an impressive 32 million downloads. The plugin includes diverse gallery layouts, a lightbox gallery view, and a multitude of professional gallery extensions. Its potent integrated eCommerce system allows seamless photo sales, enabling transaction processing and streamlined shipment of printed photos to customers via automatic WHCC print fulfillment.
Exquisite WordPress Photography Theme
Photocrati stands as the premier WordPress theme tailored for photography websites. Photocrati streamlines the process of launching your photography website, offering an array of pre-designed demo themes and a 1-click demo installer for swift setup. Leveraging its integrated gallery management feature, you can effortlessly oversee countless galleries.
Effortlessly Craft Stunning and High-Speed Sliders within Minutes Soliloquy ranks among the most sought-after WordPress slider plugins, boasting an impressive 50,000 active installations. Since its inception, Soliloquy has aided website owners, small enterprises, and even Fortune 500 companies in creating stunning WordPress sliders within a matter of minutes. Diverging from the majority of slider plugins that potentially decelerate your website, Soliloquy prioritizes performance. Extensive testing and comparison of the top 5 popular WordPress slider plugins revealed Soliloquy as the swiftest among them.
The plugin’s user interface embodies sleekness, seamlessly integrating into the native WordPress environment. In the context of this acquisition, the entire team associated with these products is also transitioning to Awesome Motive. Zach Kwarta will spearhead the team as the General Manager of Envira Gallery and Imagely business units. I will closely collaborate with him, and I am tremendously enthusiastic about delivering more potent solutions to enhance your website’s growth.
Background Story
Both of these plugins were initially a part of Awesome Motive during its early stages, created by my co-founder at OptinMonster, Thomas Griffin.
In 2017, we opted to sell these plugins to Nathan Singh as I wanted to channel our focus towards our business growth tools: OptinMonster, WPForms, and MonsterInsights.
At that juncture, we lacked the requisite team infrastructure and operational playbook to effectively manage a diverse array of plugins. I was still in the learning phase of managing multiple rapidly growing businesses, and I genuinely feared that Envira / Soliloquy would be overshadowed by our more substantial brands and possibly neglected.
I couldn’t afford to let that happen, as it would have meant letting you (our community) down. Consequently, I made the difficult decision to entrust someone with leading Envira Gallery, ensuring it received the love and attention it truly deserved, allowing it to flourish.
Over the past 5 years, Nathan not only sustained Envira Gallery, but he also consolidated the gallery plugin market by acquiring the highly popular WordPress gallery plugin, NextGen Gallery, in addition to the Photocrati theme.
Anticipating What Comes Next
Our journey is just commencing. We will capitalize on the resources and expertise within the Awesome Motive team to commence fresh innovations within the WordPress gallery sphere. If you have any suggestions regarding features you wish to see in the Envira Gallery, Imagely, or Soliloquy plugins, please share your thoughts by sending us a message through the WPBeginner contact form.
As always, I extend my gratitude for your ongoing support of WPBeginner. Whenever I make an announcement like this, I am reminded that I can pursue my passion daily because of you, our remarkable readers. I am deeply appreciative of your continuous support over the years. WPBeginner and Awesome Motive owe their existence to YOU, and I want to convey my profound appreciation to each and every one of you. I eagerly look forward to continually serving you and the broader WordPress / web ecosystem in the years ahead.