By Mitch “The Photo Bug” Keeler

If you are looking to add a few images to your blog, WordPress has more than a few plugins ready to help you get it done.  From image enhancements to full photo blogging power, here are the ten best photo and image related plugins for WordPress.

 NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

 Flickr Photo Album – This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site.

 Shutter Reloaded – Darkens the current page and displays an image on top (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster.

 Random Image Selector – Selects a random image from a specified folder, and provides.

 Yet Another Photoblog – Convert your WordPress 2.5+ installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time.

 Lightbox 2 – Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups.

 SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/xHTML.

 Thumbnail Viewer – A minimalist image viewer with an effect similar to Lightbox JS, only much faster with a whole lot less Javascript.

 PhotoXhibit – PhotoXhibit provides an interface to set up gallery widgets using Picasa / Flickr / SmugMug / Wordpress Uploads and jQuery.

 Page Flip Image Gallery – Flipping Book plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your WordPress blog.

As an extra bonus, be sure to check out our contest themes too:

• Lunarpages WordPress Contest Themes – Series One
• Lunarpages WordPress Contest Themes – Series Two
• Lunarpages WordPress Contest Themes – Series Three
• Lunartics – Free WordPress Themes

Now maybe you shouldn’t add ALL of these plugins to WordPress, but pick out the ones you like and let us know how they work for you.  If you are looking for a great place to host your WordPress powered blog – the Lunarpages Basic hosting plan makes a perfect choice.

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Get bbPress Hosting at Lunarpages
• WordPress Hosting at Lunarpages
• Keep Your WordPress Plugins Up To Date

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