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Gallery Custom Links
Gallery Custom Links allows you to link images to a specified URL. Tested with WordPress Gallery, Gutenberg, the Meow Gallery and others.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.7★ from 206
- Active installs
- 30k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 20 Aug 2026
- Added
- Nov 2018
- Requires WP
- 6.0
- Tested up to
- WP 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 8.1
- Downloads
- 1,024,909
Our analysis
AI-assistedGallery Custom Links is a WordPress plugin that enables you to link images in galleries to specific URLs. It integrates with the WordPress Gallery, Gutenberg Gallery, and Meow Gallery, allowing you to set custom links for images in your Media Library.
The plugin adds fields for Link URL, Link Target, Link Rel, and Aria Label to your images. It uses different methods to rewrite your content, ensuring that the links function correctly depending on your site's configuration. This plugin is suitable for users who want to enhance their galleries with custom links.
Best for: This plugin is best for WordPress users looking to add custom links to images in their galleries.
What it does well
- ✓Links images to specified URLs in galleries
- ✓Compatible with multiple gallery types
- ✓Offers various methods for content rewriting
- ✓Allows for optimization through filters
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on additional features
- •No support mentioned for all gallery plugins
Verdict
Gallery Custom Links provides a straightforward solution for linking gallery images to URLs, making it useful for enhancing image navigation on your site.
From the developer
Jordy Meow's own description of Gallery Custom Links, lightly tidied.
Gallery Custom Links allows you to link images from galleries to a specified URL. Tested with WordPress Gallery, Gutenberg, the Meow Gallery and others. The official page is here: Gallery Custom Links.
Usage
Two fields are added to your images, in your Media Library: Link URL and Link Target (but also, Link Rel and Arial Label). If, at least, the Link URL is set up, this image will link to that URL every time it is used within a gallery. Lightbox will be automatically disabled for those images.
To do this, the Gallery Custom Links needs to analyze/rewrite your content. Depending on your WordPress, you can pick the most appropriate method (known as engine).
- HtmlDomParser: Very reliable. It will rewrite your HTML so that the links are hardcoded.
- DiDom: Same as HtmlDomParser but faster. However, your HTML needs to be perfectly valid.
- Javascript: This is the fastest, but the links won’t be hardcoded. Only the visitor will experience the links.
Compatibility
It currently works with the native WP Gallery, the Gutenberg Gallery, and the Meow Gallery. It should actually work with any gallery plugin using the ‘gallery’ class and Responsive Images (src-set). Let me know if you would like more galleries to be supported, it should be easy.
Filters
You can optimize (run the plugin only on the pages where you need it) and support more galleries (through CSS classes) easily by using filters. To know more about this, visit the official page, here: Gallery Custom Links.
Thanks
The motivation to build this plugin came from my users who had issues trying to use WP Gallery Custom Links. I realized that this plugin was working extremely well with the standard gallery, but would require too much rewriting for Gutenberg and other galleries, hence the creation of this plugin. I hope it will help.
Languages: English.
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