Your family photos shouldn’t live on Facebook.

They get compressed, analyzed, and buried. Host them inside your WordPress site instead—at full quality, completely private. Keep control. No extra costs.

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The Heirloom Difference

Complete Privacy

No scanning, no metadata collection, no selling your data. Only people you invite can see your photos.

Own Your Data

Your photos live on your server, not Facebook’s. You’re not a product—you’re the owner.

Full-Quality Photos

No compression. Every detail preserved at original resolution. See your memories exactly as captured.

No Ads

Your gallery stays clean. Just pure photos—no clutter, no sponsored content, no tracking.

No Algorithms

Your gallery displays exactly what you organize. No hidden sorting or mysterious re-ordering.

Your Server, Your Rules

You control everything. No surprise terms of service changes or corporate decisions affecting your memories.

Fully own your photos + data

Take complete control of your memories without depending on outside companies—your photos and data stay on your server, never synced externally or monetized. Heirloom is open-source and transparent, so you truly own your data forever.

Fully control your image metadata

Organize and tag your photos with the metadata that matters—add captions, dates, locations, people tags, and albums to bring your memories to life.

Want more control over how you organize your gallery? Download the Custom Fields Add-on and add the custom information that matters most to you.

Manage Albums, Tag People

Organize photos into albums to tell stories and group memories by theme, event, or time—then tag the people in your photos to create meaningful connections between faces and moments. Rediscover memories faster and easily share collections with the people who matter most.

If you’d like to let users like and comment on photos, you can download the Engagement Add-on and turn your gallery into a shared experience.

Free forever. Powerful Upgrade OptioNs.

Gallery Plugin


$0

  • Unlimited Gallery Images
  • Unlimited Users
  • Upload multiple file types
  • Organize with Albums
  • Tag People
  • Choose Private or Public Gallery

Engagement
Add-on

$29/yr

  • Users can like photos
  • Users can comment on photos
  • View engagement analytics
  • Control which users can engage

Engagement
Add-on

$29/yr

  • Unlimited Custom Fields
  • Multiple field types: text, textarea, number, dropdown, checkbox field types
  • Organize photos with custom metadata
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FAQs

Gallery storage depends on your web hosting plan—there’s no artificial limit from the plugin. Most shared hosting accounts include 50-200+ GB of storage space, which easily supports tens of thousands of images organized across albums. That’s typically enough for most family galleries. If you ever need more storage, you can upgrade your hosting plan, and your gallery will expand with it.

Your photos live on your own website’s server. We don’t have access to them, and they’re never uploaded to external services. You own your photos and have full control of your data.

Yes. Galleries are private by default, nonce-protected, and shared links use secure tokens. Only people you authorize can view photos.

Yes, images can be shared via a share button. With the pro version, you can share entire albums or people albums.

No. Gallery images are lazy-loaded, and the plugin is optimized for performance. Most users see no impact.

Yes. The gallery is fully responsive and works on phones, tablets, and desktops.

All Heirloom Gallery users have access to our comprehensive knowledge base, covering setup, common workflows, troubleshooting, and frequently asked questions. It also includes step-by-step video walkthroughs to help you get up and running and make the most of Heirloom Gallery.

No. Heirloom Gallery is a fully functioning photo archive plugin that is free to use on its own. The add-ons are completely optional, but they allow you to extend Heirloom Gallery with powerful features that can significantly enhance how you organize, share, and interact with your photo collection.

For example, the Engagement Add-on transforms your gallery into a more interactive experience with likes, comments, and engagement analytics.

The Custom Fields Add-on gives you the flexibility to create your own metadata fields and organize your photos around the information that matters most to you.

You can start with the free core plugin and add these capabilities whenever you need them.

The add-on plugins are an annual fee of $29/year which includes various security + feature upgrades.

If you wish to not renew the add-ons, you keep the add-on plugin (and all of the data) but no longer receive plugin updates.

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