Gmedia Photo Gallery vs Jetpack
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| Feature | Gmedia Photo Gallery v1.25.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.3/5 Visit Details | Jetpack v16.3.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.7/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 7,000+ | 3M+ |
| Last updated | October 14, 2026 | October 12, 2026 |
| Editions | Gmedia Photo Gallery · Gmedia Photo Gallery Premium ($) | Jetpack · Jetpack paid plans ($) |
| Pros | Several gallery modules and shortcodes; Private galleries for logged-in users; Media library manager in wp-admin | Many modules in one plugin, each switched on separately; Brute-force protection and an image CDN without extra services; Contact form with Akismet spam checks and entries kept in admin |
| Cons | Some gallery modules are capped at 100 items without a licence; Premium features are sold through the vendor's Freemius store; Large plugin with many admin screens | Needs a WordPress.com connection to work fully; Usage tracking runs once the site is connected, with no separate toggle found; Paid plans gate some features, such as multi-step forms |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 7 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Gallery display modules (amron, cubik-lite, photomania and others), Private galleries shown only to logged-in users, Import media from online services, Scheduled cron job for gallery app updates, Item cap of 100 on some modules without a licence ($) | Site stats dashboard, Brute force login protection, Photon image CDN, Social sharing buttons, Related posts, Newsletter and blog subscriptions, XML sitemaps, VideoPress video hosting ($), Secure sign-on through WordPress.com |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | — | PayPal ($) |
| — | MailPoet | |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Other | Gmedia online service, Freemius ($) | Akismet, WordPress.com |
| Requires WordPress | 5.4.0 | 7.0 |
| Requires PHP | 5.6 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | Yes |
| External services | gmediaservice.codeasily.com, sandbox-api.freemius, codeasily.com | jetpack.wordpress.com, api.bruteprotect.com, public-api.wordpress.com, www.sandbox.paypal.com, www.paypal.com, api-m.sandbox.paypal.com, api.paypal.com, v0.wordpress.com, videopress.com, widgets.wp.com, pixel.wp.com, subscribe.wordpress.com |
| Blocks | — | 60 |
| Shortcodes | 2 | 60 |
| Custom tables | — | 1 |