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# Organizing Large Photo Collections Online – Use the NextGen Gallery WordPress Plugin

If you have a lot of photos that you want to organize online, like [this site](http://whoolery.com/mat/pictures_archive.htm), don't manually embed them into individual html pages. You'll either go insane or your family will leave you.

Instead, use the [NextGen Gallery plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/) (and a [WordPress self-hosted blog](http://wordpress.org/)). The NextGen Gallery plugin allows you to upload zip files of photos in one batch and arrange them in galleries and albums so quickly it'll feel like cheating. (Here's [an example](http://www.naplesgreenbuilders.com/gallery/) of NextGen Gallery implementation.)

[![NextGen Gallery WordPress Plugin Example](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/nextgengallery_example2.png)](http://www.naplesgreenbuilders.com/gallery/)