(last update: May 31, 2010)
Due to the lack of updates on plugins to support more recent versions of WordPress, I spent some time to go back through and find the best working and most functional photo gallery plugins for WordPress to date.
1. Fotobook
compatible up to WordPress version 3.0.2 – official WordPress.org page – demo

Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account(s) and import all of your photo albums for use in your WordPress installation. It uses the Facebook API so importing your photos is a breeze. Requires PHP 5. THIS IS MY FAVORITE ONE!
Features include:

Interfaces with Facebook’s API
Displays photo albums on a WordPress page
Import photos from mulitple Facebook accounts
Sidebar widgets for displaying random or recent photos & albums
Creates an album of photos that the user’s tagged in
Insert individual photos into posts/pages
Easy-to-use Ajax album management panel
Frontend validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict

2. NextGEN Gallery
compatible up to [...]

So whenever you write something called “the best _ plugin” you know of course that’s going to change over time. And it has with ad management plugins for WordPress. Since I originally wrote this post back in May of 2008 the WPAds plugin has become outdated and nearly non-existent. Since then the WordPress plugin developer Ozh has developed the Ozh’ Who Sees Ads plugin which is now in my opinion the best choice for an ad management plugin. If you are starting a new blog or just improving a current one, this is a plugin that can help you monetize your efforts.
Who Sees Ads is an advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, for instance Adsense, depending on user defined conditions. You can manage ads in your templates (eg sidebar.php) or within posts and pages.
For instance, you could consider the following criteria: Is [...]