Lazyest Gallery is a gallery plugin for Wordpress. Because it creates thumbnails and slides on the fly, it is a good plugin to manage images that you have uploaded outside of Wordpress e.g. by FTP.

Step 1: Install Lazyest Gallery using the Wordpress Installer

In the Admin menu, select Plugins → Add New. Enter ‘Lazyest Gallery’ in the search bar and hit the ‘Search Plugins’ button. In the results page, click on ‘Install’ on the far right of the row titled ‘Lazyest Gallery’. In the next page, click on the red Install Now link. After that, activate the plugin.

Step 2: Enter Lazyest Gallery basic options

Goto Settings → Lazyest Gallery. You will see the Lazyest Gallery welcome screen.   Here you can enter the basic information for Lazyest Gallery.  In the ‘Your Gallery Folder’ input box, you enter the Lazyest Gallery directory, relative to the path where you’ve installed Wordpress. This is the directory in which you later make the folders for your images. You don’t store your images in this folder itself. If your directory doesn’t exist yet, Lazyest Gallery can create one for you.

Next, select the page where you want to display your gallery. If you don’t have that page yet, you can create one and come back to the Lazyest Galerry welcome screen later. Lazyest Gallery checks if the gallery shortcode on your page. If not, lazyest Gallery can insert one for you.

Hit the ‘Save Changes’ button and Lazyest Gallery is ready to go.

Step 3: Upload your first batch of pictures

Now that you have created your gallery on the server, why not use FTP to upload some images for your first album? Select the directory wp-content/lg-gallery and create a directory within that folder e.g. my_folder
To transfer files across simply locate them on your hard disk in the Local Site window and then drag-and-drop them across into the folder you created.

You can also use the Lazyest Gallery file manager Media → Lazyest Gallery to upload images. But this upload is limited to one image at a time.

Done! You have finished the installation of Lazyest Gallery. Your gallery is ready and visitors of your blog can enjoy your pictures.