Plugins for photos – suggestions

I am helping start a volunteer site (of course!) to chronicle the history of show Dachshunds in the US. It is very list-content heavy. We would like to include pictures where we can, as many of the old pictures need to be digitized before they are lost forever. I am also working with a lot of people who are older (our hardest worker bees are in the 60-70 year range) and new to WP–but they are giving it their best shot! I know just enough to be dangerous, so I am hoping to find a clean interface that is fairly easy to work with and easy to teach.

I have literally spent hours and hours trying to find a good plugin for pictures…I’ve alternately had no luck or found myself confused! So, I am turning to y’all for suggestions, as I have a full time job, 9 dogs, small children and a husband. LOL!

Ideally, it would be a plugin that would have a picture pop up (lightbox style?) when you mouse over the name of the dog. Or, a thumbnail version next to the dogs’ names that would pop up similarly.

I’m also envisioning some kind of rotating slideshow of those pictures on the front page. We are not just looking for free plugins….we are willing to look at those with license fees.

While I am asking, if anyone knows of any good pedigree plugin, I would be grateful….or even just a site that has gathered a list of must-have plugins for WP!

Once this is up and running, I am certain we will get donations from other Dachshund people to keep it going and be able to generously support WP and further support those folks who have developed the plugins we use.

If you’ve made it this far, please accept my thanks!