For a long time, I was looking for a simple plugin for WordPress to create a photo gallery from a folder of pictures using short code, without the need to upload each photo using the media manager.
Yootheme had such a plugin for Joomla 1.5 but it seems the new WidgetKit doesn’t allow the use of shortcode anymore.
Since no plugin fulfils my needs, I decided to develop my own : Folder Gallery.