Author Archives: Pierrick Le Gall

About Pierrick Le Gall

Founder and lead developer of Piwigo, the open source photo gallery software for the web. Founder of Piwigo.com to provide Piwigo as a hosted solution. Photography lover, husband and father of 4.

Future Piwigo 2.4, ready to beta-test?

Following our roadmap, a new major version of Piwigo every 6 months, version 2.4 is now ready for beta-tests. The stable version is planned for April and then plugins and themes will be updated for compatibility. If you want to … Continue reading

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Transfer your Piwigo Gallery to Piwigo.com

This question is frequently asked on Piwigo.com support: is it possible to transfer an existing Piwigo photo gallery to Piwigo.com? The answer is “yes”. We have done it several times from various hosting providers. Our goal is not to host … Continue reading

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Theme Simple, album description under thumbnail

Small update on theme Simple today. This update brings bug fixing such as centering photo on slideshow but also a new display option. On the albums page, it is now possible to display album title and description under the album … Continue reading

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New Plugin: GThumb+

A new plugin is available on your screen [Administration > Plugins > Manage]: GThumb+. This plugin modifies the design of the thumbnails page. All thumbnails have the same height, except the first one which takes 2 lines. Plugin GThumb+ doesn’t … Continue reading

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Theme Stripped version 2

Theme Stripped, born only one year ago but already very popular among Piwigo users, is now updated to version 2. This theme was created by Julien Capitaine (aka Zaphod), amateur photographer, user and talented contributor to Piwigo. Version 2 brings … Continue reading

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Christmas Gift: Referral Program on Steroids

Merry Christmas to you all! Piwigo.com brings you a little gift: this week the referral program is getting bigger. As you may already know, when a new user subscribes with your referral code, then both of you get an extra … Continue reading

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Custom Page Footer

Until now, to add a personal message in the footer, we recommended to use the plugin LMT (license manager on your photos) because it features such an option. This plugin is very powerful and complete, so it might seem excessive for such a simple need. Now and for this specific purpose, we recommend instead plugin Perso Footer, whose sole mission … Continue reading

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Album description, fine-tuning

Among all features provided by plugin Extended Description, you will find the fine-tuning of the album description. 1. Default display By default, the description of an album is displayed next to the album thumbnail on the albums page and the … Continue reading

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Piwigo Version 2.3, Major Upgrade

The vast majority of Piwigo.com galleries have now been upgraded to Piwigo 2.3. Our automatic upgrade tool has sent a notification email to each user as soon as his gallery gets upgraded.   So what’s new in your photo gallery … Continue reading

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Piwigo Application for iPhone/iPad and Android

Piwigo is now available on iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android. Actually, it’s the very same application for the two most popular smartphones and tablets. The Piwigo application empowers you to connect to your Piwigo gallery, create some albums and upload several … Continue reading

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