News from Piwigo.com, online photo gallery software
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.
Piwigo and GThumb+ plugin in action, all thumbnails have the same height except the first one.
Plugin GThumb+ doesn’t modify your existing thumbnails, it just creates new and specific thumbnails for its own use. GThumb+ is compatible with all themes.
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 improvements on graphical and layout sides.
1. 3 Styles
In the theme configuration, you can change the Interface style. You can chose between original, white and black. Style original looks like Stripped version 1. New styles white and black, which only differ by color, bring a different layout, especially on the photo page:
Piwigo and theme Stripped version 2, style White: whatever the height of your screen, the photo is centered.
Piwigo and theme Stripped version 2, style White: information tabs are sticked on the bottom and when opened, the information are displayed over the photo.
2. Photo Preloading
Stripped version 2 optionally offers to preload photos. For example, when a visitor opens the first photo in an album, then Stripped will automatically preload the next 5 photos. Number “5” can be modified. Result = faster browsing.
3. Optional Frame
Another new option in the configuration of Stripped: you can deactivate frame around thumbnails.
Piwigo with theme Stripped version 2, style Black: frame around thumbnails.
Piwigo with theme Stripped version 2, style Black: no frame around thumbnails.
The very same option is available for the “web size” photo, which now becomes optional.
4. Navigation Arrows
In addition to navigation arrows that appear on top of the photo (that’s optional), Stripped version 2 can display two big arrows on the border of your screen, with a fixed position. See the first screenshot of this post.
5. Navigation Thumbnails
With Stripped version 1, it was possible to move from one photo to another by clicking on next/prev thumbnails. This feature disappears with version 2 because the required code was too complex and this feature was rarely used (navigation thumbnails remain available with other themes of course).
Now you can test new themes Stripped White and Stripped Black on Piwigo.com multiple themes demo →
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 month for free. This week, bonuses are multiplied by 2: referrer and new subscriber get 2 extra months on their subscription period.
Unlike chocolate, use without moderation!
Need a reminder about how the referral program works? Read Referral Program
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 is to add a message in the footer.
Custom Footer on your Piwigo photo gallery
Perso Footer is compatible with all themes. The most frequent message we encounter looks like “Photos are copyrighted, ask before any use” but this is free text, you decide what you write.
Simple task = simple use: once plugin Perso Footer is activated on screen [Administration > Plugins > Manage], submit your text on screen [Administration > Plugins > Perso Footer] and you’re done.
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 same description is displayed on the thumbnails page, above thumbnails.
Piwigo: default display of the album description on the albums page
Piwigo: default display of the album description on the thumbnails page
2. Tag <!--more-->
start of description…<!
--more-->… end of description
Only the start of description is displayed outside the album. On the album page, you will see start of description + end of description.
Piwigo with Extended Description, tag "more": display of album "start" description on albums page
Piwigo with Extended Description, tag "more": display of album "start" description + "end" description on thumbnails page
3. Tag <!--complete-->
short description <!
--complete--> long description
Only the short description is displayed outside the album. On the album page, you will only see the long description, so you have 2 distinct descriptions.
Piwigo with Extended Description, tag "complete": display of album "short" description on albums page
Piwigo with Extended Description, tag "complete": display of album "long" description on thumbnails page
4. Tag <!--up-down-->
top description <!
--up-down--> bottom description
Only the top description is displayed outside the album. On the album page, the top description is displayed above the thumbnails, the bottom description is displayed below the thumbnails.
Piwigo with Extended Description, tag "up-down": display of album "up" description on albums page
Piwigo with Extended Description, tag "up-down": display of album "up" description + "bottom" description on thumbnails page
5. Let’s combine tags
It’s even possible to combine the tags described previously, for example:
short description <!–complete–> top long description <!–up-down–> bottom long description
Piwigo with Extended Description, tags combined: display of album "short" description on albums page
Piwigo with Extended Description, tags combined: display of album "top long" description + "bottom long" description on thumbnails page
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 with this major upgrade?
Discover the full list of new features on Piwigo 2.3 release notes (screenshots and video inside).
PS: a few galleries are still running on Piwigo 2.2. This is the case if you use a Gally theme or if your main language is Chinese or Spanish. Please be patient, as soon as we have the compatible missing extensions, the automatic upgrade script will notify you.
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.
Piwigo for iOS, upload photos in your Piwigo gallery from your iPhone
The Piwigo application empowers you to connect to your Piwigo gallery, create some albums and upload several photos at once. The application was not designed to browse your gallery but to perform basic administration tasks, such as photo upload. Our goal is to create a simple and intuitive tool.
The application for mobile has been created by Patrice Gauchon, member of the Piwigo team.
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Direct competitor to Facebook, Google+ is a social media launched in June 2011, only 3 months ago. Subscriptions have been publicly opened for about 1 month. The photographers are very present on Google+. By “circling” a few of them, you get a nice photo stream to browse.
Thanks to the Google+1 plugin, available on the [Administration> Plugins> Manage], you can display a dedicated button for Google+ with 2 functions:
Google+ : +1 a photo or a page from your Piwigo photo gallery
Google+ : share a page from your Piwigo photo gallery
By the way, if you’re already on Google+, add me in you circles: Pierrick Le Gall profile on Google+. I mainly write about Piwigo!
Piwigo is constantly evolving. Every month a new minor version is released, including bug fixes and adding small features. Every six months a new major version is released, including new features and important changes. This is completely invisible to Piwigo.com users because we care about software upgrades.
The next major version is Piwigo 2.3. The beta-testing is starting. We give all details on the announcement of Piwigo 2.3.0RC1. Here follows an example of improvement in Piwigo 2.3:
The upload form was seriously improved. Among visible improvements, you will find a simpler album selector, maximum filesize and dimensions displayed before you select some photos, a selection button translated in all languages, a progress bar for the whole upload and last but not least, the photos are displayed as soon as they are uploaded, progressively.
We propose you to test the new features, give your opinion and help us to make Piwigo 2.3 as stable and robust as possible. If you are interested and wish to participate, tell us and we will provide you a “ready to use” environment for testing.
Wedding is one of the few occasions in which individuals call a professional photographer. Any modern photographer usually delivers a DVD with all photos inside. Sometimes, the very modern photographer adds a private album with a selection of pictures of the wedding in its own online photo gallery. Thus, the newlyweds and their families can come and admire the dress of the bride and the arrival of the cake (via the website of the photographer who thus improves his own visibility).
Wedding, out of church, by Bernard Le Gall
Piwigo.com proposes a partnership to wedding photographers in order to go one step further: delivering a complete photo gallery, pre-filled with all the wedding pictures to the newlyweds. Thus the photographer expands his own offer. Here is the way the partnership works:
On Piwigo.com side, we transform the trial period “1 month for free” into “6 months for free” for accounts created under this partnership. Let’s summarize:
If you’re interested in this offer try it for your next wedding session. If you know some wedding photographers, tell them about this offer. At the next wedding you attend, tell it to the newlyweds or to the photographer!
Photo by Bernard Le Gall
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The default home page of a Piwigo photo gallery is the list of root albums. If it doesn’t fit your need, you can create your own customized home page. There are 2 main methods: either you create an additional page or your create dynamic blocks. This blog post describes the first method.
Home Page on Piwigo.com Demo 1
The main idea is to create an home page with free content, such as the home page of demo1.
1) Install and activate plugin Additional Pages + Extended Description from screen [Administration > Plugins > Manage]
2) Create a new page on screen [Administration > Plugins > Additional Pages]
3) Select page model “Standalone homepage”
Create a home page in Piwigo, with plugin Additional Pages
4) If plugin FCK Editor is activated, turn it off with a click on the bottom right of the the textarea
5) In the Content box, you can find [photo id=12345 …] : you have to change the 12345 with numeric identifier of the photo you want. So you have to add this photo in your Piwigo in any album (you can set this album as private if you want to hide it) then edit the photo to find its numeric identifier.
Do you prefer an automatic slideshow on your home page? Create an album, add your photos for the slideshow (max 10 or the page will be slow to load). The edit your album to get its numeric identifier. In your page content, instead of [photo id=12345 …], write [slider album=123 size=M elastic=yes] where 123 is the numeric identifier of your album.
6) Customize content: replace “by Piwigo.com” with “by John The Photographer”, for instance
7) Click on the “Set as Homepage” checkbox.
8) if you keep the “Contact” link, activate the Contact Form plugin.
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