News from Piwigo.com, online photo gallery software
Not only does Vincent show nice photos on his gallery, he also writes a story for each album. What will you find in his gallery? Travels in France countryside, disused buildings, factories and an old gold mine! Read More
Today we have upgraded Piwigo.com galleries with the new Piwigo 2.2.4. This version brings several new features, here is a short list. Read More
The plugin FacebookPlug was added on Piwigo.com galleries. With this plugin, you can connect your gallery to Facebook. Read More
Jielbe was a Piwigo user even before Piwigo.com was born in 2010. He has successfully moved his photo gallery to Piwigo.com. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is written (in french) on his banner. Jielbe makes us travel all around the world, discover events and studio portraits. Read More
The home page of demo1 is becoming quite popular. If you think that displaying always the same photo on your homepage may become boring, you can create a specific album with all photos you want on your home page. Then, in your home page content, instead of writing:
<img src=”http://…./photo.jpg”>
you can write…
[random album=32]
… where 32 is the numeric identifier of the album. Piwigo will randomly pick a photo from this album. You need the plugin Extended Description to be active.
Random photo on your Piwigo.com home page, new photo on each refresh
Last week we’ve launced a featured galleries program on Piwigo.com, with 12 nice galleries. We plan to add a featured gallery at least once a week. Let me introduce you to vadrouille.piwigo.com, the photo gallery by Marc Lambrechts from Belgium. Read More
Any Piwigo photo gallery can have a specific home page, with any content on it. Just use the Additionnal Pages plugin and set a page as homepage.
We have received some emails on Piwigo.com support because the breadcrumbs were not including the albums root: Home / Album level 1 / Album level 2. With a specific home page, the “home” links goes to it. In practice you had to go back to home page to return on albums root.
We have just added a small feature: if you have an home page defined with Additional Pages, then the breadcumbs includes the albums root: Home / Albums / Album level 1 / Album level 2.
The "albums" link is automatically added if you have a specific home page
See the result on demo1 →
We have a referral program on Piwigo.com. The way it works is easy: when a new user subscribes with your referral code, then both of you get an extra month for free.
Each Piwigo.com account gets a referral code as soon as the subscription is confirmed. You can find this code on your screen [Administration > My Account > Referrals]
Get your referral code from your Piwigo.com account administration panel
Where does the new user enters your referral code? on his subscription management screen [Administration > My Account > Subscription]
Enter a referral code on your Piwigo.com subscription form
When the new user confirms his subscription, you receive a notification by email.
Piwigo.com notifies you by email when you get a new referred user
Did I forget to say that there was no limit on the number of referred users? It simply means that if you get enough of them you won’t pay any subscription renewal for a very long time! 10 referred users = 10 extra months for free, 20 referred users = 20 extra months for free…
A new theme is available, Sakura BW : black background, grey text, fixed width central column, flower in the banner. Read More
Today thursday June 23rd 2011, I’m proud to announce the opening of Piwigo.com official blog. Here you will find some news and advices about how to use your photo gallery efficiently, some announcements related to new features, themes and plugins.
Here follow some general information about the Piwigo family:
Piwigo is an open source software, designed to create a photo gallery on the web. Piwigo was born in 2002, 9 years ago. Its name was PhpWebGallery until “recently” in 2009.
Piwigo.org is the website which distributes the software Piwigo and where developments take place : source code manager, bug tracker and technical discussions. There you can also find some help on forums and plugins provided by the community.
Piwigo.com is the hosted version of Piwigo: instead of downloading and installing it on your own web hosting, Piwigo.com is a “ready to use” solution including hosting and boring tasks such as installation, updates and backups. Piwigo.com also provide a dedicated support by email. Piwigo.com was launched in June 2010 and subscriptions were opened on January 2011.
