Piwigo v11: get ready for some changes!
A new version of Piwigo will be coming soon. What is this v11? What to expect? We’ll explain everything to you!
Read MoreA new version of Piwigo will be coming soon. What is this v11? What to expect? We’ll explain everything to you!
Read MoreIn January, we asked Piwigo users to answer a survey. Our goal was to get to know better the community members, their uses and expectations.
We sent out the questionnaire at the end of January 2020 in French and English, and in March we sent out the German version.
The questionnaire was sent via Piwigo newsletters in the 3 languages, but it was also distributed on the piwigo.org website, on the piwigo.com blog and on social networks.
We were pleasantly surprised by the quantity and quality of the answers.
A total of 1116 people responded.
Only 10% of the people who responded to this survey are customers on piwigo.com. The others host their Piwigo gallery themselves. This makes sense because these people make up the majority of subscribers to the Piwigo newsletter, and because Piwigo is first and foremost a free and open source project.
The results of the survey are available in the form of an infographics that you will find at the end of this blog post; but we also tried to find out if there were any notable differences between the answers of the customers on piwigo.com and those of the users who host their Piwigo themselves.
Here are the main differences we observed!
While the French account for 33% of respondents overall, they represent 68% of piwigo.com customers who responded to the survey!
To the question “why did you choose Piwigo”, (3 possible answers) the piwigo.com customers chose 3 answers among the 10 proposals:
It was found that French customers also largely chose Piwigo for its French origin.
Half of the customers who filled the survey indicated that they used physical media (CDs, USB keys, hard drive…) to store and share their photos before setting up Piwigo.
We noticed while reading the survey results that many customers are not aware of the extent of Piwigo’s possibilities.
Here are a few features that are not well known but that you might be interested in:
And now, the information that pleased us the most: 100% of piwigo.com customers said that they would be willing to recommend Piwigo to someone they know!
For more information on the results of this survey, look at the infographic below and read the announcement on the piwigo.org forum !
You want to offer your visitors an user friendly interface to navigate through your photo gallery? With the Tag Groups plugin, you can add multiple filters to your Piwigo photo library.
Warning
This plugin is not available to customers who have subscribed to an “Individual” offer on piwigo.com.
If your Piwigo photo library contains a lot of media, you’ve probably decided to organize them with tags, or keywords.
Tags allow you to qualify your photos according to your own classification criteria: this can be colors, image formats, places, themes or any other useful information to easily find photos that have something in common.
A photo can have an infinite number of tags, and you can combine tags to refine your search.
The tag search is available from the “Related tags” menu item of your photo library (that you can activate with the “Menu Tags” plugin), or from a tag cloud that can be displayed on a page of your gallery.
Thus, the tags are complementary to the albums.
Let’s take the example of the photo library of the Archeological Museum Archéa.
The photos of this photo library are organized in albums: Exhibitions, Collections… Each album is also organized in sub-albums: in the Exhibitions album, there is one sub-album per exhibition.
But if you’re looking for photos that match a finer criterion, that’s where the tags will prove themselves useful. You can find in one click all the photos tagged “Middle-Ages”, “Necropolis”, or “Merovingians”, whatever their album.
What if I want all the pictures of Merovingian necropolises?
Don’t worry: I just have to combine the two tags “Necropolis”, and “Merovingian”, as you can see on the example below.
This operation is very simple and convenient, but the tags are all mixed together.
For an even better organisation, and an easier search, a new plugin is available on your Piwigo photo library.
This plugin allows you to use tags to set up a filtering search bar on your photo gallery.
How does it work?
You now have the ability to regroup the tags by family, with the new notion of “tag group”.
The tags “blue”, “pink”, “green” can be associated with a “color” group. To do this, simply add a prefix in the tag name. Thus, by naming a tag “color:blue”, you will have the tag “blue” belonging to the “color” group.
You can see below a page that lists the tags of a Piwigo gallery, grouped by tag group.
If we go on with the Archéa Museum example, we could imagine that the tags “High Middle Ages”, “Classical Middle Ages”, “Gallo-Roman Antiquity” and “Merovingian” would be classified in the “Period” group.
And the tags “ceramics”, “ornaments”, “furniture”, “tools”, “religious practices” etc. could be classified in the “Objects” group.
We could thus set up in the gallery a search engine with filters by period, and by type of object, with drop-down lists as in the example below.
On the above example, (click on the image to enlarge it if necessary), you can see that we first filtered the pictures to show only the “Tulip” type flowers.
You can then refine the selection by color with the “Color” filter. It lists all tags of type “Color”, but only those that are present on photos that also have the tag “Tulip” are clickable.
If I select the “Purple” color, the selection only shows me files with the “Tulip” tag AND the “Purple” tag.
If you wish to test by yourself, you can view a demo by clicking on this link.
We hope you like this new feature! Would you like to implement it on your Piwigo gallery?
If so, you have two options :
They are exceptional circumstances calling for exceptional measures. Until the end of the lockdown phase, we have decided to double the trial period on Piwigo.com, for companies. Here are the reasons that led us to make this decision.
First of all, the Piwigo team hopes that you are all well and in a good mood in these unusual times. We at Piwigo are used to working at home, and the remote communication tools hold no secrets for us. But let’s be honest, the latest events have turned our lives upside down…
And in the last few days, we noticed an unusual phenomenon: several companies that were testing Piwigo contacted us to ask us to extend their trial period. The trial period for Piwigo is usually 30 days, which is normally enough to test Piwigo software and make an opinion.
But these days, many professionals have seen their work processes turned upside down. Priorities are changing, people have to start working remotely, they need to replace colleagues who are on sick leave… The decision-making process is slower and, overall, everything takes a little longer.
And at the same time, it’s an ideal time to focus on substantive projects, such as setting up an online photo library to replace external hard drives, shared network directories and USB sticks! Because now they are stuck at home, people realize how much they need reliable tools to work and collaborate from anywhere.
That is why we have decided to temporarily increase the trial period for companies to 60 days instead of 30 days.
If you are a company (or public sector, or non profit) and are currently on trial, you will receive an email informing you of the extension of your free trial. This is normally applied automatically.
If you’re a private individual, you’re not concerned: we assumed that it doesn’t make any difference to you since you use Piwigo in your spare time anyway.
In any case, we advise you all to take advantage of the lockdown period to take the time to organize and sort your photos! It’s a very useful activity that is often postponed, so now that you are stuck at home, you can get on with it 🙂
Good luck to you all, and take care! 🥰️
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Since January 2020, the Bootstrap Darkroom theme is available on Piwigo.com. It’s a big step in the evolution of Piwigo, so we will tell you in this blog post everything there is to know about this modern, functional and mobile friendly theme for your Piwigo gallery.
Read MoreTo start the year off on the right foot, we have decided to invite you, members of the Piwigo community, to have your say.
We need to get to know you better and understand why you are loyal to Piwigo, and how we can make it even better.
It will only take a few minutes to complete this survey, but it will really help us!
We hope that many of you will participate. And as we value transparency, we will communicate the results of the survey.
If you are a Piwigo user, you may have received an email announcing that Piwigo 2.10 has been deployed on your account. What does this update change for you?
Read MoreWe announced it in our latest blog post: for several months now, we have been working hard to finally release a new version of the Piwigo application for Android.
Good news: that’s it, the application is available! 🥳
This mobile app is the result of a collaborative effort between Phil Bayfield, an English contributor who relaunched the Android application project a few years ago, Raphael Mack, our German Android lead developer, and Valentin Baizeau, a French intern at Piwigo for several months.
Let’s hear Valentin presenting his work in person:
“ My role is to take part in the developpement of the android application. For this first version, we focused on the user experience, by listening to the users requests about what features were priorities for our app. It is now possible to view in full screen your photos by tapping on them for instance, and it is also possible to create new albums and add some photos to them. The idea is to gradually develop new features to be able to offer the same possibilities as the iOS app.”
Valentin, student at EPITECH Nantes and intern at Piwigo.
We are very happy and proud to present this new application that will allow you to:
Don’t wait any longer to download the application and give us your feedback!
If you wish, you can also download the application from the alternative F-Droid directory.
Discover some screenshots below:
It has been a while since we have given news about our Piwigo mobile apps : new features, upcoming projects for Android and iOS… Let’s take a tour in this blog post!
Read MoreThe Piwigo team is very happy to announce that the next Piwigo release is coming soon! But before making Piwigo 2.10 official, we need you, users, to test our new features. Are you up for it?
Read MoreSome changes have been implemented on your Piwigo in June. If you haven’t noticed anything yet, maybe you will be interested by this blog post!
Read MoreIf you have visited the site piwigo.com in the past few weeks, you will have noticed: we have completely redone the style and contents of our pages (and it is not finished yet!). Here are a few explications.
Read MorePiwigo.com subscription form gets a full redesign, with 3 goals in mind: improve VAT management, give choice between Individual and Enterprise plans, make it possible to subscribe for several years. Read More
The huge downtime at OVH that occurred on November 9th 2017 was quite like an earthquake for the European web. Of course Piwigo.com was impacted. But before that, we lived the server failure of October 7th and another one on October 14th. Let’s describe and explain what happened. Read More
17 days after Piwigo 2.9.0 was released and 4 days after we started to update Piwigo.com, all accounts are now up-to-date. Read More