pre-build advice, site for a photography firm

  • I’m looking at building a web site for a friend who owns a photography company, he wants a client facing brochure site that shows off his work, with a news section where he adds a latest photo(s) of interest. This part seems straight forward enough to me, but the additional functionality that he wants is something I was hoping to get some advice from on here, if you don’t mind!

    He wants to upload his photos to a password protected area (on a per-client basis) where clients can then download the photos. We could be looking at file sizes of 10 to 20mb for each photo, and with up to 100 photos per client!!

    Would wordpress be able to handle this? I’m assuming that as long as his connection is quick enough, and he has the web space and bandwidth then it should be fine, but can anyone see any obvious pitfals or recommend alternatives or a way in which I might be able to actually do what he wants using wordpress?

    thank you in advance, any suggestions welcomed.

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  • As speed, WordPress is the fastest CMS from the most popular and ones.

    The question is: can your hosting provider handle this?

    Make sure you have bluehost as recommended hosting provider by WordPress.

    After I went through several, I landed on this provider and I am very happy.

    Thread Starter tjobbe

    (@tjobbe)

    Yep, I’ve been looking at bluehost, as well as mediatemple, budget isnt a major issue for my friend, they want what will work!

    thanks for the advice.

    Can you think of a quick way, or the best way for them to upload, say, 100 photos at a time to the site, add thumbnails to a page, and have this page password protected?

    Really the only sensible means for uploading a large amount of files, especially if they are very large, is to use FTP or SSH. A graphical uploader just won’t work as well.

    As far as password protection, there are plugins for WordPress which should be able to handle that, or you can add password protection using your .htaccess file. Here is some information: https://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml

    Your host will also likely have a password-protection tool to manage that, though your permalinks setting might mess it up, in which case you would probably want to use a plugin. It’s your choice.

    The wordpress admin is limiting the uploading file size to 2 mb.

    To increase that limit you need to go to .htaccess file and add those 2 lines at the end:

    php_value upload_max_filesize 30M
php_value post_max_size 30M

    30 mb should be enough.

    Also you need to copy your php.ini file in wp-admin folder, search for:

    ; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 30M

    and add 30 mb there too.

    You can protect those files and create *user registration* for your blog to let just registered user to access the protected files. The users can have multiple levels as well. *User Role manager plugin* let you customize the rights.

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