Best gallery plugin for photographers?

  • As a journalist I need a better way to present photos to editors. I’d need a gallery that autogenerates thumbnails from a folder of RAW or high resolution picture files, typically 5-6 Mb each, with a download link to the original file.

    NextGen is the closest I’ve found, but it chokes on ‘Scan folder for new images’. I had already upped the memory size. Generating thumbnails works fine, but when I scan the folder it for some mysterious reason just starts reading the 5+ Mb files.

    Also NextGen doesn’t have the option to only give download link, instead of displaying the original in the browser.

    Can anyone suggest an alternative? If there’s no WordPress plugin that can do this, are there other PHP scripts?

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  • Thread Starter Modifiedcontent

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    The ZenPhotoPress plugin is very effective for adding pictures from galleries in ZenPhoto to blog posts. The plugin also has short codes to add entire galleries to for example WP pages.

    Picture links open ZenPhoto pages for some reason, but it should be possible to make them open in lightbox, FancyZoom or whatever you’d want to use.

    Anyway ZenPhoto’s transparant templating system makes it easy to add the right header, footer, etc., and make it use the same stylesheet as the rest of your site.

    I use NextGen Gallery in another site. That’s certainly an effective alternative, but I think I’ll standardize on ZenPhoto now. It seems more solid and versatile.

    Okay, I see how nice ZenPhoto is now! Thank you both for the more detailed insight!

    Ipstenu, did you use the WordPress plugins for that example or did you modify the ZenPhoto templates?

    And, again, thank you both for being so forthcoming about how this has worked for you. Probably going to be changing how I do at least one site as a result!

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    NetworkGeek – I modified ZenPhoto, making a custom theme. There isn’t true ‘integration’ with theming, but I’m kind of used to making matching themes with disparate apps at this point. It took me about a morning (maybe 4 hours of puttering around, drinking coffee, and being Bohemian about it) and really just ended up with me having the view-source of a rendered WP page up and copy/pasting as needed ??

    Well, if it’s just a matter of including some headers and footers and referencing the same stylesheet, I think I can probably manage. Generally, I don’t make things pretty, just talk to each other really well. Like my profile says, I’m a network plumber. Your data gets clogged up at a router somewhere and I’m the guy who gets called to ream out the CAT5 cable and make it flow. ?? My ex-wife used to say I was from the “big, orange button” design school, because I always used to say “Who cares what color it is until the app works the way you want?”

    Thanks again for the insight and opinions.

    I’m actually becoming kinda anti-SEO. I don’t want just anybody to find my sites; I want a relevant audience.

    The whole point of SEO is to optimise your site to ensure the relevant audience can find it. That people try and game search engines shouldn’t make you anti-SEO, it should make you anti-SEO gaming.

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