Which theme and plugin is best for my photography website ?

Yes with some plugins BUT.

I had the same question a couple years back when Gallery 3 was in beta and I couldn’t stand it. WordPress is not a gallery app. It just isn’t, and while you can add in plugins to make it behave as such, you don’t get to think of things like ‘albums and subalbums’ the same way. It will always feel a little different than a gallery app. You will have a lot of terminology conflicts.

With the SOLE exception of your mobile phone requirement, I would have said to use ZenPhoto (which is as close as a gallery app comes to being WordPress without being WP).

Thank you Mika for your quick answer,

I have read some goods and bads about Zenphoto but I guess I’ll have to try before judging….(downloading right now)… although I am not sure I see such a big difference with Gallery3.

I know WP is NOT a gallery app, I just had the feeling that, with so many developers ,it would not let me down like Gallery did to many users, donators or not (yes I am a donator, but yes I get frustrated when I feel I have donated for nothing). So I was ready to buy one of those incredible WP photo themes and I was even ready to loose the simple albums structure I have in Gallery, just to be in a more modern and evolving environment as WP, knowing that in two years I will still have the updated plugins (or modules) I am using right now.

But what I don’t understand is the lack of mobile publishing tools for multimedia cms.
I mean, it is not the future, it is happening right now !
I have the feeling that many photographers wish to upload their pics on their own website but none of them can, except if they develop their own module or plugin..and many photographers are not developers (jut like me, unfortunately) ??

Yeah, it’s the organization aspect of things that WP … lacks. It’s not the right word, but WP’s handling of media itself is limited.

You may want to check out https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/ though. I’ve not used it but it may be the organization you need.

You can either use a WordPress Photography Theme, or use a gallery plugin and integrate it with an existing theme. I haven’t personally used nextgen-gallery, but while it seems to always have mixed reviews, a lot of sites use it…so it must be pretty good.

Well, I have been digging, installing and testing both Nextgen and WP Photo Album Plus, Nextgen seems really nice but there is no way to create sub-albums and with WPPA, all the photos are listed in one single folder….how easy will it be to manage them they day I have to export all of my website to another system (one never knows) ?
I guess Mika is right, WP may be good enough for a small photography website, I mean with a small amount of albums and photos…but not for a big one.

As for Zenphoto…..after fighting for two hours with php problems and folder CHMOD problems during installation, I decided to go for another search for a multimedia CMS on the world wide web… and….worse come worse, there is still Gallery 3 ! ??