{"id":26467,"date":"2023-01-09T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26467"},"modified":"2023-01-09T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T01:00:34","slug":"self-hosted-image-gallery-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/01\/09\/self-hosted-image-gallery-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Hosted Image Gallery Recommendations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1318,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302123850\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 12:30:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 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21:15:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 00:05:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 00:05:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A lazyweb question: Is there decently modern web image gallery software anywhere?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to move away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/\">Flickr<\/a> in favor of self-hosting my photo galleries. But so far all the packages I&#8217;ve found are&#8230;well, they tend to look and feel (both on the backend admin side and the frontend public gallery side) like they haven&#8217;t been updated in the past decade or more.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, sometimes this is because that&#8217;s exactly the case&#8230;which also doesn&#8217;t make me want to download them. But sometimes they&#8217;re still apparently under active development, but still look and feel like early-2000s projects.<\/p>\n<p>Software I&#8217;ve installed, poked at, thought &#8220;mmm&#8230;well&#8230;maybe&#8230;&#8221;, and looked on to see what else I could find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/piwigo.org\">Piwigo<\/a> is under active development (last release three weeks ago) but has rather sparse documentation if you&#8217;re not a developer building plugins, and needs config file editing just to display more than the most basic image metadata.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zenphoto.org\">Zenphoto<\/a> is also under active development (last release a month ago), but appears to be gearing for a more major update\u2026which could be good, but there&#8217;s no indication of when that will happen, and much of the current installation (like every one of the default themes) has a &#8220;this has been deprecated&#8221; warning. So it doesn&#8217;t seem worth investing time into getting it up and running and populated if the current version is soon to be end-of-lifed, with who knows what sort of compatibility with the next version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things I&#8217;ve looked at but not downloaded:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.4homepages.de\">4Images<\/a> may or may not be under active development; the last update was in November of &#8217;21.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coppermine-gallery.net\">Coppermine<\/a>&#8216;s last update was in 2018\u2026but the two before that were in 2013 and 2010, so who knows if it&#8217;s still active or not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/galleryproject.org\">Gallery<\/a> at least admits it&#8217;s dead; it points to <a href=\"https:\/\/galleryrevival.com\">Gallery Revival<\/a>, which hasn&#8217;t been updated since November of &#8217;21.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pixelpost\/pixelpost\/wiki\">Pixelpost<\/a>: &#8220;tldr: This project is abandoned, and has known security issues, use at your own risk.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinywebgallery.com\/index.php?lang=en\">TinyWebGallery<\/a>: I can&#8217;t quickly figure out when it was last updated, but the header graphic advertises &#8220;Flash uploaders&#8221;, and there are too many ads for online casinos on that page for me to bother digging around any further.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to stop giving Flickr money (I have nothing particularly against them, but at this point, I have nothing particularly <em>for<\/em> them either; their website doesn&#8217;t &#8220;give me joy&#8221;, and when embedding photos, the alt text is just the image title, not even the image comments, let alone any option to add true alt text), and I simply don&#8217;t trust Google enough to drop all my images into their systems. I&#8217;ve played with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smugmug.com\/\">SmugMug<\/a> as well, but again, I&#8217;d like to be able to self-host, not pay.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little surprised that this is such a sparse field, but I suppose that Flickr and Google Photos are &#8220;good enough&#8221; for most people these days, so there&#8217;s not a big market for people like me: a tech-savvy hobbyist photographer who&#8217;s not particularly interested in relentlessly pursuing monetization.<\/p>\n<p>Recommendations would be appreciated if I&#8217;ve missed something worth investigating. As it is right now, though, I&#8217;m guessing my best bet will be to see what I can manage with either Piwigo or ZenPhoto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I&#8217;ve found is either abandoned or looks like early-2000s software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2050],"tags":[4256,4257,4255,27,4258,4259],"class_list":["post-26467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-photography","tag-flickr","tag-google-photos","tag-lazyweb","tag-photography","tag-piwigo","tag-zenphoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}