Some notes about Piwigo, a great solution for hosting and storing images. I use it on images.tommi.space.
The problem
Piwigo is wonderful and it has great potential. Nevertheless, its problem is that it is developed quite slowly and by few people. Some parts of the interface are obsolete and very old looking, documentation is not straightforward and simple.
Fundamentally, it is not as popular as it deserves to be.
Embedding
For the reasons pointed out above, even doing simple tasks as embedding have no default and simple solution.
Images
- My current way to embed images is through PiwiShack, a plugin which displays in every image page a menu for different sharing options
- An alternative would be embedding with the
download_by_sizeAPI function:https://images.tommi.space/plugins/download_by_size/action.php?id=16172&part=e&size=medium
Useful info:
- API settings
- My post on Piwigo’s forum
Galleries
Still looking for a solution.
Notes
Some things I have to write here that I would forget otherwise
- Change number of photos per page:
- Go to user settings
- Change the value for
number of photos per page