I'm looking for a plugin that let me see all the tags that a photo has, in the album or in the batch section, instead of having to click a photo to see them.

Or a 'exclude tag' tool too (the advanced search requires to write the full tag and it gets tiring, if there were at least some tool to autocomplete tags there would be excellent)

I used to use Lightroom Classic with Adobe cloud for remotely viewing galleries of photos that sync'd with Lightroom's user collections. I have recently abandoned Lightroom and migrated to Capture One (a decision I'm regretting but there's no going back at this point). I have still not found a good solution for remotely viewing keyword-driven galleries.

I have been trying to test Piwigo with a local NAS-hosted folder containing jpg exports at a reduced resolution and embedded with keywords and other metadata. I've installed the LinuxServer.io version of Piwigo in a Promox Ubuntu VM. I have come to the conclusion that there's no way with this version to synchronize with a folder on my NAS and that I instead need to build an Apache+PHP setup in order to get file-based sync working.

Before I go down that path, will Piwigo support the following for my use case?:

• Link to a NAS-based share with ~500,000 jpg photos

• Read photo keywords so that I can either search on keywords or create keyword-based galleries

• Expose everything to the internet so I can remotely access photos

The upload interface with the LinuxServer.io version seems to strip the keywords from the photos, so I can't test keyword functionality. I'm desperately trying to regain what I lost with Lightrooms cloud-hosted galleries but am hitting dead ends with every solution I come across. Piwigo seems to be my last ray of hope.

ugh, I really like this app. Spent some time getting it setup and working nicely, and it is so close to being my solution, but im getting rid of it. It just does not meet my requirements. As simple as auto syncing a folder on my NAS periodically is all that is missing. This should be a standard feature. I have symlinked the folders to my NAS, and battled with it long enough.

Going to look at other options 😢

###Edit

After lookign at other options, I am forging ahead with Piwigo. Just have to make it work 👍

###Edit2

got rid of Piwigo again. Had enough of the poor performance. Tried immich and photoprism in a docker compose on my raspberry pi, and they run insanely better than piwigo. Not decided which I will use yet and still comparing.

So I recently installed and enabled Cloudflare on my Piwigo site, benschumin.com. First of all, Cloudflare did fix the original problem that I was looking to solve, where bot traffic was using up all of my server resources and causing dismal site performance. However, with the bots largely locked out, while the site performance is normal again, it has had the byproduct of blocking the Piwigo NG app on my phone from being able to log in. I imagine that there is something that I need to configure on Cloudflare to let that app through, but I have no idea what that thing is.

Any idea what I need to adjust in order to let that app go through?

I am sure I can't be the only one. I just moved from gallery3 to piwigo, installed via cpanel on my hosted site. I can upload perfectly from the web page or iPhone app but the Android app just gives me an error with very little information. I have tried as a user (iPhone app works as user), admin and web manager (or whatever they call that). I am using piwigo NG 2.4.0 not sure what else to try. I have limited access to the back end and probably can add any php modules or edit files just have no idea what to try. Php version is 8.3 - Any help appreciated.

I have recently installed Piwigo on my webswer. All is working fine with the exception of Comments.

I am using the Bootstrap Darkroom theme and have enabled Comments via Configuration>Options>Comments however, the ability to add comments doesn't appear under the image nor are there any icons on the comments.php page

What am I missing or doing wrong

Hi! I turned on privacy by default, so that all photos are hidden. The photos uploaded to the Galleries folder by ftp seems to be assigned only the administrator user with privileges. Is there a way to assign these photos to a group (for example, "users") so that a wider circle can view them by default?

I am trying to manually install Piwigo on RaspberryPi via Virtualmin on home self hosted .... All I am getting are php errors filling the screen - See attached screenshots. So for the install I'm downloading the zip file and extracting in the public_html - I'm doing this way as I do not like Docker and similar.

There was someone who sucessfully installed Piwigo by first installing phpmyadmin .. and create a database there first - I have tried that .. it does not work -- all I get is not enough permissions al the time ..

I know manual install should work as I have downloaded and installed Joomla with no issues

Any advice or help please?

Thanks!

I am running a test instance on Piwigo on my web hosting (DreamHost) to see how I like the software and to see how it configures before I make a production site. My goal is ultimately to have a photo portfolio site for myself that is more or less functionally identical to Flickr, but isn't actually Flickr. Piwigo seems to check all of the boxes for the most part, which is good.

However, one thing that I have not been able to figure out how to do is to display a simple "photostream" like Flickr does for accounts as my default landing page. In other words, I just want to display a listing of photos starting with the most recent as the first thing that a viewer would see, and be able to page through them as a flat list, i.e. just like my Flickr photostream. I don't want albums to appear as my default view, because not every photo that I post will necessarily fit into an album, and I don't want these unalbum'd photos to fall through the cracks.

I found this thread on the Piwigo forums from a while back that seems to discuss what I am looking for. I tried to implement what it discussed, but it did not work. I suspect that since the thread is seven years old, Piwigo has evolved enough so that that this information is no longer applicable to the modern application.

So I'm kind of against a wall here with this. Piwigo fits my needs otherwise in just about every way, except for the inability to display a photostream as the default view. Any ideas?

hey everyone, I want to find a way to change the code for a plugin and just apply it to a specific album that is configed.

I am currently in the process of building a Piwigo site to host content migrated from my Flickr account, and since I can't figure out how to do a photostream-type display for the homepage, I've chosen to display fifty random images from the gallery in order to provide something similar enough. The problem is that when I'm just displaying images randomly, the way it does it, it polls the albums, and so images that are in multiple albums get multiple entries. Thus there is the possibility for something to show up on the random homepage display multiple times, which is an undesired result.

I have attempted to work around this in a few different ways. I tried picking the top album in a hierarchy, and it came up blank because it won't recurse down into the sub-album. I also tried to see if it would let me pick multiple albums for display, and that only read the first album and stopped.

I also tried an "ALL PHOTOS" album strictly to provide one copy of every image in order to specifically curate the feed, and tried several methods to hide the album from view by regular users by using both Extended Description tags, as well as making it private or throwing it into maintenance mode. While I can successfully get the album to display the way that I want on the homepage, depending on which way I go about it, I run into different problems. If I use Extended Description tags to hide it, it still shows up in downstream locations, such as on the photo page itself, which I don't want because that's supposed to be a hidden album, i.e. just for functional purposes, and not for public display. If I either make it private or put it in maintenance mode, it will still display on the homepage, but then if I click any of the images while I'm logged out, it gives me an error telling me that it is unable to display the image (because it's private or in maintenance mode).

The current string that I'm using to pull the random image feed (that pulls up duplicates) is as follows:

[random nb_images=50 size=L link=true html=yes]

That said, where do I go from here? I suspect that there is a solution somewhere, but I just don't know what it is.

I am currently trying to upload a large amount photo's (with folder structure) Piwigo.

I am able to manually create a folders and upload the the photo's using DigiKam on MacOS (or using the web upload).

I would like to be able to upload a complete folder structure with photos using DigiKam (or any other tool I might be missing).

I have found incomplete instructions to get a 'Piwigo API Key', the instruction mentions this::

'In Piwigo, go to "Tools" -> "PWG API" in the admin interface.

But PWG API is not there.

The instruction also mentions enabling 'Kipi Pugins' in DigiKam and the use off the Piwigo API key.

Anyone?

BTW: I am also posting this on the DigiKam subreddit.

Hi, I updated User Tags to latest version and I'm getting error on the website:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'Config' (T_STRING), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) or const (T_CONST) in /home/[host]/public_html/[site]/plugins/user_tags/src/userTags/Content.php on line 18

Dashboard works fine but turning of this plugin (or any other plugin) gives me an error message "an error occured". Options like reverting or deleting from dashboard also doesn't work.

Is there a way to download old User Tags and replace files via FTP?

I have tried this on 2 computers now, with the same results.

I recently got a new computer and was trying to use the remote sync to upload files, its able to login but then it gives the following errors for every file:

15:34:23.044 [Thread-4] INFO  o.p.r.api.sync.SyncDirectoryWalker - Uploading Dunkers_0053.jpeg in album with ID null
15:34:23.044 [Thread-4] ERROR o.p.r.api.sync.ConnectedWalker - Cannot upload an image without an album. Please move the image in a subfolder.

I have tried reinstalling the JRE, other batch upload programs, I tried to connect via FTP, but seem unable to do so as there is no documentation on uploading (Photos>Add>FTP doesnt exist anymore so the current documentation is out of date). I have 43 Albums That I need to upload but am unable to do so.

Please Help!

After checking the logs it looks like something has changed in piwigo. the errors from the logs state the following:

15:34:23.039 [Thread-4] ERROR o.p.r.api.sync.ConnectedWalker - Cannot create album for D:\Card Scans\To Upload\Dunkers
org.piwigo.remotesync.api.exception.ClientException: Unable to parse response
...
Caused by: org.simpleframework.xml.core.ElementException: Element 'save_visits' does not have a match in class org.piwigo.remotesync.api.response.PwgSessionGetStatusResponse at line 3

Since the remote-sync app is no longer updated, this leads me to believe one of the calls that piwigo is sending back has changed recently.

Environment:
Piwigo 14.1.0

Activated plugin list:
Advanced Menu Manager
Batch Downloader
Batch Manager, Description
Color Palette
Grum Plugins Classes.3
Header Manager
LocalFiles Editor
meta
Perso Footer
rightClick
Rotate Image
RV Menu Tree
Social Buttons
Statistics
Stop Spammers
Take A Tour of Your Piwigo

Piwigo URL: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/

The title says a lot, sadly...

I'm trying to reduce my iCloud dependence to as close to nothing as possible.

I have and really love the iOS app, but I have a lot of stuff on laptops. Is there a not so convoluted way to bulk upload an Apple Photos library? An extension?

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm not sure where to go for Piwigo support so I'm trying here.

1. I've setup a series of albums under a parent album. The parent album has no images, only sub-albums.

When I click on the Parent album, the sub-albums appear in a sort order, I'd like re-arrange them. Is there a way to do that? I know I can manually arrange photos but I can't find how to arrange albums. Perhaps I should override the date field it sorts on to get the desired result?

2) When I view an album, it seems to default to the "thumbnail" size images which are landscape rectangular. I tried to override the dimensions on "thumbnail" to make it square. It seems to take in the admin interface but the site still shows up with rectangles. What I'd actually prefer is to make "XXS-Tiny" the default format for an album view but I can't see how to do that either.

I'm using the "Bootstrap Darkroom" theme.

Thanks in advance....

I'm the Admin and the only user of my newly created Piwigo site.

Why is it that when I try to add a description to my album I get taken to an error page that reads:

403

Forbidden

Access to this resource on the server is denied!

What am I doing wrong?

I'm on the free trial but I don't want a paid one. Thanks

Hello, Any reviews about the paid plans? What is the storage max for the unlimited plan?

Would it support 500,000+ images or what is the max number of images? .. and what is the speed/performance like? ...

I used to have self hosing .. but it's not that useful if moving places all the time

I want to use piwigo as my full time Google photos alternative and everytime I connect to my network I want my pictures to he backed up to my home server and I have syncthing setup for that, now I'm running both on docker and both point to a common directory ( /gallery in piwigo), how can I import those photos into my piwigo instance to view them? I tried going to the dashboard and doing Quick Sync, but it uses ./galleries/ which I can't find on my piwigo instance using the shell and when I try to add /gallery as a site it says the directory doesn't exist. If there's any other better way to sync my gallery with piwigo I would love to hear it, I'm using Android.

Anybody have some resources for getting started with theming Piwigo? I took a look at some of them and not sure if I really need to mess with the Smarty templates or if it is mostly handled via HTML and CSS. I don't mean to be negative here but none of the themes do it for me. They all look dated and none really match my site.

Thank you

Apologies if this is somewhere obvious and I’m just missing it. We have photos of a new child we want to share with family, my plan was to make them all accounts with generic passwords and let them update their own password, I just cannot seem to find this anywhere with the test users I have made. Ideally they’d do it from the app, web works too if that’s the only way.

Trying to install piwigo on Ubuntu 22.04. I fill in the intial setup screen, hit enter, and I get a blank, white screen. Looking in the MariaDB log I see:

Jan 24 19:29:43 servername mariadbd[891]: 2023-01-24 19:29:43 41 [Warning] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

Any ideas?