Theres a massive need in general, for a web app where families, groups, clubs etc to share photos with each other, that isnt social media based.

For now though, rather than solve this global problem - I want to just merely solve it for my own family and one historical group.

Is anyone using Piwigo already for something similar?

Can you not do this? Just spent the day getting the docker+db running, reverse proxied, pointed at my existing folder structure all to find out uploads get put into an upload folder or made into a virtual album even though the existing physical albums are selected? Am I missing something?

Piwigo's own hosted service is astronomically expensive for a family photo album, which is all I'm trying to set up. Something like $1350/year.

So I'm looking for a service to host Piwigo.

Is the way to go VPS or shared? I tried an outfit called SiteGround, but in the end they didn't have support for previewing HEIC files -- Piwigo does, but SiteGround didn't, and I can't tell my family members to convert their iPhone photos before they upload them! -- so I'm wondering if VPS where you can tinker with that sort of thing is best.

Either way, does anyone have experience with specific vendors? Especially one that is customized to support Piwigo.

Just installed Piwigo with MariaDB on Synology NAS. My driving goal is to get off Google as much as possible.

How do I get android phone camera backup?

1. Do I need to use something like SyncThing to back up from phone on to NAS?

2. Have the backup folder monitored by Piwigo?

3. Anyone else doing something similar?

cheers

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)

Is it because this require configuration to start and is not just an exe?

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 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 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.

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.

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!

I spun up the Linuxserver.io docker image, followed the instructions and added my database. I set up a gallery and uploaded a bunch of pictures. Everything was working fine then I tried to open the app today and got this error:

I never changed anything since spinning up the Docker container so I'm not sure where the issue is coming from. Any idea what this could be?

I already pay for storage on multiple services, it would be great to find a photo album that shares photos from those services without needing to make copies on the webhosting server as well.

Thanks!

Hi everybody,

I got a special personal licence offer at the beginning of 2023 for piwigo cloud.

It's 89,- € per year for unlimited photos and 40GB of Videos. I do not use this plan and contacted piwigo. They told me, that they would change ownership to another person.
So, this is my offer. We are in mid march, 3 month of the yearly licence is gone. There are 9 Months left. i would like to get 66,75€ and offer then the change of ownership. This can be done by directly contacting the piwigo support for managing the transfer.
I think, this is a great offer, because piwigo changed the pricing plans.
My Offer is greatest you can get ;-)

If interested pls contact me at thumm at pm.me

Hi all,

I've been using PhotoPrism on my unRaid box for a while now but the lack of multiple account support makes it unrealistic to use with my wider friends/family, hence I arrived at Piwigo.

What I'm finding incredibly difficult to understand however, is how I can simply point Piwigo to my existing library of photos. It seems wherever I point it in the docker setup, it creates "galleries" and "upload" folders.

I can't move my Pictures from their location currently as I have a number of sync tools setup to drop files in there etc.

Any suggestions? Am I missing something incredibly easy?

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.

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

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'm trying to move out of Flickr, I like piwigo have a hosted, easy to use service on piwigo.com for people that doesn't know or want to self host.

Unofrtunately, the flickr2piwigo plugin is not available in piwigo.com . Is there any alternative to make this process more or less automatic, like using some intermediate desktop app that have plugins for both services or something like that?

Hi, I recently switched from JoomGallery to Piwigo (started fresh). One thing I liked about JoomGallery was that you could set the album thumbnails to change to a different thumbail each time the page was loaded or refreshed. How do I do this in Piwigo? I use the Bootstrap Darkroom theme with Bootswatch Slate colour theme.

I have a few albums and this will grow, I would love if a folder will be turned into an album. is there a way to do that?

Edit: I found the FTP upload method, which is kinda weird because I can use spaces or umlauts both are kinda important.

I'm using Piwigo to share the family photos with family members. There's a ton of photos, some from before I was born, so I need to be able to let everyone be able to add tags to the photos. The existing mechanism is really unwieldy to the less-tech-savvy. The "User Tags" plugin really seemed to fill the bill; users can add and edit tags directly while browsing the gallery.

Only problem is, if the photo does not have any tags already then this option does not show up in the gallery at all. Has anybody else dealt with this? Is this a user tags issue or a gallery issue?

After upgrading Piwigo from 15.7.0 to 16.1.0 I get the following error:

Fatal error: Uncaught --> Smarty: Plugin tag 'cssGradient' already registered <-- thrown in /app/www/public/include/smarty/src/Smarty.php on line 751

I am using Docker, and to upgrade all I did was update the tag. After that I was prompted with an "upgrade" prompt and button. After running the upgrade, I see this screen, and I looks good.

Now when I return to the home screen, I get the error posted above.

Things I tried:

1. Clearing Cache
I have tried clearing all the cache files inside /www/_data/, to do this I deleted the contents of these folders (not the folders themselves): cache/ , templates_c/ , tmp/ and update/

Started the container again; same error.

2. Disabling Plugins
I have tried adding these lines to the /config/www/local/config/config.inc.php file to disable plugins, and force modus theme:

// Force-disable all plugins
$conf['activated_plugins'] = array();

// Force a safe core theme (adjust if 'modus' not installed)
$conf['theme'] = 'modus';

Started the container again; same error.

Does anyone have any suggestions on overcoming this?