Gallery 2 Integration Back Up
It took a couple of months after upgrading to the newest version of WordPress but everything is up and running again. This time, I patched a few potential access points after reading the Gallery 2 security page. This included moving important files deeper in the server. I also moved a number of other important files to more secure locations on the server. At least now my website is back to the way it was with a few new upgrades and increased security (darn hackers!).
I considered dumping much of my photos on a web service or on Picasa with Google. Actually, Gallery 2 has Picasa export potential. I’d rather have my photos stay here with me rather than watch them end up in random places all over the internet. Gallery 2 is an open-source image package that can be installed on a server with the basics, current database and php running. Gallery’s moto is “Your Pictures On Your Website” and that’s exactly what I want.
Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums and photos can have view, edit, delete and other permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.
Gallery 2 has an insane amount of features though I really just wanted the basics along with integration to WordPress. Integrating the two was so much easier this time using the latest WPG2 plug-in. Since my WordPress theme was modified to incorporate WPG2, it was relatively simple to get their features running again. Next school year, I’m considering adding Gallery 2 to my student domain so my kids can readily upload all of their project images.
As a hobbyist photographer, I’m certain that I have taken well over 100,000 photos as negatives, slides, and digital. My former workhorse, the Canon 10D, reset its numbering scheme (0001-9999) three or four times alone. Thankfully, the digital age does not continue to add boxes of photo prints, negatives, and slides. In those days, I would average shooting around 20 film rolls of 36 exposures each year (about 700 photos). Organization and archiving photos and images is a task I’m sure many like me need to do but dread the task.
Oh no! I just tried to open the WPG2 tool to post a Gallery image in this post and received an error. Always something!