I have a web site where I post photos that I have taken and processed. The site is built with Wordpress and uses the FooGallery plugin to organize and display the photos. At the present time jpg versions of the photos are uploaded from my computer and organized manually inside Wordpress. Is anyone aware of a way to have the photos on my computer automatically synchronize to the web site? I don’t think Darktable has any feature like this but I don’t mind using another app - as long as it runs on Linux.
If you can just put the files in a folder on the server and have FooGallery pick them up automatically, rclone would be a good choice.
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I will check rclone out - but I don’t think FooGallery will pick them up automatically. I have contacted support and will see what they have to say. I do my own web hosting so I may be able to cobble something together. In the meantime thanks for you suggestion.
you could use a darktable lua-script to do it. Set it to run after an export and do the upload.
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That would work to upload photos but I don’t think it would sync the folders with my computer. For example if I remove a photo on my computer it would not be removed from the website. Still some possibilities with your suggestion - I will have to investigate further. Thanks.
You could use a Lua script to trigger rclone.
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How about using piwigo from dt? There has to be a way to share a piwigo folder or album in WordPress via a plugging or something
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I’ve been looking into this a little further. I could certainly use lua scripts/rclone/piwigo or some combination of these to upload photos to Wordpress. The problem is with the FooGallery plugin and having the photos incorporated into galleries - apparently it will not happen automatically. I contacted Foo Plugins and even though I have paid for the premium version they say I must pay more for the version that allows online sales - something I am not interested in. Even if I did pay more I am not really convinced it would work the way I want.
I am going to spend the next week reloading all the photos to my site and trying to find a way to automate things. I will look at some other gallery plugins and may just end up trashing Foo Gallery and using something else.
OK this appears to be a solution. Right now I am in the process of moving my site from Wordpress to Piwigo and will be able drop Foo Gallery. I did like the gallery display on Wordpress but not enough to put up with the various plugins that were necessary to do everything I wanted. Piwigo might not be quite as elegant but it is much, much simpler.
I’ve been exporting to a self hosted Piwigo for a couple of years now. Very happy with it.
I been setting it up most of today. Wordpress and all my plugins have been deleted. Should have everything up and running by tomorrow. This is a great hosting program.
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Maybe a bit late, but there are other options than piwigo. Also check photoprims and immich. I keep my photos in a self hosted nextcloud container. I use their client application to keep my local photos synced with nextcloud server (which then has a back blaze backup). I also use nextcloud memories app to also autoupload cellphone pictures.
If you are familiar with docker/podman, you can spin up a container yo test it.
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Thanks for your suggestions. I did consider Photoprism as well as Joomla but decided Piwigo was the best choice for me - and even though I only installed it yesterday I am absolutely sold on it. It is very straightforward to set up and highly configurable - I couldn’t be happier. I installed it in a docker container on a Synology NAS and use it to display landscape/nature photography rather than anything from my phone. For syncing my phone (which is personal photos) I was already using Immich.