Photographers galleriesbyAurélien PIERRE

Most gallery plugins are made for pictures. This one is made for photographers by a photographer.

Photographers usualy need to show their pictures without adding distracting effects such as transitions, frames, shadows, autoplay etc. They are cool though, but visitors may want to look at the pics, not at the fanciness of the latest top-notch trendy slider plugin which might, by the way, slow down their mobile device.

Native WordPress galleries are a bit too basic to achieve this but in the other hand, galleries plugins are often too heavy and overcomplicated. Photo websites are heavy enough because of the pictures, it’s a good idea to keep them as light as possible.

Photographers galleries helps photographers to organize their media library and to display dynamic galleries. It is built
with the needs of professional photographers in mind, with the use paradigms you already find in Flickr or 500px.

It shows nothing but the pictures, with a clean minimalist and responsive design that will fit flawless in most themes,
trying to reproduce the user experience you could get at a museum exhibition or in a fashion magazine.
To stay lightweight and compatible with every modern browser (mobile and desktop), it only takes advantage of native
Wordpress 3.6+, HTML5, PHP and CSS3 capabilities. No additional javascript is required. The styling is consistent with Jetpack galleries.

Demo

Quick features overview

• Lightweight and robust : no javascript, it uses browsers, CSS3, HTML5 and WordPress native features,
• Ready to use with caching, minification and lazy loading plugins : WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, etc.,
• Compatible with Jetpack tiled galleries and every lightbox plugin, consistent with Jetpack tiled galleries styling,
• Fully responsive (width and height),
• Theme-agnostic design, classy minimalist look.

Attachements improvements

Photographers galleries enhances the WordPress attachments from the media library by enabling regular posts properties on them :

• comments,
• author,
• custom fields,
• posts categories,
• posts tags.

It adds 3 custom taxonomies to the media attachments :

• galleries (which you can use as categories to describe what is on the picture),
• locations (where is the picture),
• models (who is on the picture).

These taxonomies are hierarchical, meaning that a “USA” parent location can have “Texas” and “Nevada” children locations which can have children themselves.

Taxonomies and tags make the attachments queryable in archives, just like posts categories, so they allow you to display dynamic galleries either through custom
taxonomies template (to add to your theme) or on a page with a shortcode see Installation. Most gallery
plugins create galleries as custom posts and force you to add your new pictures to all the relevant galleries. PG’s way allow you to add your pictures to
multiple galleries in one step, during its upload in a post editor or in the media library.

To add taxonomies terms to your pictures during their upload in posts editor, use the plugin Media Library Assistant.
It will help you to bulk edit your media library too. See Other notes to find how to set MLA.

Galleries improvements

Photographers galleries enable the WordPress built-in HTML5 support for pictures and galleries to produce