Features Nov 26, 2009
This is just the current list of Zenphoto's main features. There’s more in store for Zenphoto in the future, as you can see in the roadmap. Keep checking back for news and new versions. Sound good? Take a look at the demo and see for yourself.
Gallery management
| Upload via backend | Yes |
| Multifile upload | Yes, including .zip files containing supported file types |
| Upload images and folders via FTP | Yes |
| Automatically generated sized images | Yes |
| Automatically generated thumbnails | Yes (for recognized image files) |
| Custom thumb crops possible | Yes (for recognized image files) |
| EXIF/IPTC metadata support | Yes |
| Drag & Drop sorting of albums and images | Yes |
| Moving, copying, renaming of albums and images | Yes |
| Google maps | Yes* |
| Image and album rating | Yes* |
| Slideshow | Yes* |
| Comments | Yes* |
| Comment spam filter support | Yes* |
| Front-end editing |
Yes, partly |
| Tags | Yes |
| RSS | Yes, with media rss and enclosure support |
| Password protection | Yes*** |
| Multiple user management with varying rights | Yes |
| Watermark | Yes |
| Image or album number limit | No, only limited by your server's space and power |
CMS management (via the official Zenpage CMS plugin)
| Custom pages management incl. subpages | Yes |
| Drag & drop page sorting | Yes |
| News section (blog) with nested categories | Yes |
| Automatic post of new gallery items in news section (blog) | Yes, bascially, using the CombiNews mode |
| Scheduled news publishing | Yes |
| RSS for news articles | Yes |
| Tags for pages and news | Yes |
| Comments on news articles and pages | Yes |
| Password protection for pages and news categories | Yes |
| Possibility to use gallery images in news articles or pages | Yes, via the TinyMCE plugin tinyZenpage manually or show latest images within the news section automatically using the "CombiNews" mode |
| File manager for none gallery files | Yes* |
Supported media formats
| Image formats | .jpg, .gif, .png (generally all formats your server's graphics libary supports) |
| Video formats | .mp4*, .m4a*, .flv*, .mov**, .3gp**, .ogv*, .webm* |
| Audio formats | .mp3*, .m4a*, .fla*, .webma*, .oga* |
| Other formats | .txt*,.html*, .pdf*, .pps* |
Internationalization/localization
| Admin backend translatable | Yes (gettext server support required) |
| Many translations included | Chinese, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Swedish (See also Current language repository) |
| Multilingual sites | Yes |
Theming/Templates
| Highly customizable theme engine | Yes, XHTML transitional (XHTML, CSS, PHP knowledge required) |
| Predefined themes available | Yes. Five standard themes included in the release, more 3rd party ones available |
| Object model framework for advanced theming and flexibility |
Yes (Advanced PHP knowledge required) |
| Album themes | Yes, each top level album can be assigned to a different theme |
More general features
| Extendable via plugin system | Yes. Many plugins included and more 3rd party ones available |
| SEO sitemap | Yes* |
| SEO friendly urls with mod_rewrite | Yes |
| Static HTML cache | Yes* |
| Contact form | Yes* |
| Custom menus | Yes* |
| Site search with boolean expressions | Yes |
| Dynamic albums based on search queries | Yes |
| Default inline text editor for descriptions etc. | Yes, TinyMCE* |
| Gallery statistics | Yes |
| Wordpress import | Yes, partly |
* via official plugins; extendable via custom plugins
** handled by your browser if available
*** to protect your full images uploaded themselves manual .htaccess additions are
needed. Password protection protects only the page display.
Third party tools used by Zenphoto
This list is surely missing something!
- jQuery and jQuery UI with various extensions, among those:
- TinyMCE text editor with Ajax File Manager
- Icons
- FamFamFam silk icons
- randomjabber.com sizcons (site not active anymore)
- Flowplayer video player
- PHPmailer
- getID3
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