User guide

Features

    This is just the current list of Zenphoto's main features. There's more in store for Zenphoto in the future. 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, only via plugin (considered insecure)
    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 (basic support only)  .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. Subdomain support for separate language sites (e.g. fr.domain.com, en.domain.com)

    Theming/Templates

     
    Highly customizable theme engine Yes, just standard web techniques HTML (XHTML transitional for default themes, any HTML incl. HTML5 usable), PHP, JavaScript.
    Predefined themes available Yes. Six standard themes ”“ one specific mobile one ”“ 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.
    Special theme page layouts Yes, you can create special theme pages for any item type and assign these using the multiple_layouts plugin.

    More general features

     
    Multisite support Yes, via the cloneZenphoto plugin (server requires symlink support)
    Extendable via plugin system Yes. Many plugins included and more 3rd party ones available
    SEO XML 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, for images, albums and Zenpage pages, news articles and news categories
    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.
    **** via the jPlayer multimedia player only as fallback formats. See the jPlaye website for more info.

    Creative Commons LicenseThis work by www.zenphoto.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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