Piwigo is a web-based photo gallery and management system designed for individuals, photographers and organisations. It provides tools for organising, publishing and sharing photo collections on a self-hosted server.
Photographs can be arranged into albums and subalbums, with individual images belonging to multiple albums. Tags, metadata and search filters make it easier to locate photographs in large collections. Piwigo supports importing images through its web interface, mobile applications and external tools.
Access controls allow administrators to create users and groups, restrict albums and manage permissions. Galleries can be made publicly accessible or kept private, while themes and plugins provide extensive customisation options.
Piwigo also offers a web API for integration with other applications. Recent developments include time-limited API keys, improved administration screens and an official Docker image.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Organise photographs into albums and nested subalbums.
- Assign photographs to multiple albums without duplicating files.
- Import images through the web interface, mobile applications and external tools.
- Search photographs using tags, metadata and advanced filters.
- Extract EXIF and IPTC metadata from images.
- Manage users, groups and album permissions.
- Publish public galleries or restrict access to private collections.
- Customise the interface using themes and plugins.
- Manage photographs in bulk using administration tools.
- Provide different image sizes for web browsing.
- Support comments, ratings, favourites and slideshows.
- Integrate with other applications through a web API and API keys.
- Support two-factor authentication through an optional plugin.
- Offer multilingual interfaces and responsive gallery layouts.
Website: www.piwigo.org
Support:
Developer: Pierrick Le Gall and the Piwigo Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Piwigo is written in PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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