ZenPhoto: photo management platform
Most everyone today who uses the Internet has occasion to view, take, or edit a digital photo (or ten thousand) from time to time. For those of us who take online productivity to the next level, online photo management is an invaluable tool. Uploading your latest set of photos to a website like Picasa or Flickr allows for instant sharing with friends and family around the world.
While hosted photo management is great and all, I prefer to keep my data under watchful eye on my own servers. So for me, there are numerous options for managing my photos online while not relying on the resources of a third party. Since I use WordPress to blog and design and generally waste time, my options are limitless still. However, I have found only one option for online photo management that works well with WordPress: ZenPhoto. (I no longer stand by that claim, read here for why.)
ZenPhoto is a liteweight yet powerful platform for organizing photos and generating thumbnails, slideshows and pageviews on-the-fly via PHP. And, as I recently discovered, it integrates quite easily with WordPress. If you click on the Photos tab at the top of this page, you can see it in action here on my site. (If you are looking for a photo management software that runs completely independent of WordPress, ZenPhoto is the answer. If you are looking for fully integrating your image gallery with WordPress, you need to check out this plugin.)
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