Photography Core is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Jordy Meow.
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Photography Core is a newly-listed WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. no published reviews yet means feature claims are unverified by the wider merchant base. Without a published review base, the only fit-signal available is the developer's own documentation plus the marketplace's listing-quality audit (linked below). Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Jordy Meow — established developer track record
Cons
- −No public reviews yet — fit and reliability are unverified
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How Photography Core works
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Photographers simply want to have a nice portfolio with WordPress, with a beautiful theme, possibly linked to Lightroom, without spending too much time on the technical details. This is why Photography Core was made. It is possible to switch between any theme using the Photography Core and everything will still work, automatically. No need to work on the new theme every time. Everything in this plugin is light, efficient, but try to cover every part required by most photography websites.
There aren’t many downloads or reviews because this plugin is actually part of the architecture of themes, so it’s probably not a plugin you would like just to download by itself. But you could, and develop your own theme on it.
FEATURES
Post Type: Collections
Taxonomies: Folders, Keywords
Featured Images for Folders
Drag & Drop ordering for Folders
Drag & Drop ordering for Collections (Post Types Order required)
SEO (doesn’t overdo it; basics which are good enough)
Internal API (to retrieve the collections, folders, their hierarchy, etc)
Gutenberg Blocks: Collections, Folders, Keywords, Section Header, Search
Shortcodes (the same as for the Gutenberg Blocks)
Seamless integration with WP/LR Sync (Lightroom)
Works with Polylang
THEMES RECOMMENDATIONS Currently, three themes are known to use Photography Core. But if you would like to build your own theme, do not hesitate to use this plugin and to contact us so that we can add you here.
Hikari. Used by the urban explorer Thomas Jorion but also by Jordy Meow.
Yuzu. Used by the very famous photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
Kurayami. This one will be awesome, but currently in development.
PLUGINS RECOMMENDATIONS Those plugins aren’t requires by the Photography Core and are simply recommendations. Remember, avoid using too many plugins, as they slow down your website and increase chance of encountering issues.
Gallery: Meow Gallery
Lightbox: Meow Lighbox
Lightroom: WP/LR Sync
Order Collections: Post Types Order
Contact Form: Ninja Forms
Fonts: Google Fonts for WordPress
Google Analytics: Analytify – Google Analytics Dashboard
Multilanguage: Polylang
Better search: Relevanssi
More SEO features: The SEO Framework
AVAILABLE FILTERS
pcore_collections_order: Change the order of the collections. Override this filter and return either ‘date’ (default order, by Publish Date), ‘title’ (order by the Title of the collection) or by a custom ‘ORDER BY’.
pcore_folders_order: Change the order of the folders. Override this filter and return either ‘tax_position’ (default order, by position – this plugin has this feature built in), ‘title’ (order by the Title of the folder) or by a custom ‘ORDER BY’.
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Photography Core?
Photography Core is an app for WordPress. It is published on WordPress Plugin Directory and tracked by AppRanks, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Jordy Meow.