Easy Photo Publisher vs Photography Core

Easy Photo Publisher complements the Adobe Lightroom Classic add-on Easy WordPress Publisher. Together they form a full publishing pipeline: send images directly from Lightroom to your WordPress site, update or replace them later, and (optionally) create blog posts using those images. Highlights – Direct publish from Lightroom Classic via the companion LrC module – Create / update / delete media via a simple REST API – Optional post creation with visibility control and Featured Image – Gallery Shortcode: [wpdet_gallery] with taxonomy filters, sizing and a11y-friendly captions – Accessible lightbox (keyboard/ARIA aware), toggled per shortcode – Gallery selection: let visitors mark images and pull the selection into Lightroom (opt-in) – Media taxonomies: enable Categories and Tags on attachments – Theme template overrides (HTML-only) – i18n-ready (easy-wp-publisher) Quick Start In Lightroom Classic, publish an image using the “Easy WordPress Publisher” service. The image appears in your WordPress Media Library. On any page or post, insert the gallery shortcode: [wpdet_gallery category=”Portugal” limit=”-1″ order=”DESC” min_width=”240px” gap=”1.5rem” size=”large” class=”” showcaption=”true” lightbox=”true”] limit=”-1″ shows all matching images showcaption=”true|false” toggles captions lightbox=”true|false” enables the accessible lightbox Shortcode Reference: [wpdet_gallery] Attributes – category — Category ID or slug to filter attachments (requires media taxonomies) – tags — CSV of tag slugs (e.g. tags="portugal,coast") – limit — Number of images (default 12). Use -1 for all. – order — ASC or DESC (default DESC) – size — thumbnail|medium|large|full (or any registered image size) – min_width — Grid minimum width (CSS value, default 200px) – gap — Grid gap (CSS value, default 1.5rem) – class — Extra CSS classes on the wrapper – showcaption — true|false (default true) – lightbox — true|false (default true) Markup & Styles Wrapper template: templates/wrapper.php Item template: templates/gallery.php CSS: templates/css/wpdet-gallery.css Lightbox CSS/JS autoload when lightbox="true" Theme overrides (HTML-only) your-theme/ └── wpdet/ └── templates/ ├── wrapper.php (uses tokens: {items}, {min_width}, {gap}, {extra_class}) └── gallery.php (uses tokens: {link_open}, {img}, {link_close}, {caption}) If present in a child theme, it’s used first; then the parent theme; finally the plugin fallback. Accessibility Lightbox uses proper roles (role=”dialog”), aria-modal, labelled controls, focus trapping, and Esc to close. Close button is keyboard-operable (Enter/Space) and returns focus to the trigger. Captions are announced via a polite live region. Media Taxonomies (Categories/Tags on Attachments) Enable in Settings → From Image to WordPress to use core Categories and Tags on media items. This allows taxonomy-filtered galleries. – Works with the shortcode filters (category, tags) – Adds taxonomy UI to the Media screens (without duplicating existing columns) Gallery Selection (Visitor Voting) Per-gallery feature, off by default. Turn it on for a specific gallery with the shortcode attribute ratings="true", and change the visible label with select_label="…". Each image then shows an accessible selection checkbox below its caption. Example: [wpdet_gallery category="Portugal" ratings="true" select_label="Select your favourite"] The choice is stored as one shared on/off flag per image (no counter, no per-visitor state — visitors may overwrite each other). The selection can then be pulled into Lightroom Classic with the Easy WordPress Publisher add-on (version 1.0.4 or newer). Clear the stored selection any time under Settings → Easy Photo Publisher → Gallery selection. REST endpoints (namespace wpdet/v1): – GET /capabilities — feature discovery (public) – POST /rate/{id} — set the on/off state (public; nonce-protected) – GET /selection — list selected image IDs (Application Password) – DELETE /selection — reset, optionally scoped by category/tags (Application Password) Minimum pairing: the selection feature needs this plugin >= 1.1.0 and the Lightroom add-on >= 1.0.4. Older pairings keep working for publishing; only the selection pull is unavailable. Validation MIME types: image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, image/avif Max size: ~25 MB (configurable in code) Support & Documentation Documentation: https://medienkonzepte.de/easy-wordpress-publisher-a-lightroom-extension/ Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/webline Credits Made with ❤️ by Detlef Beyer.

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’.