For quite a few years I’ve used Gallery to store pictures in an online photo album. Gallery sucks, has always sucked and continues to suck in ways I can’t even begin to describe. I remember the first time I tried to install it by hand – I couldn’t get it to work, despite doing everything right, and eventually gave up. My current installation is done with Fantastico. Though the Gallery itself still functions, there’s something wrong with the install somewhere that returns a “fatal error,” so it can’t be upgraded. Nor can it be imported to SimpleScripts, for no reason except that SimpleScripts doesn’t do imports from external Gallery installations. Aha, I could just export my Gallery data, wipe the subdirectory clean, and reinstall in the same place using SimpleScripts! Sorry, there doesn’t seem to be a tool to export from one Gallery to another.
I looked into Flickr and Picasa, but what I found is that they both suck in their own way. Notwithstanding good integration with WordPress,
- they each have space limitations that I don’t feel like following, especially since I already pay for my own hosting.
- I’m not so keen on signing away the rights to my photos to Google and/or Yahoo.
- they’re less cool and professional-looking than a hosted solution on my own domain.
So, what should I use to make online photo galleries with my pictures? I want it to be hosted at ngng.co.il and it needs to integrate well with WordPress. Any ideas?
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