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ZenPhoto, the free web photo gallery software, now at version 1.2.4

Mar 31, 2009 by Mircea GoiacloseAuthor: Mircea Goia Name: Mircea Goia
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If you are looking for a free web photo/image gallery software for your site then ZenPhoto may be the solution you are looking for (we have reviewed Coppermine photo gallery in the past and it’s one of the competitors of ZenPhoto).

It got a Web 2.0 SEOMoz honorable mention for 2006 and it’s still one of the simplest web photo gallery software out there. Despite its simplicity it does its job quite well: displaying photos online.

Simple doesn’t mean it’s not powerful and here are some features:

- Plugin system (if you heard about Wordpress then you know what that means)
- Multi-lingual titles and descriptions
- Internationalization/localization
- Slideshow
- Upload images, albums (folders) or even zip-archives
- Automatically generated thumbnails, custom crops possible!, and sized-down images
- Upload via FTP or via the admin interface
- Move/copy/rename images and albums without loosing any data
- Video support for Flash Video (.flv), MPEG4 (.mp4), Quicktime (.mov) and 3GP (.3gp)
- Audio support for MP3 and MP4
- Comments on images and albums with powerful spam filters
- AJAX-powered edit-while-you-browse
- Sub albums; interface for moving/renaming images and albums.
- Password protection for gallery and albums
- EXIF and IPTC support
- Image and album rating
- Dynamic albums: Generate albums from searches!
- Watermarks for images
- Powerful search with boolean expressions
- Tags: Categorize you images with tags
- Highly customizable theme engine
- rss for gallery, albums and comments
- Multiple administrative users with varying rights
- Cruft free, search engine friendly URLs with mod_rewrite

ZenPhoto web photo gallery software is built on PHP/MySQL and it’s open source.

The new ZenPhoto gallery, version 1.2.4, has these added features:

* Passwords for protected images
* Setup improvements: File/folder permissions security
* Gallery statistics extended for tags and Zenpage items
* Mixed field/tag searches in boolean expressions
* Media RSS improvements, RSS for latest albums
* A little admin design modernization
* filter for comment posting
* plugins

o New: Flowplayer 3
o Zenpage now included as official plugin

+ Performance improvements
+ More internal restructuring and integration with Zenphoto
+ Content scheduling and expiration
+ Some pure theme related plugin options moved to theme options
+ Zenpage setup integrated with main Zenphoto setup
+ Zenpage default theme

# Homepage option to choose any unpublished page
# Thickbox theme option

o paged_thumbs_nav: search mode support
o contact_form: multilingual support
o flvplayer: Now incorporates the former flv_playlist plugin

* other minor bugfixes and improvements

If you want to give it a try here’s the demo page.
And if you are convinced then download ZenPhoto web photo gallery software from here.

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Tags: free software, image gallery, mysql, open-source, photo gallery, php, web gallery, web software, zenphoto

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