The BEST (only) Lightroom-WordPress Solution

  • If you use Lightroom, this is the BEST plugin to have. I’ve looked, and there is not one that comes close to the power of this plugin. You can use Lightroom keywords to have the photos organize on your site. Changes made to a photo, after being published, will update on your site.

    To give an idea of what you can do, I have an ajax portfolio where viewers can filter through black and white photos, structures, portraits, etc. I have collections in Lightroom titled “black and white”, “structures”, “portraits”, etc. I simply move my photos to the respective collections and publish. The photos are displayed BEAUTIFULLY without me having to upload through WP. The plugin can be adjusted to how your photos are displayed (i.e., as a gallery, post, etc). This plugin is AMAZING.

    Lastly, I can’t speak enough to the plugin author’s help getting it setup. My theme complicated things, so I was happy to pay for the additional support. I gave him my idea of how I wanted things to work, and he was able to get things running very smoothly nearly perfecting my workflow. The plugin is great, and the author is just as great.

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  • Sounds like a good experience. I gave up in the end after contacting the author several times over a bug in the plugin that sees keywords not linking up to galleries correctly. This is very important to my workflow as my site needed galleries selected based on keywords. Something he admitted would be a problem but is given as a function of the plugin.

    I wrote extensive steps on my attempts to work through the problem yet weeks went by with no response. He eventually came back but I’d given up by this point. Disappointing.

    Glad to hear your experience was better

    Have been testing other LR/WP softwares and also agree that this one is outstanding.

    Would be very very interested to know more about your workflow using keywords to design galleries. Are you starting this flow with a smart collection i the WP/LR sync app?

    Thanks again for a useful app.

    hi Emmanuel, could you clarify your work flow when you say that you don’t upload thru WP. What is Ajax?

    Per

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    @emmanuelramses Wow, thanks a lot! ?? I’m glad we could make it work perfectly.

    @eyeofcyrus There is a little issue with the tags in LR and the way they sync to WP. It’s actually a huge investment in time and I need to do it. However, most users don’t mind this (only 3-4 at the moment and they said it’s not priority) so I will do it, it’s just for the amount of hours it will take me, I need to focus on the urgent matters. I will do it in time. There is a reason why only this plugin can achieve all this, it’s because it’s a highly technical plugin, for a cheap price with a very little amount of potential users. Companies wouldn’t do it, because it doesn’t worth it. But I am doing it. It’s hard, but I do it, and I will never be able to please everyone and reply to everyone right away. If I could live on this plugin full-time, I would definitely do, but right now it’s at loss and mainly by passion.

    @ptg1947 I’ll let Emmanuel reply to you, but as for AJAX, I am not sure it’s part of this really, or not exactly. It means asynchronous http requests through Javascript, often used to describe a dynamic website (or app) that loads one time, and updates its UI through asynchronous requests (like Facebook, Twitter, etc).

    @tigroumeow ok Jordy, believe I understand. Not my cake. Can you send me the link to your web site where you
    use the sync and gallery app.

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    @ptg1947 I use it on jordymeow.com and haikyo.org, they are my personal websites ??

    Nice ones!!! Which WP theme are you using for haikyo.org? Difficult to handle?
    Per

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    @ptg1947 The theme used in haikyo.org is my own theme, I made it from scratch a while ago. Not perfect; I would like to find time to make it perfect and actually upload it for free on the WordPress repository ?? It is using my Meow Gallery and Meow Lightbox (and WP/LR Sync of course).

    Would be very very interested to know more about your workflow using keywords to design galleries. Are you starting this flow with a smart collection i the WP/LR sync app?

    I have been able to get files uploaded and synced but not to gettting keywords to post to selected galleries, hopefully because I am missing something.

    This workflow would make this plugin perfect.

    G

    Thread Starter emmanuelramses

    (@emmanuelramses)

    I personally have regular collections setup in Lightroom. Given the way my theme is setup, once synced, the collection becomes a portfolio page in my theme. I manually move photos to the Lightroom collections, though I imagine a smart collection would work just the same (I’ll test tonight). The photos then appear in the respective portfolio pages in my theme. I have to use separate collections because it helps me stay organized. It’s an Ajax (filterable) portfolio, so I need to see clearly in Lightroom which photos the user sees when they click on the respective portfolio filter. So, although I tag keywords, I’ve never focused on that aspect for separating photos in galleries.

    once synced, the collection becomes a portfolio page in my theme. I manually move photos to the Lightroom collections, though I imagine a smart collection would work just the same (I’ll test tonight). The photos then appear in the respective portfolio pages in my theme

    Could you give me the settings you used in WP/LR, LR and your theme to get this working?
    I have tried with regular Collections and have not been able to get them to link to Galleries in WP.
    Is a “portfolio page” a gallery?
    FYI I’m using Tripod as a Template. What are you using?
    Thanks,
    G

    Thread Starter emmanuelramses

    (@emmanuelramses)

    Let me start by saying I had a similar issue when I started. Although I could get my photos to sync to WP, I could not get them to show up in my Kintetika Theme portfolios. If I changed my “post type” to “gallery”, it worked and a simple gallery was created displaying my photos. If I changed the “post type” to “mtheme_portfolio”, the photos uploaded but failed to display in the portfolios on my site. I don’t understand all the complexities but looking at your theme, maybe you’re using more complex galleries/portfolios like I am.

    I was happy to pay for the extra support from the author because I never would have figured it out. His site is incredibly thorough on the setup to give guidance on the correct settings, but my theme just treats portfolios differently. Ultimately, he determined what combination my “post type”, “mode” and “Post Meta” values should be and got it working. All this depends on your theme so unless both our portfolios are built with the same element and treat portfolio items exactly the same, I imagine your values are different.

    Nevertheless, my post type is “mtheme_portfolio”, mode is “Array in Post Meta”, and “Post Meta” is “_mtheme_image_ids” (this value was hard to find in my theme, but the author’s site has great info on how to find). Not to be a pessimist but this information will likely do no good as it is theme specific.

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