I was very encouraged to see the Gallery Pro plug-in until I discovered it DOES NOT SUPPORT warehousing. Can’t imagine how anyone with a Rapidweaver site containing thousands of images would ever be compelled to individually list that many for a re-write using Elements. Pointing to a folder of photos on a server (warehousing) was there in plug-ins for Rapidweaver for a long time. Not certain how this basic need has been ignored as it will keep any serious user with large photo/image websites from taking the plunge to convert.
Lot of development happening for Elements which is a very good thing but the lack of support for image warehousing is a show stopper for many.
I think ot would be good idea. I have more then 30 different galleries, and more to come.My Elements project is getting bigger and bigger. With a warehouse option for Gallery Pro, the project can be a lot smaller.
Everyone has a different workflow. I like warehousing images as well, as I stick them in a Cloudflare R2 bucket which has a custom subdomain, like https://media.example.com
I just like keeping all my media on Cloudflare, keeps my project file size down, and keeps my web hosting/server disk usage low.
The photo plugin forces each photo to be addressed individually. That manual effort times thousands of photos (already in rapidweaver via a warehouse supported gallery plugin) to start a transition to Elements is a complete show stopper. Not implementing a simple folder and file structure (warehousing) vs implementing a one for one process is like reverting back to the early 80’s.
maybe not