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.
Who is going to push for the warehousing options in Gallery Pro? Any serious user wanting to move to Elements that has a current site with thousands of photos needs the ability to point the plug-in to a folder that contains the photos to be displayed. ProGallery 3 in RapidWeaver did this with ease. Elements Gallery Pro totally lacks this capability.
It seems clear to me that warehousing would be useful to anyone that is using galleries to show off work. Moreover, it would tend to automate adding new work to the galleries as you just drop the new image into the warehouse folder.
Photographers and Artists building portfolios online would definitely want that, so it’s clear that a Component should be built for that. Heck, you could even build something like Ben did for the CMS where you have an online “adder” to put new things into the warehouse, complete with proper Alt Text, Captions, and other information (sounds like JSON to me).
Yeah disappointing. Technically possible definitely. As I pointed out the ProGallery 3 plugin for RapidWeaver does it. There are a few others that also do it. So hard to imagine simple file structure capability is missing. Until I can find a gallery solution I’m stuck with RapidWeaver and unable to migrate to Elements.
So the question becomes: who has a large gallery of photos (i.e. > 1,000) and what plug-in are they using that doesn’t require adding a code for each photo?
maybe not