Zenphoto is a mature, standalone open source Content Management System (CMS) for multimedia focused websites. It has been in development for more than a decade.
Zenphoto features support for images, video, and audio formats.
The Zenpage CMS plugin provides a fully integrated news section (blog) and custom pages to run entire websites.
Features include:
- Dynamic albums based on “saved searches”.
- Multifile upload.
- Scheduled publishing.
- RSS.
- Watermarks.
- Automatically generated sized images.
- EXIF/IPTC metadata support.
- Drag & Drop sorting of albums and images.
- Moving, copying, renaming of albums and images.
- Supported formats:
- Images: .jpg, .gif, .png (generally all formats your server’s graphics libary supports).
- Videos: .mp4, .m4a, .flv, .mov, .3gp, .ogv, .webm.
- Audio: .mp3, .m4a, .fla, .webma, .oga.
- Other formats (basic support only): .txt,.html, .pdf, .pps.
- Slideshow.
- Comments.
- Tags.
- Statistics.
- Rating.
- Manage blog and pages.
- Custom pages management including nested subpages.
- Custom menus.
- Drag & drop sorting of pages and categories.
- News section (blog) with nested categories.
- Post of new gallery items in the news section (blog).
- File manager for gallery files.
- Scheduled publishing.
- Comments.
- RSS.
- Tags.
- Statistics.
- Rating.
- Multi-user management.
- User management.
- User groups.
- Per user rights assignment.
- Password protection for albums and pages.
- Admin backend translatable.
- Many backend translations included: Chinese, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Swedish.
- Multilingual sites with subdomain support for separate language sites (e.g. fr.domain.com, en.domain.com).
- Highly customizable theme engine (HTML5, CSS, PHP).
- Five standard themes included, more themes available.
- Object model framework for advanced theming and flexibility.
- Multiple layouts within a theme.
- Separate theme translations.
- Sophisticated plugin system.
- Frontend and backend filters.
- Object model framework for advanced coding.
- Many plugins included plus more 3rd party ones available.
Website: www.zenphoto.org
Support: User Guide, Forum, GitHub
Developer: Tim Coen, Michael Gagnon, iliyangochev, Jes, Reine Kurt and other contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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