I have been using Coppermine to manage my photos last few months. While powerful, its cool features are eclipsed by the overly complex interface. In addition, I had a hard time trying to integrate it with my blog. I ended up with two completely different skins for the blog & the gallery.
I stayed up late last 2 nites redoing my photo gallery. I dumped Coppermine and switched over to Gallery mainly because a plugin called WPG2 that enables photos from Gallery to be embedded within my blog. Finally, I used Peter Near’s theme for get the same look of my blog for gallery.
I had to spent a few hours hacking things a bit to get everything working together. So now, what do I get for 2 sleepless nites?
- Uniform look for both the photo galleries & blog
- Random image in the sidebar
- Albums can be embedded in the blog
- Individual photos can be embbedded in the blog
A few broken links here & there but I’ll get to fixing those later. I’ll take me a while to migrate all the photos. For now, things should be more seamless now. I’m quite satisfied with the result! 
4 comments so far
Caught this one via pingback on my website. Looks good, but remember to change your “photos” link up above in the header to link to your embedded page (wp-gallery2.pgp).
Pete
October 13th, 2005 at 9:28 pm
Got it, thx Peter!
November 1st, 2005 at 7:45 pm
Is there a way to password protect the gallery? I’ve been looking for something to keep all my pictures, but I want to password protect it.
Thanks!
February 28th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
I don’t know about other gallyer sw, but I use Gallery which has user registration and ability to control who view (all or registered users) your albums. Check out: http://gallery.menalto.com/
March 1st, 2006 at 7:56 am
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