A few weeks ago I mentioned I had installed and was running Gallery 2 on my web server and using the WPG2 plugin to integrate it with WordPress. My publicly viewable photos are here, though right now it’s just a bunch of pictures I took of anti-war protests as well as shots of my wife’s pottery creations.
One of the thing I wondered was how well Gallery 2 would handle a lot of photos. Well, the other day I finally finished uploading the last of the 15,000 pictures I’ve taken with my digital camera over the past several years, and Gallery handled it without breaking a sweat.
Most of those pictures are not publicly viewable. They’re in a series of albums that are password protected and only viewable by admins. Gallery makes it easy, however, to copy items from one album to another, so it is relatively straightforward to select a bunch of photos in my private album and publish them to a public album.
Using a few plugins, Gallery seamlessly imports EXIF, etc. data from images. There’s also a very nice keyword function that lets you tag photos and automatically create virtual albums from those keywords. For example, I’ve tagged many of the photos of my kids with their respective names, so I can click on that keyword and see all photos of my daughter in a virtual album.