What open-source photo gallery can I self-host with password-protected client access and custom themes?

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I want to install a ready-made photo gallery on a subdomain of my website so clients can log in with a username/password to view their photos and download or order prints. Ideally it should be open-source, support theming so it matches my main site, and offer shopping-cart or print-ordering options through plugins or extensions. Is there a commonly used solution for this?

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Your two main choices are Gallery 2 and Zenphoto. Both offer plugins that offer shopping cart functionality. Gallery has more sophisticated choices, but unfortunately, the Gallery developers have a habit of throwing everything out and starting again — Gallery 2 is a total rewrite of Gallery 1, and Gallery 3 is another total rewrite.

And, the latest version is stripped down to the point where it doesn't have very much of a plugin ecosystem. If you just want to theme it, that's pretty easy to do (especially if you've got some basic php skills), but anything sophisticated is likely to be more work than it's worth. Luckily, there still are a lot of people that are actively working on Gallery 2 plugins and so on, so it's not necessarily a dead-end choice.

Both Zenphoto and Gallery (in either version) should be easy to integrate nicely into your main site.

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There isn’t really a single industry-standard choice, but several open-source self-hosted galleries fit what you want.

From the answers here, the main options are:

  • Piwigo: open-source, installable on a subdomain, supports password-protected access, has themes/extensions, and can be customized via CSS.
  • Zenphoto: another established open-source photo gallery with theming and plugin support, including e-commerce/shopping-cart options.
  • Gallery: also offers theming and plugins, with more sophisticated options in some versions, but its platform history is less stable because major versions were rewritten and plugin support varies.
  • Open Photo Project: another project worth evaluating.

If your priorities are client access control, skinning to match your site, and a straightforward self-hosted setup, Piwigo and Zenphoto are the safest starting points from these recommendations. If you need deeper customization and are comfortable working with PHP/CSS, Gallery can still be considered, but check current plugin support before committing.

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