PhotoPress

CHILD PAGES GALLERY

• The Child Pages Gallery block shows the pages under a page as a gallery, each page as an image linked to it. It makes a good index of gallery pages.
• Updating PhotoPress converts the older Child Pages block to a Child Pages Gallery.

Documentation: Child Pages Gallery .

IMAGE METADATA MANAGEMENT

• Image taxonomies: PhotoPress files each uploaded photo under its camera, lens, location, keywords and other metadata, with an archive page for each.
• You choose which metadata fields become taxonomies, including keyword hierarchies from Lightroom or Capture One and any IPTC field.
• The Image Metadata block shows an image’s terms and exposure details on its page.
• Alt text and descriptions are written from each photo’s metadata when it is uploaded.
• Licensing metadata is embedded in your image files and published as structured data on the pages that show them.
• Changes can be applied to the images already in the Media Library, in the background.

Documentation: Image Taxonomies , Alt Text and Descriptions , Licensing .

IMAGE TEMPLATES

PhotoPress adds two templates to block themes: Image Archives and Image Pages. They need WordPress 6.7 or later. If the theme has its own template for these pages, the theme’s is used.

• Image Archives shows a keyword’s, camera’s or other term’s images in a gallery, with links to more pages.
• Image Pages shows an image with its caption, description, terms and exposure details.
• You can edit both templates in the Site Editor.
• The Taxonomy Gallery block shows the latest images, or the images of a chosen term, in any PhotoPress layout.

Documentation: Image Templates and Blocks , Taxonomy Gallery .

IMAGE AND TAXONOMY PAGES

• Attachment pages: a switch that publishes, or stops publishing, a page for each image in the Media Library.
• Image taxonomy pages: a switch that publishes, or stops publishing, an archive page of images for each keyword, camera and other term.

Documentation: Attachment and Taxonomy Pages .

SEARCH

• Images in search results: a switch that adds images to the site’s search results, found by their titles, captions, alt text and terms.
• Block themes get an Image Search template that shows the images found in a gallery and lists the matching posts and pages below it.
• With Relevanssi , PhotoPress has Relevanssi index images with their alt text and taxonomy terms.

Documentation: Image Search .

SEO

• PhotoPress adds image pages and image taxonomy archive pages to the site’s sitemap, whether it is WordPress’s own, Jetpack ‘s or Yoast SEO ‘s.
• With WordPress’s own sitemap, PhotoPress adds an image sitemap to it: each image with the page it is shown on.
• Unneeded archives: a switch that turns off author, date and post format archives, each on its own, redirecting them to the home page and leaving them out of the sitemap.

Documentation: Sitemaps .

PAGE CACHE

On a site with a Varnish page cache and the Proxy Cache Purge plugin, PhotoPress purges the cached pages that show an image, a gallery or an image taxonomy term when it changes.

Documentation: Page Cache .

IMAGE SIZES

• You set the quality WordPress saves JPEG and WebP images at.
• You can turn off image sizes your site does not use, so WordPress stops making them.
• Save and regenerate updates the images already uploaded, in the background.

Documentation: Image Sizes .

OFFLOAD MEDIA

These features need the WP Offload Media plugin.

• You set how long browsers and the CDN cache offloaded images.
• A replaced image is cleared from CloudFront, so visitors see the new file.
• A replaced image’s old files can be deleted from cloud storage.

Documentation: Offload Media and CDN .

Development

Our development motto is “do no harm” which means that we leverage the patterns outlined in WordPress Core and the Gutenberg editor as opposed to creating proprietary features that impede the overall usability of WordPress.

PHOTOPRESS is actively developed on Github . Please file any bugs, feature, or support requests on Github!