Photo Archive Theme

Easily turn folders of photos into static photo website

Demo

Demo: https://gallerybeta.chaosarium.xyz/

Note that video support and pagination are not yet tested.

How to use

Dependencies

Install thumbsup and its dependencies.

Run npm install moment in the working directory. Time parsing depends on this.

Input Structure

Structure the input folder in a way that folders containing photos are albums. An album is allowed to contain subalbums. Example:

input
├── album1
│   ├── group1
│   │   ├── pic1.jpg
│   │   └── pic2.jpg
│   └── group2
│       ├── pic3.jpg
│       ├── pic4.jpg
│       └── pic5.jpg
├── album2
│   ├── pic6.jpeg
│   ├── pic7.jpg
│   └── pic8.jpg
├── standalone1.jpg
└── standalone2.jpg

Use the IPTC - Content > Description metadata to add captions for photos

Configuration

Create a config.json file somewhere with the following information:

{
    "input": ".../input", // path to photo input folder
    "output": ".../output", // where to generate output

    // See https://thumbsup.github.io/docs/3-configuration/cheat-sheet/ 
    // for what these do
    "small-size": "300", 
    "large-size": "1200",
    "cleanup": "false",
    "album-page-size": "0",
    "albums-output-folder": "albums",

    // If you want to watermark your photos
    "watermark": ".../watermark.png", // path to watermark png
    "watermark-position": "SouthEast", // location

    "theme-path": ".../archive", // path to the root of this repo

    "title": "PhotoArchive", // Website title
    "footer": "these are placeholder images from unsplash", // website footer

    "dummy": "dummy" // this does nothing (*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)
}

Build

Then run the following to generate static website

thumbsup --config "path/to/config.json"

Customise theme

Motify any .hbs or .less file.

See thumbup documentation.

Random

It's possible to specify album preview images. See here

Deployment

Any platform for deploying static website should work. Some ideas:

• Netlify
• GitHub Pages
• Wunderbucket

Licence

Template files (i.e. those not in public) under MIT.

Libraries:

• Thumbsup is under MIT
• lightGallery is under GNU GPL license v3
• Justified Gallery is under MIT