Easy Photo Publisher

Easy Photo Publisher complements the Adobe Lightroom Classic add-on Easy WordPress Publisher. Together they form a full publishing pipeline: send images directly from Lightroom to your WordPress site, update or replace them later, and (optionally) create blog posts using those images.

Highlights – Direct publish from Lightroom Classic via the companion LrC module – Create / update / delete media via a simple REST API – Optional post creation with visibility control and Featured Image – Gallery Shortcode: [wpdet_gallery] with taxonomy filters, sizing and a11y-friendly captions – Accessible lightbox (keyboard/ARIA aware), toggled per shortcode – Gallery selection: let visitors mark images and pull the selection into Lightroom (opt-in) – Media taxonomies: enable Categories and Tags on attachments – Theme template overrides (HTML-only) – i18n-ready (easy-wp-publisher)

Quick Start

1. In Lightroom Classic, publish an image using the « Easy WordPress Publisher » service.
2. The image appears in your WordPress Media Library.
3. On any page or post, insert the gallery shortcode:

[wpdet_gallery category= »Portugal » limit= »-1″ order= »DESC » min_width= »240px » gap= »1.5rem » size= »large » class= » » showcaption= »true » lightbox= »true »]

• limit= »-1″ shows all matching images
• showcaption= »true|false » toggles captions
• lightbox= »true|false » enables the accessible lightbox

Shortcode Reference: [wpdet_gallery]

Attributes – category — Category ID or slug to filter attachments (requires media taxonomies) – tags — CSV of tag slugs (e.g. tags="portugal,coast") – limit — Number of images (default 12). Use -1 for all. – order — ASC or DESC (default DESC) – size — thumbnail|medium|large|full (or any registered image size) – min_width — Grid minimum width (CSS value, default 200px) – gap — Grid gap (CSS value, default 1.5rem) – class — Extra CSS classes on the wrapper – showcaption — true|false (default true) – lightbox — true|false (default true)

Markup & Styles

• Wrapper template: templates/wrapper.php
• Item template: templates/gallery.php
• CSS: templates/css/wpdet-gallery.css
• Lightbox CSS/JS autoload when lightbox="true"

Theme overrides (HTML-only)

your-theme/ └── wpdet/ └── templates/ ├── wrapper.php (uses tokens: {items}, {min_width}, {gap}, {extra_class}) └── gallery.php (uses tokens: {link_open}, {img}, {link_close}, {caption})

If present in a child theme, it’s used first; then the parent theme; finally the plugin fallback.

Accessibility

• Lightbox uses proper roles (role= »dialog »), aria-modal, labelled controls, focus trapping, and Esc to close.
• Close button is keyboard-operable (Enter/Space) and returns focus to the trigger.
• Captions are announced via a polite live region.

Media Taxonomies (Categories/Tags on Attachments)

Enable in Settings → From Image to WordPress to use core Categories and Tags on media items. This allows taxonomy-filtered galleries. – Works with the shortcode filters (category, tags) – Adds taxonomy UI to the Media screens (without duplicating existing columns)

Gallery Selection (Visitor Voting)

Per-gallery feature, off by default. Turn it on for a specific gallery with the shortcode attribute ratings="true", and change the visible label with select_label="…". Each image then shows an accessible selection checkbox below its caption. Example:

The choice is stored as one shared on/off flag per image (no counter, no per-visitor state — visitors may overwrite each other). The selection can then be pulled into Lightroom Classic with the Easy WordPress Publisher add-on (version 1.0.4 or newer). Clear the stored selection any time under Settings → Easy Photo Publisher → Gallery selection.

REST endpoints (namespace wpdet/v1): – GET /capabilities — feature discovery (public) – POST /rate/{id} — set the on/off state (public; nonce-protected) – GET /selection — list selected image IDs (Application Password) – DELETE /selection — reset, optionally scoped by category/tags (Application Password)

Minimum pairing: the selection feature needs this plugin >= 1.1.0 and the Lightroom add-on >= 1.0.4. Older pairings keep working for publishing; only the selection pull is unavailable.

Validation

• MIME types: image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, image/avif
• Max size: ~25 MB (configurable in code)

Support & Documentation

• Documentation: https://medienkonzepte.de/easy-wordpress-publisher-a-lightroom-extension/
• Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/webline

Credits

Made with ❤️ by Detlef Beyer.