Hello
as answered many times, only admin and webmasters can upload since the upload form is in the administration. Two plugins allows basic users to upload ; community and Icy Picture Modify

not yet 2.7 compatible: 2.7 is only one week old

Community is now compatible with Piwigo 2.7.

This feature should be there without plugins in mt opinion.

For sure, the "user upload" feature is an important feature when you have a "community" gallery, but this is not the case of so many galleries.

Piwigo was not designed for a "central webmaster" having "customers" on his gallery. Piwigo is designed to be used by the end user. Plugin Community is designed to give "user upload", by "user" I mean visitors of the gallery (friends and family) not the "owner" of the gallery.

we've got plenty of those kind of users...  We are in the direction to simplify, to make it more user friendly etc We do know our flaws
But saying that's for computer enthusiastics that's extrem! Well that's not because Piwigo 'as this' doesn't fit your needs and because you need to tweak it to do what you want, you have to say that's for computer enthusiastics. Do you know about piwigo.com?

About your issue I still don't get it; you don't want your customer to be admin? even if it's his own website?

Ok.
Enthusiastic is maybe a too strong consept. But most people or companies who order a web site dont want to start configurating it. In fact the word "install" make them feel nausea allready. If I wold say just install this and that..
Even that installing apps on the phone is a every day thing. Installing and not to mention configuring a cms etc. Piwigo or other, is not what they want to do.
But they do want to add/change content. I hear more than one time that the customer ordered a wordpress website. Reason for this was that they had a friend who had one.
After getting one they mangage to make all content or visuals dissapear just like that. Buyt maybe Piwigo is not as risky..

I dont mind the customers being admins. And ofcourse I cannot talk about the whole worlds all web designers. Somehow I still think that it is a common feature to strip the options for the end user. And if there is later something missing. Then it would be added.
The person who strips it in this case is the web designer. So it is up to his or her experience aswell as talking with the customer what they want and dont want.

Last edited by Mikeqw (2014-10-10 16:23:02)

+1: let's see if I can make a case here...

I am admin for my company web space, we also have dedicated web designer and content manager
Let's take WordPress as an example. There are admins, editors, contributors, and subscribers.
Each level can perform different operations.
For my WP setup, as admin I have setup and configured WP Network which hosts few company's web sites.
It is not the situation with external customer, but normal administration separation.
yes, it is more of the business setup, but you can find similar scenario in public domain as well -ex: one member of the family maintaining several sites for other family members

in case of Piwigo setup:

* admin - manages overall setup and updates
* editors - can manage all content, create/edit/delete pages, upload and delete photos but not make system changes
* contributor - uploads photos to albums s/he has access to
* subscribers - can subscribe for content updates - new photos/comments/etc

it is not new kind of setup and is widely used among many other platforms
at should also help to enhance Piwigo.com in my humble opinion :)