Hello from Honolulu:

I'm a Piwigo newbie, just emigrating from Gallery2.  After a long, dedicated weekend of wrestling with Piwigo, I think I finally have it doing what I want.  The results have been good, and my high-school students think it is a huge improvement.  The plugin User Tags was the one missing piece I really needed; with it, I can pretty much kiss Gallery2 goodbye.

I would like to ask a question about uploading via FTP.  I have it working correctly, but I am wondering if I'm making it unnecessarily difficult for myself.  Following the instructions at Photos --> Add --> FTP + Synchronization, I figured out that when I FTP a bunch of photos in a new album, each album needs:

* a folder for the album itself, which contains
* all the web-friendly, resized images,
* a folder of the original, HD images, which must be titled "pwg_high," and
* a folder of thumbnails, generated by Piwigo at Tools --> Thumbnails, after the original images have been uploaded but before synchronizing.

I created a couple of workflows in Apple's Automator that generate the pwg_high folders and resize the originals, so it's not as much of a pain as it could be when uploading 1500 photos, as I did this weekend, but doing so when those photos are divided into eight albums meant a LOT of very careful resizing and FTPing.

The instructions don't mention that the HD folder MUST be called pwg_high, but I couldn't make it work any other way.  I guess my question boils down to: am I FTPing my albums the easiest way, or is there some shortcut I'm missing, which would explain why the instructions contain fewer steps than my own process? 

Thanks for any help or advice you could lend.