There are several ways, none really very good and some using plugins.

You can choose to have a "0" (parent) album in which you have all the albums, thus you can edit the 0 albums description and it will show up if you have the 0 album as parent to all the other ones.

There is a block plugin https://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=190 you can use to do place a block and use it to place text. Some other fun functions in there as well.

The Header manager https://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=608  can allow you to select image or image with text as the header, but it is not very nice either way.

Then you may have some Theme options but you will rarely see anything asking you "do you want some header text here..."

Personally I find it hard to add text elemants without resorting to code and tags and frankly, I rather not, since this is not 1984 after all. If its not in a plugin or the user interface I am very reluctant to use it.

Last edited by homdax (2020-10-29 15:18:49)

The block shows for everyone if you want it to, you don't need to check any of the Authorization management checkboxes, which I think handles that...

Admittedly I could be missing something, but if you look at the site where I use it, you will see the centered header yellow text only on the front page and nowhere else...as guest.

The other albums have introduction texts per album. https://www.homeworldshots.net/

HOWEVER, I do not recommend any coding, it might jeopardize further Piwigo updates. Only do it if you can keep proper track of it and document it so you know what might break... all I did was implement a few CSS lines for text formatting and that is done within the input fields of the text since it takes html.

As you, I am rather frustrated with the lack of text support that is not linked to the images themselves, but I guess if we would like to see more of that we would perhaps have to take the step over to WordPress and other bigger publicarion platforms and while I do have WP sites, the moneygrabbing and advertisement spam inside the administration of a WP site is equally annoying.

Adding to that a blog feature to add history and background to the imagesalbum and site outside the scope of the image itself, like Evile Blog, is no longer supported, but again, I will not risk adding custom code or snippets to handle this for reasons given above.

I made an album for news lacking anything else,... https://www.homeworldshots.net/index.ph … lease-read it is a really BAD solution, and I guess I could mess a bit more with the  CSS, but it is all i could come up with, despite asking here a number of times over the years....

Last edited by homdax (2020-10-29 18:36:02)

Creating a plugin would be the way to go. And keep it updated.

I have put together dozens of web sites in as many systems in my 30 years on the Internet to know that if you change core code you better be ready for issues if you are not prepared. I do not recommend it to anyone.

Having said that what they might do anyway is a completely different story and with my experience I have been in hundreds of similar discussions and the only way out with some integrity is to let people decide for themselves, but warn them and have them read up on what may or may not happen and how to avoid issues as much as possible.

homdax wrote:

The block shows for everyone if you want it to, you don't need to check any of the Authorization management checkboxes, which I think handles that...
Admittedly I could be missing something, but if you look at the site where I use it, you will see the centered header yellow text only on the front page and nowhere else...as guest.

Great. I can see the yellow text. So clearly I am doing something wrong with the plugin. I will start a new thread about this plugin feature specifically. Thanks! (Great site, btw)

I want to back up and clarify that I didn't mean to criticize Piwigo or all the people who have worked hard in big and small ways to make it easy to do 99% of what I want to do.

I also appreciate all the feedback in this thread.

Thanks!

Happy it worked out for you... :)