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Amateurs
Amateurs
Batch Downloader
Batch Downloader
Collections
Collections
Families
Families
Fansites
Fansites
GNU License
GNU License
How to use Piwigo ?
How to use Piwigo?
Lightning Fast
Lightning Fast
Multiple Administrators
Multiple Administrators
Share with Clients
Share with Clients
What can I use Piwigo for ?
What can I use Piwigo for?
Why choosing Piwigo ?
Why choose Piwigo?
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Piwigo is a web application to manage your collection of photos, and other medias.
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Embedding powerful features, it powers photo galleries all around the world.
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Download Piwigo
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Full autonomy
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The GNU General Public License, or GPL, is an open source license.
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Open source doesn't just mean that you can view the source code — it has political and philosophical implications as well.
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Open source, or "Free Software", means you are free to modify and redistribute the source code under certain conditions.
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Free doesn't refer to the price, it refers to freedom.
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 The difference between the two meanings of free is often characterized as "Free as in speech vs. free as in beer."
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 The GPL is free as in speech.
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500,000 photos in your collection? Not a problem for Piwigo.
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Lightning fast performances is included, by default.
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You can download Piwigo from <span style="color:#f70;">Piwigo.org</span> and install it on your web hosting, with the appropriate technical requirements.
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Using Piwigo is free, you only pay your hosting provider.
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Piwigo also comes <em>as a service</em> on <span style="color:#ff3363">Piwigo.com</span>: take a few seconds to open a trial account, use Piwigo and forget about technical details.
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A Piwigo.com account involves hosting fees.
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Managing a family albums over the last 20 years, organizing a collection of European spiders, showing your best landscape photos as photo amateur...
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these are a few examples of how Piwigo is used by its community.
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Infinitely customizable
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No technical Skills necessary
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One click installation
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Piwigo has always been, and will always be a free software.
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A code you can read and understand is a code you can trust.
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Public sector, companies, foundations... all of them have to manage their own collection.
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In the <em>Digital Asset Management</em> field, Piwigo focuses on ease-of-use, affordability, performances and sustainability.
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Pro photographers need to show their work to their clients, publicly or privately.
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Piwigo provides advanced permissions control.
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Clients can download photos one by one or whole albums.
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Self Hosting
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Support, updates and maintenance included
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Born in 2002, Piwigo has clearly reached the <em>maturity</em> level.
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Of course it keeps evolving to match current techs!
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Test for free
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There is a wide variety of usages among Piwigo users community.
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From medium sized galleries to huge image banks, Piwigo can make your life easier and save you time and effort.