Comments on: Gallery2 vs Zenphoto vs Plogger

By: Travis Wu

Travis Wu — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:34:56 +0000

Me too. Used gallery2 for about 5 yrs. Did a lot of work for it but sadly I have just switched to Zenphoto. just because it’s easier to manage and I get better performance. ZenPhoto is still young. It’s got a lot of potentials.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:49:00 +0000

Yeah, Gallery2 seems to be reeeeeeally, reeeeally resource intensive compared to the others, but vastly more mature (which in this case pretty much means more plugins/functionality (also in the case at the cost of more complication/resource drains))….

By: DerekNobuyuki

DerekNobuyuki — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:57:30 +0000

I’ve been using Gallery/Gallery2 for a long time but in recent years it’s become unmanageable.

I only have perhaps 13,000 photos, but it’s having increasing difficultly keeping even mediocre performance.

Today, I made the switch to ZenPhoto and so far I’m pretty happy with it although it looks like I’m going to have to write a tagcloud myself.

Thanks for posting your comparison!

By: Jaco

Jaco — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:12:38 +0000

Gallery2 is by far the most advanced of all image galleries.

But, being that - so advanced - it tries to be too advanced sometimes. It features user rights for images & albums, but as soon as you start getting more than 20 000 users, Gallery2 becomes a nightmare. It’s is painfully hungry for resources to upload items.

But if you don’t use the user rights / permissions then gallery2 is great.

I found zenphoto and use if for general galleries - it’s simple, pretty , clean & easy to set up. It can also “protect the original size of images” as well as handle FTP uploads.

So, if you need a gallery, I’d try both Gallery2 & zenphoto.

If you’re just looking for a simple easy gallery, zenphoto is the way to go

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:28:11 +0000

Gallery 2 has much more features than what you mention (including spam protection (akismet in the current nightly snapshot, CAPTCHA for a long time), rating, RSS, etc.

Also, Gallery 2 has no problem”protecting the original size of images.”