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PhotoPress adds gallery layouts, slideshows, image metadata, image taxonomies and image search to WordPress. This wiki documents each feature: its settings, how it works, the WordPress and third-party hooks it uses, and its limits.

The pages describe PhotoPress 2.0.0. Code links point to commit b6499f6.

Requirements

Requirement	Version or note
WordPress	6.6 or later. Dynamic galleries in the Gallery Slideshow block need 7.1.
Block editor	The galleries and blocks are block-editor features.
PHP Imagick extension	Needed to embed licensing metadata in uploads and to apply ImageMagick resource limits. Other features work without it.

Settings

All settings are in PhotoPress › Settings, on six tabs: Gallery, Slideshow, Metadata, Pages & Search, Image Sizes and Offload Media.

Features

Galleries

• Gallery Layouts: Masonry, Rows and Mosaic layouts for the core Gallery block.
• Full-Screen Slideshow: opens when a gallery image is clicked.
• Gallery Slideshow Block: a slideshow of a gallery on the same page.
• Taxonomy Gallery: a gallery of the images in a taxonomy term.
• Child Pages Gallery: a gallery of the pages under a page.
• Gallery Images Added and Removed: uploads added to a gallery, and deleted images removed from galleries.
• Image Templates and Blocks: block templates for image archives, image pages and search.

Metadata

• Image Taxonomies: terms read from EXIF, IPTC and XMP on upload.
• Alt Text and Descriptions: alt text and descriptions from metadata.
• Licensing: license metadata embedded in uploads and published as JSON-LD.

Pages and search

• Attachment and Taxonomy Pages
• Sitemaps
• Image Search
• Page Cache

Media

• Image Sizes
• Offload Media and CDN
• Replacing Image Files

Operation

• Background Jobs
• Lifecycle and Data: activation, updates, deactivation, uninstall and stored data.
• Hooks Reference: every hook PhotoPress provides and uses.