Tuesday, August 18, 2015

WordPress & PhotoGallery Plugin Tips

After installing WordPress and adding the PhotoGallery Plugin, I ran into an upload issue.  Sadly the plugin did not provide any errors to indicate that there was an issue.  It simply acted as if it had finished but never auto generated the thumbnails or properly uploaded the photos.

As a troubleshooting measure, I installed another "Gallery" plugin.   As luck would have it, it provided server statistics AND gave a warning, stating that due to my current settings, I would likely encounter a problem uploading photos.  This was VERY helpful and I quickly found the settings that needed to be changed in my PHP.ini file (see settings below).  I would have continued with this plugin but found the lite version to be very restricted and not as user friendly.  So I reactivated the PhotoGallery plugin and it now works as expected.

PHP.ini Settings:

1upload_max_filesize = 64M
2post_max_size = 64M
3max_execution_time = 300

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