Easy Photo Publisher - Complete Description
Category: WordPress Plugins • Platform: PHP
Easy Photo Publisher complements the Adobe Lightroom Classic add-on Easy WordPress Publisher.
Together they form a full publishing pipeline: send images directly from Lightroom to your WordPress site,
update or replace them later, and (optionally) create blog posts using those images.
Highlights
– Direct publish from Lightroom Classic via the companion LrC module
– Create / update / delete media via a simple REST API
– Optional post creation with visibility control and Featured Image
– Gallery Shortcode: [wpdet_gallery] with taxonomy filters, sizing and a11y-friendly captions
– Accessible lightbox (keyboard/ARIA aware), toggled per shortcode
– Media taxonomies: enable Categories and Tags on attachments
– Theme template overrides (HTML-only)
– i18n-ready (easy-wp-publisher)
Quick Start
- In Lightroom Classic, publish an image using the “Easy WordPress Publisher” service.
- The image appears in your WordPress Media Library.
- On any page or post, insert the gallery shortcode:
[wpdet_gallery category=”Portugal” limit=”-1″ order=”DESC” min_width=”240px” gap=”1.5rem” size=”large” class=”” showcaption=”true” lightbox=”true”]
- limit=”-1″ shows all matching images
- showcaption=”true|false” toggles captions
- lightbox=”true|false” enables the accessible lightbox
Shortcode Reference: [wpdet_gallery]
Attributes
– category — Category ID or slug to filter attachments (requires media taxonomies)
– tags — CSV of tag slugs (e.g. tags="portugal,coast")
– limit — Number of images (default 12). Use -1 for all.
– order — ASC or DESC (default DESC)
– size — thumbnail|medium|large|full (or any registered image size)
– min_width — Grid minimum width (CSS value, default 200px)
– gap — Grid gap (CSS value, default 1.5rem)
– class — Extra CSS classes on the wrapper
– showcaption — true|false (default true)
– lightbox — true|false (default true)
Markup & Styles
- Wrapper template:
templates/wrapper.php - Item template:
templates/gallery.php - CSS:
templates/css/wpdet-gallery.css - Lightbox CSS/JS autoload when
lightbox="true"
Theme overrides (HTML-only)
your-theme/
└── wpdet/
└── templates/
├── wrapper.php (uses tokens: {items}, {min_width}, {gap}, {extra_class})
└── gallery.php (uses tokens: {link_open}, {img}, {link_close}, {caption})
If present in a child theme, it’s used first; then the parent theme; finally the plugin fallback.
Accessibility
- Lightbox uses proper roles (role=”dialog”), aria-modal, labelled controls, focus trapping, and Esc to close.
- Close button is keyboard-operable (Enter/Space) and returns focus to the trigger.
- Captions are announced via a polite live region.
Media Taxonomies (Categories/Tags on Attachments)
Enable in Settings From Image to WordPress to use core Categories and Tags on media items. This allows taxonomy-filtered galleries.
– Works with the shortcode filters (category, tags)
– Adds taxonomy UI to the Media screens (without duplicating existing columns)
Validation
- MIME types: image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, image/avif
- Max size: ~25 MB (configurable in code)
Support & Documentation
- Documentation: https://medienkonzepte.de/easy-wordpress-publisher-a-lightroom-extension/
- Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/webline
Credits
Made with ❤️ by Detlef Beyer.
