- alloyphoto

#1 | Written by Jim O'Brien about 8 years ago. Reply

This is an excellent plugin! I had an issue which I brought to Vladimir’s attention; he came up with a solution to address the problem right away. This plugin really improves our efficiency in working with Piwigo. I know we would not be using Piwigo today if we didn’t have this plugin. Thanks!

#2 | Written by Ryan Smith about 8 years ago. Reply

This is great for exporting to NextGen. However I notice in ver 3.0+ it’s supposed to support uploading to a wordpress standard gallery. I can’t figure out any way to create a gallery that will be uploaded outside of NextGen gallery.

#3 | Written by Vlad about 8 years ago. Reply

The native media library doesn’t support galleries. You can create a pseudo-gallery (WordPress 3.5 and higher) when you create a new post. The downside is that you need to individually select images that you want to add (you can only filter images by date)
More about galleries via the native media library: https://en.support.wordpress.com/gallery/

#4 | Written by Ben Arons about 8 years ago. Reply

I’m getting an error that causes me to have to restart the plugin, and re-grant access in my browser to Box) every time I publish from Lightroom (the latest CC build, 1090788) on Mac OS X 10.11.6. The error that comes up is:

“Internal Error

LrPrefs: attempt to write to invalid prefs key type string, value”
BoxExport 2.9.1 (#395)

Can you help? I’m not going to buy this very useful plugin unless this can be resolved, at which point I’d be happy to!

#5 | Written by Vlad about 8 years ago. Reply

Ben, I emailed you several times asking to submit your debug log. Please e-mail me so we can troubleshoot the error.

#6 | Written by Jean-Marc LABATUT about 8 years ago. Reply

Using version 1.5.2 witch LightRoom CC 2015.8. Exactly what I was looking for. Simple and good working. Thanks!

#7 | Written by Pete1976 about 8 years ago. Reply

Hi,

what is the color profil of the exported pictures? I want to set it to sRGB.

Thanks!

#8 | Written by Vlad about 8 years ago. Reply

When you choose Image Format JPEG, images are exported in sRGB.
- #9 | Written by Pete1976 about 8 years ago. Reply
  
  very good! Thanks.

#10 | Written by Gary Wells about 8 years ago. Reply

This is surely one of the best plugins for Lightroom. Thanks for your hard work

#11 | Written by Arlene about 8 years ago. Reply

How do I choose a “root folder” in dropbox so I can complete a transfer of files from lightroom to dropbox?

#12 | Written by Vlad about 8 years ago. Reply

You can’t change the root folder on a publish service, you need to create a new publish service pointing to the root folder you need.
If you are in the Export Dialog, then you just need to log out and the root folder options become enabled.

#13 | Written by Andy nelson about 7 years ago. Reply

Hi.
I am using LrVoyager with Lr 6.
I have installed. I have registered and paid and activated. I can see LrVoyager listed in my Plugin Manager list as ‘installed and active’.
However, I do not see it listed in the Plugin Extras list. So I cannot access any feature or service, cannot run anything so it is currently pointless.
Can you advise on potential fix?

#14 | Written by Vlad about 7 years ago. Reply

I am pretty sure you are looking for “Extras” in the wrong place – you are going File > Plug-in Extras instead of Library > Plug-in Extras.

#15 | Written by Colin Begg about 7 years ago. Reply

After using NextGen Gallery V2.2.10 for ages, its started giving me error 403 on every photo. What should I do?

#16 | Written by Vlad about 7 years ago. Reply

403 errors are usually a sign of misbehaving security measures. Start by turning off mod_security, see if that solves the issue. If it does then review and revise its rules. Next suspect is a rate-limit imposed by your hosting provider (read about related issues on this page).

#17 | Written by Tony about 7 years ago. Reply

Just having to reinstall everything on a new laptop and so downloaded Piwigp plugin v2.9.0 – run it as admin – start lightroom (standalone) – it doesn’t appear in plugin manager 🙁

Anything I can try…?

#18 | Written by Vlad about 7 years ago. Reply

Sounds like Lightroom was running at the time. Close and restart Lightroom – the plugin should appear.

#19 | Written by jim about 7 years ago. Reply

getting an error message saying I’m using the “limit file size option” but I’m not. I’ve gone in twice to change the setting and set it again with the option not selected, saved it and tried again but the same result.

#20 | Written by Per about 7 years ago. Reply

Hi, how to maintain titles and descriptions (captions) from Lightroom when I upload images to Dropbox with the Alloyphoto plugin?

#21 | Written by Vlad about 7 years ago. Reply

Hi Per. Dropbox doesn’t support titles and descriptions. All you can do is customize the file name on export (use the File Naming section) and put the title there.

#22 | Written by Anders about 7 years ago. Reply

With Nextgen v3.01 installed I get a shortcode error when using the plugin.

#23 | Written by Vlad about 7 years ago. Reply

Fixed in version 3.6.0

#24 | Written by april about 5 years ago. Reply

Every time I try to activate the plugin I get a message, “The root folder of your album hierarchy at Dropbox is missing or invalid.

#25 | Written by Vlad about 5 years ago. Reply

May I suggest reading through the FAQ first?
http://alloyphoto.com/plugins/dropbox/faq/

You are welcome to ask follow-up questions should the explanation there be unclear or insufficient.

#26 | Written by Robert Deeks about 5 years ago. Reply

It’s asking for a serial number, a serial number of what, for what? Where is the serial number found?

Costco Plug-in installation.

#27 | Written by Vlad about 5 years ago. Reply

I am going to assume you are asking about the Costco Canada plugin. The serial number is explained here:
http://alloyphoto.com/plugins/export-to-costco-canada/costco-canada-registration/

#28 | Written by Matt about 5 years ago. Reply

Is there a way to preserve to folder structure from LR when exported into DB using this plugin? Thanks

#29 | Written by Vlad about 5 years ago. Reply

In Lightroom folders and collections serve different purposes. You can’t just publish a set of folders, you need to create collection inside the Dropbox Publish Service and fill them with photos you want to publish. That is how pretty much every other Lightroom publishing service works. The following article gives a very nice explanation of the distinctions between Folders and Collections: https://improvephotography.com/45214/lightroom-folders-vs-collections-simple-explanation/

#30 | Written by Phil Burton about 5 years ago. Reply

How can I migrate a set of collections that I haven’t included in a Publish Service? I have a lot of very old catalogs that I need to consolidate into my main catalog. There are collections in some of these catalogs and I want to migrate just some selected collections, not the entire catalog.

#31 | Written by Vlad about 5 years ago. Reply

Perhaps this would help: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/can-i-copy-a-collection-from-one-catalog-into-another.24737/
…or see this thread: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4011917

#32 | Written by Bob Weybrecht about 5 years ago. Reply

NextGEN Gallery provides for 3 data fields for images: Alt & Title Text, Description, and Tags. The plugin only addresses the 1st two. Would it be possible to add the ability to populate the Tags field as well? Google seems to key on the Tags field.

Thanks

#33 | Written by Vlad about 5 years ago. Reply

Tags are already supported. Keywords are being stamped by LR into exported JPEGs and thus passed on to NextGEN unless your tell Lightroom not to. Check your Metadata settings on export – keywords will be stripped out by LR unless you use one of the three “All …” options.
- #34 | Written by Bob Weybrecht about 5 years ago. Reply
  
  In the Photo Templates area, I have the ability to choose what metadata is put in the Title and Description areas. What I am asking for is to be able to also select what metadata is put in the Tag area, in the same way as the others. I would prefer not to load it with all the keywords.
  
  Thanks
  - #35 | Written by Vlad about 5 years ago. Reply
    
    Alas, that is not possible. NextGEN does not provide an API method to programmatically control the contents of the Tag field. As I mentioned before, NextGEN uses IPTC keywords from JPEG images.
    I understand you may want to hide some of the private keywords that you don’t want to appear in your published photos. You may want to take a look at Metadata Wrangler – a very powerful post-processing plugin by Jeffrey Friedl, it is capable of keyword filtering. Here is the link: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/metadata-wrangler With this plugin you will be able to strip out certain keywords from rendered JPEGs before they are uploaded.

#36 | Written by Ernst Wilhelm Grueter about 5 years ago. Reply

Will your plugin support a one way synchronisation from Lightroom to Nextgen or does it support an export functionality.

#37 | Written by Vlad about 5 years ago. Reply

The plugin supports export operations, as well as implements a full-featured publish service.

#38 | Written by jochen berg about 4 years ago. Reply

where is free licensing

#39 | Written by Vlad about 4 years ago. Reply

Just download and install without activating, the plugin will run in the free mode. There will be some functional restrictions though.

#40 | Written by Gavin Anderson about 4 years ago. Reply

I’ve installed this, but it doesn’t show up as an option in Lightroom on the Mac. I’m using the newest version of Lightroom, and the newest version of Piwigo.

#41 | Written by Vlad about 4 years ago. Reply

Most likely you installed it while Lightroom was running. Restart Lightroom – the plugin should show up in the Plugin Manager.

#42 | Written by Robert Morin about 4 years ago. Reply

Bought the plugin. All I want to do is take all my raw image from LR classic and backup to the adobe cloud. Please help.bob

#43 | Written by Vlad about 4 years ago. Reply

Hi Robert, I don’t think my plugin is the answer. It is designed for different purposes.
As far as uploading RAW photos from Lightroom Classic to Adobe Cloud, see this thread – https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic/how-to-back-up-on-cloud-storage-with-lightroom-classic-cc/td-p/10111811?page=1
Based on the communication I see there, what you are trying to achieve is not possible.

#44 | Written by Michael about 4 years ago. Reply

I’m evaluating the plugin and I have some questions before purchasing.

Plugin v3.0.4
Piwigo v11.0.1

When I go to publish I’m getting a generic “Upload Failed” error. When I log into website, I see that album is created and photos added*.

*Explaining the asterisk: The photos are added but they’ll first appear as orphans but given a little time they appear in the album. I believe this to be an issue with Piwigo and maybe not so much with the plugin. Piwigo I’m assuming is having to do some post-processing after the plugin uploads to the website.

#45 | Written by Vlad about 4 years ago. Reply

Michael,
I reviewed your debug log and it appears that your server takes quite a long time to process uploaded photos and respond with their ID. The default setting in the plugin is to wait 30 seconds. You can increase the timeout period and wait longer. Another option – look into the performance issue on the server’s side.

#46 | Written by Kent McPherson about 4 years ago. Reply

If I use the Reclaim Photos button to pull all photos from DB down into my LR database, does it create folders in LR to match the folders in DB and then add those to the corresponding collection the publish service?

#47 | Written by Vlad about 4 years ago. Reply

Hi Kent, yes that’s the ultimate idea behind the Reclaim Photos feature.

#48 | Written by Vladimir about 4 years ago. Reply

Hi Vlad,

I did not understand well what i can do or not with Voyager !
This is my need : i want to organize better my albums in Flick. For that, i want to transfer some pictures from an album to another and keep the comments.
And also i need to create a new album in flickr via Lrc and transfer some pictures from another album in it.
Is it possible with Voyager ?!

Many thanks,
Vladimir ( Too ! )

#49 | Written by Vlad about 4 years ago. Reply

Hi Vladimir,
The Lightroom Voyager helps when you need to transfer publish services from one catalog to another, so it is not going to help with organizing albums on Flickr, unfortunately.

#50 | Written by Crawford about 3 years ago. Reply

Quick question: is this plugin compatible with “new” Lightroom, e.g., the cloud-based version?

#51 | Written by Vlad about 3 years ago. Reply

Only Lightroom Classic can use plugins. Lightroom CC (the cloud-based version) does not support third-party plugins.

#52 | Written by Jan Kjellin about 2 years ago. Reply

I recently set up a Piwigo-site just to try it out and see if it met my demands for a simple portfolio site. It turned out to have much more potential than that. Then I found out about this plugin last weekend and decided to try the free version. About ten minutes later, I bought the full version. Stiill learning the ropes, but WOW! This plugin really provides the perfect integration between Lightroom and Piwigo and is also changing the way I work with metatagging.

Awesome work, Vlad!

#53 | Written by Vlad about 2 years ago. Reply

Hi Jan,
Thank you so much for your kind words about my plugin!

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