Hi guys.
I'm looking for a way to add photos that USERS will post/upload to my Wordpress site. Let me first say that i do know all possible solutions about galleries and everything and i have tried them all. Don't suggest an image gallery.
So, i think to use a Forum for user to post their travel photos. For many reasons, mainly for MY ease of moderation and also for structure.
What do you think ? Has anybody else done that ?
Thanks
Off topic but helpful tip.
If you are planning to have 100's or 1000's of pictures in your galley think about creating a sub-domain to hold the media there. If you'r lucky and use BlueHost or Hostgator there a simple wizard to implement this.
It will double the number of parallel connection and will improve the load time.
Read this:
https://www.shoutmeloud.com/serve-wordpress-images-sub-domain-301-redirect.html
Thanks Yossik for the tip. Nice to know.
No, i'm not unlucky to host on HG or BlueHost, actually i moved away from HG 3+ years ago, after it was bought from EIG and the service went down the hill.
Hi guys again.
I'm thinking to slowly move the some users galleries to forums/subforums. Nothing fancy. One photo per post, inline. Not 100% what i want, still the gallery plugin is a nighmare to admin. A lot of work.
I was thinking (now that i know better wpForo) to create a subforum per user ? A good or bad idea ? Of cource on request of a user.
And allow only that user to upload (can that be done, i haven't checked).
What do you think ? Good or bad idea ?
I think this is good idea.
Pros:
- Sub-Forums permissions can be very easy managed for all Usergroups and access to Users Galleries can be fully controlled individually.
- Albums can be organized by Topics. Topic accesses are also can be well managed.
- People will be able to discuss in each Album and leave feedback.
- Users will be able to subscribe to certain Gallery and Albums, then will be notified when new album is posted...
- All information will be available in widgets and users activity pages.
- And lots of more...
Cons:
- You have to create new Sub-Forum for each user manually or maybe you can create a code to generate new Sub-Forum automatically on new user registration.
- Large Number of sub forums will be not easy to manage in Dashboard > Forums > Forums admin page.
- It would be better to use wpForo Advanced Attachment addon. If you'll need it just contact us via support[at]gvectors.com email address. We have 100% discounts on some addons for active members of wpForo Community started from 5 star rating.
