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Easy photo uploader for wordpress (grandma friendly)

by belgianguy
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My lovely neighbour is part of a hobby group that make all kinds of stuff. They are all 50 years and up. They have a website where they display the things they've made, but they pay 5 euros per photo they want uploaded. They've spent a couple thousand euros over the past 3 years and that does not include the fee for building the site.
I want to build them a wordpress site that enables them to upload their photos themselves. I know wordpress already has this functionality, but this seems to be a bit to 'technical' for these ladies.
Is there a simpler solution for this? One that generates a gallery and allows you to add a bit of text and multiple photos? The keyword here is 'simplicity'

Thanks!
#easy #friendly #grandma #photo #uploader #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author kimstuart
    Why not just strip out the parts of the editor that they don't particularly need? On one of our multisite installs, we have a similar demographic - they really don't need to have a lot, so we hid it from view and they don't know it's there. It's fairly easy to do with some changes to functions.php (or a plugin if you are so inclined to write one).

    You could also look into a front end editor like Upfront or Wordpress Front End Editor to create the appearance of an admin that is limited to only what you want them to have.
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  • Profile picture of the author pizzatherapy
    The new functionality of Word Press is totally Drag and Drop.

    With some very simple steps I think you could show them how to upload a picture easily with step by step instructions.

    Log in to Word Press > Look for Media>> Go to add new >> Clcik to open

    > drag picture to upload.

    There are a ton of YouTube videos or you could make a simple screen shot of each step,...
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      You don't have to teach them all....just use one of the excellent solutions above and teach a couple of them. They can teach the other people or be the "upload experts" in the group.

      So many things that used to be frightening to non-techies are now so simple a 5 yr old can do it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Slade556
      Originally Posted by pizzatherapy View Post

      The new functionality of Word Press is totally Drag and Drop.
      I was gonna suggest this myself.
      If they are able to log in and know how to add a new post or, go wherever they need to go to upload the photos (meaning, teach them how to edit a page, edit a post and so on), the drag and drop function requires no skills whatsoever.
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  • Profile picture of the author kidino
    Must it be Wordpress? Because if it is only for creating online photo albums, you have a lot more options. I searched CodeCanyon.net and found a few. Just that I am not sure which is suitable for your "client"...

    You can check this one for example:
    PHP Scripts - Zoom Media Gallery - with CMS | CodeCanyon
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  • Profile picture of the author kidino
    I also found this:

    10 Best Free and Open Source PHP Image Galleries | Design3edge
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