Zenphoto
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Zenphoto, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Zenphoto's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Zenphoto 1.6.8 | Free | GPL v2 or later · Self-hosted software |
The facts
Each one read from Zenphoto's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access limitation
- Zenphoto's page-level permissions do not protect image files accessed directly from the albums or cache folders.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Blog and pages
- The Zenpage CMS plugin provides a news section and custom pages, with nested pages and categories.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom user roles
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Editorial workflows
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Extensions
- Zenphoto has a plugin system and an extensions directory that includes officially supported and third-party extensions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integration
- Zenphoto is a standalone CMS; its guide describes matching its theme to another site and says using it as a plugin is not recommended.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Zenphoto describes itself as suited to personal websites for illustrators, artists, designers, photographers, filmmakers, and musicians.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Languages
- It supports multilingual site content and a translatable admin backend, with server locale and gettext support required for multiple languages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Media management
- It manages image, video, and audio files, including uploads, albums, search, scheduled publishing, watermarks, and EXIF/IPTC metadata.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Multilingual content
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Privacy
- Zenphoto says an installation does not phone home and that the project does not collect user data through the described release-check and news-feed plugins.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Zenphoto is a self-hosted, gallery-focused CMS for media websites.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Project history
- The project says Zenphoto was started in May 2005.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SEO tools
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Server requirements
- The current version requires a web server, at least 55 MB of free space plus media and cache space, and PHP 7 or PHP 8 through 8.4; Apache is the developed and tested environment.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Community help is available through support forums, while paid support services are offered independently by listed team members.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Themes
- Zenphoto includes four standard themes and allows custom themes using HTML5, CSS, and PHP.checked 11 Oct 2026
- User access
- It supports multiple users, user groups, per-user rights, and password protection for albums and pages.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2005checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 22 Sep 2026
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