Every professional photographer will find themselves in a situation, at some point, where the client is unhappy with the photographs. I’ve faced this situation once for a commercial project, where I was photographing karate students for a book.  The author, the karate instructor, was as picky with the pictures as I am.  However, the areas…

We are very excited to announce our latest theme, Simplicity. It’s a stunning Genesis child theme designed for photographers. It boasts a full width and height background slideshow on a minimal homepage. Individual pages continue the background beautification with a static background image. Its fully responsive design flows amazing when viewed on a desktop all…

Many NextGEN Gallery users take advantage of protecting their galleries with passwords. This is done using the WordPress feature for password protection of posts and pages. A use case for doing so might be implementing a proofing gallery for a client, or a private gallery of family photos. By default, if you create a blog…

One of the things we hear photographers say that scares them from WordPress is updates. Some photographers think every WordPress, theme or plugin update will break their site. That’s where staging sites and local instances come in handy. If your host does not offer staging sites, then try using a local site instead. Around here…

We’re unsure if this is the start of a new series on the blog or just something we will do here and there. (catch the first Q&A here on our themes) But today we are going to be answering some questions that come in through social media and email. The questions are all related to Imagely…

There are two writing apps that I use on a regular basis. One of which is Grammarly, which I wrote about previously on the Imagely blog. I use it in its app as well as their Chrome extension, because it is by far the best spelling, grammar and plagiarism checker available. But there is another…