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Many Imagely 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 post…

Slow photos cost you visitors and rankings. Pick the right format, serve next-gen formats, compress without losing quality, and write alt text that works.

Publish a finished wedding gallery on your site and it’s public by default. Anyone who lands on the page, or finds it through search, can scroll the whole set. The only people who should see that set are the bride and groom, and the same goes for most client work. Wedding galleries, newborn sessions, and…

As a photographer, your work doesn’t end after you take stunning images. A lot of steps go into submitting a photography job successfully, and post-processing is an integral part of your photography work. Post-processing allows photographers to enhance their images, develop a unique style, and bring their creative vision to life. However, more often than…

You posted your favorite shot from this weekend’s session to Instagram an hour ago. It’s already cropped, captioned, and sitting right there on your phone. Getting it onto your actual portfolio site used to mean finding the original file, uploading it again, and doing that all over for every photo after it. Not anymore. Instagram…

Your photography site is only as good as the first few seconds a visitor spends on it. Slow pages cost you clients before they see a single image. Google has been factoring page speed directly into search rankings for years. Imagely 4.2.3 is a focused performance update that reduces what your site loads, speeds up…