Light­room & Word­Press user? Then check this out!

Get­ting my images from Light­room to my web­site has always been a bit of an ordeal:

1. Select images and export from Light­room to disk
2. Log into word­press, and man­age media
3. Upload new images, and dig around on your hard disk to find them
4. Cre­ate a new blog post, or page, or what­ever, and then attach the images to them
5. …
6. Profit?

If this sounds like you, then you absolutely need this Adobe Light­room Export plu­gin from Luc Renam­bot called “Dossier De Presse”. Read on for more details and a sam­ple gallery.

There are a num­ber of ways to upload photo’s from Light­room to WordPress:

1. Cre­ate a web gallery within Light­room and upload it using FTP to your web­site. Not exactly the neat­est solu­tion, although there are some impres­sive addin’s now avail­able such as SlideShow­Pro
2. There is always my clumsy process of export­ing jpegs to disk and then upload­ing to Word­Press. This is rather time-consuming
3. Finally, I located a cou­ple of Light­room Export Plu­g­ins, which con­nect directly to Word­Press from Lightroom:
   1. LR/Blog from Tim­o­thy Armes
   2. Dossier De Presse from Luc Renambot

The fol­low­ing photo’s (and the ini­tial cre­ation of this post) were all cre­ated by Luc’s Dossier De Presse Plu­gin. I haven’t had a chance to review all its options (I know it also cre­ates NextGen Gal­leries), but I am impressed at how quick and easy it was to get this far… select images, export, done.

Next step is incor­po­rat­ing these images into a for­mated and struc­tured gallery, rather than a post. Watch this space…

BTW: the photo’s are from around Syd­ney dur­ing the visit of my own par­ents, and in-laws.