Zenphoto

Spec sheet

Product

Zenphoto is a self-hosted, gallery-focused CMS for media websites.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Intended users

Zenphoto describes itself as suited to personal websites for illustrators, artists, designers, photographers, filmmakers, and musicians.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Free plan

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · zenphoto.org

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Support

Community help is available through support forums, while paid support services are offered independently by listed team members.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Founded

2005Read 28 Sep 2026 · zenphoto.org

Access limitation

Zenphoto's page-level permissions do not protect image files accessed directly from the albums or cache folders.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Blog and pages

The Zenpage CMS plugin provides a news section and custom pages, with nested pages and categories.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Custom user roles

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · zenphoto.org

Editorial workflows

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · zenphoto.org

Extensions

Zenphoto has a plugin system and an extensions directory that includes officially supported and third-party extensions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Languages

It supports multilingual site content and a translatable admin backend, with server locale and gettext support required for multiple languages.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Media library

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · zenphoto.org

Media management

It manages image, video, and audio files, including uploads, albums, search, scheduled publishing, watermarks, and EXIF/IPTC metadata.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Multilingual content

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · zenphoto.org

Platform type

self_hostedRead 22 Sep 2026 · zenphoto.org

Project history

The project says Zenphoto was started in May 2005.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

SEO tools

YesRead 22 Sep 2026 · zenphoto.org

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.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Themes

Zenphoto includes four standard themes and allows custom themes using HTML5, CSS, and PHP.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

User access

It supports multiple users, user groups, per-user rights, and password protection for albums and pages.Read 11 Oct 2026 · zenphoto.org

Plans and prices

Every Zenphoto plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

• Content Management Systems#85 of 1658.1
• Photo Storage Services#47 of 717.9