Creating a photo album

New album

1. Go to Collections and click Photo albums.
2. Create a new album with the button at the top of the list.
3. Fill in the title and the date (just the day, no time), for example the day of the outing. Albums appear on your website with the newest date first.
4. Open the Photos tab and drag all your photos at once into the box with the dotted line. Or click the box and select several photos at the same time.
5. Wait until the counter (for example Uploading… 80/80) has finished.
6. Click Save draft: your changes are saved and the window closes. Then click Publish at the top right.

The photos are added to the album in the order of their file names. Photos from a phone or camera (IMG_0001, IMG_0002, …) therefore appear in the order in which you took them.

Order and removing photos

• Change the order: drag a photo to another position.
• Main photo: the photo shown in the album overview and when sharing. By default this is the first photo (with the label Main photo). To choose another photo: hover over that photo and click the star.
• Remove a photo: click the cross. The photo disappears from the album, but stays in the File manager.
• Add photos: simply drag in new photos later. They are added at the end.

More options

• Description: a text above the photos.
• Tags: let visitors filter albums, for example by camp or open day. In the list of albums you can see the tags and filter by a tag at the top: the 5 most used appear as buttons, others you choose with + tag…. See Using tags.
• Crop: on the website, photos are often shown as square tiles. Is someone's head cut off? Click the pencil on the photo and click the most important part, for example a face. You see straight away how the tile will look; Save crop saves it immediately. Use the arrows to go to the next photo. You will see it on your website after you next publish.
• SEO tab: the short description for the album overview and Google, and your own title and description for Google. You don't have to fill them in: empty fields show in light grey what is used automatically. If the album has no text, Google gets for example Collectors' Day 2026: photo album with 23 photos.

How many photos?

• A photo can be up to 25 MB. The CMS skips larger photos and shows a message.
• Your website has a maximum for all photo albums together, usually 4000 photos. Above the box you can see how many you have already used. If not all your photos fit, the CMS uploads as many as there is still room for. Need more space? Contact Windkracht.

Where are the photos stored?

In the File manager, in the folder Fotoalbums, with a separate folder for each album. Each photo gets a tidy name with the name of your website, the album and the year, e.g. west-country-folklore-collectors-day-2026-001.jpg. Large photos are automatically reduced to a maximum of 2560 pixels when uploaded. They stay sharp on every screen and your website stays fast. The folder has the name of the album, even if you change it later. If the album doesn't have a name yet, the folder is first called Album with the date; when you save, it gets the album name.

If you delete an album and also remove it from the trash, the photos and the folder of that album also disappear from the File manager. Photos you still use elsewhere, for example in another album or in a post, are kept.

Want to give a photo a better description? Open the photo in the File manager. Without a description, the CMS uses the file name.

No Photo albums in your menu?

Photo albums are not included by default. Your website also needs to be able to show them. Contact Windkracht if you would like to use them.