Using Photos app to share photos on server with WordPress, discussion board etc on shared server

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Not a bug, just a request for more info on whether the Photos app is good for what I’m trying to achieve.

I have a couple of different websites, a discussion board and a wiki as well as Nextcloud on my server and I want to save space by sharing all the media from one place rather than having multiple uploads of photos, PDFs or videos. It looks like I can do this technically using the Photos app and sharing.

For example, I have a couple of hundred creative commons images for use in blog posts on wordpress. So instead of uploading their own image to wordpress, the post author can link to one of the shared images, where the URL like this:

cloud.ecocounts.community/remote.php/dav/photospublic/PR9OT5UOIbJZ5bOEY08mWRlfPnc4Ow1p/6590-wind-turbine-power-wake.jpg

I have publicly shared the album so that visitors’ browsers will have no problem accessing the shared images.

Is this the best approach to setting up a shared image library?

Following status of server:

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 30.0.4
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • Linux 6.1.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.119-1 (2024-11-22) x86_64
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • apache2.4.62
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • ???
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • 8.1.31
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Hello,
If your goal is indeed to integrate images into a Wordpress blog post. I think this is the best solution.

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Thanks for the advice. This looks like it should work well. There’s only one issue that comes to mind. When somebody leaves and we disable their NextCloud account, that won’t affect the images they uploaded to the collaboration album, will it?

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According to this blog post: What happens to your data when a user account is deleted? - Nextcloud, we can observe that if the account is deactivated, all data is still present and accessible. I’ve never had a chance to try it out, but I assume that the photo application’s sharing links are maintained if the account is deactivated. I think you’d have to do a little test of your own with a test account.

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OK, I’ll push the envelope. Thanks.

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