A WordPress plugin that turns your site into a client proofing system. Send galleries. Let them pick. Own every pixel.
— Manifesto
Most client proofing tools treat your photographs like products in a checkout flow. PhotoProof treats them like a body of work.
Self-hosted on your own WordPress. No subscription. No pixel ceiling. No data handed to a third party. Just your galleries, your clients, your rules.
Step one
Weddings, portraits, editorials, product — whatever fills your card. Then comes the part that makes or breaks the relationship: getting the client to choose.
Step two
Create a gallery in your WordPress admin. Assign a client, set a watermark, rename files, lock it down with an expiration date. Send the link.
Step three
A distraction-free, standalone gallery experience. No theme noise. No tracking scripts. Just the photographs, full-bleed, and a single tap to pick favorites.
Step four
They confirm. You get notified by email. Export their selection as a CSV. Move on to the next shoot with a clean handoff behind you.
— Under the hood
Full feature list. No "premium tier" hiding behind a paywall. No "contact sales" for the good stuff. Everything ships in v1.0.
Auto-applied on upload. Adjustable opacity from 10% to 100%. Per-gallery toggle. Your logo, your rules.
No photo caps. No gallery caps. Your server is the only limit.
Drop 500 photos at once. Live progress, resumable.
Gallery photos stay out of your main WP media library.
Pattern-based, auto-incremented.
The gallery runs in its own template. Your WordPress theme, its scripts, its tracking — none of it touches the client view.
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Unguessable. No password walls.
Set a deadline, gallery auto-locks. Daily cron handles it.
Optional protection against casual downloads.
When a client validates, the photographer gets the list, the client gets the receipt. Fully editable templates with placeholders.
{gallery_name}
{client_name}
{count}
{photos}
{url}
Selection as a file list. Lightroom-ready import.
Client changed their mind? Reopen with or without reset.
[photoproof_galleries_client]
Lists all client's galleries on any page.
Background, text, selection. No code.
Your brand mark on every gallery header.
Mark your top picks. Star or heart, your choice.
No external API calls. No vendor lock-in. Your database, your files, your decisions. Fork it if you want. Audit the source end-to-end.
Full .pot for more.
Link galleries to WP users. Multi-gallery per client.
photoproof_gallery_selection_confirmed
Extend freely, WP-native.
Modern baseline. No legacy cruft. WP.org certified.
— Developer reference
PhotoProof exposes action hooks, filters, helper functions and a shortcode. Everything you need to wire it into your own workflow — or build a plugin on top.
Fire your own code when PhotoProof does something.
Triggered the moment a client validates their selection. Perfect for custom notifications, CRM sync, or analytics.
// Log validated selections to your CRM
add_action( 'photoproof_gallery_selection_confirmed',
function( $gallery_id, $selected_ids ) {
my_crm_sync( $gallery_id, $selected_ids );
}, 10, 2 );$gallery_idint — Post ID of the gallery$selected_idsarray — Attachment IDs selected by the clientFires after a photo is successfully uploaded into a gallery (after watermark & rename). Use it for post-processing.
// Push uploaded photos to external storage
add_action( 'photoproof_attachment_uploaded',
function( $attachment_id, $gallery_id ) {
push_to_s3( $attachment_id );
}, 10, 2 );$attachment_idint — Attachment ID of the new photo$gallery_idint — Parent gallery IDCron event fired once a day. Used internally to archive expired galleries — hook in to add your own maintenance.
// Add your own daily cleanup
add_action( 'photoproof_daily_expiration_check',
function() {
my_custom_cleanup();
} );—No parametersPublic PHP functions — call them from any theme template.
Return every gallery assigned to a given user. Ideal for a client dashboard page outside the shortcode.
$galleries = photoproof_get_client_galleries( $user_id );
foreach ( $galleries as $g ) {
echo $g['title'] . ' — ' . $g['status'];
}$user_idint — User ID to query@returnarray — Galleries with keys: title, url, status, photo_count, date, thumbnail_url
Current lifecycle state of a gallery: brouillon, publie, valide, archive.
$status = photoproof_get_gallery_status( $post_id );
if ( $status === 'valide' ) {
echo 'Client has confirmed.';
}$post_idint — Gallery post ID@returnstring — Status slugNumber of photos currently attached to the gallery. Cached for 60 seconds.
$count = photoproof_get_gallery_photo_count( $post_id );
echo $count . ' photos in this gallery';$post_idint — Gallery post ID@returnint — Photo countURL of the gallery's cover image, in any WordPress image size.
$url = photoproof_get_gallery_thumbnail( $post_id, 'large' );
echo '<img src="' . esc_url( $url ) . '">';$post_idint — Gallery post ID$sizestring — WP image size. Default: medium@returnstring — Thumbnail URL, or empty stringGet the array of attachment IDs that the client selected. Returns an empty array if the gallery isn't validated yet.
$selected = photoproof_get_gallery_selection( $post_id );
foreach ( $selected as $att_id ) {
echo wp_get_attachment_image( $att_id );
}$post_idint — Gallery post ID@returnarray — Selected attachment IDsWhether the gallery is locked (validated or archived). Useful for conditional display.
if ( photoproof_is_gallery_locked( $post_id ) ) {
echo 'Selection is final.';
}$post_idint — Gallery post ID@returnboolDrop it into any page or post.
Displays a grid of galleries assigned to the currently logged-in user. Requires authentication — shows a notice otherwise.
// Minimal usage
[photoproof_galleries_client]
// Custom layout, status hidden
[photoproof_galleries_client columns="3" show_status="false"]
// Everything disabled except title and thumbnail
[photoproof_galleries_client columns="2"
show_status="false"
show_count="false"
show_date="false"]columnsint — Grid columns, 1 to any. Default: 1show_statusbool — Show open / validated dot. Default: trueshow_countbool — Show photo count. Default: trueshow_datebool — Show creation date. Default: true— Support
PhotoProof is free and always will be. If it saved you a monthly subscription or a long afternoon of coding, consider throwing something in the jar.
Every donation goes directly into development time — new features, bug fixes, better docs. No middlemen.
Prefer GitHub Sponsors? Over here.
— Get started
Install it like any WordPress plugin. Configure in five minutes. Send your first gallery before lunch.
Tested on WordPress 6.4+ · PHP 7.4+ · MIT & GPL dependencies only