Migrating away from Photoshelter

[harpistic]

I've been investigating migrating my site from Photoshelter to anything better and cheaper - "more affordable", I mean - and have settled on Wordpress, using NextGen Gallery, hoping to carry out and complete the migration over the next few days, so that I can stop paying for Photoshelter.

I'm trying to get a list of file details - filenames, galleries, any associated folders, exif etc - to help me with organising stuff in the new site. I've generated a sitemap and parsed it, however it only provides a unique key, which contains basic slugs, eg /image/, /p/ and /gallery-collection which became /gallery; full filename (eg https:///img-get2/I0000e1rgDm6YU10/fit=1000...wn with flu (or a Photoshelter allergy.....).

 

[LongLensPhotography]

My site should give you a pretty good idea what you can achieve with the said tools.

 

[harpistic]

I don't see any EXIF scrapers, database access, migration plugins etc on your sites, where would I find them?

 

[Craikeybaby]

It isn't really in Photoshelter's interest to help with migrating away. I moved away from their service years ago, but I had my site structured through their Lightroom plugin, so the gallery structure was in my Lightroom, which made it easier for me to keep track of what images were in which collections.

 

[Milo King]

My site should give you a pretty good idea what you can achieve with the said tools.

Your landscape galleries did not function correctly for me, I tried to galleries, Edinburgh & flowers, with the same result - just a spinning circle to the right on the image and no other options showing at all.

Tried 3 different browsers with the same results.

 

[Milo King]

I don't see any EXIF scrapers, database access, migration plugins etc on your sites, where would I find them?

If you go down the route of a self hosted WordPress website then it would be unlikely you will find a plugin that will help you migrate over from Photoshelter.

It is more than likely going to turn out to be a wholly manual process on your part

 

[LongLensPhotography]

Your landscape galleries did not function correctly for me, I tried to galleries, Edinburgh & flowers, with the same result - just a spinning circle to the right on the image and no other options showing at all.

Tried 3 different browsers with the same results.

Oh lovely. LiteSpeed cache not playing nicely. I cleared it so it should work for a while. I have emailed nextgen support so they perhaps fix it for good this time, Absolutely fed 5+ years on still a f*****g mess here or there. Maybe you don't use any cahcing this or that.

Nextgen is maybe not the best today after all. They are a little out of date, don't support new image formats like AVIF for faster loading, and don't seem to be getting any meaningful updates for all this time.

The worst part is the price list is completely unaware of the image aspect ratio so will let customer choose from the whole of price list, some wildly wrong sizes and then you bloody have to refund them because 2:1 won't fit on a 1:1 sheet, etc. Absolute f***ery

 

[harpistic]

If you go down the route of a self hosted WordPress website then it would be unlikely you will find a plugin that will help you migrate over from Photoshelter.

It is more than likely going to turn out to be a wholly manual process on your part

Ah, I wasn’t expecting any plugins etc, I was just being a bit snarky about the two website links

Still, it would be helpful if any DAM platform could offer high-level image info, such as filenames, dates and gallery locations, for organising and managing what we’re storing and where - eg I’ve got one set of photos from an outdoor dance festival, so they’re in dance performances, outdoor, and the festival as well. Also, I’d like to remove some client galleries, but I don’t know which photos from each are in public galleries, without hunting for them.

I was hoping there’d be at least some shortcuts - thank you for confirming that there probably aren’t any, bah.

 

[mused]

If its WordPress hosting migration thing can be done by asking your hosting provider with migration help. Did you try asking the provider you are moving or you are yet to find one? my provider has always helped me with migration stuff.

 

[harpistic]

If its WordPress hosting migration thing can be done by asking your hosting provider with migration help. Did you try asking the provider you are moving or you are yet to find one? my provider has always helped me with migration stuff.

Many thanks - and if only! As @Milo King said, it’s not in Photoshelter’s interests to help its customers migrate away from them, sigh. I’ve worked out that I’ve got 710 albums and galleries, so I think that I need a very very very very very very long train journey to export all of the photos from each individual gallery

 

[Box Brownie]

Many thanks - and if only! As @Milo King said, it’s not in Photoshelter’s interests to help its customers migrate away from them, sigh. I’ve worked out that I’ve got 710 albums and galleries, so I think that I need a very very very very very very long train journey to export all of the photos from each individual gallery

Probably not want you want to hear but I googled and found a company that will quote for the job of migrating away from Photoshelter to a Word Press based website.

wordherd.io/website-migration/photoshelter-to-wordpress/

I removed the link to avoid the bots & crawlers spotting it

 

[harpistic]

Probably not want you want to hear but I googled and found a company that will quote for the job of migrating away from Photoshelter to a Word Press based website.

wordherd.io/website-migration/photoshelter-to-wordpress/

I removed the link to avoid the bots & crawlers spotting it

Fantastic, thank you so very much - hopefully they’ll reply in the morning. Thank you!

 

[Box Brownie]

Fantastic, thank you so very much - hopefully they’ll reply in the morning. Thank you!

Hopefully their bona fides in successfully serving the purpose they claim(?) is well founded. Plus, that their quotation is good for you?

I did find this

uk.trustpilot.com/review/wordherd.io

Broadly glowing reviews? I suggest (if Trust Pilot is a reliable resource?) that you read all the reviews and decide for yourself but I do find it odd that the reviews are at the extremes mainly 5 star but the poor ones are all 1 star ~ talk about polarised

 

[harpistic]

Hopefully their bona fides in successfully serving the purpose they claim(?) is well founded. Plus, that their quotation is good for you?

I did find this

uk.trustpilot.com/review/wordherd.io

Broadly glowing reviews? I suggest (if Trust Pilot is a reliable resource?) that you read all the reviews and decide for yourself but I do find it odd that the reviews are at the extremes mainly 5 star but the poor ones are all 1 star ~ talk about polarised

I've been using denoise time to close down tabs - alas I never heard from them. Perhaps all of their reviews were from bots?

 

[F1.2]

I wish I could understand 1% of what you are discussing , Doh!

 

[harpistic]

I wish I could understand 1% of what you are discussing , Doh!

My day job (late lamented day job? The job market is terrible) is playing with tech and data, especially moving stuff from one system to another. I managed to at least get the folder structure and image names from Photoshelter, to map them to a new system, but there's no FTP to download all the folders and files, bah

 

[harpistic]

Oh lovely. LiteSpeed cache not playing nicely. I cleared it so it should work for a while. I have emailed nextgen support so they perhaps fix it for good this time, Absolutely fed 5+ years on still a f*****g mess here or there. Maybe you don't use any cahcing this or that.

Nextgen is maybe not the best today after all. They are a little out of date, don't support new image formats like AVIF for faster loading, and don't seem to be getting any meaningful updates for all this time.

The worst part is the price list is completely unaware of the image aspect ratio so will let customer choose from the whole of price list, some wildly wrong sizes and then you bloody have to refund them because 2:1 won't fit on a 1:1 sheet, etc. Absolute f***ery

Good god, NextGen is a nightmare, isn't it? I'm still with the free plan because the plugin is so buggy, and support's responses have been "Oh gosh I've never seen this problem ever before, it's completely new and nobody else has ever had this problem" and "you have to buy one of our subscriptions for us to respond to your pre-sales issues." It's been way too unreliable for me to use as a main platform, so I need to email them to thank them for convincing me to sign up with Pixieset instead. Pixieset rocks, doesn't it?