The bridge between your Lightroom catalog and WordPress.

Photo Engine is the WordPress side of WP/LR Sync, its Lightroom plugin: a Publish Service and media organizer that keeps your photos, folders, and collections perfectly synchronized with WordPress. Edit in Lightroom, publish to WordPress, with metadata, watermarks, and all. The essential tool for photographers who refuse to upload photos twice.

2,000+ active installs
4.9 average rating
210 reviews
on WordPress.org

Lightroom Publish Service

Publish photos directly from Lightroom to WordPress with one click.

Folders and Collections

Organize your WordPress media library exactly like your Lightroom catalog.

Always Synchronized

Edited photos are flagged in Lightroom, and one Publish updates WordPress.

Smart Photo Matching

Perceptual hashing matches existing WordPress photos to Lightroom originals.

Collections feed Meow Gallery and the standard WordPress gallery.

Media Organizer

Folders and collections in your Media Library, even without Lightroom.

How Photo Engine works

Your Lightroom catalogue knows the dates, keywords, titles and collections. Export to WordPress and all of that stays behind. Photo Engine keeps the connection alive.

  • Publish from LightroomCollections arrive as real sets, folders intact, with your own filenames.
  • Edit, publish againThe same media updates in place, with no near-identical copies.
  • Metadata comes alongKeywords, titles, captions, and the capture date as the media date.
  • No Lightroom neededThe Media Organizer adds folders and collections to any Media Library, ready for Meow Gallery or your theme.

Good to know: Photo Engine is free and needs PHP 8.1+. Publishing from Lightroom needs WP/LR Sync, its Lightroom plugin, and Lightroom Classic on Mac or Windows: Lightroom (cloud) and the mobile apps cannot run plugins.

Photo Engine and WP/LR Sync

Free Version

  • Media Organizer

    Folders and collections inside your Media Library, no Lightroom needed.

  • Galleries From Collections

    Point a standard WordPress gallery at a collection or a folder, and it stays up to date.

  • Meow Gallery and Meow Lightbox read your collections directly.

Pro Version

  • Everything from the Free Version

  • Lightroom Publish Service

    Publish collections from Lightroom Classic to WordPress in one click.

  • Edits Update in Place

    Re-publish an edited photo and the WordPress copy is replaced, not duplicated.

  • Keywords and Metadata

    Keywords, titles and captions carry across instead of being retyped.

  • Field Mapping

    Choose which Lightroom fields fill the WordPress title, caption, alt text and description.

  • Total Synchronization

    Links photos already on WordPress to their Lightroom originals.

  • Switch Photos

    Swap a photo in Lightroom and every page using it follows.

  • Priority Support

    Direct access to the development team.

    • Get Pro, from $39/year

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Reviews from WordPress

Written by @eriksvec on WordPress Forums

A must-have for all professional photographers

As a professional wedding photographer, I struggled to keep my portfolio up to date. Photo Engine lets me organize photos into folders and collections. But the real magic is WP/LR Sync for Lightroom: now I can synchronize photos and push them directly to WordPress. These plugins are a must-have for photographers. In times like these, we need to automate everything we can.