foto-portfolio/docs/ADMIN-GUIDE.md

Admin Guide (Backoffice)

Open https://your-domain.com/admin/ and log in. All content management happens here; visitors never see this area.

Front page

Front page edits the landing page: your name/title, the introduction text (line breaks are kept), and the full-page hero image. Uploading a new hero image replaces the old one. Images are stored in full resolution, unmodified.

Showreel

Showreel manages the portfolio shown at /showreel.php — each image fills the whole screen, in the order listed. Upload images (a few at a time — these go through the webhost, which may have upload size limits), reorder them with the arrow buttons, remove them with ✕. Showreel images are stored locally on the webhost.

Galleries

Galleries is for delivering whole events to clients.

Create a gallery with a title, and optionally:

• Password — visitors must enter it before seeing the gallery. You can set, change, or remove it later.
• Expiry date — after this day the gallery link shows "not available". Nothing is deleted; clearing the date brings it back.

Each gallery gets an unguessable link like /gallery.php?g=wedding-mueller-x7Kf3q — copy the Share link from the gallery editor and send it to your client.

Upload images by dropping them onto the upload area in the gallery editor. Files travel directly from your browser to the S3 storage in full resolution, byte-for-byte unmodified — the webhost never touches them, so there is no server upload limit. Keep the browser tab open until every file shows done; failed files offer a retry link. A small preview thumbnail is generated by your browser for the gallery grid; files the browser cannot decode (e.g. RAW) are uploaded anyway, just without a preview.

Delete an image (✕ on its thumbnail) or a whole gallery — this also removes the files from S3 permanently.

Settings

Change the admin password here (minimum 8 characters). The change takes effect immediately. The username and the S3 settings can only be changed by editing the files in config/ on the server.

After 5 failed login attempts the login is locked for 15 minutes.

Good to know

• Visitors load gallery photos straight from Hetzner S3 through signed URLs that expire after ~1 hour; reloading the page issues fresh ones. Nobody can use a shared image URL indefinitely, and expired galleries really do go dark.
• All content lives in flat files: data/ (JSON) and media/ (showreel/hero images). Backing up = copying those two folders plus config/.