The bridge between your Lightroom catalog and WordPress.
WP/LR Sync is a Lightroom Publish Service that keeps your photos, folders, and collections perfectly synchronized with WordPress. Edit in Lightroom, publish to WordPress — metadata, watermarks, and all. The essential tool for photographers who refuse to upload photos twice.
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
Changes to photos, metadata, or watermarks push automatically to WordPress.
Smart Photo Matching
Perceptual hashing matches existing WordPress photos to Lightroom originals.
Any Gallery Plugin
Works with Meow Gallery, standard WordPress galleries, FooGallery, and more.
Media Organizer
Folders and collections in your Media Library, even without Lightroom.
How Photo Engine works
If you keep your photographs in Lightroom, WordPress is where they go to lose everything. The catalogue knows the capture date, the keywords, the title, the caption and which collection the shot belongs to. Drag the export into the media library and all of that stays behind.
Photo Engine keeps the connection alive. Publish a Lightroom collection and it arrives in WordPress as a real set, folder structure intact, with your filenames rather than a sanitised export name. Edit the photo later, re-publish, and the existing attachment updates in place instead of leaving you with three near-identical copies and no idea which one the post uses.
It carries the metadata across too: keywords become tags, titles and captions land in the right fields, and the capture date is used as the media date instead of the upload date, so a photo taken in 2019 sorts as 2019. Custom field mapping handles anything specific to your setup.
You do not need Lightroom to use it. The Media Organizer adds folders and collections to the WordPress media library on its own, which is worth having on any site with more than a few hundred images. Those collections then feed straight into Meow Gallery, your theme, or anything else that can read them.
Free Version
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Collections Become Galleries
Publish a Lightroom collection and it arrives in WordPress as a media set, keeping the folder structure you already use.
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Two-Way Sync
Edit in Lightroom, re-publish, and the WordPress copies update in place rather than piling up duplicates.
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Keeps Your Filenames
Photos land with the names you gave them in Lightroom, which matters for SEO and for finding things later.
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Works With Your Gallery Plugin
Extensions for Meow Gallery and several others, so synced collections drop straight into a layout.
Pro Version
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Everything from the Free Version
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Keywords and Metadata
Lightroom keywords, titles and captions carry across to WordPress instead of being retyped.
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Custom Field Mapping
Send any Lightroom field into the WordPress custom field of your choice.
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Image Sizing Control
Decide how synced photos are resized and which WordPress sizes get generated.
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Collection Organizer
Arrange synced collections and surface them with a shortcode.
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Priority Support
Direct access to the development team.
Visit the Pro Version
Reviews from WordPress
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.