Host your photo/video gallery in Github pages easily using Thumbsup & Github Actions for free.
This project contains starter code for anyone who wants to deploy his/her photo/video galery on Github Pages, Zero Coding Needed. Since Github pages is a free hosting service offered by Github to host static pages, it offers a decent bandwidth. So it is a great choice for photographers to showcase their works. Github Actions is a CI & CD platform that offers unlimited builds for open source projects. Combining the power of GitHub pages with Github Actions is a zero dollar solution to get your gallery online.
Follow the steps below to get your Gallery online. You will be using GitHub web interface to do everything. :wink: No frustrating CLIs:
Click on the settings tab. Click on the Pages option under the Code and automation section. Make sure that you have the GitHub actions selected as the Source for the GitHub pages.
Edit config.json by clicking on the edit button in the newly created repository under your account:
{
"input": "./gallery",
"output": "./build_output",
"title": "Photo Gallery", // Set your gallery title here
"sort-albums-by": "title",
"sort-media-by": "filename",
"download-photos": "copy",
"cleanup": true,
"theme": "cards", // Your theme
"css": "./custom.css",
"footer": "Copyright Text", // Set your copyright text here
"usage-stats": false
}
You can chose from any of the themes below to set the value for theme key:
mosaic
- https://thumbsup.github.io/demos/themes/mosaic/cards
- https://thumbsup.github.io/demos/themes/cards/classic
- https://thumbsup.github.io/demos/themes/classic/flow
- https://thumbsup.github.io/docs/4-themes/built-in/ (no demo available)You can learn more about the configuration file here: https://thumbsup.github.io/docs/3-configuration/usage/. Click on the commit changes button below the page.
If you had done all the above steps then your website will be live now. Please check Github Actions tab in your repository for the sttaus of the deployment. Once it is done, Go to settings tab again and scroll down to the Github Pages section to find your public gallery URL.
Github Pages terms of service:
If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by GitHub) of other GitHub customers, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account or throttle your file hosting until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.
File size limit (100 MB) & Repo size limit (75 GB) & Upload limit(25MB): Github limits the maximum usable filesize as 100MB for all files. This is enough for most users. It also imposes a repo size limit of 75GB. If you add a file to a repository via a browser, the file can be no larger than 25 MB. Visit https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota/ for more info.
Feel free to make any changes and submit a PR.