Admin guide

Sign in at /admin with the admin password. The admin works on a phone, but it's most comfortable on a laptop.

Dashboard

Totals across every event: photos, guests who sent at least one photo, page views, downloads, storage used and photos waiting for approval. Below: uploads per day over the last 30 days, the five most active photographers, and the latest events.

Events

New event asks for a name and nothing else; every other setting has a default you can change later. Each event has four tabs.

Photos

The contact sheet of everything guests sent, newest first.

• Filter by All, Pending, Visible or Hidden.
• Tap photos to select them, then Approve, Hide or Delete from the bar at the bottom. Hidden photos disappear for the guest who took them too, and leave the live wall; deleted photos are removed from disk.
• Download ZIP gets every visible photo at full resolution, named 0001-camille-1a2b3c4d.jpg so they sort in the order they were taken. The archive streams, so even a multi-gigabyte album starts downloading immediately.

Stats

Uploads per hour over the event (a party lasts a night, so hours are the useful unit), page views, downloads, wrong access codes and top photographers.

QR & sharing

• Guest link: the address behind the QR code, to paste in a message.
• QR code design: presets, colors, dot and corner shapes, margin, a logo in the middle and a caption. The preview is the exact file you download, as PNG (512 to 4096 px) or SVG. Remember to Save before downloading.
• Printable poster: an A4 card with the event name, date and QR code.
• Open live wall: a full-screen slideshow for a projector or a TV. New photos jump the queue and appear within five seconds; in between, it cycles through the latest ones. Only visible photos are shown, so with Approve each photo first nothing reaches the screen until you approve it.
• Generate a new link: changes the address. The old QR code stops working at once, for everyone. Use it if the code leaked.

Settings

Section	Setting	What it does
Event	Name, welcome message, date, accent color	What guests see at the top of their page. The color tints the camera and the buttons; the text on it adjusts automatically.
Access	Access code	Optional, 6+ characters. Guests type it once. Leave empty to let the QR code alone grant access.
Uploads	Accept uploads	Turn uploads off at any time; guests keep their own photos.
	Close uploads automatically at	For example the morning after.
	Capture mode	Camera only (the default), library only, or both.
	Photos per guest	0 for no limit. Guests see a counter of photos left.
	Moderation	Publish immediately and hide later, or approve each photo first.
Guests	Album language	Automatic (each guest's phone) or one fixed language. Guests can still switch.
	Ask guests for their name	Shown next to their photos in the admin and on the live wall.

| After the event | Let guests leave their email to get the album | Adds a card on the guest page. Opt-in; addresses are deleted with the event. | | | Email me a summary when uploads close | Photos, photographers, views, what's still pending. | | | Email guests a gallery link when uploads close | One password-protected link for the event, sent to every address once. | | | Link valid for (days) | 0 for a link that never expires. | | | Guests can download the photos from the link | Off: the link shows photos but not originals or the ZIP. | | | Put the password in the email | Off: guests get the link only, and the password reaches you (summary email and the End the event card) so you can pass it on yourself. A forwarded email then isn't enough. |

Gallery links

In QR & sharing, Gallery links creates private links to the visible photos of the event: for family who weren't there, or for guests afterwards. Each link has its own password (yours, or a generated one shown once), an optional expiry, a downloads switch, and a view counter. Revoke cuts it off at once, even for someone who already opened it. A gallery link never lets anyone upload, and never shows pending or hidden photos.

End the event

Uploads end on their own at the scheduled closing time; the end-of-event emails then go out within a minute. End the event now does it immediately. It runs once per event: ending again does nothing.

Danger zone: deleting an event removes every photo from disk. Type the event name to confirm.

Settings

• Language and theme for your own browser.
• Email: SMTP server (or read-only when set by SMTP_HOST), where alerts go, a Send a test email button that shows the server's answer, and the last emails with their state. Failed ones can be retried.
• Alerts, each switchable: photos waiting for approval (at most every 30 minutes, only when the count grows), an event's end summary, 10+ wrong admin passwords within 15 minutes (at most hourly), disk 90% full (at most daily).
• Admin password: changing it signs out every other session. Not available when ADMIN_PASSWORD is set: change the variable and restart instead.