I recently reviewed Joomla photo galleries and decided there were no good Joomla photo galleries. After giving Phoca Gallery another try, I’ve changed my mind.

Phoca Gallery fulfills my main requirement for a Joomla photo gallery: Phoca Gallery is easy for my clients to use. In addition, Phoca Gallery fulfills the following requirements:

• Easy to install and configure
• Bulk Uploading – Every Joomla photo gallery needs to have  a bulk uploader, especially for sites that need to upload hundreds of images
  Note: The Phoca Gallery Java Bulk Uploader did not work in Firefox / Mac. I assume this is a Firefox / Mac issue and not a Phoca Gallery problem.
• The ability to create a name and description for each image
• Good Developer Support – The Phoca developer has an active forum where he answers questions about Phoca Gallery problems. Furthermore, he is very responsive to fixing bugs.
• VERY GOOD DOCUMENTATION This is rare for  many Joomla extensions.
• Extensive Point-and-Click appearance configuration. You can modify almost every aspect of Phoca Gallery’s appearance in the Gallery administration screens, and this requires no technical experience. In fact, I’ve never seen such extensive point-and-click appearance configuration on any Joomla extension.