How to Upload Photos from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress

Many photographers edit their images in Lightroom but find manual uploads to WordPress tedious and time-consuming.

Luckily, there’s a more efficient way to do it. Uploading photos from Adobe Lightroom to your WordPress site can save you a lot of time. With the right approach, you can transfer photos with just one click.

In this article, we will guide you step-by-step through uploading photos from Adobe Lightroom to your WordPress site. By the end, you’ll be able to streamline your workflow and make your photo uploads much smoother.

What Is Adobe Lightroom?

Adobe Lightroom is a photo editing suite that helps you make basic changes and adjustments to your images. It’s part of Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes other tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.

Adobe Lightroom lets you manage your pictures and add finishing touches, like adjusting the exposure, contrast, cropping, and more.

The tool differs from Adobe Photoshop in that you don’t get a wide range of editing capabilities and features in Lightroom as you’d get in Photoshop. This makes Adobe Lightroom more suitable for professional photographers who want to create a collection and do basic editing.

With the right WordPress plugin, you can connect your Lightroom account to your site and easily upload pictures from your collection.

Let’s see how you can get started.

Requirements for Uploading From Adobe Lightroom to WordPress

First, you will need Adobe Lightroom Classic installed on your computer. Any version after Lightroom 6 or Creative Suite would work.

To do this, you’ll need to visit the Adobe Creative Cloud website and sign up for an account.

Secondly, we will be using Envira Gallery, which is the best gallery plugin for WordPress. It allows you to create beautiful responsive image galleries in WordPress.

Envira Gallery offers a Lightroom add-on with its Gold, Platinum, Agency, and Pro licenses. This add-on provides seamless integration between Adobe Lightroom and your WordPress site.

In the following sections, we’ll show you how to integrate Adobe Lightroom into WordPress.

Setting Up Envira Gallery in WordPress

The first thing you will need to do is install and activate the Envira Gallery plugin. For more detailed instructions, you can see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to go to Envira Gallery » Settings from your WordPress dashboard.

You will then need to provide your license key, which you can find on your accounts page on the Envira Gallery website.

After entering your key, go ahead and click the ‘Verify Key’ button.

Then, let’s navigate to Envira Gallery » Addons and scroll down to locate the Lightroom Addon.

Simply click the appropriate ‘Install’ button when you find the add-on.

Envira Gallery will install the Lightroom add-on, which you must then enable by clicking the activate button.

Next, you will need to navigate to Envira Gallery » Settings and click the ‘Lightroom’ tab.

Here, you will see 2 options.

First, you’ll want to choose the user account you want to use to publish images from Lightroom. Second, you need to generate an access token.

Simply click on the ‘Generate New Access Token’ button and copy the token as you will need it in the next step.

Don’t forget to click on the ‘Save‘ button to store your settings.

Setting Up Adobe Lightroom Classic on Your Computer

In this step, you’ll need to install and set up the Adobe Lightroom Classic app on your computer.

To start, simply visit the Adobe Creative Cloud website and click the ‘Your Creative Cloud’ button at the top. Make sure you’re signed in to your Adobe account.

You’ll then see your Creative Cloud homepage.

Go ahead and click the ‘Install Creative Cloud app’ option in the right corner under your user name.

Next, you can save the download file on your computer and install it.

Upon installation, you’ll want to open the Creative Cloud app on your computer. From here, let’s head over to the ‘Apps’ section and then to Lightroom Classic.

Go ahead and click the ‘Try’ button under Lightroom Classic.

Now, you’ll need to select a subscription plan. Adobe offers a 7-day free trial, so you can pick a plan and click the ‘Continue’ button.

After completing the subscription process, Lightroom Classic will start to install on your computer.

Connect Adobe Lightroom Classic to Envira Gallery

The next step is to install the Envira Gallery addon for Adobe Lightroom.

You can do this by visiting your Envira account area and switching to the ‘Downloads’ tab.

From here, let’s scroll down and navigate to the ‘Lightroom Addon (Adobe)’ option.

Go ahead and click the download icon under the addon.

After that, you can save the zip file for the addon on your computer.

In your computer’s downloads folder, you should now see a file enviralrplugin.zip. You need to extract this file because it contains a file named envira.lrplugin.

Mac users can simply double-click the file to unzip it. Windows users can right-click the file and extract its content.

Next, you’ll need to open Adobe Lightroom and click on File » Plugin Manager in the toolbar.

This will bring up the plugin manager window.

Go ahead and click on the ‘Add’ button and select the envira.lrplugin file from your computer.

When you’ve added the Enivra addon folder, simply click ‘Done’ to close the plugin manager window.

You should now see Envira Gallery in Adobe Lightroom Classic under the Publish Services section.

You have successfully added Envira Gallery as a publishing service to Adobe Lightroom.

Now that we have set up both Envira Gallery and Lightroom, the next step is to allow Lightroom to speak with Envira Gallery on your WordPress site.

Simply open the Adobe Lightroom Classic app and click the ‘Set Up’ link next to Envira Gallery under the ‘Publish Services’ panel.

This will open the publishing services manager window.

Here, you’ll need to provide the address of your WordPress website and the access token you generated earlier.

Once you do that, simply click on the ‘Authenticate’ button.

Lightroom will now connect to your WordPress site, and you will see a success message when it has connected to your website successfully.

Go ahead and click the ‘OK’ button on the success message, then click the ‘Save’ button in the publishing services manager window.

Uploading Photos From Lightroom to WordPress

Now, you can easily upload photos from Adobe Lightroom Classic to WordPress using Envira Gallery.

Simply start by going into Adobe Lightroom and then right-clicking on Envira under the Publish Services panel. After that, you’ll want to click the ‘Create Published Collection’ option in the menu.

You’ll then see a popup window where you need to provide a name for your collection.

It is important to note that this name will also become the name of your image gallery on your WordPress site.

Once you have chosen the name, let’s click the ‘Create’ button to continue.

Lightroom will now create an empty collection for you. You can drag and drop images from your library into your new collection.

As soon as you add, remove, or edit images in a collection, you will see a Publish button appear below it. Clicking the ‘Publish’ button will upload your photos to WordPress and store them in your Envira Gallery.

You can continue editing your images in Lightroom, making changes, adding or removing images, and doing anything you want.

You can always click the ‘Publish’ button, and your Envira Gallery will be updated because this add-on keeps Lightroom synchronized with WordPress.

Once all is done, you can visit your WordPress admin area and go to Envira Gallery to see your Lightroom collection added as a gallery.

For more details, please see our guide on how to create image galleries with Envira Gallery.

We hope this article helped you learn how to upload photos from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on image SEO and how to choose the best design software.

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