Beautiful image galleries for HumHub – right inside your Space
Organize photos from team events, company parties, anniversaries and other occasions directly in your HumHub Spaces. Modern, lightweight and fully integrated into HumHub.
What is HumHub?
The foundation for your own private social network
HumHub is an open-source platform for social networking and internal communication. Companies, clubs, teams and organizations can use it to run their own private social network – independent of public platforms such as Facebook or Instagram.
In so-called Spaces, members can communicate, publish posts, share files, organize events and collaborate. Our image gallery module adds a convenient way to organize photos by events and categories and view them together.
Learn more about HumHub: www.humhub.com
Why have a dedicated image gallery for HumHub?
Photos belong in your Space – not scattered across chat histories or external cloud albums.
Organized instead of photo chaos
Galleries can be organized by category and event date, making it easy for users to find the photos they are looking for.
Enjoy photos together
Individual photos can be liked and commented on. The lightbox makes it easy to browse and zoom through the images.
Built for larger photo collections
Photos can be uploaded via drag & drop or a button. Automatic batch processing helps avoid common server and PHP limits when handling many images.
Sound familiar?
After an event, photos are everywhere: in chats, on private phones, in cloud folders or as individual posts in the stream.
- Photos from an event are difficult to find again
- Large numbers of photos are awkward to display in the regular stream
- Users have to click through many individual posts
- New galleries should be ready before everyone is notified
- Older events added later should not suddenly appear in the stream
The solution: a gallery directly in the Space
- Modern photo grids with lightbox, zoom and navigation
- Galleries with title, description, date and category
- Prepare drafts and publish them with one click
- Publication integrates with the stream and notifications
- Add older galleries without a stream announcement
All features at a glance
Easy to use for regular users – with the tools Space admins need for clean and efficient management.
- Browse and view image galleries in each Space
- Filter by category (e.g. summer events, anniversaries, team)
- Modern photo grid with lightbox view – arrow keys, click and zoom
- Like and comment on individual photos
- Download complete galleries as ZIP files
- Chronological sorting of galleries by event date
- Create galleries with title, description, date and category
- Drag & drop upload – including larger batches without typical server limits
- Automatic image compression and thumbnail generation
- HEIC image support with the PHP Imagick extension
- Draft mode: prepare a gallery before making it visible to everyone
- Publish with one click – creates a stream post and notification
- Special case "Older gallery": add retrospectively without notification
- Category management: create, rename and delete categories
- Delete galleries and individual photos (with confirmation)
- Fully integrated into the HumHub activity stream
- Email and in-app notifications via HumHub’s native notification system
- "Latest Activities" feed integration
- Own lightweight like/comment function – independent of core module internals for greater stability across HumHub versions
- Bilingual (German / English) – automatically follows the user’s language setting
- Neutral color scheme, fully customizable via CSS
- FTP-only installation – no server console or Composer command required
- HumHub 1.17 or newer
- PHP 8.0 or newer
- GD library (for image compression – commonly enabled by default by hosting providers)
- PHP Imagick extension (required for HEIC image support)
- Write permissions for the HumHub upload directory
Clean technical integration with HumHub
The module uses HumHub’s existing infrastructure while remaining deliberately lightweight.
Screenshots
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Gallery overviewAll galleries in a Space with category filter and event date
Gallery detailModern photo grid with thumbnails in a consistent size
Lightbox viewFull-screen display with arrow-key navigation. Each photo can be liked and commented on individually
Create galleryTitle, date, category and optional retrospective gallery
Drag & Drop uploadBulk upload with automatic progress indicator and batch processing
Manage categoriesCreate, edit and delete categories
Space stream postAutomatic stream post with image preview
Latest Activities widgetNew galleries, likes and comments are shown in the activity feed
Download the module for free
The image gallery module is available free of charge. You can install it in your HumHub system and use it without any fees.
Note: Please read the included README file.
Like the module? ❤️
The module is free. If it saves you time or you simply want to say thank you, I appreciate a small voluntary contribution. No obligation – but a nice motivation for further development.
The amounts are only suggestions. You decide whether and how much you would like to contribute.
17 users have already supported the module with a small contribution – thank you! Every coffee helps motivate me to keep improving it.
Frequently asked questions
The module is available as a free download. A voluntary donation is welcome but not required to use it.
Installation is done via FTP. No server console is required. Upload the module to your HumHub system and activate it through HumHub’s module management. You can then enable the module in the desired Spaces.
Yes. The module automatically processes larger uploads in batches. This helps avoid common server or PHP limits when handling many files.
With a normal publication, the gallery is integrated into the activity stream and users are notified through HumHub and/or email according to the existing notification settings. For older galleries added retrospectively, the stream announcement and notification can be suppressed.
Yes. The module uses a neutral color scheme that can be customized via CSS to match your HumHub design.
The module has been tested with HumHub 1.17 and 1.18. Since the like/comment function is deliberately independent of core module internals, it is designed to remain robust across HumHub updates.
Yes. The current version supports HEIC images if the PHP Imagick extension is installed and enabled on your server.
Yes. Users can download the complete contents of a gallery as a ZIP file.
I’m happy to answer questions by email at hallo@dk-it-service.de. Users who support the module with a donation can look forward to especially quick replies 😉
You may modify the code for your own projects. Commercial redistribution or sale of the module, modified or unmodified, is not permitted. A reference to the original author is appreciated.
Bring more order to your HumHub photos.
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