Static galleries with Expose

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Expose offers a wide range of configurable options for publishing static photo and video galleries in an easy-to-use tool.

There are plenty of reasons to use a static website generator for web publishing instead of a traditional content management system. Serving static pages requires only a web server, which dramatically simplifies the required setup. This, in turn, improves security and reduces maintenance overhead, as the minimal stack has fewer potential vulnerabilities and is easier to troubleshoot and keep up to date.

Moreover, since publishing static content can be done using a lightweight web server, you can host your site on modest hardware or an inexpensive virtual private server.

That's all fine and dandy, but most static generators are designed to work with text-centric content like blog posts and long-form articles. But, what if you want to publish a photo essay or a photo gallery? Enter Expose [1], a Bash shell script for generating static photo and video galleries (see Figure 1). The script is less than a thousand lines long, but it's capable of generating rather impressive galleries and photo essays, and offers a wide range of configurable options to boot.

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