Creative website publishing
Koken is a free system designed for photographers, designers, and creative DIYs to publish independent websites of their work.
Koken is a free system designed for photographers, designers, and creative DIYs to publish independent websites of their work.
Koken manages your uploaded images and videos through a dedicated, desktop-like interface.
Shareable content links accessible only to clients and contacts. May unlist albums, sets, as well as individual media.
Group media with albums, then group albums with sets. Media is independent and may be shared across multiple albums.
Mark media as featured or favorite to group together the cream-of-the-crop for your published website.
Drag and drop media inside albums into your preferred order. Public albums and sets may be manually ordered just the same.
Everything can be tagged and categorized. Images with IPTC are automatically classified using their metadata after upload.
Upload new versions of existing images and videos anytime. All media data and site links are maintained.
Write about portfolio updates, inspiration, or anything that comes to mind. Images, videos, slideshows and even content from Flickr, Instagram, Vimeo, SoundCloud and Twitter are a snap to display.
Customize your website's style inside the console using simple style controls or write your own CSS.
Change a theme's color, layout, typography and more with a point-and-click panel of options.
Append a custom style sheet to any theme. Make edits alongside the site preview and see your changes live.
Site edits are saved as drafts automatically and may be reverted to anytime without affecting your live site.
Link to internal or external content with navigation links. Easy to add, remove and sort via drag and drop.
See all your site edits instantly inside the console. May also compare edits with your live site.
Edit page content order and visibility using tags, categories, favorites and featured criteria.
Eight minimal, responsive themes that look great on every screen. Use ours or make your own.
Drag, drop and publish. Koken comes with a free publish services plugin for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom that makes updating, editing and replacing content easy.
Koken is free and may be installed on your own web server.
Requires PHP 5.2.0 or higher / MySQL 5 or higher / ImageMagick or GD