Unless one is an event photographer of some sort no one’s visitors is ever gonna look through that many photos on a website. And if one is an event photographer there are plenty of photo hosting sites out there that allows gallery embeds on other sites.
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Does anyone implemented a third party gallery that can workaround this limit and allow to freely use it?
This kind of limits are relaxed operational constraints and/or eased work requirements.
Quick response: In our case (a news and commentary site), we sometimes cover newsworthy events primarily with pictures, not words. In those instances, the gallery limitation is a real problem – particularly the lack of captioning.
Can you point me to a reliable photo hosting site that does embeddable galleries with captions?
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Flickr? How to embed a Flikr photo in Ghost
(I just added a gallery example - not every photo in that gallery has a caption, but some do.)
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Smugmug [the owner of Flickr] and Photoshelter does this. Zenfolio used to do it and for sure there are other options out there having this option.
My photo business is currently not active and is slumbering on Smugmug. But as an active photographer I worked with all three of them and gallery embeds are genius when coming home from an event and wanting to make a recap on ones own website without overloading it with heavy files or the extra work to resize them and upload them a second time.
It can cost a lot of money to use a photo site but depending on which site and what level one choose one also get great commercial tools which mean one can charge people for downloads and such.
Smugmug, which been my weapon of choice for years also make it possible to keep anonymous galleries so one can have one domain connected to it but if one need to share photos with other people with no connection to ones brand one can just tweak a setting for a gallery and remove ones own domain and become “anonymous”.
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Hey everyone from Ukraine) 
Support team, I really beg you, please remove this 9-photo limit 
I really like Ghost, but the 9-photo limit is insanely frustrating… I’ve never encountered such a restriction in any other CMS. How many thousands of votes do we need to gather on this topic to finally be able to upload any number of photos to our site’s gallery? Please… 
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I use the Ghost CMS, and it’s really inconvenient that you can upload a maximum of 9 photos in a single gallery. I found out about this issue on the forum through ChatGPT. I don’t want to modify the CMS files since everything runs through Docker containers. Please finally implement unlimited photo uploads…
Yes, I know you can create multiple galleries, but if I need to upload 100 photos in a post, it becomes a nightmare… Another drawback is that every 9 photos are wrapped in their own container, and applying CSS styles to all the photos isn’t as convenient as if all 100 photos were in a single container.
I’m shocked that people have been asking for this since 2019, and it’s already 2025, yet it still hasn’t been implemented…
Again I don’t understand the number of photos mentioned in this thread. I cannot see any regular website owner upload 100 photos in a gallery unless being an event photographer of some sort, and then cloud hosted photo sites will do the trick for you.
Just the limitation feels very artificial in 2025. Ofc it might not be that every user needs that, bit it is still quite confusing sometimes
Substack also come with a 9 photo limit for galleries
I’ve got a blog post about the various options, including a carousel (works for web, not for email, but then, the gallery also works for web and not email, so… 
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