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Organizing Yearly Photo Archives with EvoGallery startId

A simple but useful EvoGallery pattern for organizing archive-style galleries by year and section.

When a gallery grows over time, flat structures become hard to browse and even harder to maintain. the note around EvoGallery pointed to a much cleaner pattern: organize the gallery tree by year and then target the correct branch with startId.

Example structure

  • 2015
  • child groups under that year
  • deeper gallery nodes for the actual image sets

Using a year-based tree gives editors a predictable archive model and makes it easier to target the right gallery branch without mixing unrelated image sets together.

This is not just about neatness. Once the structure is clear, EvoGallery queries and listing logic become easier to reason about, especially on sites with long-running news or event archives.

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