Tip: You can use the Lightroom API for your online photo portfolio.

I’ve been trying to rely less on social media as the main place where my photos live, so I started moving my portfolio to my own website.

I've tried this several times before, and failed because it was too much of a chore maintaining separate hosting, exporting ,etc etc

What made it actually practical was connecting and auto syncing it to my Lightroom library.

The flow is super simple now:

I just move photos into a specific lightroom album and my website fetches that album via the Lightroom API on every rebuild.

I can manage everything without leaving lightroom, it's super convenient

So Lightroom stays my source of truth, and updating the site is basically just managing a lightroom album.

Not sure if common-knowledge, but it wasn't for me.

Just sharing in case it helps anyone here who wants a portfolio that’s easier to maintain without manually re-uploading images everywhere.

It's not finished yet, but my personal website link is on my profile with some random photos if you want to see the final result