Embedding the gallery on your website
Paste an iframe snippet into your own website to show the photo stream inline.
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If you have your own website — a wedding site, an event landing page, a business page — you can embed the gallery directly so visitors see the photos without leaving your site. Copy the iframe snippet from the host dashboard and paste it into your page.
The snippet lives on the share card on your gallery's detail page. The output is a standard HTML <iframe> tag pointing at a chrome-less version of the gallery — no PixVenu header, no sign-up prompts, just the photo grid and the lightbox. The embed is read-only: it still shows the gallery's toolbar, but tapping a toolbar button like Add photos or Download opens a short note explaining that uploading and downloading happen on the full gallery rather than inside the frame. Visitors who tap a photo open it inline; uploading happens through the QR code and magic link as usual.
If you've created albums, you can also embed a single album rather than the whole gallery. Open the album's row on the dashboard, copy the per-album iframe snippet, and paste that instead. Same chrome-less surface, just narrowed to that album's photos. Useful for a wedding website with separate "Getting Ready" and "Reception" embeds on different pages.
The embed inherits everything from the parent gallery. If you change the theme, add albums, moderate photos, or activate guest downloads, all those changes reflect in the embed automatically — there's no re-publish step. One thing to know: a gallery that isn't live yet doesn't show its photos in the embed — the iframe displays a small "This gallery is unavailable" notice until you take the gallery live. You can paste the snippet ahead of time, but expect that placeholder until launch; the moment the gallery flips live, the embed populates on its own with no action from you.
A note on PINs: a gallery that has a PIN can't be embedded. The embed runs inside a frame on someone else's website, and web browsers block a gallery's PIN session across sites for security — so a visitor could never get past the PIN prompt inside the frame. Because of that, the share card hides the embed code whenever a PIN is set and shows a short note in its place; remove the gallery's PIN to turn embedding back on. If you want photos to appear on your own site, embed a gallery that has no PIN — you can still share the PIN-protected link and QR code with guests directly.
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