To protect your curated images, enable automatic watermarking. In the gallery admin panel, navigate to Settings > Image Uploading. Select "Apply watermark to all uploaded images". Upload a semi-transparent PNG watermark (e.g., your gallery logo) positioned at the bottom-right corner.
Log into phpMyAdmin or MySQL CLI:
CREATE DATABASE blm_gallery;
CREATE USER 'blm_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'strong_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON blm_gallery.* TO 'blm_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Before any mature content is displayed, install an age verification plugin or modify the .htaccess file to redirect all visitors to a landing page requiring confirmation of age (18+ or 21+ depending on jurisdiction). Many gallery scripts have built-in hooks for this. boyslovematures gallery install