All thumbsup configuration is done passing command-line arguments, or a JSON config file. This can be as simple as:

thumbsup --input "/media/photos" --output "./website"

or as complex as

thumbsup --input "/media/photos" --output "./website" --title "My holidays" --thumb-size 200 --large-size 1500 --original-photos true --original-videos false --albums-from "{YYYY/MM}" --sort-albums-by start-date --theme cards --theme-style "./custom.less" --google-analytics "UA-999999-9"

See the cheat sheet for a list of all possible settings, or dive into these sections for details about every single option:

• Input settings
• Output settings
• Album settings
• Website settings
• Misc settings

Notes:

• all relative paths are relative to the current working directory.
• boolean flags are case sensitive, such as --include-videos false