Categorizing Help
Shayebryd
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Could someone please tell me step by step how to make a Travel gallery which inside contains a separate folder for each place we visited?
Eg) Home page shows "Travel" gallery once you click on that you see
a separate folder/gallery for each
California
Florida
New York, ect....
I know this is basic but for some reason I am truly not getting it!
I posted under "CUSTOMIZE", but thinking this better belongs here.
Please don't refer me to SmugMugs help site on this subject...been there done that....and I must be brain dead cuz I am just not getting it...lol!
Thank you in advance!
Eg) Home page shows "Travel" gallery once you click on that you see
a separate folder/gallery for each
California
Florida
New York, ect....
I know this is basic but for some reason I am truly not getting it!
I posted under "CUSTOMIZE", but thinking this better belongs here.
Please don't refer me to SmugMugs help site on this subject...been there done that....and I must be brain dead cuz I am just not getting it...lol!
Thank you in advance!
"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been!"
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Is there something missing in this step by step outline I gave you here? If that didn't work, then please tell us what step you go stuck on and what exactly happened.
Us volunteers here appreciate it if you keep your posts about the same or similar topics in the same thread and not start a new thread. That helps us know what we've already discussed with you and what you've already tried and lets everyone else see the history of our conversation in the context of your latest question.
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But thank you again for answering.
I can't seem to figure out how to add separate categories to a gallery. I tried what you suggested but I must be doing something wrong.
So I was trying to start from scratch with a new gallery of "travels" which once opened would have separate folders for each place.
I know it must be simple....but I am just not getting it.....and the referred tutorial is not helping me....
So I started by making a new gallery.
Title wasn't sure what to put here so I picked Travel
Category Travel (still confused since my title is travel)
Subcategory California
So I loaded up some pix from California...then tried to go in to the same gallery and add another folder with New York under Travel but not sure if my next folder would be under Category or subcategory..... Subcategory only gives me the option of California or none....or am I missing something in the beginning.
Sorry for being so dense on this....it just has me baffled
See if this helps.
A category is something you create in your control panel. It can contain either sub-categories or galleries. It does not contain photos.
A subcategory is also something you create in your control panel. It can contain galleries. It does not contain photos.
A gallery can only contain photos. It cannot have categories inside it, but it is assigned to a category (and optionally a sub-category).
So, if you want a hierarchy that looks like this:
Travel
....California
........Yosemite
........Big Sur
........Los Angeles
........San Diego
........San Francisco
First, you need a category called "Travel". Fortunately, that already exists as it is one of Smugmug's built-in categories. Do not create a gallery named Travel. Galleries only contain photos and can't be use as categories.
Then, you first create the sub-category California in your control panel. Do not try creating a gallery named California. You need a sub-category with this name, not a gallery with this name. When you are creating this sub-category, set it's category to Travel.
You now have a hierarchy of Travel/California. You won't see it on your site anywhere until you put at least one gallery into it.
Then, you create your galleries. In the first screen for creating the galleries, you pick a name (in my example above, the first gallery would be named Yosemite), you pick a category (Travel, in this example) and you optionally pick a sub-category (Califronia, in this example). You then continue with creating the gallery and uploading photos to it.
You now have the structure I showed above. Then, there's one more important detail. Smugmug has two ways you can configure your site for your viewers to browse your galleries - by gallery or by category. If your homepage is configured to be viewed by gallery, you and your viewers will just see a flat list of galleries and categories and sub-categories won't be used much. If you configure your homepage to be viewed by category, the the homepage will contain only a list of categories (that have galleries in them). A viewer will open a category, then open a sub-category and then a gallery.
If you go to my family site: http://jfriend.smugmug.com/, you will see 6 categories on my site. Some of the categories (like Nature) contain only a few galleries and no sub-categories. Some (like Kenya) contain only sub-categories which then contain galleries. Some (like Family) contain a mix of sub-categories and galleries. So on my site, "Kenya" is a category. If you click on it, it will open to a new page. All the items you see on that page are sub-categories. If you click on "Highlights", it will open to a list of Highlights galleries. You can then click on "Animals" and see the gallery that is categorized as Kenya/Highlights/Animals. I first created the category Kenya. Then I created the sub-category Highlights. I then created the gallery Animals and assigned it a category of Kenya and a sub-category of Animals. I then uploaded the photos to the gallery.
So, to recap. You do not create a gallery and then try to put categories in it. Galleries only contain photos. You create your categories and sub-categories first and then put your galleries into them. You can change the category and sub-category for an existing gallery at any time in the customize gallery screen.
You said "So I started by making a new gallery." If you want to use categories and sub-categories, you need to create them first. Then, create your galleries and assign them to the categories and sub-categories you've already created. There are some built-in (already created) categories like Travel so you don't have to create that one, you can just use it when creating your sub-category and gallery.
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So on my home page I now have a category Travel which opens up to a subcategory California which then opens up to my gallery Mendocino.
Now when I want to add another gallery under California, say San Fransisco.....I'm confused where I start...I tried but the photos ended up in the Mendocino gallery.
Also under Karl's gallery I see what I did wrong.....so can I still put the photos currently in his gallery into a subcategory?
OMG...............thank you for your patience......I can't believe I am finding this so confusing....I'm usually not this slow....lol.....
Thank you again for your time and help.....
Geeeezzz.....ok.....I did it!!!
Was able to create a San Fransico gallery.............thank you thank you!
Now all I need is to figure out how to change the photos in Karl's gallery into a subcategory....
Thank you so much for your help!