New slideshow option on the homepage

aaronbrown

jfriend wrote:

Note to Smugmug: The reason we're constantly in this bind is that Smugmug is taking our bio text and shoving it in the metadata. Not only that, it's not doing it smartly. It could easily ignore everything inside a <script> tag when it did that, but it's not. There are a number of great solutions to this. I sure wish Smugmug would decide to do one of them and give us much better control over how the metadata for our page is presented. Here are some options:

1. Give us a customization field right in the control panel site-wide-customization for what we want in our metadata. If nothing is entered there, then they can fetch some default text from the bio if they want. But, if we enter something there, then we control what's there and there won't be any more javascript in our metadata.
2. Give us a separate customization box (different from the biobox) on the homepage that we can put things in like slideshows. They can keep slurping text from the biobox for metadata, but we won't be putting the slideshow there so this problem won't occur.
3. When slurping text from the bioBox, Smugmug should ignore text inside of <script> tags. This would keep the script stuff from getting into the metadata.

With all the recent emphasis on SEO, I'm surprised we still have NO legitimate control over the metadata in our own pages and how our result gets presented on Google. Instead, it's hacked from the bioBox which is our only place for homepage-only customization. There are too many things trying to use the same customization box and thus we can't get what we want in one or the other. We just need separate control over homepage customization and metadata rather than cramming the two into the same object.

I vote for smugmug to hire you, John.

Andy

jfriend wrote:

With all the recent emphasis on SEO, I'm surprised we still have NO legitimate control over the metadata in our own pages and how our result gets presented on Google. Instead, it's hacked from the bioBox which is our only place for homepage-only customization. There are too many things trying to use the same customization box and thus we can't get what we want in one or the other. We just need separate control over homepage customization and metadata rather than cramming the two into the same object.

John, this is already on the list and in the plans. I've posted this several times in other threads, you must've just missed it.

We'll get to it. So many feature requests, design changes, and things to do!

jfriend

Andy wrote:

John, this is already on the list an in the plans. I've posted this several times in other threads, you must've just missed it.

We'll get to it.

Great.

Malte

Homepage single video isn't showing caption for me, even though I ticked the box.

malte.smugmug.com

Malte

Andy

Malte wrote:

Homepage single video isn't showing caption for me, even though I ticked the box.

malte.smugmug.com

Malte

Bug, validated, we'll fix it! Thanks Malte

Poltergeezer

slideshow
Really like the slideshow option on homepage! One occasional problem that keeps cropping up on mine; a few of the photos show up in the slideshow as thumbnails. http://www.photos.kirbysphoto.com/

No help?

Clemente

Homepage Slideshow
I selected the Slideshow option for the Homepage, however, it also shows up in my Galleries page. How do I remove the slideshow from my Galleries page?

The following is the link to my Galleries page :
http://dorosario.smugmug.com/galleries

Thanks

Clemente

cmmc

Clemente wrote:

I selected the Slideshow option for the Homepage, however, it also shows up in my Galleries page. How do I remove the slideshow from my Galleries page?

The following is the link to my Galleries page :
http://dorosario.smugmug.com/galleries

Thanks

Clemente

Hm, I actually want the opposite. To show various different slideshows in different sharedgroups. Has anybody made this work?

jfriend

Clemente wrote:

I selected the Slideshow option for the Homepage, however, it also shows up in my Galleries page. How do I remove the slideshow from my Galleries page?

The following is the link to my Galleries page :
http://dorosario.smugmug.com/galleries

Thanks

Clemente

Add the part in red to your CSS:

.galleries #bioBox[COLOR=red], 
.galleries #slideshowBox[/COLOR] {
    display: none;
}

Clemente

jfriend wrote:

Add the part in red to your CSS:

.galleries #bioBox[COLOR=red], 
.galleries #slideshowBox[/COLOR] {
    display: none;
}

It worked ! Thank you very much

Clemente