new recent photos box on homepage

everydaymemorieseverydaymemories Registered Users Posts: 75 Big grins
edited November 13, 2009 in SmugMug Support
I like the idea of the box showing recent photos on the homepage, but it isn't working for me. I have uploaded new photos almost every day since that box appeared on my homepage and I've clicked on the link for adjusting the # of photos (set it to 12 and 18), but no photos are appearing in that box. Only a message telling me I have no new photos and suggesting I upload some. Which is silly because, as I said, I upload new photos nearly every day.

Is this new thing just not working yet, or is there a mysterious setting I haven't noticed or what?

Thanks!
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  • cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited October 30, 2009
    everydaymemories wrote:
    I like the idea of the box showing recent photos on the homepage, but it isn't working for me. I have uploaded new photos almost every day since that box appeared on my homepage and I've clicked on the link for adjusting the # of photos (set it to 12 and 18), but no photos are appearing in that box. Only a message telling me I have no new photos and suggesting I upload some. Which is silly because, as I said, I upload new photos nearly every day.

    Is this new thing just not working yet, or is there a mysterious setting I haven't noticed or what?

    Thanks!

    Howdy, it's working for lots of folks, please give us a link to your homepage, or your account name, so that we can take a look and see why it's not working for you. Either here or drop our support heroes an email: http://www.smugmug.com/help/emailreal
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  • ChancyRatChancyRat Registered Users Posts: 2,141 Major grins
    edited October 30, 2009
    Yippee for new homepage recent photos - and -
    I love this feature. Thank you sooo much. Could I ask, though, it does not seem to include videos? I increased the number of photos to a very high number to make sure the videos would be included, but they are not.

    For example, these should be showing up in the list:
    http://www.joinrats.com/EarningTrust/Holding-Adult-Rats-1/7795446_nPUoL/1/#692695746_9ktM9-A-LB
    http://www.joinrats.com/Introductions/techniques/10077930_wBBNQ/1/#691440206_veihc-A-LB

    Also, is there a way to opt out some photos that are shown, leaving just certain ones?

    THANK YOU!
  • BeachBillBeachBill Registered Users Posts: 1,311 Major grins
    edited October 30, 2009
    I was going to use the new recent photos, but when I set it up I noticed it's not pulling recent photos.

    It does show my two most recent photos, but then after that, it shows photos from 2008 (taken and uploaded in 2008). I've uploaded a ton of photos in 2009. How is this recent photos box suppose to work?
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  • NicolaasNicolaas Registered Users Posts: 20 Big grins
    edited October 31, 2009
    Recent Photos
    Interresting feature. Can somebody tell where to find more info about this.
    I tried www.smugmug.com/help/homepage-boxes but there's no link working (yet).

    And protected galleries are excluded !!! Why ??? eek7.gif

    And what means "recent"? does it only work on the update-time or can you control that?

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  • NicolaasNicolaas Registered Users Posts: 20 Big grins
    edited October 31, 2009
    So I tried it. But it doesn't work nice. Some photo's doesn't show up at all. And how can I hide photo's that I don't want to show??? headscratch.gif
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  • LPCLPC Registered Users Posts: 481 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2009
    'Recent Photos' not updating automatically?
    The new Recent Photos option for the Homepage is great but I've noticed that it doesn't seem to automatically update itself. Several times in the past few days I have uploaded new photos and noticed a few hours later that that they haven't turned up on Recent Photos and don't unless I hide and then show the feature again.

    Surely it's supposed to be automatic?

    www.laurencecounter.com

    (My Recent Photos box is on my Info page)
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2009
    looking into this
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  • docwalkerdocwalker Registered Users Posts: 1,867 SmugMug Employee
    edited November 1, 2009
    Laurence,

    I compared your timeline with the most recents and they appear the same. The ladybird photos are the most recent showing for me.

    Are you missing other photos? For all of you, can you show me examples? links etc? I need to check the gallery settings. Privacy settings do trump the sharing settings so keep that in mind if you have passwords etc.
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  • NicolaasNicolaas Registered Users Posts: 20 Big grins
    edited November 1, 2009
    docwalker wrote:
    Laurence,

    I compared your timeline with the most recents and they appear the same. The ladybird photos are the most recent showing for me.

    Are you missing other photos? For all of you, can you show me examples? links etc? I need to check the gallery settings. Privacy settings do trump the sharing settings so keep that in mind if you have passwords etc.

    I agree "Recent Photos" doesn't work properly. You can check www.persconnectie.nl if you like...

    But I'm also think this feature will be much more interesting when it shows "Recent Galleries" ISO "photos". And the possibilty to exlude certain galleries should be very nice to, I think... :wow
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  • LPCLPC Registered Users Posts: 481 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2009
    docwalker wrote:
    Laurence,

    I compared your timeline with the most recents and they appear the same. The ladybird photos are the most recent showing for me.

    Are you missing other photos? For all of you, can you show me examples? links etc? I need to check the gallery settings. Privacy settings do trump the sharing settings so keep that in mind if you have passwords etc.


    You didn't read my message correctly -
    LPC wrote:
    ..... they haven't turned up on Recent Photos and don't unless I hide and then show the feature again.

    I hid and then showed the Recent Photos feature again and the new images showed up. Refeshing the page didn't work, waiting and coming back to the page didn't work - the only thing which worked was disabling and re-enabling the feature. I have no private or password protected galleries.
  • bstrongbstrong Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited November 1, 2009
    We're certainly looking into this. For those having issues, what method(s) are you using to upload?

    Thanks,
    -Brian
  • BeachBillBeachBill Registered Users Posts: 1,311 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2009
    bstrong wrote:
    We're certainly looking into this. For those having issues, what method(s) are you using to upload?

    I use the standard java uploader.

    Some new information... it looks like the problem with my photos at least, is the timeline is messed up. I was looking at the timeline by date uploaded (starting with latest uploaded) and see a bunch of photos that were uploaded a long time ago listed as being uploaded very recently. Some photos uploaded in 2008 are listed as the latest uploads from 2009. The recent photos is showing these photos from the timeline so it appears recent photos is correctly showing what it is being told are the recent photos. The timeline is just screwed up.
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  • bstrongbstrong Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited November 1, 2009
    BeachBill wrote:
    I use the standard java uploader.

    Some new information... it looks like the problem with my photos at least, is the timeline is messed up. I was looking at the timeline by date uploaded (starting with latest uploaded) and see a bunch of photos that were uploaded a long time ago listed as being uploaded very recently. Some photos uploaded in 2008 are listed as the latest uploads from 2009. The recent photos is showing these photos from the timeline so it appears recent photos is correctly showing what it is being told are the recent photos. The timeline is just screwed up.

    Very helpful BeachBill!
  • LPCLPC Registered Users Posts: 481 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2009
    I'm also using the standard Java uploader. My timeline is as it should be though.
  • NicolaasNicolaas Registered Users Posts: 20 Big grins
    edited November 2, 2009
    Why not simply have the posibilty to display the galleries of just one (sub)category??? Then this category you call lets say, Recent Photo's (or what you like). If you have recent photo's that you like to have on the homepage... you simply upload them to this (sub)category. If you don't want them on the homepage you don't.

    I tried to figure out how to manage this but it looks like it's imposible. see: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=147046 and http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1144549
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  • bstrongbstrong Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited November 2, 2009
    Nicolaas wrote:
    Why not simply have the posibilty to display the galleries of just one (sub)category??? Then this category you call lets say, Recent Photo's (or what you like). If you have recent photo's that you like to have on the homepage... you simply upload them to this (sub)category. If you don't want them on the homepage you don't.

    I tried to figure out how to manage this but it looks like it's imposible. see: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=147046 and http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1144549

    This is a great idea Nicolaas. I'll add it to my list of new homepage boxes to build.

    -b
  • NicolaasNicolaas Registered Users Posts: 20 Big grins
    edited November 2, 2009
    bstrong wrote:
    This is a great idea Nicolaas. I'll add it to my list of new homepage boxes to build.

    -b

    Thank You! I hope it will be great ideed. mwink.gif
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  • ChancyRatChancyRat Registered Users Posts: 2,141 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2009
    Current status?
    Are we waiting for the recent photos to show recently uploaded, instead of file date? (I'm trying to decipher this thread). Also, I'm wondering if that's why videos I recently uploaded aren't in the list, or if there's a bug omitting videos from the file formats. Thanks.
  • LPCLPC Registered Users Posts: 481 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2009
    Well, I don't know if this was fixed or if it fixed itself but it's working for me now - my latest uploads are showing up on Recent Photos just as they should. If anyone fixed it then - thank you thumb.gif
  • ChancyRatChancyRat Registered Users Posts: 2,141 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2009
    Are videos supposed to be in the group?
    These videos should be showing in my list... Will the recent photos section eventually show videos?

    http://www.joinrats.com/EarningTrust/Holding-Adult-Rats-1/7795446_nPUoL/1/#692695746_9ktM9-A-LB

    http://www.joinrats.com/BitingRats/interacting/10158796_a5NMF/1/#698905216_Q3FGm-A-LB

    Thanks.
  • FunmugsFunmugs Registered Users Posts: 22 Big grins
    edited November 3, 2009
    Recent Photos
    The new Recent Photos addition does not change after new photos are on my site either. We are awaiting the resolve!~

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  • bstrongbstrong Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited November 4, 2009
    ChancyRat wrote:
    These videos should be showing in my list... Will the recent photos section eventually show videos?

    http://www.joinrats.com/EarningTrust/Holding-Adult-Rats-1/7795446_nPUoL/1/#692695746_9ktM9-A-LB

    http://www.joinrats.com/BitingRats/interacting/10158796_a5NMF/1/#698905216_Q3FGm-A-LB

    Thanks.

    We are not including videos right now. We may add it as an option, or add a Recent Videos box. What does everybody think?

    -Brian
  • LPCLPC Registered Users Posts: 481 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2009
    bstrong wrote:
    We are not including videos right now. We may add it as an option, or add a Recent Videos box. What does everybody think?

    -Brian


    Everyone is probably thinking is this fixed or not?

    Yesterday I thought it was - today I had to disable/enable Recent Photos again before the most recent would show up.

    Can we have a sitrep please?
  • bstrongbstrong Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited November 4, 2009
    For those having issues, what do you have "Hello smuggers!" set to for your galleries?

    Thanks!
    -Brian
  • LPCLPC Registered Users Posts: 481 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2009
    Mine is on site-wide setting which is yes - discover me
  • ChancyRatChancyRat Registered Users Posts: 2,141 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2009
    bstrong wrote:
    For those having issues, what do you have "Hello smuggers!" set to for your galleries?

    Thanks!
    -Brian

    "Use site-wide setting" is ON.
  • bstrongbstrong Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited November 4, 2009
    I'm confident that we've tracked down the issue. A fix should go out this Thursday!

    -Brian
  • darryldarryl Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2009
    bstrong wrote:
    We are not including videos right now. We may add it as an option, or add a Recent Videos box. What does everybody think?

    -Brian

    I think since you generate thumbs for videos, they should be intermixed.

    I suppose options to not include videos or a separate section might be nice, but I think more people would be interested in a Recent Galleries box first.

    Also, pagination of Galleries displayed by "galleries" (not categories) would be nice too, so JT can finally not have such an incredibly long home page.

    (I love how the documentation says that 100 galleries on a home page is a bad idea, but only gives the suggestion of displaying by categories, instead of fixing the problem, especially when there is no other way to show all of your albums in reverse-chronological order, which is why JT leaves his site like that.)

    http://www.smugmug.com/help/arrange-albums

    "Display either categories or galleries" (but honestly don't bother with galleries because it kind of sucks and has for years!)
  • NicolaasNicolaas Registered Users Posts: 20 Big grins
    edited November 6, 2009
    Show one (sub)category on homepage
    darryl wrote:
    I think since you generate thumbs for videos, they should be intermixed.

    I suppose options to not include videos or a separate section might be nice, but I think more people would be interested in a Recent Galleries box first.

    Also, pagination of Galleries displayed by "galleries" (not categories) would be nice too, so JT can finally not have such an incredibly long home page.

    (I love how the documentation says that 100 galleries on a home page is a bad idea, but only gives the suggestion of displaying by categories, instead of fixing the problem, especially when there is no other way to show all of your albums in reverse-chronological order, which is why JT leaves his site like that.)

    http://www.smugmug.com/help/arrange-albums

    "Display either categories or galleries" (but honestly don't bother with galleries because it kind of sucks and has for years!)

    I also think this is a waste of time.

    An other option is to have an easy possibility of hiding galleries of all (sub)categories on the homepage (in gallery mode), but not one (Recent Galleries). I tried to figure out this... see: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=147046 and http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=135244. The problem here is, you have to ad a code for every single gallery in your CSS to manage this. So that's not handy at all. If you just can hide all galleries of a categorie with just one code... that will make things much easier umph.gif

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  • MalteMalte Registered Users Posts: 1,181 Major grins
    edited November 6, 2009
    bstrong wrote:
    We are not including videos right now. We may add it as an option, or add a Recent Videos box. What does everybody think?

    -Brian

    Make it a "Recent" box with options "Photos", "Videos" and "Photos and Videos".

    Malte
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