Feature a gallery but not show it elsewhere?

StevenV

It appears not to be possible to put a Private gallery into the Featured Galleries section.

Is there any other way to have a gallery that only shows up in the Featured Galleries section (i.e. not in any other displayed category)?

Andy

StevenV wrote:

It appears not to be possible to put a Private gallery into the Featured Galleries section.

Is there any other way to have a gallery that only shows up in the Featured Galleries section (i.e. not in any other displayed category)?

No, becuase it has to be public, so it'll be on your homepage either within the categories or as a gallery itself, depending on how you are displaying.

Hope this helps,

StevenV

andy wrote:

Hope this helps,

it helps with understanding though not with getting the effect that I wanted.

but yes, thanks.

jfriend

One idea, but requires JavaScript

StevenV wrote:

It appears not to be possible to put a Private gallery into the Featured Galleries section.

Is there any other way to have a gallery that only shows up in the Featured Galleries section (i.e. not in any other displayed category)?

Here's one idea, but it probably requires JavaScript. You could make your gallery public. Put it in a category called "Hidden Galleries" or any name you want. Then, using JavaScript on your home page, you could hide the "Hidden Galleries" category by finding it in your page and setting that one and only one parent <div class="miniBox"> to a style of display:none. You can't do this with only CSS (and shouldn't try it) because CSS will affect all miniBox divs and make all your thumbs disappear (something you probably don't want to happen) - that's why you'd have to use JavaScript to only change one of the miniBox divs. Then, on your gallery page, you could hide the breadcrumb parts that would show it's in that Hidden Galleries category. You could have as many galleries as you want in this special category and feature whichever ones you want.

This does point out a nice feature request for a smugmug CSS enhancement so that this could be done with CSS. If, like each gallery has a class name specific to each gallery, each thumb in your home page could have the same gallery classname associated with the containing .miniBox, then your goal could all be accomplished with CSS. This would then allow gallery specific styling on your homepage via CSS with no JavaScript. I don't know how many people actually want that, but it would solve your problem and it doesn't really cost smugmug anything to take the same gallery-specific classname (or a close derivative of it) and put it on the containing .miniBox.

StevenV

jfriend wrote:

If, like each gallery has a class name specific to each gallery, each thumb in your home page could have the same gallery classname associated with the containing .miniBox, then your goal could all be accomplished with CSS.

Actually I did dig through the code ("use the source, Luke") to check for exactly that - the sm guys have done such a great job of tagging everything that I expected to find a classname that I could use.

Alas, it was not to be found.

jfriend

Maybe we'll get this in the future

StevenV wrote:

Actually I did dig through the code ("use the source, Luke") to check for exactly that - the sm guys have done such a great job of tagging everything that I expected to find a classname that I could use.

Alas, it was not to be found.

Hopefully, they will add it in the future. JT seems to be continually adding more and more identifying things that aren't in there yet. Hopefully we're going to soon get identifying tags on the different pieces of the camera info so we can show/hide just the pieces we want or style them differently. Maybe he can add this one to the list for the future - identifying tags on each thumb.

HighLightPhotos

andy wrote:

No, becuase it has to be public, so it'll be on your homepage either within the categories or as a gallery itself, depending on how you are displaying.

Hope this helps,

But this is exactly how I have mine set up!
http://perfectpixel.smugmug.com/
I have a Portfolio gallery as the only featured galleries item, and you don't see it in my other galleries because it's private. When I'm logged in it even says "private gallery" under the Portfolio gallery name in the featured section.

Did I misunderstand the question??

StevenV

Sure enough - it does work! It didn't when I did it the other day, but my gallery was in another category. I saw how you did yours and changed mine a little and now it does exactly what I wanted!

Is there something special about the 'Portfolio' category, I wonder.

Mike Lane

StevenV wrote:

Sure enough - it does work! It didn't when I did it the other day, but my gallery was in another category. I saw how you did yours and changed mine a little and now it does exactly what I wanted!

Is there something special about the 'Portfolio' category, I wonder.

Wow, I love the pictures in your portfolio gallery! Really great stuff...

rutt

This is a good trick. Let me ask again, is the category "Portfolio" significant?

I tried this for another private gallery application: galleries for communities. I'd really love to be able to have galleries in communities which don't show up in my home page. I'd especially like to be able to highlight them.

Perhaps with enough javascript?

StevenV

rutt wrote:

This is a good trick. Let me ask again, is the category "Portfolio" significant?

that's a darn good question, so I'll bump it up for one more time.

jfriend

Not that I've heard of

StevenV wrote:

that's a darn good question, so I'll bump it up for one more time.

You'll probably need someone like JT to answer for sure, but in all the time I've been hanging around here, I've never heard anything to imply that there are any categories that are treated specially.