Sharing Galleries

J Allen

Is there any way to make a group of galleries show on a page together, like a folder, that has no trace of your site tied to it? Sharegroups used to function like this, but with the new smug, they no longer behave the same way. I just want to be able to share some galleries with a local school, but not have them see all my family galleries. Anyone have any ideas out there? :ear

moiraine

I just tried out sharegroups with hide owner galleries myself, and it does seem like the owner's name is not being stripped out like before.

I thought about this for a little and here's a possible workaround... (you DID ask for ideas!)

- create a hide-owner gallery (don't put anything photos in it)
- make all the galleries you want to share hide-owner
- customize your empty gallery
- click "just this gallery" (then confirm the selection)
- expand the navigation section
- drag in a "Galleries" Content Block
- select the galleries you want to share

to hide the empty gallery stuff... you can add a "CSS" content block with the following content:

#sm-gallery .sm-gallery-empty {
    display: none;
}

just an idea for a this-will-work-now workaround. Let me know if there are any issues with it! (if you actually try it out)

J Allen

moiraine wrote: »

I just tried out sharegroups with hide owner galleries myself, and it does seem like the owner's name is not being stripped out like before.

I thought about this for a little and here's a possible workaround... (you DID ask for ideas!)

- create a hide-owner gallery (don't put anything photos in it)
- make all the galleries you want to share hide-owner
- customize your empty gallery
- click "just this gallery" (then confirm the selection)
- expand the navigation section
- drag in a "Galleries" Content Block
- select the galleries you want to share

to hide the empty gallery stuff... you can add a "CSS" content block with the following content:

#sm-gallery .sm-gallery-empty {
    display: none;
}

just an idea for a this-will-work-now workaround. Let me know if there are any issues with it! (if you actually try it out)

I tried this route, but when you set "hide owner" you lose ability to customize.

MileHighAko

If you're willing to allow your URL to be known, then you can always make a fully custom page and put your content on it, including subfolders/pages/galleries. The drawbacks are that you can't use the "entire" page for design, and the new smugmug case sensitivity makes it not very elegant (people MUST capitalize in the URL).

I used a cloaked redirect on my DNS to point to a specific subfolder and was able to do what you're talking about, although further navigation was a little clunky and not being able to use the "entire" page design is a bummer.