Can I still have Vanity URLs?

spider-t

I used vanity URLs for my really big clients. They URL would take them to an Event that held all the unlisted galleries I had made for them over the years.

I liked how the URL make it look like it was one of my pages and how I didn't have to make the galleries public.

Is there a way I can continue to do this?

And obviously this is now broken. I just had a client ask me how to get to their pictures. I totally forgot to think about this when I unveiled.

thanks!
Trish

spider-t

No then?

PBolchover

Why not create this as a Folder? Or as a Page at the root level?

BigRed

spider-t wrote: »

I used vanity URLs for my really big clients. They URL would take them to an Event that held all the unlisted galleries I had made for them over the years.

I liked how the URL make it look like it was one of my pages and how I didn't have to make the galleries public.

Is there a way I can continue to do this?

And obviously this is now broken. I just had a client ask me how to get to their pictures. I totally forgot to think about this when I unveiled.

thanks!
Trish

FYI... This has been added as a feature request:
Restore Vanity URLs
.

spider-t

Thanks PBolchover,

The galleries are all in a folder. But the galleries are unlisted. So Events is the only way I know how to share multiple unlisted galleries at a single link. And the event links are ugly and hard to remember. So I have been using vanity urls.

Trish

PBolchover wrote: »

Why not create this as a Folder? Or as a Page at the root level?

spider-t

Thanks Jan. I added my $.02 to that discussion.

BigRed wrote: »

FYI... This has been added as a feature request:
Restore Vanity URLs
.

PBolchover

As a short-term solution, I suggest creating a "page" in the Vanity URL location, with a single photo that links to the Event URL. (Yes, it means 1 extra click, but it is better than nothing.)

spider-t

thanks PBolchover. thanks for the idea. i'm just going to use bit.ly for now. it's not so much the extra click for my clients, but the extra work on my end, and all the pages I'll need to create and maintain. i shoot a lot of events, and delivering is the least fun part of the job, so i like to streamline that as much as possible.

but for someone with fewer events to post, that sounds like a perfect bandaid.

:-)

PBolchover wrote: »

As a short-term solution, I suggest creating a "page" in the Vanity URL location, with a single photo that links to the Event URL. (Yes, it means 1 extra click, but it is better than nothing.)