New and recent galleries

W.W. Webster

I'm trying to create a page where I can display gallery (not individual photo) thumbnails of specific galleries I choose from time to time, which visitors can click on to take them to those individual galleries.

I can create a page OK, but I cannot work out how I add the relevant content blocks to contain the gallery thumbs. I presume can do this and that I would use the Customize Site function, but the only photo content blocks I can see there to add to the page are for single, individual or slideshow images.

What am i missing?

denisegoldberg

I think I have something similar on the Kaleidoscope page on my site. I used a multiple photo block, selected photos from 5 different galleries and selected Go to gallery as the action on click.

The photos show in the order in which they were selected.

Unfortunately at this point in time it is not possible to reorder the photos without reselecting the entire set. I've placed a request for a new feature, ability to change order of galleries in multiple galleries page element.

--- Denise

W.W. Webster

Thanks Denise!

W.W. Webster

Hi again Denise

Why can't we just have the 'featured gallery' function back? That's all I want - the one that existed in legacy SmugMug but which, along with so much other functionality, was dropped in the rush to get 'new' SmugMug out the door. The code's still available (just as for 'reorder by number' etc, etc) but now has to be begged and pleaded for as a 'new feature', but without the will and/or the developer resource required, the latter being totally overloaded trying to fix all the bugs and rough edges introduced to support drag-and-drop Cinemascope and Todd-AO. This is nuts!

However, now I've got that off my chest, what you might be able to help me with is to explain how you got the image captions to appear and what they are comprised of (looking a little like breadcrumbs on your site). That's got me beat at present. Thanks for your help!

thenickdude

I think what you actually want to add to the page is a Navigation/Galleries block, which sounds like it works just the same as the old Featured Galleries? After dropping it on the page, just edit the settings and you can have it show precisely the galleries that you choose.

The code's still available

No, no it's not. The architecture is completely different now and everything that appears in your page UI has had to have been rewritten from the ground up to work on New SmugMug.

W.W. Webster

Lamah wrote: »

I think what you actually want to add to the page is a Navigation/Galleries block

Where, precisely, is this found Nicholas? Are we in "Customize Site > Add Content Blocks", because if we are, I don't see the Navigation/Galleries block you are referring to!

W.W. Webster

D'uh - I think I can see it now!

W.W. Webster

Eureka - thanks!