Structure Of SM Site

AperturePlus

I have been here for just over a year and I should probably have asked this when I first joined...

At present, I have around 700 public images on my site. I doubt that it will grow much past the 1000 mark in the next year.

All images are indexed with keywords and everything that is intended for public view is placed in an unlisted gallery. When I say 'unlisted'.. this gallery is public, but is not accessible from the homepage.

I have created smart galleries, that populate from keywords that are collected from images that are contained in the unlisted gallery.

Everything works fine and, although smart population appears to be bugged at the moment (the galleries need to be manually populated), I am sure that SM will sort this out in time.

Are there any pitfalls to having the structure the way it is? Is there something that I am not aware of or have not considered?

mbonocore

I don't think so....but I am confused as why you even need unlisted galleries. Your homepage just contains a multiple photo block that is pulling from one gallery, and you don't have a browse page, which would limit the users view to exclude unlisted galleries.

paulbrock

Anyone can go to xxx.smugmug.com/browse though. or http://www.apertureplus.com/browse in this case.

BigRed

AperturePlus wrote: »

I have been here for just over a year and I should probably have asked this when I first joined...

At present, I have around 700 public images on my site. I doubt that it will grow much past the 1000 mark in the next year.

All images are indexed with keywords and everything that is intended for public view is placed in an unlisted gallery. When I say 'unlisted'.. this gallery is public, but is not accessible from the homepage.

I have created smart galleries, that populate from keywords that are collected from images that are contained in the unlisted gallery.

Everything works fine and, although smart population appears to be bugged at the moment (the galleries need to be manually populated), I am sure that SM will sort this out in time.

Are there any pitfalls to having the structure the way it is? Is there something that I am not aware of or have not considered?

If the "Everything Gallery" is Unlisted, doesn't that mean the images won't be found by Search? It looks like you set it back to Public, so Search does produce results now (which BTW point to the Everything Gallery, not the smart galleries).

mbonocore

paulbrock wrote: »

Anyone can go to xxx.smugmug.com/browse though. or http://www.apertureplus.com/browse in this case.

Yes, but normal visitors to his site most likely wouldn't know about /browse if you don't put a link out there. But yes, either way won't really matter if you aren't displaying child objects.

AperturePlus

Thanks everyone. If I make the Everything Gallery private, then images inside won't get populated to smart galleries, right?

BigRed

BigRed wrote: »

If the "Everything Gallery" is Unlisted, doesn't that mean the images won't be found by Search?

Just curious if you figured this out? I'm wondering if NewSM's Search treats Unlisted galleries differently than in Legacy.

AperturePlus

Hi Jan

I was waiting for confirmation of my last post, so.. no I haven't.

mbonocore

AperturePlus wrote: »

Thanks everyone. If I make the Everything Gallery private, then images inside won't get populated to smart galleries, right?

Correct, Private galleries won't be populated in Smart Galleries.

AperturePlus

Thanks Michael

BigRed

BigRed wrote: »

Just curious if you figured this out? I'm wondering if NewSM's Search treats Unlisted galleries differently than in Legacy.

FYI... Found confirmation here: http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=239732

WinsomeWorks

I am seriously confused now. Isn't there info in this thread that contradicts the info in this http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=239728 thread? (Unless, when MBonocore are saying "populated" they're only talking about through Search & not the usual... idk, it's not making sense to me right now.)

mbonocore

WinsomeWorks wrote: »

I am seriously confused now. Isn't there info in this thread that contradicts the info in this http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=239728 thread? (Unless, when MBonocore are saying "populated" they're only talking about through Search & not the usual... idk, it's not making sense to me right now.)

Anna Lisa,

Photos in Private galleries will NOT be returned in Smart Galleries, period. Photos in Unlisted or Password protected will be if the option is selected in the Smart Gallery. Remember, New SmugMug has a Private option in addition to unlisted and public.

AperturePlus

mbonocore wrote: »

Anna Lisa,

Photos in Private galleries will NOT be returned in Smart Galleries, period. Photos in Unlisted or Password protected will be if the option is selected in the Smart Gallery. Remember, New SmugMug has a Private option in addition to unlisted and public.

Hi Michael

I have just tested this in mine and they don't work for me as you suggest..
I made the 'everything' gallery unlisted and PW protected, made sure that the smart gallery had "Include my unlisted/password protected galleries" to yes and they were not populated.

I tried the same thing with a public password protected gallery and the images were not populated.

mbonocore

AperturePlus wrote: »

Hi Michael

I have just tested this in mine and they don't work for me as you suggest..
I made the 'everything' gallery unlisted and PW protected, made sure that the smart gallery had "Include my unlisted/password protected galleries" to yes and they were not populated.

I tried the same thing with a public password protected gallery and the images were not populated.

Yes, sorry, I should have mentioned, that is how it will work, once this is fixed

AperturePlus

mbonocore wrote: »

Yes, sorry, I should have mentioned, that is how it will work, once this is fixed

Aah.. gotcha. Thanks.