Password on Galleries not working - HELP

TheBradford

Ok so I have finally unveiled my site. Although I am still frustrated by the lack of a proper dedicated client's section like that which was possible with JS in the legacy sites, and unsatisfied with the complexity of what seems to be the only current workaround created by Lamah I have just made a new page put a password on that and then put my client galleries inside there, also with passwords.

Problem: the galleries that have passwords on them, don't prompt you for the password when you click them it just loads the gallery. I don't know what's happening, what I've done wrong or anything. I want to have this double layer of protection until something better comes along and that's just not happening and it's frustrating the hell out of me.

Take a look for yourself, there are only two client galleries in there at the moment and it's not a huge deal at the moment but I need to resolve it ASAP as I am planning on doing several holiday shoots and want to be able to reassure clients that only the people who have their gallery password can view the gallery.

Currently the password for the "Clients" page is just 'clients' yes I know not a great password but get over it, I'm trying to fix this and it will obviously change later.

Please help someone!

Allen

Passwords for galleries are remembered for awhile once you enter them. You'd have to clear your cookies.

But I can get into them so somethings wrong. Do they have the same PW as the landing page?

TheBradford

Allen wrote: »

Passwords for galleries are remembered for awhile once you enter them. You'd have to clear your cookies.

But I can get into them so somethings wrong. Do they have the same PW as the landing page?

ya i noticed that pw's are "stored" for a while -but i feel stupid now as I thought i had put passwords on them and turns out there were. However my next question is - how do I apply teh theme I have on my page to the login in page? I can't "find" that login page since it's "generated" as teh prompt for the PW

thenickdude

Enter www.yourwebsitehere.com/password in your address bar and you should arrive at the password page which you can then customise.

TheBradford

Ok - yes I have figured that out - but is there a way to change the text that says "unlock" to something else?

thenickdude

Yes, for example this CSS would replace the text "Unlock" with "Open":

#sm-node-password > h1 {
    visibility:hidden;
    letter-spacing:-9999px;
    word-spacing:-9999px;
}
#sm-node-password > h1:after {
    visibility:visible;
    letter-spacing:normal;
    word-spacing:normal;
    content:"Open";
}

TheBradford

Thanks Lamah.

My next question is - since the client galleries have passwords on them - by default they don't show a picture in the gallery. It's just a grey box. Anyway of turning that grey box into just like a "text button" without having to do that EVERY time I add a new gallery? So instead of clicking the grey box they just click the name button and that prompts them for the gallery password to view the gallery?

thenickdude

By text button, do you mean text box? (type in the name, then type in the password?) If you're only looking for the clients to type in one thing, you can't do that without effectively making every client's gallery public. If they're going to enter both their name and a password, that can be done.

Or do you want to present the list of clients as a text list like this:

http://n-sherlock.smugmug.com/Customisations/Gallery-list

TheBradford

well I like the second option you gave - go check out what I have - except how do I make that grey box not so long? how do I make it look like how the example is with just a little gallery type icon next to the name?

Alternatively am I understanding the first option correctly if I say that if I want to do that option that means someone will click clients then type in their gallery (for example "Baby Matthew" is one of my galleris) - user types in "Baby Matthew" then hits enter, is then prompted for a password and then hits enter again and then their gallery works.

if that's the case - yes let's see how that works too after you see what I've currently done based on teh sherlock smugmug link you shared.

thanks!