Legacy SmugMug - Change Sub-category to Category - Break Links?

WinsomeWorks

I've been unable to work on my site for many months now, so am still in Legacy, etc. I've forgotten stuff, such as which types of actions will break links, mess up smart galleries, etc. Here's what I may want to do: I have a sub-cat called "Pennsylvania" under my Travel cat. (Travel is a main category which has its own tab at top of my site). I'm thinking of making Pennsylvania a main cat instead. Then I'd have a few sub-cats into which I'd place all the galleries that are currently just under Pennsylvania. I can't work out what, if any, problems I may create for myself with this change.

Will I break any existing links on the web? (I think most of them are links to galleries or individual photos; I only rarely email category links to people, & I have to assume the Pennsylvania sub-cat link would break). I also have some galleries with Collected Photos, and some Virtual Galleries that are completely fed by galleries currently in the PA sub-cat. Would any of those galleries get messed up?

Separate but related question: I have lots of external slideshows running off SmugMug Legacy galleries. Is there still no way to keep them working in New Smug? I don't know what to do about them, if not...

Seamus

Hi Anna Lisa,

Your gallery links should work when you change sub-categories, once the gallery id and key stay the same. Your external slideshows should continue to work when you switch to NSM also.

WinsomeWorks

Seamus wrote: »

Hi Anna Lisa,

Your gallery links should work when you change sub-categories, once the gallery id and key stay the same. Your external slideshows should continue to work when you switch to NSM also.

Thanks, Shay-- but the slideshows will only work as long as Legacy is kept going, right? And once Legacy is gone for good, there's no way to do that kind of thing in NSM as I understand it, right?

Also, I forgot to ask about albums I've "Published to FaceBook"... I think I've usually selected the option to include the gallery link under each published photo. So those links should also be OK?

So that I can keep this in my head better in the future, what kinds of actions DO break links or change a gallery ID? And they'll be the same in NSM, right?