Hiding Galleries/Categories

Travis

Feature Request - ability to hide entire galleries/categories.

If the feature exists, I haven't found it yet. Why would someone want to do it? Glad you asked because I'm the perfect example! I started my Smugmug account to provide an easy way for Animal Control to download pet adoption photos that I would take for them on the weekend. I've accummulated over 2500 photos. I'm taking my Smugmug site in a new direction so I decided to hide the photos that were not ones that I wanted to display (I still need access to them though so I didn't want to delete them.) I had to individually hide every sub-category (all 100 or so) in order to hide the overall gallery. A better way of managing the galleries would be welcomed.

I probably could have written code but for those of you that have seen my customization posts, you know that I am a programming idiot! :-)

Thanks!

jfriend

Travis wrote:

Feature Request - ability to hide entire galleries/categories.

If the feature exists, I haven't found it yet. Why would someone want to do it? Glad you asked because I'm the perfect example! I started my Smugmug account to provide an easy way for Animal Control to download pet adoption photos that I would take for them on the weekend. I've accummulated over 2500 photos. I'm taking my Smugmug site in a new direction so I decided to hide the photos that were not ones that I wanted to display (I still need access to them though so I didn't want to delete them.) I had to individually hide every sub-category (all 100 or so) in order to hide the overall gallery. A better way of managing the galleries would be welcomed.

I probably could have written code but for those of you that have seen my customization posts, you know that I am a programming idiot! :-)

Thanks!

Have you tried private galleries? I think they are exactly what you want. You can have galleries that you can see and use and you can send a direct link to anyone, but they (and their categories) don't show in your home page.

Just go to the customze screen for a given gallery and set "public" to "no". You will still see this gallery on your homepage, but your viewers (who are not logged in) will not see it. When a category or sub-category has no public galleries, they will not show on your homepage anymore.

Travis

Yep...

Have you tried private galleries?

Thanks for the response J. That is exactly what I did but when the galleries were originally created, they were public. In order to set them to private, I had to go into each of the 100 galleries and update them individually to be private. While I'm done updating mine, I'm just suggesting that it may be a beneficial enhancement for others that may run into this in the future as they gain a better understanding of what they wish to have displayed and not displayed after the fact.

I appreciate it.

jfriend

Travis wrote:

Thanks for the response J. That is exactly what I did but when the galleries were originally created, they were public. In order to set them to private, I had to go into each of the 100 galleries and update them individually to be private. While I'm done updating mine, I'm just suggesting that it may be a beneficial enhancement for others that may run into this in the future as they gain a better understanding of what they wish to have displayed and not displayed after the fact.

I appreciate it.

Got it. SmugBrowser can easily change settings on an entire category of galleries in one operation. So, in the future, it would save time over doing them individually.

Andy

jfriend wrote:

Got it. SmugBrowser can easily change settings on an entire category of galleries in one operation. So, in the future, it would save time over doing them individually.

SmugBrowser is awesome....

Travis

All right!
So much to learn and so little time. Thanks guys... I don't know how I missed this one.

Travis