[Help] Selecting "featured" pic for category

JoeG

Ok. If I create a gallery, I can select a photo as the featured photo. The thumbnail for that photo is then used at the "cover" for the gallery.

Let's say I've got this going on:

A "My Wedding" Category
Inside this category are the following galleries:
Professional Pics
Non-Professional Pics
Guest Camera Pics

I selected my favorite picture from the "professional pics" gallery as the featured photo, and it became the "cover" for that particular gallery.

Here's the question:
How can I make that photo the "cover" for the "My Wedding" category?? As soon as I added pics to the non-professional galleries, the "My Wedding" category is using a random photo as the "cover".

I am using the "category" view on my homepage, fyi.

Any thoughts on this, or did I just confuse everyone with my long-winded question?

If you'd like to see what I'm talking about:
TheGearharts.smugmug.com

Click on: Our Wedding (May 13th, 2006)
The gallery for "Professional Wedding Photos" is a picture of my wife drinking champagne from the bottle. I'd like that picture to be the "cover" for the category.

Thanks in advance everyone!

SteveM

JoeG wrote:

Ok. If I create a gallery, I can select a photo as the featured photo. The thumbnail for that photo is then used at the "cover" for the gallery.

Let's say I've got this going on:

A "My Wedding" Category
Inside this category are the following galleries:
Professional Pics
Non-Professional Pics
Guest Camera Pics

I selected my favorite picture from the "professional pics" gallery as the featured photo, and it became the "cover" for that particular gallery.

Here's the question:
How can I make that photo the "cover" for the "My Wedding" category?? As soon as I added pics to the non-professional galleries, the "My Wedding" category is using a random photo as the "cover".

I am using the "category" view on my homepage, fyi.

Any thoughts on this, or did I just confuse everyone with my long-winded question?

If you'd like to see what I'm talking about:
TheGearharts.smugmug.com

Click on: Our Wedding (May 13th, 2006)
The gallery for "Professional Wedding Photos" is a picture of my wife drinking champagne from the bottle. I'd like that picture to be the "cover" for the category.

Thanks in advance everyone!

Hey Joe,

What?

Kidding! How this works is, whichever gallery/thumbnail is at the top, will be used to represent the next level. When you added photos to your Non-Professional gallery, it made it most recent, so it bumped it to the top I'm guessing, and started using the thumb from this gallery to represent the category. Since you didn't have a featured photo in the Non-Professional gallery, it's random, and that should be what you're seeing at the Category level - random photos from the Non-Pro gallery.

To fix this, feature the photo you'd like to use as you've done, and either make that gallery the most recent by updating it, or 'Arrange' them so that gallery is at the top.

I hope this helps! Let us know if you have more questions.

JoeG

Fixed!! That did it.

Thanks Steve!