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Homepage Gallery block sorting & description options
Shemmers
Registered Users Posts: 14 Big grins
Perhaps I am in the minority, but I always kept my galleries on one page and in chronological order with the most recent galleries/events at the top. The old design allowed me to manually arrange my galleries for the home page, an option that seems to have disappeared and instead the default/only option is alphabetical. This makes little sense to me. I always opted for manual arrangement for the old smugmug since 'most recent' is unreliable in that if I add a photo to an old gallery, it shoots to the top, breaking the order if things.
I also had date and location information in the gallery description and I see no way to display this information. Perhaps deeper customization might allow this, but I haven't found a way so far. I would like a second line of text (smaller, different font options?) underneath the title of the gallery pic in the 'bottom bar' to display the description if possible. I like the clean no-text look, but the option should remain for more information if needed.
Otherwise, looking good so far.
I also had date and location information in the gallery description and I see no way to display this information. Perhaps deeper customization might allow this, but I haven't found a way so far. I would like a second line of text (smaller, different font options?) underneath the title of the gallery pic in the 'bottom bar' to display the description if possible. I like the clean no-text look, but the option should remain for more information if needed.
Otherwise, looking good so far.
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Ok, I still don't get it. So for the galleries block on the homepage, if I choose 'recent galleries', I can see the gallery description on a second line of text as I would want to see (though no option to turn it off). If I choose my own galleries, it's not there.
Still can't figure out organizing the galleries if I do choose my own galleries. First of all, it's difficult to add galleries since it is a folder at a time. And I have no way to order them as I mentioned in the first post.
What about adding the homepage itself to the SmugMug Organizer page? Keep the customize page for site wide changes and still allow organization on the only page that really matters.
There is a limit of 20 galleries on a page? Crap. This could be a problem for me. I haven't gotten far enough into my experimentation to realize this limitation.
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." (Einstein)
Yeah, I thought I'd try another approach and use the Multiple Photos block and use the 'choose photo' selection. I thought I might just recreate the old gallery page by having a photo from each gallery. But this is a dead end. 20 photo limit and no organization possible. They are in the order you first choose them.
I often wonder why we aren't able to add a date to the galleries (more like an event) so that we had an option later to arrange by this date and not by most recently modified.
I suspect we will get passed by on this issue since these pages are going to be much more server/bandwidth intensive, and they will be looking for ways to minimize page loading size. Still, I'd settle for My top 30 or 40 if I could just arrange the damn things myself or by a date I give them.
Check out the 'Folders Galleries Pages' app.
You can set to sort by 'Organizer Position'. When you sort in the organizer, that app will automatically have the same sort order.
The app has the following sort orders: Organizer Position, Date Added, Date Modified, Name.
Folders Galleries Pages.png
Using the organizer is useless for ordering galleries since these galleries reside in folders that are themselves ordered. I have many folders based on the countries I have been to for example. If I put the French folder in front of the Swiss one, how am I supposed to put a newer Swiss gallery ahead of a french one? I would have to put all my galleries in the same folder for this approach to work which defeats the entire purpose of the organizer's folder structure.
One way to deal with this, I suppose, is to allow for virtual galleries that are copies of the real ones that can be put into their own folder and then manually reorganized using the organizer. Maybe they somehow keep their folder info? No idea. But as is, I still have no way to arrange galleries in any meaningful way.
The more I think about it, the easiest way through this problem is to allow users to add a date themselves to the gallery. Then you could sort by 'date provided' or something. Could, by default, be added automatically based on the date of the majority of photos in the album. Sorting by date added or date modified provides no control, and galleries I don't wish to see (like those used for making links in blogs) are at the top if I do anything to them. This method leaves everything else alone and satisfies those of us who live chronologically.
Error:
You have reached the limit of 48
Based on the other responses here, it appears that the upper limit has shifted. That's good news. The fact that there is an upper limit is not-so-good news.
Gary
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." (Einstein)
Hello,
Thanks for reaching out to SmugMug. As you can imagine, we are a bit overwhelmed at this time. We really appreciate your patience as we try to get back to you as quickly as possible.
You can turn the pagination option on in the gallery block to show all galleries. You can only display 48 galleries if you choose them or are using recent galleries.
If you have not had a chance to yet, please take a moment to check out some of our new help pages for the New SmugMug here: http://help.smugmug.com/
Regardless, you can turn on pagination for a set of galleries by going into customization, and selecting the wrench for the gallery container. On the Display tab is an option to turn pagination on or off.
Gary
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." (Einstein)
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." (Einstein)