Possible to hide album link, but still show album's images?

naturalEnquirer

Joined: 2008-06-15
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Posted: Fri, 2008-11-14 20:13

In Wordpress blog, I'd like to link to an image in Gallery2, but don't want its album to show in the regular galleries. E.g. I have an album called Essays which contains images for blog entries that I don't necessarily want included in the normal gallery view.

So In Essay album properties, no permissions are granted to Everybody which "hides" the album. Then for each images in that album, I gave permission to Everybody to view all versions of each image in the album.

This seems to work so that user can click on link to see that photo in the gallery. Even though I've given everybody permission to view all sizes for all album images, I can't get the micro-thumbnails to display so that one can see other pictures in the album.

Is this even possible?

Thank you.


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nivekiam
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Posted: Fri, 2008-11-14 22:32

I'm not sure I'm following you. At first I though you might have wanted something like this: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:geturls

So you have Essays which nobody can see. But then you individually edit the permissions on each photo in there so people can view that photo if sent a direct link?

Ah I see, but you then want people to be able to navigate around in there.

Why not make that a hidden album or just make it so only logged in users can see it, so you have to login to view it, or password protect it.

http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:hidden
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:password
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naturalEnquirer

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Posted: Fri, 2008-11-14 23:36

You understand correctly what I want.

I don't want users to have to log in to see these posts or photos - these are open to everyone.

If hidden, wouldn't the album show up in the gallery the next time the user visits the main gallery page?

I wouldn't mind having the Essays in a completely separate album, but I don't know how to do that and I get the impression that WPG2 can only work with one album at a time?

If a separate album would work, then I could try that, but I'm not sure I'd be able to set that up without more instructions.

Thanks for any ideas.
 
nivekiam
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Posted: Sat, 2008-11-15 00:02
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If hidden, wouldn't the album show up in the gallery the next time the user visits the main gallery page?

Yes, for that user, but nobody else. Until that user cleared their cookies.

I don't know what you mean by separate album. You already have tons of albums in your Gallery.

So, you're wanting a hidden album that remains hidden, but people can view the pictures of.

Oh I know, I think this might be worth a shot.

Try the keyword album plugin. Assign a unique keyword to each photo you want to show up in the Essay album. Then pass the link around for the URL that would display the keyword album. The album would remain "hidden" but people could browse the contents if they had the URL:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:keyalbum

Check out other plugins here:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Download#Modules

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naturalEnquirer

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Posted: Sat, 2008-11-15 15:54

Thank you for an excellent idea and I think it will do what I want with a few modifications.

As to separate albums, I really meant separate galleries.

One question about keywrod albums. I use breadcrumbs and it appears that keyword albums are listed at the root of the album.

I assume there is no way to make them link back to a lower album.

E.g. Main > Plants > Endangered Species (keyword) instead of
Main > Endangered Species

Thank you again for your help.
 
nivekiam
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Posted: Sat, 2008-11-15 21:11

So by separate galleries do you mean really separate galleries, with separate databases, g2data directories, etc? I've never installed the WPG2 bridge/integration. But I can't imagine something like that would be setup to integrate with separate galleries. You might be able to hack something together by coping the WP plugin and editing it so it doesn't collide with the "standard" version.

You're correct about keyword albums, at least from what I've seen.
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