Thanks for responding. Sounds like a good idea, however the one sticking point is that I have 4 collections set up in order to ringfence Weddings/Engagement/Portrait/Commercial on my website. Can I have a collection of collections?

At the moment clients can click on “Client Area” and then see the four collections that I add to as and when I do a shoot. All those galleries are obviously password protected, with the collections viewable publicly.

It does seem a little bit of a workaround though to resolve what is a fairly simple problem. Also when it’s not a wedding (ie. without set parts of the day) if I do the same a client would first have to click onto their collection, then into their gallery which isn’t exactly user friendly and I’d end up again having duplicate collection/gallery names in my image browser.

I don’t understand why every image I have uploaded to photoshelter can’t appear in the wordpress blog plugin? They have to be publicly available to do that as I understand it? In fact having a look now, all galleries do appear in the Photoshelter WordPress plugin, but if I choose the ones from a password protected gallery, I get the “This image cannot be found” image in the actual live blog post.

Surely as the user I should be able to post my own images without having to create a separate gallery each time?

Thanks for your help though!

It does have quite a few bugs and glitches (some that have been/are being sorted).

What I like very little about it is the sometimes very long time (in relative terms) that it takes to display the pages properly. It sometimes seems to build the page in stages and change what is displayed along the way. This becomes very irritating if one is used to fast browsing.

I would suggest creating a password protected Collection for the event and then place Galleries for each part of the couple’s day (Getting Ready, Ceremony, Reception) into that collection with the visibility set to “Everyone”. This will allow you to send the link to the Collection to the clients with the password and allow you to blog about specific images since the contents of the individual galleries is visible to everyone (even though they cannot get to it via you pubic site). Just be very sure to remove the link from the images you blog about so that when someone clicks on the photo they aren’t taken into the couple’s gallery. An added benefit of this workflow is that your client can view their event in sections rather than hundreds of images in a single gallery. Let me know if this makes any sense.

Best,

Chris

But then if I want to blog the images from this session I need to create another gallery called (blog) [name of couple] and make that one viewable by anyone. I have it setup so people can only find galleries that are put in either wedding/engagement/portrait/commercial collections on my website so no-one would actually find these “Blog Galleries” as I call them.

But it means I have a whole host of duplicate galleries in my organisational area in Photoshelter. If you don’t make the “Blog Gallery” whilst the WordPress plugin still finds the password protected gallery when you actually insert an image and go to a blog post it justs says image cannot be displayed.

Is there any other workaround for this? Or am I just missing something? I can only imagine if there isn’t, then there must be more Photoshelter users out there that have the same problem?

Thanks,
Chris.