Smug Tip of the Week: Sorting Your Homepage
We’re back with a quick (but useful) Smug Tip this week: Sorting your homepage.
Find it Fast: Display Galleries or Just Categories
We get a lot of people who don’t realize that you can switch between the two and often wonder what happened to their homepage. Don’t worry! It’s easy to toggle from one to the other so you can pick which works best for you and change it in an instant.
Find that option in the top right corner of your Galleries box. The one that is not underlined is what you’re currently using:
If you like to show everything on your site up front and center, then the default Galleries option will be perfect (shown above).
But if you’re a prolific shooter and don’t want your viewers to get lost trying to find a specific gallery, try the Categories view instead:
Auto Sort or Manual Sort
While you’re at it, you may also want to change what order things appear on your site. Look on the other side of that box:
By default we’ll automatically bump the freshest gallery to the top. But click that “Position” link and try arranging them however you wish.
Adding and Hiding Stuff
As a bonus, take a look at that Homepage Layout button you see up there:
We start you off with a Bio box and a Galleries box, but you’ll see that there are a whole lot of other things you can click to display to your fans. Just look at the menu and select what you want.
Change your mind? That’s ok, just pick it again from the list or click the “hide” link in the top right corner of the box you want gone:
Remember that only you, the logged-in gallery owner, are able to see and make any of these changes. Play around with them, find what works best for you and enjoy!
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When you have thousands of galleries like I do, categories is the only way to go…
Can you get galleries into categories and subcategories after, years after they were first created. settings will not let me change anything?
many many thanks for years of perfect service for me & my clients.
regards
Liz
Hi Elizabeth – Absolutely! You should be able to change anything in your Gallery Settings, including the category and subcategory, at any time, even years later. Can you shoot our support heroes an email with a link to your gallery so we can see why it’s not working for you? http://help.smugmug.com/
Is there a way to widen the home page to fill? my gallery pages are all “stretchy” but have never been able to stretch the homepage
Hi Mark, right now the default homepage isn’t stretchy but there are customizations that you can use to make it a full-page slideshow, or to make it a specific width. Check out our Customization FAQ list here:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=52811
And it looks like #10 should get you closer to what you want, as shown here in this thread:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=231474
Hope this helps!