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RKnecht
May-22-2009, 03:15 PM
That's the only way I know how to say it. Is there a way that I can buy my own photos from a gallery where I have the shopping cart disabled for visitors? I still want the gallery to be public too. I hope I am making sense here. I thought the "owner buy" option was the way to go, but apparently not.
ShepsMom
May-22-2009, 10:17 PM
You need to be logged in, and you can buy your own photos at regular price. I've done it many times.
jfriend
May-22-2009, 10:43 PM
You need to be logged in, and you can buy your own photos at regular price. I've done it many times. You can't buy your own prints if the gallery is not set to allow printing, even when logged in. That's what they're asking.

The only thing I know of to do is to enable printing, then use CSS to hide the buy and cart buttons for that gallery. Hiding things with CSS is not foolproof as it can be bypassed so if you really don't want someone to be able to order a print at cost, then you could set ridiculously high prices (mark everything up $1000) so if they did bypass the CSS, they'd just see super high prices. You will be able to order at cost when logged in so the high prices won't bother you.

To hide the buttons in a particular gallery when not logged in, you would use this CSS:

.notLoggedIn.gallery_xxxxx #cartButtonsWrapper {display:none;}

where xxxx is the gallery number.
ShepsMom
May-23-2009, 01:26 PM
Well, you can make your gallery "private" for a while, enable shopping cart and buy your prints.
jfriend
May-23-2009, 01:40 PM
Well, you can make your gallery "private" for a while, enable shopping cart and buy your prints. Keep in mind that making a gallery unlisted only removes it from the homepage. If anyone has bookmarked a link to it, they can still access it even if you've made it unlisted. If you really wanted to keep people out while print ordering was enabled, you'd have to make it password protected.
Luke J. Photography
May-23-2009, 04:43 PM
You could always set your pricing crazy high at like $1000 per print
RKnecht
May-29-2009, 05:29 AM
You can't buy your own prints if the gallery is not set to allow printing, even when logged in. That's what they're asking.

The only thing I know of to do is to enable printing, then use CSS to hide the buy and cart buttons for that gallery. Hiding things with CSS is not foolproof as it can be bypassed so if you really don't want someone to be able to order a print at cost, then you could set ridiculously high prices (mark everything up $1000) so if they did bypass the CSS, they'd just see super high prices. You will be able to order at cost when logged in so the high prices won't bother you.

To hide the buttons in a particular gallery when not logged in, you would use this CSS:

.notLoggedIn.gallery_xxxxx #cartButtonsWrapper {display:none;}

where xxxx is the gallery number.

Thanks for this info. I think this is the route I will be taking.