Create a Gallery of Most Recent Photos

leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
edited May 4, 2011 in SmugMug Support
Hi there,
I'm trying to create a gallery of my 50 most recent photos and I'm not really sure how, or if, it's possible to go about doing this in an easy fashion.

I realize that there's a "Recent Photos" section on the homepage. I have that display my 6 most recent photos. But I also want a way for people to find more than 6 should they want to see what's new.

I tried to create a Smart Gallery but either I'm doing it wrong or it seems to be more difficult than I would have imagined. I set the smart gallery to "include" "My Photos" where the "Date" was "Uploaded" between a date way off in the future and a specific date in the past. I limited it to 50 photos. In my gallery settings I then set this to sort by Date Uploaded, descending.

No matter what order you specify the dates, it always selects the FIRST 50 photos uploaded on or after [date-in-the-past]. All I want/need to do is have it do this sort in the opposite direction (i.e. select the first 50 photos taken on or before [date-in-the-future], prior to selecting my images (and not after it has selected my images, like the Gallery Setting sort does).

This works, but every time I upload a new image I have to update the [date-in-the-past] to be a more recent date so that it doesn't exclude my most recent photo (since it's looking for 50 photos from [date-in-the-past].

Does anyone know of a better way to do this?

Additionally, is there a way to have my gallery URL not include the category (for example current it's http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Photography/Recent/ and i'd rather it just be http://www.aaronmphotography.com/Recent/)

Thanks!
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aaron AT aaronmphotography DOT com
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Comments

  • WinsomeWorksWinsomeWorks Registered Users Posts: 1,935 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2011
    You can set the "Recent Photos" box on a homepage to show a lot more than 6 photos ( I don't recall the limit, but mine shows 44 right now. However, Recent Photos has been broken for a long time now. It shows lots of photos that aren't recent uploads, but are instead copies made here on SmugMug. It's not supposed to be doing this. I wish it would get fixed. Anyway, on the rest, I'll have to let someone else help... don't have answers for all that.
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  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,220 moderator
    edited May 3, 2011
    I've been using the hack from this post to show photos for the last <n> days. It's referenced in several threads, and most folks have complained that the "gallery" is ordered with the oldest photos showing first, but I haven't found that to be true.

    If you want to see it in action, click the photos from the last 4 weeks entry on my Kaleidoscope page.

    --- Denise
  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins
    edited May 4, 2011
    Thanks Denise. That's kind of what I'm doing with the Smart Gallery I setup but the smart gallery gives me a little more control (although I have to update the end date manually).

    @WinsomeWorks: I realize the home-page can display a lot of photos but I want to keep my homepage clean and offer a separate place for people to find a larger listing of my recent photos. Additionally, I want my recent photos to be in a thumbnail + photo (default) layout and not just a thumbnail view.

    @SmugMug: You'd think it would be so easy to just add a /recent/ page -- you already give us an RSS feed of the recent photos, why not just make something similar to the /Popular/!
    dGrin Afficionado
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  • BigRedBigRed Registered Users Posts: 288 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2011
    I'm also using a Smart Gallery to do exactly that, changing the start date manually whenever I want to display a different set of recent photos. There's a request logged to add a Relative Dates selection for Smart Galleries; you might want to add your vote.
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