DOWNLOAD ALL Site-Wide Switch

anglotexian · July 21, 2015

While DOWNLOAD ALL is a nice feature to have, I'm annoyed that SM have arbitrarily turned it ON for all my existing galleries… no warning, no say-so. SM should not have assumed that I or anyone else wanted it turned on across the board. It could have been implemented by account holder choice using a site-wide switch (I can't find one). I'm now faced with having to turn the feature off on each individual gallery, and I have a lot.

Suggest SM do the right thing and provide two site-wide switches: one for RESET ALL OFF, one for ALL ON, with both instances then over-ridden by individual gallery settings.

Maybe I'm alone on this, but if anyone could come up with some code to do a quick-fix RESET ALL OFF I would be very appreciative, and if I've missed something obvious please let me know!

leftquark · July 21, 2015

We'd love to come up with a better way to bulk-edit the settings for all galleries across your site. For now, you can use the Organizer to select all the galleries in a folder and turn it off using the bulk-gallery settings there. Repeat for the rest of your folders. You can create a "Quick Setting" to disable downloads for future galleries.

The Gallery Download settings followed the settings that you had previously set for your galleries: if Originals were turned on (which allowed your photos to be downloaded) then Download Buttons was enabled; if Originals wasn't on, then Download Buttons was disabled.

anglotexian · July 21, 2015

Thanks LEFTQUARK… I appreciate the explanation and suggestion to use gallery bulk settings in each folder. That will save me some time at least.

leftquark · July 21, 2015

anglotexian wrote: »

Thanks LEFTQUARK… I appreciate the explanation and suggestion to use gallery bulk settings in each folder. That will save me some time at least.

I realize this isn't exactly the most elegant, or the smartest approach, but if you did want Downloads Buttons off permanently, for all galleries, you could add the following CSS to your "All Galleries" to hide the download button:

/* Hide the download gallery button */
.sm-gallery .sm-gallery-download-button {
  display: none !important;
}

DOWNLOAD ALL Site-Wide Switch

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