Organising multiple galleries and setting multiple gallery home pages

[C]

Hi,

I am not needing technical support per se on this issue, but rather looking for discussion / ideas on how I might best set up a site with this plugin to accomplish what is needed.

So, here is the goal:

The site is for a photographer who is also an artist. This photographer travels to clients for photoshoots, rarely do clients come to her studio.

1-) We want password protected e-commerce galleries for each client she does a photoshoot on, where they can view proofs and order prints etc.

I have this working already, although I can’t figure out how to set the return to shopping to take the clients back to their individual gallery, especially when these other goals are also setup. There is from what I can see, only one “return to” destination that can be set.

2-) Separate from the client proofs portal, she wood like an open gallery(or more likely categorized galleries as her portfolio grows) where she can sell random photo prints – like stock photos.

3-) And finally, separate again, a gallery or categorized galleries as her needs grow, where she can display and sell her art.

Here is what I am leaning toward so far:

A page displaying the thumbnails of her Fine Art galleries.

A page displaying the thumbnails of her Stock Photo Prints galleries.

A page that contains simple links to each of the client proof protected gallery page, no thumbnail needed.

There appears to be only one global setting for the “home gallery” page (i.e.: I can’t control which galleries show on that page, the proofs galleries need to be more private) and only one global setting for the continue shopping page. How would I send people interested in stock photo prints back to the stock photo galleries page and the fine art customers back to the fine art gallery page, and proof customers somewhere else? for example?

Thanks for any insight!

[Peter]

Hi,

You have made some good points.

One which I think will improve the photo seller is to have a special shortcode which will display the galleries of your choice.

I will look at the code to see if such a shortcode can be easily added.

How would I send people interested in stock photo prints back to the stock photo galleries page and the fine art customers back to the fine art gallery page, and proof customers somewhere else? for example?

I think for this we could change the current behaviour of the photo seller and make it so that the visitor can go back to the last gallery viewed instead of a fixed global setting such as the current way of doing it.

[C]

Hi Peter,

Just wondering if any progress has been made on this possibility?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

ps> how do I change my registered email address? The one I signed up, would like all mail to go elsewhere.

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