hum, is my questions not clear? Still hoping someone will ring in…thank you.
Yes it is possible to password protect albums. There are 3 available options.
1. Simply create a new post, insert your gallery into the post using the nggallery shorthand code and set a password for that post.
Easy and quick!
2. Simply create a new page, insert your gallery into the page using the nggallery shorthand code and set a password for that page. Take it a step further and make a custom page template to further customize the look of your album. See ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates ) for more info on making page templates.
3. Manually edit the NexGen Gallery Themes and integrate the wordpress user system right in! It’s just as quick as the above options. Simply drop in a few lines of code to check if the user is logged in, if not then user will not see the album. See ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in ) for more info
Thanks for you reply, however, I have a gallery page here:
http://kielhurn.com/?page_id=22
and can easily add another album/gallery to it, the one I want to password protect, but I dont see where to add a password to it???
Appreciate your reply.
No, currently you can’t password protected a album. It require more rework for that
@pkprague
Follow the instructions I provided above. This will work, and is the only work-around!
http://i43.tinypic.com/2a94ish.png – View Example
hum, conflicting reports, both inputs appreciated. NexGen is so good yet has overlooked this simply functionality?
OK, Colfer is correct, however, here is my new problem. I created a gallery page, and only from the page can I password protect. If I add a new gallery album, it wants to password protect the whole gallery page, when I only want to protect one particular album, not all of them.
When trying to passwowrd protect just one album, the option is not there, it is only there if you want to protect the entire page???
If you look here: http://kielhurn.com/?page_id=22
I ONLY want to password protect the last one, called family….the other ones can remain public, but when I go to the page entitled Gallery, I see the option to protect the entire page….only!
Make individual pages for individual albums. (ex. make 7 pages, password protect only 1)
urg, that means I must have a page for the one gallery and another page for the rest of them…not ideal. I do appreciate your answers, very much.
Maybe Alex see the utility in this and will work on it? :}
in the end, I created a new page in hopes of password protecting one gallery, but all the gallerys show up there, repeating the public page as well.
Needless to say, this takes up double the space, repeating each photo. I am surprised that NexGen hasn’t this functionlity. I used to use G2, which did, and sadly, must resort back to it. I just cant post 1000 photos of my family for public viewing :{{{{ I think my siblings would sue me!
actually, this too did not work. If I created a page, passowrd protect it, it adds the gallery I want to protect to the public page as well:{
Damn, so much into NexGen and it looks like I must switch to another plgin just so I can share private photos online :{
PKPrague , did you found another plugin to solve this?
I too would be interested in having a feature that password-locks an album. Then when someone clicks on the album, it will ask for a password.
I know that Gallery2 does this (and there is a WordPress Plugin for it) but I find that program to be overkill in how it sets up. My client wants some easier tools than that and NEXTGen is the closest I can find.
