What you really need is a Plugin to provide the functionality, regardless of what Theme you’re using. That sort of functionality is definitely Plugin territory.
The reason you’re probably not having much luck finding a Theme to suit your needs is that Themes just aren’t likely to provide this functionality, unless you have one custom-developed.
Plug-In, Theme, I’ll settle for either; lots of great themes out there i’d love to be able to integrate this feature into. But you’re right, I haven’t searched for plug ins…maybe I’ll try that.
It was just very frustrating because photocrati was all over my questions before I bought the theme, and then when I did and realized it didn’t work, they were silent on ideas, solutions, anything. No response at all to my queries until I asked for a refund, then they just sent me a link to fill out a request. At least TELL me you have no clue. But to just ignore customers problems is bad business and left me with a bad impression.
Hey Robert,
I was troubled to see your email as we generally pride ourselves on our service. I just checked into it, and something seems off. Perhaps you’re not receiving our responses (ie, they are going to your spam folder)?
When you asked about compatibility with emember before your purchase, I’m showing that we responded: “Robert, We can’t guarantee how third-party plugins will work with Photocrati as we don’t have control over them. Many do, some don’t. That one may work OK as it shouldn’t impact the galleries.”
Also, I did see your multiple questions on February 28th about the theme not working with emember, with a response to each of your questions from our support staff the next day on March 1. Among the responses, we directed you to our help topic articles on password protecting galleries in WordPress. I can also see that you responded that was not what you are looking for.
I’m thinking from your post above that you wanted a more sophisticated login functionality for clients, and that you’re not happy because we don’t offer it. To be fair, though, I don’t think we were silent, except to say that we don’t offer password protection functionality beyond what’s included in WordPress. And we don’t offer special support to ensure compatibility with other third-party plugins.
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Regardless, since our solution didn’t work for you, I’m glad we were able to get you a refund. It may be difficult to find gallery management plugin that also includes the kind of login functionality you are looking for. You might try searching the WP.org plugin database for login redirect plugins, and consider pairing one of those with another third party gallery system like NextGen.
I do wish you the absolute best of luck.
Warmest wishes,
Erick, Photocrati Founder
