Directory Structure and Verotel

The old version of my photo gallery website uses Soholaunch with the Verotel payment gateway integrated.

For those that don’t know Soholaunch, I installed Verotel’s htaccess file successfully by creating a duplicate of the theme, called (for the sake of convenience) theme1_my_version_for_members, and then directing the members’ area to that that theme which was protected in its own directory by Verotel’s htaccess file.

Now Soholaunch has a drawback. It gets full and then the entire admin software just hangs. So it’s new software time, and after reading up on various options I have had to dump the ideas of Joomla (because it doesn’t support Verotel), Piwigo (because the directory structure is c**p) and Gallery2 (which is boring and rather rigid and doesn’t support Flash, although it would support Verotel).

Several people have recommended WordPress.

So the questions are:

• “If I create a members’ area directory somewhere beneath wp_content, can I protect it with a Verotel htaccess file?”

“Assuming it’s fine, can anyone show me an example of a good thumbnail gallery site written in WordPress please?”

Any help would be appreciated please.

Things that can’t change:

Hosting – Webfusion in the UK (avoids 18USC2257 problems);
Payment gateway – Verotel supports adult content, has a Dutch based, English speaking, Euro time zone support centre and no monthly fees.

Present website: http://www.bd-company.co.uk (includes adult content – you have been warned)

Thanks

Barney

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