secure albums behind portal?

Hi there!

Thanks for writing in!

It sounds like you could add your Envira gallery or album to a standard WordPress page, and then, right near the publish widget in the top right of the page, where it says “Visibility,” change the option from public to password-protected. You can set your password then. Of course, this would be a universal password — meaning, if you want, say, three clients to access this page with the gallery on it, all three would have the same password to do so.

Envira’s password-protection addon will do what you want, too. It’s part of our Gallery Plus subscription.

There’s also a number of other password-protection plugins you could try, but this isn’t specific to Envira, so we don’t have any recommendations for any in particular.

Hello,
Thank you for the response.

Setting the page of the gallery/album to private and setting a password doesn’t quite achieve what I’m wanting to do.

For one thing– to do that with several albums/galleries to have on a Client Gallery page– for customers to access their proper photos– creates a visible list of log ins that don’t have names or ability to identify which album is which.
Along with that thought– it creates a list of album/gallery logs in. The photographer doesn’t want anything visible to indicate basically how many customers she has.

The desired layout that she would like is–
Customer lands on Client Gallery page– where there then would be one input for user name and one input for password.

When username and password are entered- they then match to the proper gallery or album associated, which then opens and renders for them.

I’m not finding any way for that to be possible.
And I’m not sure how to build that– to grab what I need from Envira Gallery to make it work.

Really, all it would be is conditionals to then render the proper album.
Could easily do so in something like React, but using WP for easier use for the photographer to add photos, etc when she wants/needs.

I’m not finding a way to achieve this in WP with Envira Gallery.

Any thought for the desired structure?
Thank you,
Lee

Hi, Lee!

It sounds like you’re looking for some kind of dynamic feature that searches and renders a gallery/album upon the successful entry of a certain username/password combination, one that is associated with a particular gallery or set of galleries. If I’m understanding you correctly, that’s not currently something that Envira supports, but it is something that I’d be happy to add to our developers’ feature-request list.

There’s no guarantee it’ll be implemented, but I can assure you it’ll be reviewed and discussed.

Please let me know if I’m misreading you.

@atdugan

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, that sounds like what my client would like for her site.

Upon entry of username/password combination- that associated to a partiuclary gallery or album, for a client of the photogrpaher to then view.

I know a permalink could be sent to the clients, but that takes away from the website a bit in its functionality.

It would be a nice feature for Envira Gallery to add. I’ve been trying to think abotu how to make that happen on my own, but I’m hesitant to do so due to the security measures that would need to be in place.

I hope it would be something seriously considered.

Thank you again.
Lee