Create an album to showcase photographs from an event, share artwork or highlights from a trip. The images can be quickly uploaded in bulk (up to 99 in an album) and can be viewed as a slideshow by visitors to your site.
NB You will need create a Photo Gallery before you can add an album.
Creating an Album
- Locate and open the gallery that you would like to add a photo album onto.
- Select Album from the Create tab.
- A blank photo album template will appear.
- Give the photo album a title by directly clicking on the New Photo Album text or by clicking on the Edit tab and in the Title field, type the photo album title.
- Add a description by placing your cursor in the content area and typing over the default text.
- You may wish to include elements from the Editor Ribbon
Uploading Photo Album Images
- Scroll to the bottom of your newly created Photo Album and click the Upload Images block. A window will appear displaying files on your machine.
- In this window, navigate to the folder containing the images you would like to upload and select the appropriate images. You can highlight more than one file to upload several at one time, a maximum of 99 images.
- Click on the image and press Open.
Image Tools
Reorder Photo Album Images
- With your mouse, left click on the image that you would like to move.
- Drag the image to its new position within the photo album.
Note: You can only reorder images within the same photo album. Images cannot be dragged to another photo album.
Set a Thumbnail Image
- Click on the first icon to set the image as a thumbnail that will appear in the gallery for this album. From the Edit tab, the Thumbnail icon will update to reflect the change.
Rotate an Album Image
- If your image is not displayed in the correct orientation, click on the rotate icons until it is the correct way up.
Setting a Title & Description for an Image
- Click the i icon at the top of the image, you can then type the Title and Description.
Deleting a Photo Album Image
- Hover your mouse cursor over the image you would like to delete.
- Click the delete icon The image will instantly be removed from your website.
Useful Album Settings
From the Album Editor Toolbar, you can access a number of useful settings.
Setting the album date
You can amend the display date for your album. This will show on the album thumbnail in the gallery, and will affect the order of the albums.
- Select the Edit Tab> Date
- Use the date picker to select the display date
Setting album archive & publish dates
The archive option allows you to remove an item, so that is no longer publicly accessible on your website, without permanently deleting it. The page can then be edited and re-published later on. You can also use these features to archive or publish an item on a future date.
Schedule an Item to Publish or Archive
- Select Archiving from the Edit tab.
- To archive the item immediately, select Archive now or, to archive on a future date, select the calendar icon or type a date in DD/MM/YYYY format to schedule it. You can also set a time if required.
- To publish the item immediately, select Publish now or, to publish on a future date, select the calendar icon or type a date in DD/MM/YYYY format. You can also set a time if required.
Which items can be archived?
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Sharing to social media
If the social media sharing feature has been set up by your site administrator, you will be able to share your album to your social feed(s) at the same time as publishing. View the Share to Social Media article to learn how to do this.