A friend of mine has his photos on a Zenfolio site and wants to make some new photos downloadable at no charge for parents. I presume that the parents will be more comfortable if the whole world can’t see the photos, so here’s some instructions for setting up a Zenfolio gallery (set of photos) that only people who have the gallery’s web address and password can access. Once they’re viewing the photos those people can put their mouse over the left hand side of any photo to download the photo or the whole set.
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Step 1
On the left hand side of the Zenfolio edit page create a new gallery, click on the triangle, and then click on “hide from visitors”. It will say “show to visitors” when it’s hidden. This means that your commercial site won’t be cluttered up with personal stuff.
Step 2
On the right of the Zenfolio page click Edit under Access Control.
Untick “same as containing group”.
Click “locked with password” and type the password twice. If you enter a hint it will be visible to the parents.
Step 3
Select “allow downloading”
Step 4
Click “Do not include photos and videos…”
Untick “Include in the Recently Added…”
Step 5
Click save, then on the right hand side of the edit window right click on the orange URL (the web address that starts with “http”). Select Copy Link Location (or something similar – it’s different in each web browser). Paste the URL into an email and send it, along with the password, to the parents after you’ve uploaded the photos.
What is the result of all this? Only people who have the web address and password can view the photos. Anyone who can view the photos can download them by putting their mouse over the left hand side of any photo.
Practical Computing 