Is anyone else using EasySocial for a Photography Club?
By Dan on Thursday, 04 June 2020
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I'd be interested to share ideas and solutions here with others who might be using a Stack Ideas setup, specifically ES, ED and EB for a Photography Club.

I am currently putting together a Private Members site for a small PhotoClub but have come across a few things I need a workaround for.

I know from some searches that John Bloomfield is involved with a Photo Club and has asked about a Featured Photos/Photographers module and/or solution. That is high on my list as well. My need right now is to post 2 "Featured Photos" on the login page, one to the left of the Login Form and one to the right. As our site is a Members only site (at the request of the members) I need to keep all exif and member data out of the photo... so, just the photo.

I am using the Fluent template and while it doesn't have a Right Module position, Arlex has provided a possible layout solution that I will be trying out later today. I'll report back if it works as far as making a Right position available, however that still doesn't solve the problem of how to get a single photo (or album) in both the Left and Right position.

I have used the Photos module however it posts tiny little thumbnails (max set to 10 in the album) and the options leave too much photographer info available to the Public, and it does not include navigation buttons.

I have used the Albums module, specifying just one album (thinking it could be a "Featured" album, but while that module includes the navigation buttons between photos, it also has a View All button... and I can't get rid of that button easily without affecting the use of the module once into the member section of the site itself.

What would be really nice is a Slideshow module, or a single photo module that could be used to populate the Left and Right positions on the login page.

Looking forward to hearing from other members of Stack Ideas who are using ES for a Club, notably one dealing with Photography.
Currently that is not possible to show only featured photo into recent photo module, but for now you can try download my attached file then replace into this file JoomlaFolder/administrator/components/com_easysocial/models/photos.php (before you replace the file you have to backup the original file first)

We will consider to add a new setting from the module which include the featured photo only.

I have used the Albums module, specifying just one album (thinking it could be a "Featured" album, but while that module includes the navigation buttons between photos, it also has a View All button... and I can't get rid of that button easily without affecting the use of the module once into the member section of the site itself.

If you want to get rid of that "View all album" button, you can apply this following css into your site backend > Easysocial > themes > custom css 



body #es.mod-es-albums .mod-es-action {

	display: none;

}
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 05 June 2020 11:00
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Currently that is not possible to show only featured photo into recent photo module, but for now you can try download my attached file then replace into this file JoomlaFolder/administrator/components/com_easysocial/models/photos.php (before you replace the file you have to backup the original file first)

I’ll try this... although I’m thinking it might be easier at this point to wait until a permanent solution is available, such as...

We will consider to add a new setting from the module which include the featured photo only.


That would be wonderful... With an option to post “X” number of photos, from 1 to X... or even better, a slideshow module that could pick out “top” photos as chosen by club members. I think this would be beneficial not only for our photo club, but for any club that is using ES as their community... sports clubs with photos from events are just another example. Is this something I posting in Feature Request?

I have used the Albums module, specifying just one album (thinking it could be a "Featured" album, but while that module includes the navigation buttons between photos, it also has a View All button... and I can't get rid of that button easily without affecting the use of the module once into the member section of the site itself.

If you want to get rid of that "View all album" button, you can apply this following css into your site backend > Easysocial > themes > custom css 



body #es.mod-es-albums .mod-es-action {

	display: none;

}

I suspect this is something I would have to do each time there is an update to ES? But won’t this affect all of the instances of the Albums module? I wouldn’t want to take the View All away from the Albums module that I use in the Photos page with registered users, but just for the Public Albums module on my login page
Dan
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Friday, 05 June 2020 17:20
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That would be wonderful... With an option to post “X” number of photos, from 1 to X... or even better,

I am not quite sure what this mean "With an option to post “X” number of photos, from 1 to X", do you mean that you would like to configure how many photo you would like to show in "Recent photo module"?


a slideshow module that could pick out “top” photos as chosen by club members. I think this would be beneficial not only for our photo club, but for any club that is using ES as their community... sports clubs with photos from events are just another example. Is this something I posting in Feature Request?

Yes, you can request this feature (slideshow photo module) under our Easysocial feature request category here https://stackideas.com/forums/easysocial-feature-requests .



I suspect this is something I would have to do each time there is an update to ES? But won’t this affect all of the instances of the Albums module? I wouldn’t want to take the View All away from the Albums module that I use in the Photos page with registered users, but just for the Public Albums module on my login page

You do not need to re-add the changes for every new update is because that section is allow site owner to add their own custom styling.

And yes, it will hide this "View all album" button from all the album module.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 05 June 2020 18:10
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I am not quite sure what this mean "With an option to post “X” number of photos, from 1 to X", do you mean that you would like to configure how many photo you would like to show in "Recent photo module"?


Yes... meaning I could choose anywhere from 1 to, say, 10 photos that would be the featured photos for showing on our login page. Preferably, such that I could set a timer for them to change every “x” number of seconds... ie where x = y seconds.

Yes, you can request this feature (slideshow photo module) under our Easysocial feature request category here https://stackideas.com/forums/easysocial-feature-requests .


Excellent. Will be sure to do that. Would love to see a slideshow feature available from StackIdeas.

You do not need to re-add the changes for every new update is because that section is allow site owner to add their own custom styling.

And yes, it will hide this "View all album" button from all the album module.


Hmmm... that changes things, because I’d want to be able to remove it for login page use of the module only. I was hoping I could make a copy of the module, publish it to the Home Page and in the Left
Option, but include the CSS in the Module options itself, not in the main file where it would affect everything.
Dan
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Friday, 05 June 2020 18:35
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Yes... meaning I could choose anywhere from 1 to, say, 10 photos that would be the featured photos for showing on our login page. Preferably, such that I could set a timer for them to change every “x” number of seconds... ie where x = y seconds.

I see, you can add this into feature request section as well, the team will usually prioritize features that are in popular demand during the development process of the next major release.

Hmmm... that changes things, because I’d want to be able to remove it for login page use of the module only. I was hoping I could make a copy of the module, publish it to the Home Page and in the Left
Option, but include the CSS in the Module options itself, not in the main file where it would affect everything.

Hmm, I did not mentioned that include above custom css into the main file.

What I mean is, you can apply those custom css code from your site backend (screenshot : https://monosnap.com/file/E6tRBocSfD16OxWhePgEXLUxa9qqBO ) so when you view the Easysocial page or module, the system will require to load this custom.css file on the page, and this custom.css file will not get affected when you update to next release version of Easysocial.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 05 June 2020 19:10
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