In gallery thumbnails and photo pages, there is a Share button displayed that your site visitors can use to share the link to the page on their social media pages. This is a great way to allow others to publicize your work and is a great tool for marketing your site.
When used, only the link to gallery or photo page is shared. This cannot be used to share a copy of the your images with others. It also does not allow others to download your images for free.
For more information on how you, the photographer, can share links to your galleries, please click HERE.
Hiding the Share Button
If desired, the photographer can choose to hide the Share button. Please note however, that clients can still share the links to the gallery or photo page by copying the link to the gallery or photo page and pasting it into their social media pages.
The Share button can be disable just for specific galleries or set as the default setting for all other galleries. This can also be enabled or hidden at anytime.
You can go to Customize your Website View and remove the Share button from your galleries by following these steps:
- In your account, go to Photos.
- Navigate to the desired Gallery under the Organizer.
- Hover the mouse pointer over Preview then click on Customize.
The page will refresh with Customize Website View displayed at the top, confirming that you are in the customization mode.
For Zenfolio users that signed up after May 10 2018, please see the updated instructions below
- In your account, go to Photos.
- Navigate to the desired Gallery under the Organizer.
- Click on Preview.
- In the Customize view, click on Edit
- Then choose Page from the dropdown menu that appears
The page will refresh with customization tools displayed at the top, confirming that you are in the customization mode.
- Go to Options.
- Un-check the box Use Default Settings For Layout, Theme, and Options if necessary.
- Go to the Page Elements tab
- Select Hide next to Share button.
- Click Apply.
- Publish your changes before exiting Customize Website View to make those changes live on your site.
You can then also choose to make this gallery thumbnails page's setting as the default for all other gallery thumbnails page by clicking Save as Default before Publishing the changes.
You may also want to do this for your individual photo pages. As with the Thumbnails page, this is done by first going to Customize Website View.
Click HERE to see the instructions for how to hide the Share button in the gallery's Quick Shop page.
The instructions below cover how to hide the share button in Photo Pages (which are displayed in non-selling galleries).
- In Customize Website View, click on Gallery Thumbnails in the top left corner then click on Gallery Photos in the menu that appears.
- Go to Options
- Un-check the box Use Default Settings For Layout, Theme, and Options if necessary.
- Go to the Page Elements tab
- Select Hide next to Share button.
- Click Apply.
- Publish your changes before exiting Customize Website View to make those changes live on your site.
Again, you can then click Save as Default to apply this to all your photo pages.
Please Click here for more information on setting your page options for your Photo pages.