Once your photos are in place, Gallery settings is where you decide what your gallery is called, how it looks, who can see it, and who can help. It’s one click from the Builder, and nothing here is permanent — you can come back and change any of it.
the tabs across the top
The first choice on the tab, and it quietly sets everything else: what the fields below are called, what the date line under the name means, and what visitors can leave you.
Pick A hero and a second row appears — a person or a pet, living or remembered. That inner choice tunes the tone and decides which awards visitors are offered. A wedding or a journey doesn’t need it, so it isn’t shown.
A hero
A wedding
A journey
Something else
four kinds
Four fields build the masthead, and a live preview right beneath them shows the result as you type — you never have to save and go look.
A lead-in is optional words before the name (“Our Wild”, “In memory of”). The name is the star, shown emphasized. A second name turns it into a pair honored together, joined by an ampersand. Then an optional tagline and an italic header quote beneath.
The header divider is the small line-and-diamond rule; you can put it above the quote, below it, or turn it off.
Header preview
Our Wild Maggie
2009 – 2024
fifteen years of muddy paws
“She was never once on a lead.”
the live preview, as you type
Page 1’s title and intro aren’t here. They moved to the Builder — the “Page 1 header” block at the very top — so that every page’s header is edited in the same place. Pages 2 and up get theirs from their page break.
There’s also a footer text field for a line at the very bottom of the gallery, and a checkbox that adds a quiet “next page →” link at the foot of each page — worth turning on once your gallery runs to more than one.
A second checkbox turns the page links at the top of your gallery into a strip of thumbnails, each page shown by its own featured photo. It suits a gallery whose pages are chapters — readers can see where they’re going instead of only reading it — and like the link above, it needs more than one page. Your Awards and Testimonials pages stay as plain text links beneath it: the strip is for chapters.
A theme re-skins the whole gallery — its colors, its type, everything. Pick one, look at it, pick another. Nothing about your photographs, captions or writing changes when you switch, so there’s no cost to trying them all.
If you’re making something quiet, Heirloom and Midnight Velvet are the gentlest. All eighteen are laid out on the themes page.
Heirloom
Midnight Velvet
Harbor
Golden Hour
Garden Party
Ellis
six of the eighteen
The Sharing tab always names your gallery’s current state in plain words, so you know who can find it before you touch anything.
Every gallery starts at “Link only.” That is a real, safe place to stay — anyone you send the link to gets in, and search engines are told not to list it. Being findable in search is something you switch on deliberately, never something that happens to you.
the ladder, widest last
The same tab holds two narrower ways to share. A group is a small private circle — most often a family — where members share galleries with each other and nobody else. A group only ever lists public galleries, so a password-protected one is never shown there, and the tab says so beside the toggle.
If you turn In search on, a keywords field appears — a few comma-separated words describing your hero, like a breed, a place, or what they loved. They help the right people find the gallery and are used nowhere else; leave it blank and nothing is lost.
You can also offer your gallery for the homepage. It’s an open invitation rather than an application: only a small hand-picked selection appears, and it rotates. Setting a viewing password withdraws the offer automatically.
public galleries only
Your gallery has its own invite link. Anyone who signs up with it can add, caption and arrange photos — but never touch these settings. Helping is free, permanently: there’s no clock on a collaborator and nothing for them to buy.
You can email the invite directly instead of copying the link, and the panel keeps a record of every invite with its status. Regenerate the link or remove someone at any time.
one link, and who used it
Your gallery can carry two extra pages, and you decide whether either exists. Visitors can give a curated award, or leave a written note — called Testimonials on a gallery like yours.
Nothing appears until you approve it. Everything arrives here first, and you can approve, hide, or delete it. You’re emailed when something lands — immediately, or as one daily digest, your choice.
This tab is also where you write your own note about your hero, choose which awards your gallery offers, and invent custom awards of your own.
How the notes are laid out is set here too. Two columns look better with a handful; one column reads better once there are many, because a long list in two columns runs all the way down the first before starting the second, and the dates jump back in time halfway across the page. Left on Automatic it switches for you as the page fills, and you can pin either if you’d rather choose.
Best Friend from Jordan ✓
“She met me at the door every day for eleven years.”
held for your approval, always
At the foot of the first tab, under Advanced, is your gallery’s web address. You can change it — but every link anyone has already saved or sent stops working the moment you do. If your gallery is out in the world, leave it alone.
changing this breaks existing links
usually right to leave alone
The last tab deletes this gallery and its photos. It asks you to type the gallery’s name and enter your password, because it cannot be undone.
Your account survives, along with any other galleries you own. Closing the account itself is a separate thing, on My account — and before you do either, you can download every photograph you’ve uploaded, at full quality, with all of its captions and dates.
This removes the gallery and all of its photos. It can’t be undone.
two confirmations, on purpose
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