If you want to share galleries and photos without your branding or custom URL, you can enable Hide Owner in your gallery settings. This feature removes account owner information and displays the gallery with a generic SmugMug appearance. It also prevents navigating back to the rest of your public site from within that gallery.
Enable Hide Owner
- Step 1: Open your Gallery Settings.
- Step 2: Go to the Security & Sharing tab.
- Step 3: Toggle Hide Owner to On.
When you enable Hide Owner, the following changes will be applied to your gallery:
- Generic URL: Your gallery's URL will no longer include your nickname or custom domain. Instead, it will revert to a generic SmugMug URL.
- SmugMug Header: The SmugMug header will appear at the top of the gallery, replacing your customized site header.
- No Breadcrumbs: Visitors will no longer see breadcrumbs for navigating back to your folder and homepage, preventing them from exploring other galleries.
- Default Right-click Message: The default right-click message will display instead of your custom message, if your using one. (Power, Portfolio and Pro plans)
- Coupons Disabled: If you are on the Pro plan, any coupons applied to this gallery will no longer work.
- Hidden Keywords: Your keywords will be hidden and won’t be searchable by visitors.
- Events and Favorites Disabled: For Pro plan users, the ability to favorite photos within an event will be disabled when Hide Owner is active.
You'll see the banner at the top of the gallery telling you that hide owner is on.
Visitors won't see that banner. Here's the logged out view of a gallery with Hide Owner turned on:
And here's that gallery with hide owner turned off.
