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Categories and sub-categories take the thumbnail from the gallery or sub-category in the # 1 position. ie. top left position You can pick which gallery is the source using the arrange galleries to move them to the #1 position. The feature photo for the gallery can be set using the instructions here: ...

Currently, your best bet would be to leave the galleries as unlisted (with the "hello world" and "hello smuggers" settings turned off in the Gallery Settings to make sure searches don't show them) and then create a sharegroup containing those galleries. Here's the SmugMug help page on Sharegroups: http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93261 ...

Your galleries can be secured on an individual basis. The security can range from marking the gallery as unlisted or enabling a password or both. I mark my personal galleries as unlisted and usually file them under the family category so I can find them later, but place all client work as public galleries that are passworded when necessary.

What you'd like to do goes against what the display of categories on the homepage is for. Displaying of categories on the homepage keeps your homepage cleaner by not listing each gallery and thus each category is only displayed once. To view the content of a category, a visitor can click on the category. If you'd like all galleries displayed on the ...

The above advice are good options. I want to add that if all of the galleries in a category are passworded, then the category will appear to be passworded. Once the password is entered by the visitor, all of the galleries inside will be accessible as long as that cookie is valid. The default is about 2 weeks if I remember correctly. Making all of the ...

If you make a gallery public, visitors to your site or any of your galleries can browse to it. So if you didn't want visitors to be able to view your family galleries, you could make them unlisted. Then use a sharegroup to combine your family galleries to be able to easily share them with family members. Check out the sharegroup help page for more details on ...

Category-level security controls would solve many common use cases. Sharegroups, password-protected galleries, site-wide passwords, and unlisted galleries all come with their own set of problems and limitations. I wrote a skeleton proposal for a more cohesive security and privacy implementation that also includes category-level security controls, along ...