How To Add A New Album Product
This article will guide you through the process of adding and customizing a new album product (photo set) on your ModelX website.
Step 1
Navigate to your website and log in with your admin account. You can access the Login page by clicking the member icon in the top right corner of your website.
After clicking the icon, you will find yourself on the login screen. There, enter your username or email into the Username or email field, your password into the Password field, and press Sign in.
Note: You can find your admin login details in one of the support tickets in the Vicetemple client area. If you’re not sure where to find them, feel free to send us a message over live chat.
After logging in, click on your website’s name in the admin toolbar at the top.
Scroll down the page and locate the Photo Sets option in the sidebar on the left, hover over it, and select Add New when the menu appears.
Step 2
Once the Add new album page loads, enter a title for your album into the Album name input field.
Step 3
Locate the Product data section, which includes all the album product-related options, such as Payment type, Photos, Photos (preview), and Download – to name some of them.
Under the Payment type option, select one of the three available ways for your members to access the album:
- Free — the album will be accessible immediately, for all website visitors,
- Paid — the album will become accessible for a member after they buy it,
- Suscription — the album will be accessible only for members with active subscriptions.
Selecting Free will display a new option — Only for registered — that will let you choose whether the album product will be available to all visitors or only registered members.
Switch on the toggle to make the album product free only for your registered members.
Note: Not to be confused with subscription products that require members to pay to access your content. The product will be free and accessible the moment a member logs into the site.
Selecting Paid will display a new input field — Price — where you can specify how much you want to charge for the album (1) and checkbox — Free for membership — to make it available to your active subscribers (2).
Note: Enabling the Free for membership checkbox will effectively give your members two ways to access the product: on-demand (direct purchase for a set price) or monthly subscription.
Selecting Subscription has no additional options. Products with this payment type can be accessed only by members with active subscriptions.
Step 4
Upload the images you want to add to the album by clicking the Photos option’s upload button. Once the Photos popup opens, choose the Upload files tab.
Then, click the Select Files button to upload the images from your device.
Note: The image files should contain only alphanumeric symbols (A to Z and 0 to 9), hyphens (-), and underscores (_) to avoid potential errors.
Once the images are uploaded, select them in the Media Library tab by clicking on their thumbnails, then click Select in the bottom right corner. Selected images will have a check mark in the top right corner (✓). Please note that the library will only display the supported formats (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp, .gif).
These files will be immediately available if the payment type is set to Free. Otherwise, a member will only see the preview version until they purchase the full version or subscribe, based on your settings for the album.
Step 5
Repeat the instructions from Step 4 for the Photos (preview) field and select images from the Media Library tab to add a preview version of the album.
Visitors will see the preview images as snippets of what the album contains until they pay to unlock the full version added to the Photos field.
We recommend adding non-explicit photos to the preview version with the model clothed or with their private parts blurred or censored.
Step 6
Choose whether you want your members to be able to download the full album by setting the Download field to Yes or No, respectively.
If you disable downloading, the theme will hide the Download button from the album’s page and prevent your members from accessing the files directly, thus preventing them from downloading the album.
Disclaimer: The ModelX theme incorporates the latest download prevention measures to stop users from claiming content from your site without your consent. However, we cannot guarantee that advanced users with extensive backgrounds in development won’t be able to find workarounds and download the images due to the innate nature of browser caching and image display technologies.
Step 7
After uploading the images, we recommend assigning categories to your album to allow for easier filtering on the website. This step is optional.
Existing Category
To add an existing category, click the input field under Categories and select one or more desired categories from the drop-down list.
New Category
To add a new category, open the Categories page linked under Photo Sets in a new browser tab.
On the Photo Categories page, enter the name of your new category into the Name field, and click the Add New Photo Category button further below.
Then, switch back to the Add new album page and click the Save Draft button in the top right section.
Saving your changes will refresh the page, and the newly-added category will become available in the Categories drop-down. Then, follow the Existing Category instructions above to apply that category to the album.
Step 8
Write a description for your album in the Description field, to provide context and improve your website’s SEO. This step is optional.
The field features a text editor that supports numerous features, including, but not limited to, text formatting, media files, and links.
Step 9
Select a page layout template from the Content block drop-down to structure your product page’s design and features. The ModelX theme comes with one premade template for album products, named Album. You are free to add and use as many templates as you like.
Step 10
Locate the Album image section on the right and click the Set album image link to set a cover image for the album. To upload that image, repeat the process described under Step 4.
The minimum dimensions for the album image are 400 x 270 pixels, while the recommended dimensions are 800 x 540 pixels or larger.
Step 11
Click the Publish button in the top right section.
The album is now available on your site.
