FAQ

CTM stands for Category Thumbnail Manager. It is my new plugin/script for Coppermine Photo Gallery that allows you to quickly add and change custom icons/thumbnails to the main directory categories of your gallery like this. It will be released in February 2020.

If you don’t see the plugin and you uploaded it, you may not have plugins enabled.

Login to your Coppermine gallery.
Go to Config > General Settings > Manage Plugins > Enable plugins (tick box on) > Save.
You should now see Category Thumbnails appear on your admin menu.

The CTM plugin comes with an instructions.html page. Simply click on the document and follow the step by step instructions.

I recommend purchasing and using CTM. If for whatever reason that is not possible you can follow this tutorial. It takes a little more time and fussing around but it gets the job done:Basic Instructions For Setting Up Main Category Icons in Coppermine – Without CTM Plugin

Login to your Coppermine gallery.

Config > Thumbnails settings > Use dimension (set to: Exact) > Height and Width set to your new size > Save.

You will most likely need to have Coppermine re-recreate your thumbnails so they are not stretched out.

Both Coppermine 1.5x and 1.6x are done the same way.

Login to Coppermine.

Directions for Coppermine 1.5x
Admin Tools > Update thumbs and/or resized photos > Tick on: Both resized and full sized (if an original copy is available) > Number of processed images per click (set to 30) > Tick on: Auto refresh (no need to click continue button anymore) > Select album below > Submit

Directions for Coppermine 1.6x
Admin Tools > Update thumbs and/or resized photos > Only Thumbnails (OR “Both resized and full sized” if you use both) > Select album below > Submit

*If you go to “Config” you can see what version of Coppermine you are running on the top of the page.

So this is the tutorial to set icons without CTM. Have you followed and your icons are not showing up? Make sure you check through this list of common issues.

1. Make sure you create your “icon” album under each main category and not a sub category.
2. Make sure that album is set to “public” and not private. If you are using Coppermine 1.6x you can no longer view thumbnails or images from private albums starting with this version. So making your album private will not display your icons.
3. Make sure once you set your icon in the “Category” section you hit “Update/Create Category” at the bottom of the screen before switching to another page.

First make sure the option is turned on.

Go to your config > Album list view > Albums can be private: tick on > Save New Configuration.

Then create your album. Go to Album Properties > Album can be viewed by: Me Only > Update Album.

No one else should be able to see your private albums if they are done this way.

If you don’t see your private albums, you may not have them enabled.

Login to your Coppermine gallery.
Go to Config > General Settings > Album list view (tick box on) > Save.
You should now private albums as the admin.

With CTM you can put your custom icons into a private album and set them as category icons!

There are a lot of little problems that can happen when setting your Coppermine icon using the plugin (and even without the plugin) that have nothing to do with the plugin or the icons you’ve made. If you see the icon displayed in CTM next to the category you chose, the plugin is working and the problem is to do with your theme.

Here are a list of common problems that share a similar solution:

• There’s a border around my icon that’s not on my graphic, how do I get rid of it?

• My thumbnail size in Coppermine is set to 125×150 but they are showing up on the main page as 75×90. (numbers may vary)

• The thumbnail is not showing up at all once I set it in CTM or manually in the category section.

Step One: Open your style.css file for your Coppermine theme in a text editor (ie. notepad, editpad, etc.). If you are not too familiar with code I recommend making a copy of your style.css as is and save it elsewhere to restore

Step Two: Find (ctrl F or CMD F are shortcodes to find) “catrow” or “thumbnail” or “images” sometimes they will be on the same row. as seen below (yours will differ). I have mine set on the same row so the styling only effects the thumbnails on the category row:

.catrow .image {
margin-right: 15px;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 90px;
height: auto;
border: 2px solid #000000!important;

Step Three: Each theme is coded differently so this is just a little assistance I am offering to help.
– In the example above the width is shrinking the thumbnail image down to 90px. I would remove the width and height all together or set it to your set icon size.

– In the example above there is a margin set on the right that gives spacing between the icon and the category. You can add/remove this to your code or alter the number to increase or decrease the spacing.

– Your code may show something like display:none;. This will keep the icon from displaying so remove it.

– You may have a border you want to get rid of or alter. If the border is displayed in code as seen above you would just alter the border from 0 to turn off or increase the 2px to increase the border size. If you don’t see border settings there but your icon still has borders follow the next step.

Step Three – Part A: Find (ctrl F or CMD F are shortcodes to find) “.image” or the word “image”. Again, coding may vary depending on the theme creator. You should see a code area for image (see below). You can change the size from 2px to a higher number to increase the border or set it to 0 to remove the border. You can also delete the line altogether. This is also where you would set the border color (ie. #000000).

.image {
border: 2px solid #000000;

Please note that changing the “.image” or “image” css will effect all of your thumbnails.

Step Four: Save and upload the file to replace the old one. Check your gallery now. See the changes. You may need to go back in and play with the code some more to get it to look how you want.

Hope that helps!

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Once you have created the icon you will save it one of two ways.

Saving a Regular Icon: File > Save For Web > Choose .JPG or .PNG > Set Quality to 100% > Save.

Saving a Transparent Icon: File > Save For Web > Choose .PNG > Tick ON the Transparency Box > Save.

Remember, if your icon contains a transparent background, you will see a checkered white and grey background on the transparency part in photoshop. If you do not see this, you have not turned that layer off (click the eye to the left of the layer to hide the layer).

Simply click on the eye icon to the left of the layer to turn the layer on and off. This is also how you turn effects (ie. drop shadow, color overlay, etc.) on the layer as well.