Prevent certain category/albums from appearing in the "random" or "most recent"?

[DjMikeWatt]

Some categories/albums may contain slightly objectionable content... I want to know if anyone's got an easy way to prevent certain categories or albums from displaying on the main page ("random" or "most recent", etc.)

[Paver]

There might be some mods as well - I know of 3 plugins that are relevant to your question (all on the plugin contributions board):
Random block - select album
Hide albums from latest & random
Enhanced hide from latest & random

Or you can password-protect or group-protect (by permissions) those albums and they won't show up to people not allowed to see them.

[DjMikeWatt]

Okay, this is probably something very simple... and I promise I looked for the answer before I decided to ask... but, I can't see how to group protect a category or album, and I would like to... I'd like to block access to the adult themed categories to registered members only.  Actually, I would really like to limit access to people who have specifically stated that they would like access to these categories, but I imagine that's probably asking a lot... so at least restricting to registered users would be a great start...

Any thoughts?

[Paver]

Permissions are only possible for albums, not categories, although it would be pretty easy to write a plugin or add-on to batch-apply permissions to categories, I think.

You can review permissions from the Groups Manager (and create new groups to handle the various permissions needs you have - users can belong to many secondary groups):
http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#group_cp

And you can set permissions for each album on the album properties page:
http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#album_prop

I'm not sure how you missed this in the documentation.  The documentation is quite useful, you know.

[DjMikeWatt]

I guess what I'm missing is this...

I still don't see how I can prevent non-registered users from viewing certain albums. 
(https://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcoppermine-gallery.net%2Fdemo%2Fcpg14x%2Fdocs%2Fpics%2Fedit_album.gif&hash=d68f037869f9b176256a0534c57e96b1e1014753)


This screenshot has "Album can be viewed by..."

My gallery does not offer this field... the first field in "permissions" is the password field.
(https://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mikewattsplayground.net%2Fmyspace%2Fpictures%2Fpic.gif&hash=2bcb9cfd2811a4cdf45639d93bd05307f38125ef)

[Paver]

Under "Files & thumbnails advanced settings", set "Albums can be private" to YES.

When you set this to NO, there is no reason to give you the option to restrict an album.

[Joachim Müller]

Erm, there is an enormous emaount of thread drift in this thread. Please post if Paver's suggestion worked for you or not. Don't ask further questions on this thread - we have a "one question per thread" policy you agreed to respect when signing up.