Admin Gallery Navigator

The Gallery Navigator gives you a bird's-eye view of your entire gallery structure in one place. Instead of scrolling through a flat list in the WordPress admin, you can see parent-child relationships, search across all galleries, and drag to reorder — all from a single popup.

Opening the Navigator

1. Go to Sunshine Photo Cart > Galleries in your WordPress admin
2. Click the Gallery Navigator button at the top of the gallery list

The navigator opens as a popup overlay on top of your current page:

Navigating Your Galleries

The navigator displays your galleries as a collapsible tree. Top-level galleries appear first, and any gallery with sub-galleries has an arrow you can click to expand and see its children.

• Click the arrow next to a gallery name to expand or collapse its sub-galleries
• Each gallery shows the number of images and number of sub-galleries it contains
• Status icons indicate if a gallery is password-protected (lock icon), private (eye icon), draft, or expired

Searching Galleries

The search bar at the top of the navigator lets you find any gallery instantly.

1. Type a gallery name (or part of it) into the search field
2. Results appear immediately as you type
3. Each result shows a breadcrumb trail so you can see where the gallery sits in your hierarchy (e.g., "2024 Events › Smith Wedding › Ceremony")
4. Click Clear to return to the full tree view

Reordering Galleries

You can change the display order of galleries within the same level by dragging and dropping.

1. Hover over the drag handle (three horizontal lines) on the left side of a gallery
2. Click and drag the gallery to its new position
3. Release to drop it in place — the new order saves automatically

Notes

• The navigator loads sub-galleries on demand, so it stays fast even with hundreds of galleries.
• Reordering only works within the same parent level. To move a gallery to a different parent, edit the gallery directly.
• Expired galleries appear faded to help you identify them at a glance.