SmugMug has raised the length limit on video from 10 minutes to 20 minutes. With a 1 GB size limit, I think this makes more sense. However, it’s still 2 minutes short of a 64 MB, 22 minute reunion video I need to upload! But I’ll take whatever we can get!

This announcement comes shortly after a long-awaited feature that allows pro users to sell videos as well as photos a few days ago.

Related SmugMug Help Docs:

• Sell Digital Downloads
  http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93346
• Uploading Videos
  http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93302

Related articles

• New Video Downloads: Shoot, Sell and Share (news.smugmug.com)

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This tutorial is the second of a 2 part series and builds on How-to add a SmugMug website link to your wordpress.com navigation menu in Part 1. Be sure to check part one if you are having problems understanding the following tutorial.

By now, you should understand how to add a basic link to your Top Navigation Menu. Adding child-links to a sub-menu requires only one extra step and adding “grand” child links is an extra one or two simple steps. However, not all links to your SmugMug website will give you the results you might expect. So we’ll go over WordPress’s compatibility with transitioning to the features of SmugMug.

Let’s start with links to a sub-menu.

Go ahead and add all the links you want in your menu exactly as explained in Part 1. After deciding which links you want as the primary menu links, drag and drop the other child links until they are nested (with an indention) under the chosen primary links.

Below is a screencast of the above steps. I’m playing around with different software right now so this is a beginner’s best effort at screencasting. I apologize if it’s a bit “shaky”!

As far as linking to different SmugMug pages, you can easily link to the following:

• categories
• galleries
• lightbox photos and videos
• Flash Slideshow
• Batch Buy / Shopping Cart

Most of your feeds are also linkable. However, a KML feed link will initialize a file download to the computer. Instead, you may want to link to the SmugMug Map View.

Related articles

• How-To: Adding a SmugMug Site Link to a WordPress Menu (Part 1) (smugmughugs.wordpress.com)
• How-To: SmugMug RSS Photo Widget in WordPress.com Blogs (smugmughugs.wordpress.com)
• Smugmug Videos using oEmbed on WordPress.com Blogs (smugmughugs.wordpress.com)
• WordPress.com Custom Links Support Documentation (support.wordpress.com/menus)

September 26, 2011

Today’s guest post is by sports shooter and Smugger David Evertsen of Phabulous Photos. Any event shooter understands how tricky it is to manage and organize large volumes of files, particularly when parents, friends and fans are beating down the door to see photos and buy prints. Since the fall sports season is ramping up, we thought this post would help you manage your workflow and feed happier customers. Here’s how he used a program called Photo Mechanic and SmugMug’s Smart Galleries to give his fans the pictures they want to see.

by David Evertsen

via Photog Tip of the Week: Sell Smarter with Smart Galleries by David Evertsen « The SmugMug Blog.