Business settings
Photos & your gallery
Job photos become the gallery on your website. There are two separate mechanisms for that, and mixing them up is why "I set it and nothing happened".
This applies to both workflows
What are the two workflows?This is the feature nobody discovers on their own: photos your crew takes on jobs become the gallery on your website. An ops action produces a marketing asset, and nothing in the product hints at the connection.
The path
- 1A driver photographs the job in the app.
- 2Each photo is labelled. Junk removal:
beforeandafter. Dumpster rental:deliveryandpickup. - 3A before and an after of the same job form a pair.
- 4You feature the pair.
- 5It appears in your website gallery.
A photo needs a labelled partner
An unpaired photo never reaches the gallery. If a job has three "after" shots and no "before", none of them will show, whatever you tick. This is the usual reason a gallery looks emptier than the job list suggests.
There are TWO galleries, and they are not the same thing
This catches people out, because both produce what looks like the same result on the same part of the page.
| Featured job photos | Work Gallery | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it comes from | Real jobs, photographed by your crew | Photos you upload yourself, up to ten |
| Where you manage it | The job, or Settings > Online > Gallery | The Work Gallery card under Settings > Website |
| Where it shows | The gallery section of your page, and the WordPress gallery shortcodes | A strip inside the About section of your HaulHQ page only |
| Best for | Ongoing proof of work | Launch day, before you have jobs |
They do not replace each other: your page can show both at once, in different places. If you featured photos and nothing changed in the gallery section, the pair is probably incomplete. If you uploaded photos and they are not in the gallery section, that is correct -- uploads sit in the About section.
Featuring is a manual step
A pair goes public when you feature it, from the job or from the Gallery screen. Nothing is published without that, so no photo goes public by accident -- and it means a gallery does need a minute of your attention now and then.
On your website
haulhq_gallery-- a few photos as a section inside an existing page.haulhq_gallery_page-- everything, on a dedicated page.
Both take a heading attribute, and both accept none to render no heading at all when your page already has one.
Common mistakes
"I featured photos and nothing appeared on my website."
The photos are not a labelled pair. A lone before or after can be ticked but never renders. Pair it and it appears.
"My drivers take photos but the gallery is empty."
Photos have to be labelled and paired, then featured from the job or the Gallery screen. Until you feature a pair, nothing is public.
"I did not know my job photos went on my website."
They do, once featured. Nothing is published without being featured first, so no photo goes public by accident.