# Album Management

## 1. Differences between albums and collections

### Album

An album contains one or more images. You can set the permissions for each album in a different way.

### Collections

Collections are like a container or folder for one or more albums. Permissions set for a collection are not valid for the contained albums.\
A collection should not have images, as they will be nowhere displayed.\
you can recognize a collection on the displayed number of albums in it:\
![](/files/-LthHh-ij4r6hYboK14U)

## 2. Overview

On the album management page you get an overview about all albums and collections

![](/files/-LthHh-kc1a6V1GfkTkG)

On the right side you will see the area for sorting albums/collections.

## 3. Sorting albums

![](/files/-LthHh-my7OnJFx-dxxl)\
You can easily sort them by drag\&drop.\
With a click on "+" you can expand a collection, with "-" reduce it.\
You can create a nested tree up to as many levels you want.

## 3. Additional buttons

Depending on your permissions (see [Permissions](https://github.com/ggoffy/wggallery-tutorial/tree/bcf953498c64daac6437e86e50596fd2b0d01daa/english/the-user-side/administration-menu/permissions.md)) you will see addtional buttons like

* "Show album" (see [Displaying albums](/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/displaying-albums.md))
* "Show images index (see[ Image index](/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/image-index.md))
* "Image management (see [Image management](/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/image-management.md))
* "Upload images (see [Uploading images](https://github.com/ggoffy/wggallery-tutorial/tree/bcf953498c64daac6437e86e50596fd2b0d01daa/english/the-user-side/uploading-images.md))
* "Edit album" (see [Create new album](/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/create-new-album.md))
* "Edit album image" (see [Album image](/wggallery-tutorial/english/the-user-side/album-image.md))
* "Delete"
* "Download album"


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