Ah-HA!!
It looks like the admin's group id is 101, because replacing 1 with 101 has caused the buttons to finally appear!
Perhaps a note saying the the user id will probably be different in bridged galleries, would be helpful to include in the op. And also possibly including:
As we cannot support third party apps, we cannot tell you how exactly you find out the admin group ID. Usually it's defined in the bridge file. Alternatively you could try to have a look at your browser's address bar while editing the admin group or have a look at the board's MySQL database. You should also make sure that your admin user is applied to the admin group as primary group.
I actually found it by clicking the Assigned Albums button for the admin group, in the User Manager. The proper value comes immediately after &gid= and before the next &, in the address bar....just in case others have the same issue. I don't know if all SMF bridges will have that value or not, for the admin.
Hello André
I would suggest that,
It would be interesting to registered users when they select one or more Hot pictures, these images are displayed in their personal gallery.
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I thought that's how it was supposed to work. Otherwise, why give users the ability to choose which pics are hot? You'd have users switching in their own hot pics constantly, theoretically. But now that I finally have it working, I'll be able to figure out how it works.
Thanks for everyone's help