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Ok, so "login" doesn't generally offer different settings, and although you will be prompted to login on a specific page (as assigned by you), a user will always remain "logged in" or "not logged in". I could assign a "logged-in" CSS class in next release (available in a couple of weeks), that would allow you to show/hide certain page elements via custom CSS. Would that be an option? You could hide the cart until logged in, but keep in mind, the page text/content would otherwise remain the same.

This would be a simple solution to hide the cart feature depending on login status. Let me know.

X3 uses PAGE logins, so users get access to a page only after login. How did you intend show the page to a non-logged in user if the page requires login? What you are asking for, is an abstract login system, that allows access to certain features in X3, unrelated to pages.

RIIID wrote: Yes, an abstract login is what I had in mind. But the CSS solution will be enough - all I need is to hide the cart from non-logged in users.

I think you read my first reply, but not my second reply. How will non-logged in users be able to see the page if it's password-protected? If the page is NOT password-protected, then how will users login?

RIIID wrote: Also, how would I go about renaming the actual word "cart" ?

It's done with CSS, similar to interface texts. Please see this document, where the cart is translated into German by example:
https://cart.photo.gallery/interface-texts/

The challenge here, is that you are asking for a login-system that isn't related to pages. Basically you want any users to be able to view the page (it's not login protected), but then you want a login system to control whether the user can view cart or not, independent from pages. This of course would require a dedicated login page, since logins would be independent from the pages.

RIIID wrote:I would like to allow download of albums / photos (via the cart plugin) only after contacting me (and receiving login data).

Where would the user login though, if the page does not have login?

X3's login system is page/url access based, so this simply won't work for the feature you are considering. In your case, you would need a separate LOGIN button, because you want login to control something else (cart visibility) and not page access. The login mechanism would then need to work entirely differently, because we can't check login vs requested page. I understand your plan, but this is an entirely different login feature that does not exist in X3.

As a workaround, you could for example have a public page WITHOUT cart, and on user request, you could provide login access to a private page WITH cart. The private page could load assets from the public page, so effectively it would use the same images. The only difference would be that the private version has login + cart. For example /somegallery/ and /somegallery/cart/.