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#2 CE4 Publisher » Publisher managed home page with content text? » 2015-07-05 09:41:44

kmcintyre
Replies: 2

Happy Fourth of July everyone!

I am working on setting up Publisher to manage my Home Page gallery.  My original Pages-only site had a small slideshow at the top (The Grid) with a paragraph of introductory content (The Block) below.  I am using Stage to create the gallery template for Publisher.  The photos work fine but I am trying to replicate the text content and I cannot seem to make it work.  I tested Pages settings with no luck and then re-configured my Stage template with the text in the Content section and re-exported.  I still only get the gallery slideshow.  The preview in LR looks right but when uploaded to my site (I even marked the photos to republish and published them) all I get is the slideshow.

My question is: is there a way to get that text content on the home page in conjunction with the Publisher-managed gallery?  I know I am probably doing something wrong.

Thanks!
Kevin

http://ktmcreative.com

#3 Re: CE4 Publisher » Watermarking - Publisher vs Publisher Albums vs Gallery Templates » 2015-07-05 06:39:54

Ben, thanks for the reply!  That definitely answers my question.

#4 CE4 Publisher » Watermarking - Publisher vs Publisher Albums vs Gallery Templates » 2015-07-04 04:32:38

kmcintyre
Replies: 2

Hey, all!  I am toying around with watermarking my images on my website and I am a little confused about the Watermark settings.  We have them in various places and I am just trying to understand what their role is and what is really needed.  What really controls when a watermark is generated?

1. Publisher Plug-in: There is an option to enable watermarking and select which one
    NOTE - The setting to push metadata without uploading photos in Publisher is UNchecked
2. Publisher Album:  On the Features tab, there is a setting for Watermarks To Apply
    There is also an option on whether to apply watermarks to thumbnails
3. Gallery Template:  there is a setting under Output Settings -> Image Renditions for watermarks
     Also under Appearance -> Thumbnail Grid there is a watermark option for thumbnails

I can configure the Gallery Template to apply a watermark on Output Settings and configure my Publisher Album to use that specific template.  However, watermarks are not imprinted on the images until I change the Publisher Album watermark setting from Managed by Lightroom to the specific watermark I configured in the template and re-publish.  Is this the expected behavior or should I be able to control watermarking exclusively through the Gallery Template?

Sorry for the confusion!

#5 Re: CE4 Client Response Gallery » Strange issue with CRG customization » 2015-02-04 09:45:14

Thanks for the quick reply, Rod!  Yes, it was copied from a CE4-Gallery template.  I ended up going back and just starting from scratch and this time it worked.  I have done this a dozen times before without issue so I am not sure where I went wrong but I am happy it is working now.

Thanks, as always!

#6 CE4 Client Response Gallery » Strange issue with CRG customization » 2015-02-04 08:06:41

kmcintyre
Replies: 4

I just installed the new CE4 CRG (6.0.2) (new install, not an upgrade) and created a starting web template.  I then did a copy/paste of the "styleData" section from an existing template (like one I use for Gallery) which I have done many times before but this time, the template is not taking the customizations.  It is very strange.  I made sure to save the template to the location where the others are, restarted LR, restarted my PC but to no avail.  I check the file again and the custom section is there.  Any tips on other things to check?  The "Now Showing" dropdown on the right pane is displaying Page Preview.

Thanks in advance!
Kevin

#7 Re: CE4 Publisher » Templates not showing up in "Edit Album" » 2014-08-15 03:50:34

Have you tried to create a new album?  I never tried using the Default album.  Just curious if you see the same thing there.

#8 Re: CE4 Pages » Veritcal navigation items » 2014-08-14 09:30:27

I double-checked my settings and the menu is set to multi-level.  Just to be sure, I set it back to single-level, updated my template with the settings, set it back to multi-level, then updated settings again.  I exported a new version of the Pages plugin with the template and uploaded it to my site overwriting all the files.  It is still showing vertical navi.

Are there any other tips or things I should check to try and get it to revert back to horizonal, multi-level?

#9 CE4 Pages » Veritcal navigation items » 2014-08-13 11:45:40

kmcintyre
Replies: 3

http://ktmcreative.com/

One more (hopefully) quick one.  For some reason, my navigation items are showing vertically on the left side.  Not sure how that happened.   It's not necessarily a bad thing, but I would like to know what caused it if I want to go back to horizontal.  I played around with the mobile breakpoint setting (even though I am viewing on a desktop) to no avail.

#11 CE4 Pages » Drop-down navigation question » 2014-08-13 09:57:17

kmcintyre
Replies: 3

http://ktmcreative.com/

I have another question concerning Pages.  I finally think I have a grasp of drop-down navigation.  I was able to enable the "autoindex" section of my phplugins file and got a second gallery page going (Projects) with its own autoindex.  It has a test gallery under that and all works as expected.  Coming from a coding n00b, I was tickled to get this far. 

I am attempting to do the same with the About Me page (renamed from default About Pages page) with the intention to put some text-based pages under there (a couple are there for examples).  The navigation bar is acting very strange for this About Me menu.  It's navigation is acting totally different from the Galleries and Projects at least for me in IE and Firefox.  I used the same snippet of code that I copied and pasted for the Projects page to build the About Me menu changing the necessary specifics. 

Not sure what else you might need.  Below is a copy/paste of the autoindex section of my phplugins file.

// SITE-WIDE "DROP-DOWN" NAVIGATION MENU w/ AUTO INDEX DROP-MENU
// This function establishes a site-wide navigation menu using pseudo-absolute URLs (beginning "/")
// -- portable, domain agnostic, and without the location limitations of relative URLs.
// Serves as an example of a function being applied globally.
// Utilizes the auto index script to list galleries in a specified location as a drop-menu.
function ttg_header_navigation( $style, $path ) {
    echo '
<div id="navigation-container" class="navigation-container clearfix">

    <div id="navigation" class="block-id navigation clearfix">
    <div class="mantle clearfix">
        <div class="core clearfix">
        <div id="navigation-background">

        <div id="r2d2-menu" class="clearfix">
        <ul id="pull">
            <li><span>&nbsp;</span></li>
            <li><span>&nbsp;</span></li>
            <li><span>&nbsp;</span></li>
            <li><span>&nbsp;</span></li>
            <li id="open-nav" class="toggle-nav"><a href="#r2d2-menu"><i class="fa fa-reorder"></i></a></li>
            <li id="close-nav" class="toggle-nav"><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-remove"></i></a></li>
        </ul>

        <ul id="nav">
        <!-- EDIT ONLY BELOW THIS LINE : -->

            <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="/galleries.php">Galleries</a>
                <ul>
';

    $theroot = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
    $indexPath = '/galleries/'; // set folder location to scan for galleries

    require_once($theroot.'/lib/autoindex/autoindex.php');
    if (trim($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]) == 'debug')
        define ('AUTOINDEX_DEBUG', true); // enable statement to output debugging info from autoindex()
    $albums = autoindex($theroot.$indexPath);
    // $albums = array_reverse($albums); // Reverses album order
    // shuffle($albums); // Shuffles albums
    $j = min(count($albums), 8); // build <li>s from first 8 in gallery list   
    for($i=0; $i < $j; $i++) {
        echo '<li><a href="'.$albums[$i]['url'].'" title="'.$albums[$i]['description'].'">'.$albums[$i]['title'].'</a></li>';
    };
    if (count($albums) > 8) { // the 8 here matches the 8 above
        echo '<li><a href="/galleries.php" title="See more galleries" >more ...</a></li>';
    };

    echo '
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href="/projects/index.php">Projects</a>
                <ul>
';

    $theroot = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
    $indexPath = '/projects/'; // set folder location to scan for galleries

    require_once($theroot.'/lib/autoindex/autoindex.php');
    if (trim($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]) == 'debug')
        define ('AUTOINDEX_DEBUG', true); // enable statement to output debugging info from autoindex()
    $albums = autoindex($theroot.$indexPath);
    // $albums = array_reverse($albums); // Reverses album order
    // shuffle($albums); // Shuffles albums
    $j = min(count($albums), 8); // build <li>s from first 8 in gallery list   
    for($i=0; $i < $j; $i++) {
        echo '<li><a href="'.$albums[$i]['url'].'" title="'.$albums[$i]['description'].'">'.$albums[$i]['title'].'</a></li>';
    };
    if (count($albums) > 8) { // the 8 here matches the 8 above
        echo '<li><a href="/projects/index.php" title="See more galleries" >more ...</a></li>';
    };

    echo '
                </ul>
            </li>
                               
            <li><a href="/blog/">Blog</a></li>
            <li><a href="/services.php">Services</a></li>
            <li><a href="/info.php">Info</a></li>
                       
            </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href="/projects/index.php">Projects</a>
                <ul>
';

    $theroot = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
    $indexPath = '/projects/'; // set folder location to scan for galleries

    require_once($theroot.'/lib/autoindex/autoindex.php');
    if (trim($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]) == 'debug')
        define ('AUTOINDEX_DEBUG', true); // enable statement to output debugging info from autoindex()
    $albums = autoindex($theroot.$indexPath);
    // $albums = array_reverse($albums); // Reverses album order
    // shuffle($albums); // Shuffles albums
    $j = min(count($albums), 8); // build <li>s from first 8 in gallery list   
    for($i=0; $i < $j; $i++) {
        echo '<li><a href="'.$albums[$i]['url'].'" title="'.$albums[$i]['description'].'">'.$albums[$i]['title'].'</a></li>';
    };
    if (count($albums) > 8) { // the 8 here matches the 8 above
        echo '<li><a href="/projects/index.php" title="See more galleries" >more ...</a></li>';
    };

    echo '
                </ul>
            </li>
           
            <li><a href="/contact.php">Contact</a></li>

        <!-- EDIT ONLY ABOVE THIS LINE -->
        </ul>


        </div><!-- #r2d2-menu -->

        </div><!-- #navigation-background -->
        </div>
    </div>
    </div> <!-- #navigation -->

</div> <!-- #navigation-container -->
    ';
    return false;        // Replaces normal menu
} // END

#12 Re: CE4 Pages » Questions about Autoindex within Pages » 2014-08-11 09:51:06

Thanks, as always, Rod.  I must have overlooked the changelog (concerning the known issue).  You guys always provide stellar support for the community.  We appreciate it immensely.

#13 CE4 Pages » Questions about Autoindex within Pages » 2014-08-11 08:59:48

kmcintyre
Replies: 2

I am working on migrating my site (http://www.ktmcreative.com) to CE4 and I am having a peculiar issue.  The site is in-progress so be gentle. 

The auto index on the Pages plugin for the Galleries page is not acting the same as a standalone auto index that I have deployed under the "Projects" menu.  I cannot get the index on Galleries to display the album info correctly (i.e. slide in, etc.).  The setting are the same between its auto index settings and the standalone I have deployed for "Projects" yet the album info on the Galleries will not work as desired.  In fact, the only thing I can get it to do it to be always on, which I don't want. 

On a second note, I am trying to figure out what setting controls the font color for the album information text.  I have yet to stumble across it.  I can change the background of the info, but not the text color.

Hopefully neither of these are too obvious because I don't want to waste anyone's time.

Thanks in advance!
Kevin

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