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I am running older versions of Backlight (Pages 123 release 4, Wordpress 1.25, Galleria 100, Client Response 712). I am about to upgrade to Backlight 2. Can I just do the update from my older versions, or do I need to first upgrade them to the last Backlight versions before the Backlight 2 upgrade?
Thanks very much!
Alan

Rod and Others,
I apologize for all my very basic Backlight questions, but I assure you for each one I ask I have searched the documentation and searched the community forum and gone through the Backlight settings and templates before asking!

I have LR Publisher working to get a test collection published as a gallery on my test site (www.AlanSislenPhotography/backlight-test). I have two questions:
1 - I published a group of images that are being used for a Galleria add-in slideshow on my homepage.  In Publisher, I checked "Hide from Album Set" and "Hide from Search."  When I click on Galleries from my nav menu, that album still shows, but with an eyeball and a hash line through it.  I thought it wouldn't show???
2 - When a large image is shown from my test album, I can't use my keyboard arrow keys (or swipe on a mobile device) to move from image to image. I must have missed a setting somewhere, but I can't find it.

Thanks!

Alan

What is the best way to insert an autoplay slideshow above the text on a Backlight home page?  I have the Galleria plugin, but I can't find anything in any of the docs that explain if it is possible to insert a slideshow on a page.  I had no problem accomplishing this with CE4.
Thanks!
Alan

I am slowly setting up my test site on BlueHost, but have run into an issue I can't seem to solve. All my pages (and home page) were built using the same Default Page Template.  Four pages - Instruction, Prints, About and Contact are all showing the information on the very top of the screen that I input into the Footer.  Additionally, on those pages, the Navigation menu is above the masthead, when for my home page, the Nav menu is where I want it - below the masthead.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

Alan
www.AlanSislenPhotography.com/backlight-test

I'm currently running CE4 with the CE4 Publisher.  I am setting up a test site for Backlight.  The Backlight Publisher Setup instructions state that you can publish to more than one website or location and create multiple instances of TTG Publisher.  I've started installing TTG Publisher for Backlight in LR, but I want to be sure I don't delete or mess-up my ability to continue publishing to my CE4 website. Before I setup another instance of TTG Publisher (for Backlight) with the new API URL and Key, I just want to be sure setting up the 2nd instance is the way to do it!
Thanks!
Alan

I have been running my CE4 website on BlueHost for a number of years.  I figured it's time to begin setting up a basic test site with Backlight (which I bought a year ago!), but immediately ran into an issue.  Under public_html I created a directory, backlight-test.
I unzipped Backlight-Pages-123-Release 4 into that folder.
When I use my browser, I get the message, "Backlight is not yet configured.  Please login to Backlight to continue.  When I click on that link, I get the error, "An error occurred while processing this directive."
I contacted Bluehost and they verified that Varnish and Cloudflare are not enabled.
I checked the .htaccess file and it is configured to be writable for the User, but not Group and World
My folder hierachy looks like this:
public_html
  backlight-test
     backlight
       backlight
          galleries
          index.php
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Alan

I am in the process of setting up Backlight.  However, in the meantime, I am still using CE4.  I have lost the ability to use Publisher in LR 7.3.1.  I got the message "The nil plugin is not installed or not working properly."  I assumed a reinstall through the plug-in manager would solve the problem.  When I reinstalled the Publisher plugin, all my previously listed published galleries disappeared!  Is there a way to recover them?  I run on a Mac and am hoping if I know what file or folder the information is contained in, I can use Time Machine and go back a few days and restore the folder or file that contained the gallery information.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Alan Sislen

I haven't created a CE4 CRG gallery in quite sometime.  In the past, there was a pencil icon at the bottom left of the image thumbnails in the thumbnail view.  For the life of me, I can't find how to activate that pencil which is used to generate a comment.  I've gone through the CRG documentation, looked through the CRG gallery template, gone through the TTG-BE CRG settings and just can't find it. I know it's there somewhere! Can anyone help!
Thanks.
Alan