Order of Thumbnails

cassan · 2017-10-22 21:13:50

Hi,
I'm using Backlight 1.2.2 v3
I have a page with thumbnails. The caption under each thumbnail is the keyword and filename in Lightroom. I like the thumbnails to be in order of the keywords, so thumbnails with the same keywords together. Now they are in random order.
I was not able to find how to do that.
Any suggestions?
Cassan

rod barbee · 2017-10-22 22:23:52

This is an album, I assume?
You can only use the sort order options available. Photo Order is found in the Basic tab of each album.
If you change it, you'll need to republish the albums.

cassan · 2017-10-24 03:44:12

Thanks Rod,
That is too bad, because now I have to rename all the files, so it can arrange by filename.
As a birder, I have lots of bird photos, that are keyworded in Lightroom. So arranging on keyword (and after that on filename) would be the perfect solution for me. I'm not looking forward to rename hundreds of files...

Cassan

rod barbee · 2017-10-24 05:24:52

Something to consider: individual albums based on keywords. You can set these up as Smart Albums in Publisher.
Then put the albums in one or more album sets.

Or you could construct search parameters based on your keywords. Use the resulting URLs as either text links.
Or, if you want to get fancy, image links, like Monte Trumbull has done on his home page: https://www.montetrumbull.com/
Scroll towards the bottom. The first two, "Recent Additions" and "Personal Favorites," use links that take you to a search page that uses specific parameters.

pideja · 2018-02-22 02:21:42

Something similar: I'd like the thumbnails in my album-set to be in a specific order. I followed the indications in "Backlight Tips & Tricks » Custom Thumbnails for Albums & Album Sets" and it works well save for one issue: the "_custom thumbnails album" thumbnail shows up in the album set "oeuvres". I made sure to check the "hide" boxes in Publisher.

http://pideja.ca/luc/fr/oeuvres/

Last edited by pideja (2018-02-22 04:21:19)

pideja · 2018-02-22 05:26:54

I've adapted some CSS code submitted by another member of this community. It looks fairly good but not quite what I want.
http://pideja.ca/luc/fr/oeuvres/.

/* thumbnails */

.the__albumSet figure a {
	background-color: ; 	
	border:; 	
	border-width: 0px; 					
	border-radius: 0px; 				
	color: ; 				
	display: ;
	height: 125px; 						
	margin-top: 10px; 					
	margin-right: 10px;
	margin-left: 10px;
	margin-bottom: 10px; 
	padding: 0px; 						
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	overflow: ;
	text-decoration: none;
	align-content: center;
}

I would much rather have the thumbnail setup I used on the previous site I made https://lucnadeau.ca/fr/galleries.php. I think it was an iconic setup and I really love that sliding album title over the thumbnail.
I can't find where, in Backlight, to set this up.

rod barbee · 2018-02-22 05:38:52

pideja wrote:

Something similar: I'd like the thumbnails in my album-set to be in a specific order. I followed the indications in "Backlight Tips & Tricks » Custom Thumbnails for Albums & Album Sets" and it works well save for one issue: the "_custom thumbnails album" thumbnail shows up in the album set "oeuvres". I made sure to check the "hide" boxes in Publisher.
http://pideja.ca/luc/fr/oeuvres/

Your custom thumbs album is not appearing on the oeuvres page for site visitors. You will see it if you’re logged into Backlight. Notice the little eye-with-a-slash icon? That denotes that the album is hidden.

rod barbee · 2018-02-22 05:43:17

pideja wrote:

I've adapted some CSS code submitted by another member of this community. It looks fairly good but not quite what I want.
http://pideja.ca/luc/fr/oeuvres/.
I would much rather have the thumbnail setup I used on the previous site I made https://lucnadeau.ca/fr/galleries.php. I think it was an iconic setup and I really love that sliding album title over the thumbnail.
I can't find where, in Backlight, to set this up.

That's because it's not an option in Backlight.

rod barbee · 2018-02-22 05:51:34

Also, that css you've added isn't actually doing anything. If I look at the page and open the inspector, I can delete all that css and there is no difference at all.
Also, you've got properties with no values, like background-color: ;

I think some of that css would only apply to the previous version of Backlight (the align-content property, for example)

pideja · 2018-02-22 21:29:56

Hello Rod,

Thanks for pointing out stuff I should have noticed. And, it's a pity that Backlight does not offer the option of having those thumbnails available in CE4.
There must be a way...but in the meantime, I'll revert to whatever is offered by Backlight.

And I will remove all that useless CSS.

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#1 2017-10-22 21:13:50

Order of Thumbnails

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