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(wasn't sure where to post new feature requests- please move if nec)
I would find a 'page-turning' album to be very useful for showing album or book spreads. I had some flash-based page flip software once which was really nice, but it would be great to be able to integrate a modern equivalent into a Backlight album. This could either display double-page spreads (with a fake crease down the center), or merge single-page pairs into spreads. It wouldn't even have to have fancy animation, just so long as it could display double-page spreads as pages in an album.
I need a way to preview wedding albums and senior books online for review by customers at a distance. Perhaps there is already a feature in Backlight that can do something like this that I am not aware of?
Thx for your consideration!
Done! So, if anyone else runs into this issue, download TextWrangler (for Mac) or similar which has Multi-file search. I think this may only work on local files. I had copied my whole site down as a local copy, then uploaded the whole shebang back up to Bluehost before I realized I had a problem, so I did a combination of individual file edits on the server side, and multi-file search and replace on a local copy of the templates folder, followed by a drag and drop replace in FileZilla.
Here are all the files that need to be changed. You can search for your old path, or TTG_HOOK and replace as necessary:
/ttg-be/templates <search and replace every file in here and upload to server>
/galleries <edit index.php and template_index.php at top level>
/galleries/phplugins/phplugins.php <single file edit, look for Wordpress ROOT>
and finally...
/wp-content/themes/LSwpgall6/header.php
Thats it! Of course it would be easier to do a multi-file s&r on a local copy of your whole website before uploading to the new host...but...so now you have the benefit of my hindsight!
-Jim
I had a functional php-enabled Wordpress+TTG CE4 website (www.fourwallsphoto.com) on GoDaddy, and just relocated to Bluehost. Everything seems to work except the menu structure once the gallery is entered. Now the menu items are not the ones I defined, and all result in 404 errors. I believe this is a php path issue. My absolute path changed in moving to the new host, and all my templates, and existing galleries use the old path. Changing the path in Lightroom is obviously not enough to fix this, and short of some grep script which I am not savvy enough to implement, I can see no way to fix this other than to recreate my entire gallery hierarchy again from new templates.
I had hoped the host move would have been easier than this. Perhaps somebody has a fix for this, or an easier remedy than a brute force rebuild.
Thx.
As an aside, if I wanted to add or delete images in an existing album by ftp, would that be ok without involving the database?
I'll try and avoid this in the future. I had no idea a central database was even involved.
If I ever find myself in need of making changes on the road I now know the risks involved!
Thanks Rod
I created a large album online for one of my clients. It took a long time to upload because of the godaddy security issue (you must be a hacker if you upload more than 20-25 images at a time - BlueHost here we come). The next day I get a message from my client to say that I have called it the wrong thing and therefore people won't be able to find it or will get confused. So, being away from my home computer, I decide to just go into my site through ftp and change the name of the folder (album) because that's what I thought auto-index did!
BAD IDEA!
This didn't change anything from the clients perspective, and worse, made all the images disappear (not visible, files still on server). So I went hunting through every file I could find on my site, hoping to find the one(s) with the offending folder (album) name in, and change it there instead. Well, I couldn't find it.
When I got home 12 hours later, I changed the name of the album in LR. That's all it does! Then I changed the Album Title and this shows the correct album name to the client, but the links are still wrong. Finally I change the slug, and now everything is hunky dory again.
So my question is, if I need to monkey with the folder structure (album or album sets) when I don't have access to lightroom, which are the files that have this magic content and where are they?!
The trouble with whitelisting an IP address is that it is short-lived, unless you are rich enough to have a static one...
OK then, off to BlueHost I go !
What kind of package should I ask Bluehost for? I'm running CE4 with the wordpress bundle, plus Cart.
Alternatively, will Backlight run in to the same issues (I presume it will as it uses the Lightroom Publisher too doesn't it?)
Oh, and they also said if I had more than 1000 files in a folder, that would be a network violation and my account would be automatically suspended… Not that I ever do- that's too many photos to expect clients to wade through!
Same problem here apparently, [errorCode] => "networkConnectionLost"
Just spent the last hour+ on the phone with goDaddy hosting support. They checked their logs and said two mod_sec triggers were recorded: Bot detected, and an Automated attack. They said they could relax the security settings for the apparent attack, but not the bot. They made their changes, but I'm still in trouble here. Do I really need to move hosts just to fix this?!
I know this an old post, but I am having the same issues with Godaddy cPanel hosting. I too am concerned about changing to a new host, only to run into the same issues later down the road.
hmm, that explains why I missed the emails, but what of my customers?
ahh, just found out the cart emails have all been going to an unmonitored account. Thx
I'm using TTG BE Admin version: 2.0.2 on http://www.fourwallsphoto.com/ttg-be/admin/ where I have set up guest access with credentials guest, ttg321
Godaddy is my host. It's a new site, and I'm not sure what the default email address is but I'm certain that it currently does not match what I have used in the TTG-BE since I created these to be specific. Since having to move to a linux account for TTG, I haven't yet figured out the relationship between cpanel email, and what I had before. As you can tell, I'm over my head.
My TTG-BE settings are for vanilla (php) mail. I'm not receiving any confirmation emails, and nor are my clients. Fortunately, we both get a paypal email, but I expected something with order details and thumbnails.
Vendor and customer emails are set to yes and normal. Demo mode is set to 'no' (I don't know what this does and the hover info seems bass-ackwards)
Is there a secret switch to turn these emails on?
That's a great idea, thanks Rod!
And for anyone else following along, this needed to be added to the custom.css file to make the warning dialog box (the one that shows if the T's and C's checkboxes aren't checked) readable, since by default its white font on pale yellow background.
.alert {
background-color: #888888 !important;
}
This may not be exactly the right code because I don't know how generic the alerts are, but for now it works...
I figured it out!
The default link to the custom.css file in /galleries/phplugins/phplugins.php is incorrect:
default is: <link rel="stylesheet" href="/phplugins/css/custom.css" />
but for wordpress users, this should be:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/galleries/phplugins/css/custom.css" />
So, now my question is, when does this file (/galleries/phplugins.php) get changed?
-Is it every time I upgrade CE4?
-Every time I publish a new gallery?
-Every time I modify a template in TTG-BE?
I just don't want to keep having to manually edit this file on the server, and remembering to do it. Having readable T's & C's is pretty important for an e-commerce site!
I'm actually using the Wordpress bundle, and for that, the PHPlugins folder is already set to /galleries/phplugins So far, it seems to be working with the menus, so what do I need to do to turn custom css on???
OK, one final dumb question. Which phplugins.php file do I edit? There is one on my site at /galleries/phplugins/
Does this get overwritten every time I upload a new album? What if I update TTG-CE to a new version, will it need to be reedited again also?
Update: I did edit the file at /galleries/phplugins/ but my site did not go red, so I guess I've either got the wrong phplugins.php file, or my Wordpress stuff is interfering. I also use publisher if that helps.
Oh, I just found the chapter on custom css (http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku.php?id=phplugins_custom_css ), thank you.
And I see now that the the T's and C's do come up *after* the paypal screen, thx.
That all said, it might be useful in an upcoming bug fix to not have white-on-white as the default (Matt).
Thx again.
Thanks Rod. Which file or files do I need to edit this line in?
I think this might be the transaction less checkout, because I don't even see the T's & C's come up for a paypal checkout (why not?). I'm trying to offer a proofing option for a bride/artistic director to identify their favorites without an actual purchase...
Hi,
I'm running a cart on my site: http://www.fourwallsphoto.com/galleries … cker-2014/
and I just realized the terms and conditions are un-readable in the popup because the popup background and text are the same color (white). This is default behavior in the LIME SPIDER template, but I can't figure out where to change it.
Any suggestions welcome!
Thanks Rod, I looked everywhere BUT there.