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I had finally decided that Backlight 2 would be developed enough to migrate from my CE4 site and have been working on the implementation.  First, let me say that Backlight 2 is indeed fast and generally easy and flexible.  There are a few issues, especially the very poor documentation (e.g there is a setting for Bokeh SVG on or off but a search fopr Bokeh in either the documentation or forums for Bokeh returns nothing - not an issue for me but Backlight is supposed to be intuitive and many do not know what this is).  What is a BADLY needed is simple listing of all settings with a short explanation of what exactly they apply to - think the list of settings at the end of all camera manuals.

At present I have Backlight 2 designs functioning for my entire site.  There are still a few issues I am cleaning up but there are three that stand out.
1. I would like to replace the nav buttons on the single image page with css styled text buttons and have not yet found a way to fully implement this.  Not a deal breaker but annoying
2. On the album set  pages, there is a quirk that looks bad when a vertical image is the random image selected and dispayed from the album.  In CE4 equivalent this was easily and cleanly handled by the text flowing to fill the space left by the downsized image needed due to the height- width properties of the vertical image.  I can live with this but it looks like bad design so any ideas about how this can be addresses would be welcome.
3. Here is the absolute deal break or make issue for me.  My site is educational and completely depends on displaying several pieces of metadata information about each of the images shown.  Backlight fails utterly here.  First, there are only two metadata items allowed (other that image name and dimensions) - I need 5 or 6. Second, the metadata are not available in the single image template except in the very poor single line title field.  This tilte line defies styling that can make several pieces of information easily readable under the image.  CE4 suffered from these same issues but I was able to edit the php code in the template to access additional metadata items where my Lightroom stores relevant data items (mostly IPTC text fields).  There is no full textual php "template" in Backlight as there is in CE4. Thus developing php code to add metadata items and make them available for printing in a formatted div (as done in CE4), can apparently only be done by using a phpplugin code section, (which would probably be placed at singe_page_bottom hook location) but I am not a php expert and have not found a way to do this yet.  At this point I need to know if this is possible, and preferably get pointed to the right sample code snippets to base this on.  Otherwise, as I say, this is a deal breaker as I my time needs to be assigned to other things (authoring several textbooks) and there will be no way I can ever move fro CE4 to Backlight.  Any ides on how to approach a phpplugins fix that would allow multiple image metadata text fields to be fetched would be welcome.   This boils down to the whether it is possible to fetch multiple metadata fields and make them available for echo or print commands.   

Thanks in advance for any suggestions that you can make.

I am using CE4 Stage to create video embedded pages.  Everything is working perfectly for windows based browsers, but when I launch the page in any browser on an Android phone (Galaxy) the page loads but then the browser either crashes immediately (always for Firefox most recent version) or simply stays on the loading screen without ever stating the video.  Any ideas?

I use a textured background placed by a small jpg image on my websites and prefer this to solid colors or gradients.  However Gallery does not allow this.  I am editing the core css to get this done and will have it right soon (still trying to find the easiest way with the least editing of the css) , but it seems to me this should be a feature that might be considered for implementation.  One way to fairly quickly get most of the way there would be to allow each page component background setting to be made transparent and allow the page background to use a "background from image" option, if adding the use image option is not added to each page component background setting.

I have set up a template to create thumbnails with two line captions - first line is Metadata 1 which is set as ITPC "Headline" content, second line is Metadata 2 which is set as IPTC "Description Writer".  I have this set up in BOTH Image Info and Output settings.  Both show properly in the Lightroom view of the template.  However, when I output to the web, the Description Writer information is not displayed (the Headline info is OK). 
The template displays the following:
["perImageSetting.metadata2"] = {
                enabled = true,
                value = "{{com.adobe.descriptionWriter}}",

I have tried to edit that various ways (removing the capital, adding a space etc) but can not get the template to read the "Description Writer" data.  Can anyone suggest how to fix this