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Hi again guys,

I'm once again looking at my SEO & I realised that all this time (16+ mths) instead of adding 'captions' in my lightroom albums, I've been mistakenly adding 'keywords'.  I just did a view source & see that my keywords aren't showing up.

Soooo .... I searched the forums & found some old advice from Rod on another post saying:

'to speed this up you can check the "Push metadata....' checkbox in Publisher setup in Lightroom.'

I tried this & republished one album.  From memory it seems to have published a lot quicker than it did first time around (648 images in a few minutes), which is a great help but my question is this:

I have several dozen albums that I need to update & each album has anything from 400-600 images so is this the best or only method of updating my captions?

As always, thanking you in advance :-)
Deirdre

Hi Rod,

I'm doing something wrong but I don't really understand how & where the code comes together when it's compiled so I must be placing something in the wrong order.  Can you spot what I'm doing wrong please?

So my phpplugin.php looks untouched apart from this function which I modified to look like this:

function _HOOK_( $style, $path ) {
    echo '
<script>$(".before-text").insertBefore($(".the__gallery"));</script>
    ';
    return false;
} // END

And in my backlight page, Page Copy, Main Copy, I have this:

<div class="before-text">
<h3>A heading</h3>
<p>Your text.....</p>
<p>Another paragraph...</p>
</div>

That same page inserts an album "Above the content" (so that contact form is below etc)

Yet my text is showing up below my inserted album/thumbnails.

Any ideas?

Thanking you for any help offered,
Deirdre

Thank you Rod!  Much appreciated.  I will give that jQuery a try tomorrow.

When you say that you think it's normal for the album settings from LR to not transfer over (say, to view 20 items per page), do you know if there's a way I can set it up again in backlight i.e. so that I can only show 20 items per page?

Thank you again for all of your help,
Deirdre

Hi Rod,

Thank you very much for your reply.  I just purchased & downloaded Voyager but from what I can gather it's not really helping. It looks like I have to merge catalogs (which I could have done without Voyager).  And I don't want to merge catalogs.  I want to keep my 2016 weddings in my 2016 catalog & 2017 weddings in 2017 catalog etc.  Yet I'd still like to be able to add weddings from all catalogs to my RealWeddings section.

Maybe there's more to it but I really can't understand why it can't be done more simply in publisher.  For instance, the index.php should grab all directories within an album set regardless of where they were written to.

Thank you for your help
Deirdre

Sorry Rod, that wasn't meant to be a question.  They were meant to be !!! & it was a statement ?

Hi Rod,  Much appreciate your input as always!

When you say the right hand tray is too narrow - do you mean the facebook plugin on my home page is not displaying correctly?  Which browser are you using?  In chrome, it looks okay to me - even to the minimum size (before it becomes mobile responsive & disappears).

Deirdre

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for your reply & advice.  My website is http://www.deirdrelangan.com

When you say the TITLE element of my page, where can I set that up?  Can I put <TITLE> </TITLE> in each main page copy?  Is that the same thing as the 'Title' field in Lightroom or something different altogether?

Regarding your FIG element comments - does that mean I should always complete the 'Caption' field in Lightroom?

And just to clarify - you guys are saying '<meta keywords' don't work but that 'keywords' do work - so do you mean use keywords in the sense of just using regular words in the page copy should enhance SEO?

Rod - what do you mean by "HTML Single presentation"? Is that an element in Lightroom or backlight that can be configured?

Thanks a lot again guys.  I'm a bit muddled regarding what should be set where (LR or backlight).

Deirdre

Mea Culpa!  Thanks Rod.  I have no memory of ever changing the field value for 'photo caption' & yet I must have because it's working on my test site.  And thank you, it's now working on my live site.

Matthew - point taken. In this instance the fault was mine.  However, I have lost at least 1 day in the past with your software, where the fault was not mine.  And while I do very much appreciate the support from yourself, Ben, Rod & others, this isn't open source code so I would expect the software to be supported by the developers.  And I don't think expressing mild impatience makes me a less nice person.  But hey, maybe that's us hot tempered Irish, eh?

I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier rather than troubleshooting for the entire day when I was really meant to be cleaning my office :-)

As a work around, I deleted my .htaccess file (so that client dirs are working) & then in backlight I modified the menu to fix all broken pages with, for example:
Name=About
Link to=URL
old desc=/about
& workaround desc = http://www.deirdrelangan.com/?page=about