Community @ The Turning Gate

Is it possible to protect an album set? Eg, if I have multiple albums (projects) for a client, can I put them in a single album set only accessible by that client? In Backlight 2? in Backlight 1?

If so, how would I do it?

Thanks.

Oops. I must have done something wrong. I just recently changed the login name on all my backlight installs to the same name but different from the name I used to log into my blogs. Just to make things easier for me but perhaps a bit more secure I thought. I'm sure they all worked fine yesterday.

I'm still able to access the other backlight installs, but when I went to access backlight on my blog subdomain just now, I got an error:

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Unexpected error: unpack(): Type V: not enough input, need 4, have 0 in file.php on line 318
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How do I fix this?

Thanks.

Once again I have to say that I love Backlight. It is so easy to use. CE4 and previous versions were great products but being tied to working within the lightroom web module, they were, in comparison, so clunky. Backlight with its web interface and easy publisher tie in...Wow, that's really all I can say. Thanks team!

Yes, my backlight site is out of development and into production. Does that mean it's finished? Of course not! Backlight is so easy to tweak, I'll probably keep on doing it just for the fun of it. Remember the In Search of Excellence management fad back in the 80s? One of their adages is so easy to apply now with Backlight: "Do it, try it, fix it." So, I'm not finished, not by a long shot. But you can see the current incarnation here: http://hummingbirdphotographics.com.

A significant change for me was moving from thumbnail/still image galleries to theatre galleries for almost all my work. This change began in my head with CE4 Stage of course, that I used for my home page (repeated with Backlight) but didn't really seem to me feasible to implement wholesale until Theatre. So now I have a Vegas style theatre for the home page and a flickety style theatre for the presentation galleries. Of course this evolution coincided with a revised business model too. I'm no longer offering a lot of different options for every image. Instead I am selecting only a subset of images to sell and only in specific forms. The rest are just to, I hope, inspire the visitor.

Another major change for me is moving to the top level gallery concept. Funny. For years I insisted on being able to get right to each gallery through the menu. This meant I needed to code a multi-level menu in phpplugins, and recode every time I added a new gallery. So now that Backlight has made multi-level menus so darn easy, I'm moving away from them. How ironic is that?

The look is new too. Trying more of a minimalist approach. In development, it was even more minimal, but I guess I'm not just there yet. I relented, or maybe repented, made a final tweak just before transfer to production and brought a masthead image back. So easy, I couldn't resist. But it's an image that doesn't draw the attention as much, at least I hope. I want people to look at the galleries, not admire the web site. But by the same token, I don't want them hating the environment in which they are viewing the images. A fine line between the two in many ways. Not sure I've got the right balance yet. But hey, do it, try it, fix it!

Does Backlight Wordpress add-on support the use of "widgetized" footers?

I am considering moving to a full page blog with my widgets in the footer. But I can't figure out how to do that. If I change the page template to a full page I lose the widget panel in WordPress. Am I missing something?

Or is this something I could easily do with custom php?

Thanks.

I have been using Statcounter with the CE plugins for awhile. I put the statcounter code into the ttg_body_bottom function in the phpplugins file. That worked fine, except I think with the full stage gallery. I never got around to try solving that one.

With Backlight, this body_bottom tag doesn't seem to exist. I tried it in the ttg_scripts function, but it doesn't seem to do anything there. I have tried it in some other function areas, I forget now what ones I have tried, but the mast_head and navigation related ones I remember, but they either break the page, ie the page doesn't load, or it does nothing.

Which is the proper function to include it under?

Is there anything special I need do to have it work with "in-page" theatre templates and full-page theatre templates?

Thanks.

While testing the various facets of my backlight site, I discovered that the search function fails to present a larger image of found photos. I get this error message:

"Something went wrong

Unable to find view with name single in GenericEngine.php on line 441"

So, I agree something went wrong. Can anyone tell me how to figure out what and correct it?

Thanks.