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Thank you Ben and Rod. I'll check with the server to see what Daniel says about the caching.
Hi Ben,
I hope you're not affected by the fires.
Sorry but I'm having another problem updating to the newest release.
When I update, I get this message: The module was not installed: ZipArchive::extractTo(../backlight/modules/module-framework/helpers/URLHelper.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied
Should I do the reinstall option?
Thanks Ben - you came through again!
I reinstalled Backlight2 - no change. I have emailed the server to see what their opinions.
Thanks again.
CB
Hi Rod - yes, I created that as a landing page when I first started using Backlight.
Thanks for the quick response.
chbphoto.com
I'm getting the same result on 2 computers.
When I tried to get into my backlight account, I typed in mysite.com/backlight -- the result was not the expected Backlight login but it went directly to the home page of my website.
I tried this on both Safari and Firefox with the same result.
I was able to upload a new gallery today as well as to update an existing gallery with no problems.
Is the Backlight server down for maintenance?
Any help appreciated - thanks in advance - CB
Ben - thanks again for all your help - everything seems to be working now.
Thanks Ben for your response.
I added your email as a guest admin
user: guest
pw: guest
Also, I deleted everything and reinstalled. -- I can get to the site but it's not recognizing any of my templates (they're all in the BL2 controls - but not in the site.
I'm not sure if I did this correctly - do I need to add a password for you?
I just upgraded to BL2.
I was able to get to the dashboard and installed everything -- but -- I cannot get to any of my pages.
As of now, I can't even get into chbphoto.com/backlight or chbphoto.com/backlight/installer.
I eliminated everything in my old Backlight 1 folder except the custom folder and the Data folder
I left the following folders (my top level galleries and Blog) at the top level of my site.
I copied the entire new backlight folder plus the index.php and .htaccess files to the top level of the site.
I noticed that there is an additional .htaccess inside the backlight folder inside the installer (total of 2 htaccess files) - is this correct?
I also noticed that there was a config.php file in the old backlight 1 folder. Should I have left it there?
Should I delete everything I've done (except the data and custom folders and start over?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I was just able to successfully log into the installer - but when I tried the install button, I got a blank screen.
Thanks Rod - I'll look into it
Hi,
I have created multiple TTG Backlight Publisher instances in a Lightroom catalog on my desktop computer. Is it possible to migrate (copy) these settings to another catalog on the same computer or to a laptop?
Thanks in advance - CB
Thanks - I looked everywhere but there.
Is it possible to delete excess templates in Backlight?
Thank you so much, Rod -- I guess I've got to start reading what's actually there rather than what I think it should say!
I really appreciate your help and your patience.
Have a great week.
Chuck
I tried resetting the content layout to full post w/images but I'm still not getting the video in the blog front page.
where did you set this? In the Theme for Wordpress plug-in there's an option under Content Layout to Preview Full Post w/ Images.
But to actually get the full posts on your blog page you need to make that setting from the Theme Options in the Wordpress dashboard. It's in Basic Settings: Posts
Hi Rod
I set option in the Theme For Wordpress as above.
In the Theme Options/Basic Settings, Everything is checked (6 boxes)
I'm still not seeing the video on the blog home page -- I reset the blog to use the CE3 wordpress theme (chbbphoto.com/blog)
I also tried to republish a new, separate article with all the new settings -- same thing.
Chuck
Re: Issue 4
You're displaying excerpts on the blog's Home page. Excerpts strip any HTML present in the article's content, including video, images, etc. This is how excerpts have always functioned, so nothing new here. You can choose to display the full article rather than excerpts from within the Theme Options.
I tried resetting the content layout to full post w/images but I'm still not getting the video in the blog front page.
In the meantime, I've reset chbphoto.com/blog to use the previous CE2 version of the wordpress plugin to show what I'm trying to accomplish.
Thanks again for your help,
Chuck
in that case: http://ce3wiki.theturninggate.net/doku. … album_sets
See the section on Selecting the Cover Image.What I've done is create a Lightroom Library Export preset that will create thumbnails at my needed size. I then use my FTP program and simply drag them to the Album Set's Thumbnail folder. To me, that's a bit easier than using Publisher to pick out a file name. Plus you can choose several thumbnails to act as representatives of all the Albums within the Set.
Thanks Rod -- it's not as automatic, but it will fill the needs.
I appreciate your help.
Chuck
Hi Matt,
Re Issue - 4 -- I tried "Full Post With Images" on the CE3 Wordpress and am still not getting the image of the video on the entry page of the blog.
I reverted back to the CE2 WordPress on the site so that you can see what I'm looking for as far as the display of the main blog page, including the video.
Is there something else I'm missing in order to facilitate this?
Thanks again,
Chuck
Autoindex CE3 still creates a thumbnails folder and will populate it as long as you have images in the collection you're working with. Nothing's changed in that regard
I populated the galleries with Publisher rather than hard coding them - maybe I'm not doing that properly - I'll try playing around with that.
Thanks again,
Chuck
Hi Matt - I found it -- thanks for the heads up.
Chuck
Hi Rod,
thanks again for your response.
Okay - I created a thumbnail folder at the autoindex level and populated it - this is now working.
I remember that in previous versions, this happened automatically when using an autoindex. Just puzzled as to why this function was not implemented in CE3.
I changed the blog/ to /blog in Pages -> Site Info -> Navigation Hyperlinks (03).
Then I exported a gallery to my hard drive and uploaded it to the chbphoto.com site.
I just repeated the process (for Pages only) and see a 1:50 PM timestamp on the uploaded files (such as about.php, contact.php, etc).
Previously, this is where and how I made the other updates from blog/ to /blog.
I also noticed that the default for the blog (in Lightroom) is blog/ - this is the only target that contains a "/" for any of the defaults.
I'm wondering if I have some corrupted software (and thus need to reinstall all the plugins and start from scratch).
Which file were you looking at?
Since I do see some older timestamps, I believe only the newly updated files are changed on the server.
Just thought of something else -
I have been using the same phplugins.php file as before. I didn't update it because I had changed it in 2 places:
1- I deleted the 2 lines of code so as to use the site-wide drop down with auto index
2- I had to change the "info" link name to "FIne Art Images" as this has never gotten into the file
I just noticed that this file uses "blog/" - I will update that and upload to the site ===== THAT FIXED THE BLOG PROBLEM==
I don't understand why the "blog/" and the info -> Fine Art Images updates never made it out of the Pages plugin and into the phplugins file. Any ideas?
Thanks again for your help.
Chuck
Hi Rod,
Thank you for the fast response.
1- I'll take a look at this later today - In the mean time, I'll live without the child items.
2- There are thumbnails in each of the gallery folders that are inside the autoIndex-Port folder. The thumbnails show up perfectly on each gallery but there is no thumbnail migrating up to the main gallery where the autoIndex-PORT is located. This is where the "Monster" icon shows up.
Please note: the only CE3 gallery is the S90 -- links in the other galleries (CE2) do not work at this level
3- I made your suggested change from blog/ to /blog in all the templates/plugins. I'm still getting thing like "http://chbphoto.com/blog/blog" in the wordpress and "http://chbphoto.com/galleries/autoIndex-PORT/S90/blog" in the S90 gallery and " http://chbphoto.com/galleries/autoIndex-PORT/blog" in the autoindex portfolio folder.
Do I need to make these ../blog or ../../blog? Just tried these - neither works
4- I believe the embedded video not showing up at the top level might be a problem either with the newest WordPress or with the CE3 WordPress plugin (as it did work correctly in CE2.
Thanks again,
Chuck
Hi,
I've been trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to upgrade my site from CE2 to CE3.
The site is: www.chbphoto.com
software: LR5.2, php 5.4.16, wordpress - 3.6.1, Mac 10.7, CE3 plugins - most recent (Pages, WordPress, AutoIndex, Galleries)
Settings:
Pages: SiteInfo: Root /
phplugins enabled
used 3rd block of text - "Site Wide Dropdown with AutoIndex Gallery List"
correct location of phplugins.php
Navigation Multilevel
Output: Get Shared Resourses enabled
The site is basically working but with the following problems:
AutoIndex & Galleries:
1- Gallery menu not showing all levels - the galleries within the AutoIndex folder are not appearing in the dropdown menu.

2- AutoIndex thumbnails not showing up - I'm getting the "Monster" picture instead of a thumbnail (some of the galleries are CE2) vintage.
3- Blog menu is not transferring to correct location in all instances except main level of site - I'm getting things like: http://chbphoto.com/blog/blog/ or http://chbphoto.com/galleries/autoIndex-PORT/blog or http://chbphoto.com/galleries/autoIndex-PORT/S90/blog
4- In the top level of the Blog, WordPress is not showing the image of the video.
This worked correctly in previous version of WordPress plugin (CE2)
It also works correctly on the full page with the video.
"Blog" menu does not take you back to the top level of the blog (See Menu issue , above).
I'd appreciate any help you can send my way - I haven't been able to resolve these issues from the wiki.
thanks,
Chuck
Thanks Matthew - I'll try it out.