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#226 Re: Backlight 2 Support » merging sub-sites / video home page » 2019-09-16 14:44:38

Daniel Leu
pideja wrote:

I think I'll drop the "autoplay" for the video...the more I read about this feature, the pushback I get from most web commentators. Something like:

Web pages with videos that autoplay without warning or expectation ranks as one of my top pet peeves on the web. One would think that after more than a decade of video on the web, all site owners would have ended a practice that was popular only in the early years of web video. But many have not.

So I guess there is a reason this feature looks difficult to implement.

Seems like autoplay works now. I don't see why you went through all the trouble to get this working instead of using a simple Backlight slideshow. The later has the advantage that there is no unwanted music.... there is even more dislike for that when you look around the web...

#227 Re: Backlight Support » Ads on shop frontpage » 2019-09-13 15:07:37

Daniel Leu

please read my post again....

2) Function names changed and lost their arguments. You only need to remove the ttg_ prefix and whatever is between parentheses.

So

function header_top( $style, $path ) {

becomes

function header_top() {

#228 Re: Backlight Support » Ads on shop frontpage » 2019-09-13 01:24:56

Daniel Leu

Have a look over here fore updating to phplugins for BL2: http://community.theturninggate.net/vie … hp?id=8966

#229 Re: Backlight 2 Support » merging sub-sites / navigation » 2019-09-12 08:40:43

Daniel Leu
pideja wrote:

Attempting to use CSS to control the menu on mobile. Found and adapted this:

/* Style the navigation menu */
.topnav {
  overflow: hidden;
  background-color: #333;
  position: relative;
}

/* Style navigation menu links */
.topnav a {
  color: white;
  padding: 14px 16px;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-size: 17px;
  display: block;
}

/* Style the hamburger menu */
.topnav a.icon {
  background: black;
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  top: 0;
}

/* Add a grey background color on mouse-over */
.topnav a:hover {
  background-color: #ddd;
  color: black;
}

/* Style the active link (or home/logo) */
.active {
  background-color: #4CAF50;
  color: white;
}

The .topnav seems not recognized.


This doesn't work!

Pierre,

A better way would be to create a test page with a different template that has the look you are seeking for mobile. Then compare the two pages to create the necessary custom.css. I don't know if the different looks are only due to css changes or if there are html code differences as well!

#230 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Pagination Display on Top/bottom of Page » 2019-08-26 23:00:37

Daniel Leu
mad wrote:

Daniel, Everything should be working fine let me know if something did not work since I did not see a 404 error.  Also, I just used some creative coding in plugins and did not hack the system; it just appears that I did a hack.

Ben, I fully support not to do hacking on Backlight 2.

No more 404s. But it looks kind of ugly when blowing up a thumbnails for full screen view.

#231 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Pagination Display on Top/bottom of Page » 2019-08-26 01:29:03

Daniel Leu

You use an interesting approach to select the product, Michael. What irritated me at first was that your shop/product gallery closely resembles the regular photo gallery. It might be helpful to have a different layout. When I click on a product in the shop I get a 404 error. I don't know how easy it is to further hack the system so you get the shopping cart popup instead.

Nice approach and a cool hack!

#232 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Some galleries are not displayed correctly on Android » 2019-08-23 03:45:41

Daniel Leu

Your page is served as part of a frameset:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>
  <title>Photographs Now</title>  
  <meta name="description" content="">
  <meta name="keywords" content="">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
  <frame src="http://caddinfo.com/photo-now-backlight/" frameborder="0" />
</frameset>

</html>

I think to remember that this is not supported.

#233 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Footer font-size » 2019-08-22 06:24:08

Daniel Leu

This happens to all of us!

#234 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Footer font-size » 2019-08-22 05:33:02

Daniel Leu

Try 1.5rem without a space

#235 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Footer font-size » 2019-08-22 04:44:22

Daniel Leu
Rainer Goergen wrote:

I have tried this - it does not works.

Rainer

Edit: maybe there is a conflict in my css file. Could not find it.

Rainer

If you add it to your custom.css, we might be able to help.

#236 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Make my home page look like my gallery page » 2019-08-21 00:21:24

Daniel Leu
mjenich wrote:

Still not working. Here's what it looks like on my Home Page: http://martinjenichphotography.com/. I did everything both of you suggested but I don't know how to check to see which template the Galleries page is using. I set the Page Template to Backlight Standard page. I tried finding the Galleries Template in Backlight and couldn't find it. I tried finding it in lightroom In Publish Services>TTG Publisher>Art Party Tuesdays and was not give an option to choose Backlight Standard Page. Where can I find the template that the Galleries page is using?
Is it possible the problem has to do with the Default Template under Page Templates under Templates.  The type now reads Pangolin Page and it is the default. It seems to  me it should read Backlight Standard Page. If so, I don't know how to change the default to Backlight Standard page.

Looks like your home page shows an album and an album-set. Disable the album on your page. It is just above where you selected the album-set.

#237 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Make my home page look like my gallery page » 2019-08-20 22:24:28

Daniel Leu

Backlight > Designer > Pages > Home > Design > Insert Album Set: Select Galleries. That should do the trick.

#238 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Download photos not working on host but working on local hosted site. » 2019-08-19 03:28:17

Daniel Leu

Do you have a link to an album where download doesn't work?

#239 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Gallery lost it's design » 2019-08-19 00:30:05

Daniel Leu

And your custom.css has two problems... There is a space between a dot and the class name and the media query is not closed.

#240 Re: Backlight Support » Catastrophic Blacklight Failure » 2019-08-12 23:10:37

Daniel Leu
MikeR wrote:

Hi Daniel
I re-downloaded backlight, cart & theatre as they where all slightly older versions.
(I never got the emails for the new versions)
Got a email from Bluehost last night saying they had completely revamped the Bluehost interface.
Everything is working great now.
Thanks

smile

#241 Re: Backlight Support » Catastrophic Blacklight Failure » 2019-08-09 18:14:34

Daniel Leu

Anyway, please redownload backlight. Just use the link you have to get the latest version. Ben did some updates to fix PHP version issues.

#242 Re: Backlight 2 Support » What Does this mean? » 2019-08-06 05:46:24

Daniel Leu
pideja wrote:

I will try to re-install.

If this helps, the server's error log writes:

[05-Aug-2019 18:19:08 UTC] PHP Warning:  require_once(./backlight/framework/Framework.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/marcc6/public_html/nathaliemoliavko-visotzky/index.php on line 17

You need to upgrade your albums. There is an 'upgrade album' link in the backlight admin main page.

#243 Re: Backlight 2 Support » What Does this mean? » 2019-08-06 02:49:20

Daniel Leu

For you, Pierre, and please don't take this personally, I would recommend to do your work on the web in a subdomain or a subdirectory so others can have a look. When you encounter issues in a MAMP/WAMP setting, it is very difficult to help.

#244 Re: Backlight 2 Support » moving from okapi to Pangolin » 2019-08-05 20:13:40

Daniel Leu

Pangolin is the way to go to get the latest features. AFAIK, there is no further development going on with Okapi, apart fixes to issues.

1) yes. If you do mix and match, you want to design the new Pangolin templates to match the Okapi format.

2) yes

3) This is not really a move. The only thing you change is the template assignment for the album sets and albums. The used template can be either changed in the Backlight backend or in Lightroom Publisher Album Settings. In case you change the image sizes, specially going for bigger thumbnails or images, you would need to republish all images from Lightroom. Otherwise, changing the template is all you need to do.

#245 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Got an email today: Errors reported by Google Search Console Team » 2019-08-04 05:35:00

Daniel Leu
markh wrote:

FYI this problem has been traced to a Wordpress plugin called Code Embed. Plugin worked until the latest Version of Wordpress. Am currently exploring other code embedding  plugin solution. Anyone know of a good one?
Regards Mark

I'm using CC-Syntax-Highlight.

#246 Re: Backlight 2 Support » Installing Backlight 2 - Godaddy » 2019-08-04 05:33:13

Daniel Leu
bob chadwick wrote:

I did using Godaddy's dashboard and then using Filezilla.  I first changed the permissions to 755, followed by 777 and both get that same message.

Unable to write to backlight/modules. Make sure that this directory can be writen to by the server.

I've seen some references to putting the Backlight files in a directly called /public_html but when I've tried this, the website isn't found.

The folder name is host specific. It might be /public_html, /htdocs/, or something else. You can see this in your host's cpanel where the domain is mapped onto a directory.

#247 Re: Backlight 2 Support » What Does this mean? » 2019-07-30 04:13:02

Daniel Leu
rod barbee wrote:

I'm wondering why, then, the path to the installer isn't: http://localhost:8888/nathaliemoliavko-visotzky/backlight/installer/

You can define the root directory for your server to be ..../sites/nathaliemoliavkovisotzky. Then you get to this directory with http://localhost:8888.

Pierre, it seems like you have installed the backlight files in a directory called backlight. The easiest is to change the MAMP server (Preferences > Web Server > Document Root) to point the root directory like ..../sites/nathaliemoliavkovisotzky/backlight.

#248 Re: Backlight 2 Support » New Panorama function on Theater » 2019-07-29 18:48:35

Daniel Leu
Markus wrote:

Good morning,

I'm just desperately trying to get some panoramas on the test page Testsite Panorama

I can adjust the height via Presentation Height in the chapter Panorama.
But I don't manage to adjust the width yet. I guess I haven't found the corresponding setting yet.

Max-width for Presentation is 1140 px

A change under Image Renditions | Photos | Width has no effect.

BTW: What are the settings for thumbnails and photos for?

I am happy about tips

Best regards
Markus

The width restrictions come from your custom.css:

.the__gallery figure {
.....
    width: 240px;
}

#249 Re: Backlight Support » Create galley with sections/headers » 2019-07-25 16:03:38

Daniel Leu

Hi Keith,

One option would be to use search to help display a subset of images.

You can see an example on my page at https://danielleu.com/galleries/united_ … a/sail-gp/. All images are in one gallery, but I added the thumbnail strip where one can search images of one particular team. The images are searched by keywords, which is something you could add with Photomechanic.

Another approach is using phplugins. With Backlight 2 you get access to the entire image gallery structure. You could then display only images based on certain metadata. This approach would better match your current gallery, but the implementation would require quite a bit of coding.

#250 Re: Backlight Support » No access to Backlight frontend nor backend » 2019-07-24 06:12:25

Daniel Leu
grover_c wrote:

I'm having the same problem.  I believe I'm on Backlight 123 release 7.  How do I update to Backlight 2 when I don't have admin access?

You don't need admin access to update from Backlight to Backlight 2. All you need is ftp access to your server.

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