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Hi Pete,

In the sample PHPlugins file for pangolin, included in the /backlight/custom/phplugins folder of your installation, you will find this sample function:

function main_top() { 
	echo '<ul style="background-color:#FFF9C4;color:#000;margin:1.5rem 0;padding:24px 36px;">';
		if (PASSWORD_ENABLED) {
			echo '<li><strong>This gallery is private</strong>.</li>';
			if (LOGGED_IN) {
				echo '<li><small>The user is logged in</small>.</li>';
			} else {
				echo '<li><small>The user is logged out</small>.</li>';
			}
		} elseif ( $this->isManaged() ) {
			echo '<li><strong>This gallery is client managed</strong>.</li>';
		} else {
			echo '<li><strong>This gallery is public</strong>.</li>';
		}
	echo '</ul>';
	return false;
} // END /**/

This is the most up-to-date syntax, and demonstrated how to use the logged-in/out conditions. You'd want to use this logic to display the logout button, and perhaps change the "main_top()" location to reflect the location at which you'd like the code to appear.

Backlight's page template has a menu assigned. If there's no menu in Wordpress, then it will display. If you have a menu in Wordpress, the Backlight menu is overridden.

Backlight menus do not show in Wordpress' admin.

Honestly, probably not going to happen. Cluttering the thumbnails UI on a small display just makes it more difficult to do everything, especially for fat-fingered people, or other who struggle with touch-screens. It's too easy to miss the checkbox and hit the thumbnail instead, or vice versa. The symbols make thumbnails more difficult to see. And no one should be judging images based on mobile-size thumbnails anyway.

If you need to indicate to viewers they should make selections, then include a call-to-action in the gallery description.

We typically post update to the blog when updates are available. You can get notifications via email when we post to the blog. I've just re-enabled the subscription sign-up in the blog's sidebar, at http://theturninggate.net

Password recovery?
http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … _passwords

Hi Jon,

These days, I think the WP REST API is probably the way to go for this stuff. It was first packaged into Wordpress in the 4.7 release. Here's an example. This function will get five posts from your blog.

function main_top() {
  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
    CURLOPT_URL => 'http://yourdomain.com/blog/wp-json/wp/v2/posts',
    CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'User Agent X'
  ));
  $posts = curl_exec($curl);
  curl_close($curl);

  $posts = json_decode($posts, true);
  if(is_array($posts)){
    echo '<ul>';
    for ( $i = 0; $i < 5; $i++ ) {
      if (isset($posts[$i])) {
        echo '<li><a target="_blank" href="' . $posts[$i]['link'] . '">' . $posts[$i]['title']['rendered'] . '</a></li>';
      }
    }
    echo '</ul>';
  }

  return false;
} // END /**/

Resources:

cURL:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/277 … n-http-get

PHP 5 For Loops:
https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_looping_for.asp

Convert and Loop through JSON with PHP
https://jonsuh.com/blog/convert-loop-th … s-objects/

WP REST API Handbook:
https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/

And you can visit the URL in the code above to view the post data, so that you can see how to pick it apart.

You should also install the JSON Formatter extension for Chrome:
https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter

Pierre, see my response to your other post, about Backlight location and publishing galleries to named folders.

Backlight is fully separate from our old Lightroom plugins. So while you may be tempted to compare your experience to the older CE plugins, please resist that urge. Backlight 2 operates very differently, and by its own rules. We advise that you adhere as closely as possible to documentation, rather than assuming it will work the same as those things from years ago.

With Backlight 2, you may, of course, publish albums privately. Backlight should be installed at the root of your site, i.e. pideja.com/backlight. But you can then create albums at pideja.com/noces, if that's what you want to do. You may password protect those albums, hide them from view, etc.

Hi Chris,

Are you able to verify this? The .htaccess file may be invisible by default, so you would need to set your FTP client to show invisible files. This is usually done via the View menu or Preferences, depending on the FTP client.

I can see that /backlight is accessible on your site, so it would seem to be the case that the problem is with either or both of the index.php file, or the .htaccess file. Please ensure both are in place; or maybe just upload fresh copies.

Have you tried to publish any galleries yet, either from Lightroom or from within Backlight? Have you had any problems with that?

Ah, I see. Short album descriptions do not support Markdown. That copy gets used in unformatted places, SEO, social media blurbs, etc.

Maybe something to do with Backlight being in a subfolder, .../noces/backlight.

Typically, should be at pideja.ca/backlight.

The metadata for the one-image album you've linked to is configured to display the Filename and image Caption on the thumbnail. The filename is correctly displaying, and the image has no caption.

There's no problem here, in that the page is displaying exactly the metadata it has been configured for. If you want to display other metadata, then change the template config and republish your image.

And maybe learn to use the software before you start complaining that it doesn't work. Because it totally does work, and totally IS working in your example.