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In Backlight Publisher, when you click on Edit Album, you have the option to select the desired album template. Or you can do it with Lightroom Publisher, control-click (or right mouse button) on the album name and then select Edit Album.

Hidden albums are visible when you are logged in as admin. Try it with a different browser and it should not be there. If you look at your top level gallery (eg /galleries), your hidden albums have an eye symbol to indicate that they are hidden.

I cloned the WP database in the past as well, but then it happened that I added new content to the staging area instead of my main site. Now I use a new WP database with just a few dummy entries. This way I see my changes, but it is obvious that this is the staging area.

This seems to work for me:

.contact-form p {
    text-align: center;
}

.contact-form .actions {
    text-align: center;
}

Line 17 of your local css file chauser.css defines a max-width for form fields:

form input[type="color"], form input[type="date"], form input[type="datetime"], form input[type="datetime-local"], form input[type="email"], form input[type="month"], form input[type="number"], form input[type="password"], form input[type="search"], form input[type="tel"], form input[type="text"], form input[type="time"], form input[type="url"], form input[type="week"], form input:not([type]), form select, form textarea, .form input[type="color"], .form input[type="date"], .form input[type="datetime"], .form input[type="datetime-local"], .form input[type="email"], .form input[type="month"], .form input[type="number"], .form input[type="password"], .form input[type="search"], .form input[type="tel"], .form input[type="text"], .form input[type="time"], .form input[type="url"], .form input[type="week"], .form input:not([type]), .form select, .form textarea {
    max-width: 450px;
}

Once you increase it, it looks better. But this affects many other fields and might have unintended side effect. You might want to add the .slug-contact class to the selector.

You would need to use phplugins to call your custom php code. Depending on what your custom code does, select the most appropriate hook, maybe copy_bottom().

The path is not correct. It is /backlight/vanilla-form/css/vanilla-form.min.css, starting with a slash.

You never should have to delete galleries using the c-panel. Backlight is database driven and galleries need either be deleted from Lightroom or from Backlight > Publisher > Galleries > Albums. Click on the album name in question and then select Delete Album.

From phplugins-pangolin-sample.php:

 *    head
 *      - return value ignored
 *      - called immediately before </head>
 *      - encompasses nothing; use to insert content into the <head>

Maybe something like this:

function head() { 
   echo '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="/path/to/css/vanilla-form.min.css">';
   echo '<script src="/path/to/css/vanilla-form.min.js"></script>';
}

This looks nice, Lisa.

There is one thing I would change: I would move the BACK option to the blank menu of the instruction and help pages. A benefit is that the user doesn't have to move the mouse.

I'm a bit confused.... you always can have shared pages located at http://lisalphotography.com/BL2/name_of_shared_page, manage them with Backlight and have a menu inside your gallery pointing to them. There is no need to redo them when you are posting a new client gallery. But I guess I miss something