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Ah I see, good point Rod. I’ll try turning it off in Backlight and see if anything changes.

Steve

Hi Jim, thanks for taking a look, that's really helpful. And thanks for the advice re underscores and dashes in slugs, I didn't realise how that affects the search.

No idea what's going on with all the redirect loops - I did notice this morning that I didn't have the SSL redirect switched on with the host so I've just made that change. I haven't applied any redirects myself  (no idea how to and can't see anything in my cPanel to add or remove them) so I don't understand why the 301 and 302 redirects are happening. I've run a report from Screamingfrog and noticed that every album in my client response gallery has a 302 redirect?

I'm confused about why the 301 redirects. For example looking at the sitemap, https://adecentexposure.co.uk has a 301 redirect  to https://WWW.adecentexposure.co.uk (and the same for all the top level pages in my site). Is this normal redirect activity for a host or do you think I need to raise a ticket with my hosting company to take a look at this?

Thanks for flagging up the orphaned page, I was confused by that when it was flagged up in SEMRush. I think that's my error, when I was getting my head around setting up Backlight I created a page /galleries2/ (shoud have realised when I couldn't create /galleries/) and then embedded the top level gallery rather than just pointing the menu to it. I've got customers visiting the site at the moment from a shoot yesterday so as soon as that actiity dies down I'll delete the /galleries2/ page.

Since upgrading I've been having some performance issues compared to my CE4 site, Ben kindly made some changes to the database config which helped speed things up but wondering whether the redirects are contributing to that, so thanks very much for taking the time to help me.

Steve

Doubtless someone will drop by and go through the things to check, but if it helps I activated my https a couple of weeks ago and it took about 24 hours for everything to settle down properly - I had a variety of intermittent errors for most of the day.

All looking good now Ben and page load speed is a lot better! Thank you!

Thanks Ben, that's interesting, hope there's something that can be optimised. The upgrade overall has been really worthwhile and it's so much better than CE4!

I've just replaced the home page gallery with smaller renditions of the images (that hasn't helped though). Let me know if there's anything else I need to do at my end. if you need to FTP onto the site all the credentials I've emailed previously will work.

So it looks like I'm good to go now with the migration completed, thank you Ben!

But - the problem now is that the site is incredibly slow to load. My test site with a few albums takes about a second. My original CE4 site took about 2 seconds (up to when I overwrote it yesterday). The Backlight site contains the albums from CE4 (32 sets, 217 albums) but the load time for the home page is 15-20 seconds. Lightroom is also incredibly slow uploading an album. Backlight admin is very slow to load. Anything I should be looking at?

I don’t see any way to migrate the cart from CE4 to Backlight either, can anyone tell me where that option should be please? I’ve purchased the module.

This is a bit exasperating, reinstalled Backlight and now getting error 418 from Lightroom when I try to create an album, and the templates aren't showing up in the lightroom plugin either.