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Hi Tom,

Sorry, I haven't checked in in a few days, and have been off of my computer most of the weekend. I haven't received your emails. Can you send relevant info to mjcampagna at gmail?

Backlight forms are not meant to work in Wordpress. You should checkout Wordpress plugins. Contact Form 7 is the one I've always used.

So, you want the hero image to display on the Home page?

If so, trying clearing the template cache.

Hero images should display with embedded albums. This was unintentional, but hurray for unforeseen side-effects. My first inclination was that I should fix it, but it looks like people like having hero images included, so now I'm thinking I'll try to put some options around it instead.

also worth checking, are you able to use the regular [gallery] Wordpress shortcode, or does it fail as well?

Looks great, Nico!

The only suggestion I have is in regards to the cookies notice. You've changed the label on the "Opt-out of Google Analytics" checkbox to just read "Google Analytics". In doing so, you've changed the polarity of the messaging. Now, enabling the checkbox looks like an opt-in, when it is, in reality, an opt-out. And so, people wanting NOT to tracked by Google Analytics would leave the box unchecked, and then WOULD be tracked.

Why not embed a galleria slideshow, and just add a new image to the album every month?

You should probably wrap the whole thing in a condition to determine whether or not you're dealing with an album.

if ($this->hasAlbum()) {
  ...
}

You can see other examples of this being used in the samples.

Re: Lr/Mogrify2, Lightroom doesn't allow us to route our export through another plugin.

Everything Daniel has said above is accurate. Highslide could be implemented either using PHPlugins or via JSON API. You will just be subject to all the same limitations that were reasons we dropped Highslide. Lack of mobile suitability and no updates since 2011 being high on that list.

Having to use an iframe is most often symptomatic of doing something you shouldn't be doing, or doing something that might be achieved in a better way. Valid use cases for iframes are few and far between.

We have never advised using iframes (except maybe with the Pym support in Theater, but that's really an odd duck), and still consider it to be generally bad practice. We have not made any changes in Backlight 3 to improve the iframe experience, as there's really nothing for us to do in that regard. Most problems you would have with iframes are inherent to iframes, are often intentional limitations due to security concerns that the browser is attempting to protect you against, and there's nothing we can code to change that.

Otherwise, I'm not entire sure the specific "problem(s)" you're referring to.

Okay. Maybe we wanted to limit markup getting thrown into it. PHPlugins it is then.