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Everyone here is always so helpful, so I am hoping someone can help me.

I have set up a Client Response Gallery and published it through Publisher.

How do I set up a username and password for a gallery so that the client can respond and I can get feedback?  I tried manually having her e-mail as her user name and a 6-letter/numerical password that is easy for her to remember and did that through the Publisher Edit for the gallery.

Clearly, I have done it all incorrectly, because it does not work.

So, I disabled the login feature, so that at least she can see the proofs of her daughter.

I have emptied the template cache, marked the gallery for republishing, and beyond that, I am flummoxed!

Thanks, I hope, and ...

Take care,

I launched our new website last week and got some private input from alumni and others before announcing and publicizing it the past two day. The response has been overwhelming great! Thank you Backlight and the team ...

The old website was built on 90s technology back in the days of stupid phones and when tablets were made of stone (or Rx). I have been using The Turning Gate products since November of 2010 for our galleries. YIKES, that's well over eight years ago!

So, it was way past time to start from scratch. Our website is not your normal here-are-my-photos-take-a-look. Retired from commercial work, we have been running photo workshops for years. We have many different types of pages, to wit, in part:

• Welcome and informational pages;

• Contact page;

• Galleries featuring the work of our participants, both photos and what we call "students in action";

• Extensive reference pages of different types and categories;

• A calendar page, of course, with links to all the workshops;

• Workshop pages with pop-up windows for both more information and payment options;

• An application that links to a thank-you page (hoping eventually to get to be a smaller pop-up page as on the workshop pages;

• A shopping cart for the workshops, consulting, etc. with fairly complicated pricing structures;

Barefoot Contessa Photo Adventures

I had been using another program until Adobe gobbled it up and eventually made it not work with my old site, so I had to start from scratch learning a new program after all these years and years.

It would not have been possible without the Forum here, in particular, Rod, Matt, Ben, and Daniel. Thank you all!

My philosophy has always been that if something is worth using, it is worth payment, and I was feeling guilty with all the free advice on the forum, so I made a donation to Rod at his TTG Tips and Tricks page. Then, I threw all caution to the winds and asked Rod if he would take me on as a paying customer. My time is always short, and running 15 (give or take between photo, Lightroom, and private) workshops a year left me with scant time to learn Backlight with the inherent lag time of any forum and implement it with plugins, css additions I didn't already have in my css, etc.

Rod was/is fabulous, and I feel I have made a friend. We share many interests besides photography and photo workshops, as well as the same, irreverent sense of humor!

For the record, Rod gave me permission to put this out. After all, if he is too busy, he can always say, "No."

So at least consider making a donation for all the extensive time Rod puts in making all our lives easier.

Take care,

Looking at a similar request about changing the transition/fade time in Theater, I tried something similar in

modules>pangolin-galleria>dynamic>js>galleria-pangolin.php

Starting at line 61, then adding a line:

        ... (represents all the other parameters above)
        transition: 'fade',
    transitionDuration: 3000,
  },

However, it didn't work.

I would like a less abrubt transition between images.

Thanks, and take care,

I am ready to make our website live.

A couple of glitches alas, and I had to get our local server guru to reinstate the old one. I hope o succeed later today.

Meanwhile, I have all my API keys that I used on my TESTSITE, but I am not allowed to fill in those credentials in the API live fields in cart settings.

Can anyone help?  I hope, I hope.

Take care,

Ever since I discovered og image, I ahve used it and found it very useful.  I cannot figure out how to use this very graphic, eye-catching tool in Backlight.

For example, in our old website, for Santa Fe, I had in the <head> tag:

<meta property="og:image" content="http://BCphotoadventures.com/Santa-Fe-Instructors-Photo-Gallery/ZAP-217-102-237-BCPA-NM.jpg" />

So, for example, when we refer to this page on Facebook,, instead of a Plain-Jane box, the viewer sees this:

It catches their attention. As photographers, we are marketing to visual people, so this is a no-brainer. It has been around for quite some time (2010???)

I just cannot figure out how to do it.  In Dreamweaver, I did it as SOP in the <head> tag as noted above.

Take care,