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Jon, can you please email me your order numbers?

Do you have cookies disabled on your iPad?

I don't know what "terrible banner" you're talking about. I also don't think your comment is strictly relevant to this thread. Perhaps you'd better open a new topic.

Yes, I'm seeing the same issue. I've fixed it for our upcoming 3.0.1 update. Thank you.

Padding will probably need to wait until 3.0.2 at this point.

Well that's not great. Something to fix then. I don't want the hero image to embed.

Patrick,

I found your orders. Indeed, you had an email address mismatch. I've change your Backlight 3 order to use the same @pkriner email address as your Backlight 2 orders, and you should now be able to install the upgrade.

If you'd prefer all your orders to use your Gmail address, please contact me via email and I can update all of your orders.

Weird. I'm not seeing the issue opening your site in Safari. What version of MacOS are you using? I'm on Catalina, so the latest Safari.

I was also mistaken above, when I said that albums would have the Site feed in their head. We're working on some RSS feed improvements for our first update to Backlight 3, and I can see that albums do present their own feed in the head, and non-album pages then use the Site feed. My apologies for the misinformation above.

The arrows are 50% opacity, regardless of color. They are never gray; they are black, and 50% opaque. When you mouse over them, they become 100% opaque.

If you want them to be otherwise, then you can override the CSS.

First thing to decide, whether you intend to work in JS or PHP. Either way, the top bit of the documentation, "The API", defines the available endpoints. The endpoints are the same, regardless, but you're meant to understand already how to use them.

I'm not a PHP guy. If using PHP, I don't know the extent of your options, but cURL is one way you should be able to interact with the API. In phplugins-pangolin-sample.php, look for the function with "Get a list of blog titles from Wordpress JSON API", and that's an example how to use cURL, and then how to utilize the response to render HTML.

In JavaScript, I've provided two convenience libraries that allow you to interact with the API without having to write the fetch requests yourself. The library api.js is written in ES6 JavaScript, and should be used if you're only targeting modern web-browsers. If you're concerned about supporting older browsers, including Internet Explorer, then you should use jquery.api.js instead.

The simplest starter I can give is this, in PHPlugins:

function scripts() {
  if ($this->hasAlbum()) {
    $albumId = $this->album->getId();
    echo '
      <script src="/backlight/modules/module-publisher/lib/js/jquery.api.js"></script>
      <script>
        var backlight = new Backlight()

        backlight.getAlbum('. $albumId .', {
          done: function(data) {
            console.log(data)
          },
        })
      </script>
    ';
  }
  return false;
} // END /**/

And that will just log the response to the console. You'll need to figure out what to do with it.

Make sure you go into the Settings and enable the JSON API. That was a late addition, and I've just now added it to the docs.

The problem isn't with opening the correct image. The problem is that the preview image for the album is defined -- necessarily so, else there would be no preview image -- and so let's say the representative image for the album is image #1, and you share image #5 to Facebook.

On Facebook, people will see a link to the album and the previewed image will be image #1. The preview's description will be whatever the description for the album, not for the shared image.

So if you share 10 images from the same album, then you will have 10 identical posts on Facebook, all of which open different images.

Feel free to read up on Facebook's Open Graph Protocol if you'd like. Single-image pages exist, in part, so that we can provide image-specific OGP information to social media, so that when you share an image, you're actually sharing THAT image.

And yes, scaling on the y-axis is possible. but that would require a total overhaul.

Thank you.

There's not much research to be done. You'll just want to create new templates using the pangolin modules, then reassign your albums, sets and pages to use them. Backlight 3 has a Reassign feature that makes that pretty easy to do. Or, if you delete an Okapi template, you'll be asked which template to use to reassign everything that was using it.

To get started, I'd create a new page or album, and make it private, hidden from view. Then use that while you design your new templates. When you're satisfied with the new template, then reassign your public pages, albums, etc.