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I have the CE4 Wordpress Bundle and am using it as you designed it with Wordpress but I also use Publisher to publish standalone galleries for Drupal based sites and hand coded (Dreamweaver) sites.  Is there a way to go ahead and get Backlight (and potentially + pages) and begin work on the standalone sites then phase in the Wordpress features when you release them.  The key is to do the phasing without losing my Wordpress bundle discount if possible.  I purchased CE4 (2014?) over a year ago so my discount won't be significant, but I'd like to take advantage of whatever discount is available to me by upgrading to the new bundle. As expected at this time my orders have no discount codes associated with them.

Congratulations on getting Backlight to market. I really look forward to using it.

Bill Cobb
Sandy Springs, GA

I converted a gallery from CE3 to CE4 after building and uploading new CE4 templates for the gallery and its auto index per instructions on the site here.  The published gallery's albums are properly built using the new CE4 template.  Unfortunately the Auto Index is not -- it was built using a prior obsolete auto index template.  You can see the live auto index at http://www.nfarl.org/nfarlPhotoAlbum/gallery/; drill through to one of its albums to see the CE4 presentation (first cut).

The following was displayed when I scanned the album using Matthew's handy debugging tool -- ?debug:

TTG CE3 Auto Index PHP function v1.7 (2012-01-10)
DOCUMENT ROOT '/home3/nfarl/public_html'
REALPATH(ROOT)  '/home3/nfarl/public_html'
Filepath   = './'
Realpath = '/home3/nfarl/public_html/nfarlPhotoAlbum/gallery/*'
URL Root = '/home3/nfarl/public_html'
Scanning '/home3/nfarl/public_html/nfarlPhotoAlbum/gallery/2014-holiday-party'
OS Path = '/home3/nfarl/public_html/nfarlPhotoAlbum/gallery/2014-holiday-party' URL Path = '/nfarlPhotoAlbum/gallery/2014-holiday-party'
Thumbnail <XML> ''

How do I recover from this?

Bill Cobb

I installed the latest update today, and am very impressed with the new features in all modules and the quality of the large images created by the Magnific tool.  Kudos Matt!!

After the software updates, I had an issue with index pages for galleries that contained a mix of landscape and portrait thumbnails, but found a workaround that will work for now.  Hope there is a better solution.

Prior to installing Gallery 604b, index pages created by gallery and containing mixed portrait / landscape thumbnails were created properly.  With 604b in place, row spacing caused thumbnails to overlap as shown here http://innkeepersgazette.com/wrdp/galleries/sprinter/ and here http://innkeepersgazette.com/wrdp/galleries/izabella/ (toward the bottom of the index page).  The workaround was simple, and resulted in an index page that looks like this: http://innkeepersgazette.com/wrdp/galle … raduation/

Republishing a collection did not correct the thumbnail overlaps.  Here is what I had to do to remove the overlaps from the last index page:

• remove the portrait image from the publish services collection

• update the gallery on the server

• add the portrait image back to the collection

• modify the sort sequence of the collection to put the images back in the order I wanted (image date & time) (nice feature Matt)

• mark the entire collection to be republished

• republish the collection

I'll correct the other mixed pages after you have had a chance to see them.

Matt, is there a better way for those with a large number of mixed-orientation collections to handle this?

Bill Cobb

I can find nothing in the documentation about author set "more..." breakpoints in blog home page excerpts when the full post is not displayed on the home page.  The feature does not work in the CE4 Theme for WordPress, and did not work in the CE3 theme. 

Is this by design, or did I miss something?  If I activate the Twenty Fourteen theme, I can set the breakpoint as instructed in the WP documentation.

This is not a major issue, but is an annoyance.  I like to let the reader compete the initial paragraph before forcing him to open the full post.

FYI, I have installed all CE4 updates except for the last (email dated 8/5).  I am trying to get my site stable before
applying the latest update.

Matt, thanks for the great product.  I finally have the CE4 WordPress bundle up and running and love the new approaches.  Keep up the great work.  And thanks to Rod for his great support as I sorted out transition issues.