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1b. Homepage index.php galleria slide show does not show on all devices
2. My default album (Pangolin Album) displays large images as a slideshow. The background is the default colors, dark grey, etc., but does show up as white on some devices. Also swiping the images doesn't work.
I have an iPhone6 and a 2017 iPad
The index page Galleria slide show appears on both.
The default album slide show is consistent for me between my laptop, ipad and iphone. Background is dark. Images are swipeable.
Ok, thanks for testing! I guess I try to delete the cache on her iPhone 7 and see if that helps.
Ok, that doesn't really make sense to me. Why would there be a "main copy" option in the album with the option to display it underneath or above and then you say that the text will not be shown?
It is strange though, because sometimes it is shown and other times it is not. Why would it show on the iPhone 7 and not show the slide show?
So, ok, how do I solve the problem then:
I have a galleria slide show on my index page and want some text underneath it to show?
1a. Main Copy text underneath a Galleria Slide Show that is presented on the index.php homepage. The text does not show on some devices. The index page has it's own galleria template with that very copy text as the main copy.
Neither album text nor album template text should appear on pages with inserted albums. Just the page copy og the page itself.
I don't quite get, what you mean by that? The galleria album itself has a "main copy" area. That is where I inserted the text. So it is only in that very album and it does show up.
http://testsite.petervogel.com/
I am more concerned about the display problems on the iPhone 7.
Hi,
I am getting frustrated, because my BL2 test site behaves different on different devices.
The elements, that create problems:
1a. Main Copy text underneath a Galleria Slide Show that is presented on the index.php homepage. The text does not show on some devices. The index page has it's own galleria template with that very copy text as the main copy.
1b. Homepage index.php galleria slide show does not show on all devices
2. My default album (Pangolin Album) displays large images as a slideshow. The background is the default colors, dark grey, etc., but does show up as white on some devices. Also swiping the images doesn't work.
The devices:
On my iMac 27 in Safari: Everything works as it should. My reference.
Problem 1: On the same iMac in Firefox, the copy text on the index.php page underneath the slideshow is not displayed.
Problem 2: On an iPhone 7 in Safari, the text on the index page is displayed, but the slideshow above it isn't. It is just blank white.
Problem 3: On the iPhone 7, on the regular Pangolin Albums, in slideshow mode, the background is all white instead of the "default dark grey and black" that I kept like that. Also, no arrows show, only the close and play buttons. When I hit the play button, the arrows suddenly show above the image on the right side, but there is no pause button. Also, I am not able to swipe to the next image. That can only be done by using the arrows.
On an iPhone 5s, everything is displayed correctly and works like on the iMac, tested in Safari, Chrome and Firefox, all fine!
When I get home, I will test also on an iPad Mini and MacBook Aluminum.
Until today I only had the problem, that the text on the main index page wouldn't show up in Firefox, but since I tested it on the iPhone 7 of my daughter, I ran into all the other issues. I wonder, if I have to also test it on an iPhone 8, X, XS, etc. not even thinking about all the Androids out there....
Help would be appreciated.
My naming scheme out of LR is:
custom_name-1.jpg
custom_name-2.jpg
etc.
When I drag the images in the upload pane, they will be displayed in the ascending sort order I want them in.
Now I hit upload and it starts to upload more than one image at a time resulting in the problem, that some latter images are done first uploading and will be displayed in the order of upload completion then.
I have set the album sorting to "name", but it still does display them in the upload order. I have deleted cashes in browser an BL2 and updated files, too.
Is there a work around to this other than uploading one single photo after another? I don't want to use the LR-plugin, since I want to be completely independent of LR.
Ok, thanx!
How about the custom.css and phplugins file? There is no need anymore to manually change the path in the phplugins file when moving it from the sudomain to the domain like it was in pages 4?
Ok, thanx.
I am using the Pangolin Album with Slideshow as my default album and wanted to create a white theme now.
I am on
Pangolin Album-> Design->Photo Presentation
I changed the background color to white, works
I changed the UI background color to 245/245/245 and it only changes on the bottom stripe. The top is still default black no matter what I do.
I emptied caches for template, safari, quit browser restartet, tried firefox, it still is black while the bottom is 245.
I disabled custom css that I used to get rid of the lupe and red loading stripe, but that doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
What could be the problem?
I am on Safari 11.1.2 and still on El Capitan;-)
It works fine again in Safari now.
I also thought about that, but anybody can still make a screenshot to save the image;-)
Ok, I was on Safari and used Firefox now and it worked normal.
Very strange indeed though, since I dragged some older images I had already uploaded for testing into the browser and they showed up with thumbs and could be uploaded. Some worked, some didn't.
Hi,
my image upload seems broken now. I am in the publisher and want to add photos to an album by dragging them onto the browser window, but only generic white icons are displayed with the file name. Clicking on upload returns a "failed" response.
I did clear all caches, etc., but I am still not able to upload any images any more. I have no idea what is going on. I did not change anything, was just editing pics and wanted to upload them now. I tried different albums but it is always the same, white generic icon, no thumb shown. My files are all jpg.
I have no clue what I could do to fix that.
Input appreciated!
Thanx
[split from other topic by moderator]
Sounds great!
I would like to rearrange the oder of images, which I already uploaded. In other backend solutions, it is possible to do that in the backend by simply dragging them to another position in the backend album image display page.
Am I correct that this is not possible in BL2 and the only way to sort them is by
name/ capture time ascending/ descending
or order at time of import?
I deliberately are not using the Lightroom Plugin, because I wanted to have a web-only setup, where I could add images anywhere I am.
I think it would be nice though to be able to managa the order of the images also within BL2 by just dragging and dropping them around. Any chance for that to be implemented in the near future?
Thanx
I would like to get rid of the navigation arrows all together when displayed in vertical position on a smart phone, since they overlap every image and just look annoying to me. I mean every smart phone and tablet user knows by now, that you can just swipe through a series of pictures, I think there is no need to display the arrows on those devices?
Also, I would like the slideshow to start as soon as I click on a thumbnail and it opens the fancybox. Right now it seems to me that I always have to hit the play button manually. I would rather have it start automatically and have the user hit the stop button, if they want to.
Last thing: What does the
Downloads-> Source
do? I thought setting it to "disabled" hinders a user from downloading the large image, but that is not the case. A bit more insight on that would be appreciated.
Thanx, but I already figured that out;-)
I thin it would be really good, if there were more videos on youtube about the basic handling of backlight 2! That would also be a good way to explain the limitations of backlight 2 and how to work around those using custom css and custom phpplugins.
the image is still at 489x18. Did you try clearing template cache?
Yes, I cleaned template cache more than once and browser cache as well to no avail. If I grab the pic on the website with the mouse and pull it away, the "ghost image" immediately shows at the right size, much smaller.
Well, I guess I stick with the custom css formatted text then.
default font-size is 16px. Some other sizes are set within the Backlight css with rem.
Some elements can be set within the page template: Masthead text title, menu items, etc.
if you want to change the font-size of the copy text, then use custom css
Yes, I was looking for a global setting for the default font size, but couldn't find one. I used custom css now to change that.
BTW: In the backend there are quite a few color picker buttons that are for text color, but they don't say that expicitly, which makes one try out quite a lot to see if it applies to the text, the box or the background. It would be nice to have it state: Color (text) or something like that
Hi Rod,
here is a link: http://testsite.petervogel.com/testseite_logo/
I took out the logo picture, but added it again now with an extra menue and page and template, so you can see what it looks like.
Since my logo is text only, I subtituted it with text that I formatted via css. That works fine for me too and you can check that look by clicking on any of the other menue items.
Still, why is it not displayed in proper size?
Also, where do I set the text sizes in the backend? I could swear that I went through a setup for that, but I can't find it anymore. So right now I am using css classes to change text size.
I do find the backend quite confusing at times.
Thanx
Hi,
why is BL2 not displaying the masthead logo image at its actual pixel size? It is always displayed at a factor of roughly 1,5x of the actual size.
I thought it was because my image was too small, 18px x 498px, so I made the logo bigger, 50px x 650 px but now it still will be displayed at roughly 1,5x the actual size, way too big? It is just formatted type as an image saved as png for the alpha channel.
Normally pics are always displayed at their actual pixel size, why is it different in the masthead with the logo image?
I am just starting with BL2 and am in the process of redoing my page which is still hosted with CE4.
Thanx
I also noticed that on Safari latest version on Mac OS Yosemite. In older Safari versions, that does not happen and in Firefox it is not blocked. I also think that should be addressed or a solution to circumvent that, should be posted!
I have my sharing icons and links put in via the phplugins and would also like a hint to a solution for that.
I think Rob mentioned something about changing the URLs in the links for the social media stuff. I am not quite sure, what he means by that and how to do that.
A solution would be great!
Peter
Hmm, I treid that code, but could not get it to work. So I'll leave it as is for now. Spend too much time on these little details already anyway;-)
Short feedback, if anyone is interested:
Since I am just lost with this stuff, I asked a friend of mine who knows php and some other stuff and he came up with 3 lines of code, which work for me:
Original script:
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#navigation a").each(function() {
if ($(this).prop("href") == window.location.href) {
$(this).addClass("selected");
}
});
});
</script>
Amended script:
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#navigation a").each(function() {
if ($(this).prop("href") == window.location.href) {
$(this).addClass("selected");
}
});
var url = window.location.href;//alert("hui" + url);
if (url.indexOf("galleries") >= 0) {//alert("gallereies da" + url);
$($("#nav span a")[1]).addClass("selected");
}
});
</script>
Thanks Rod and Matthew,
I will give it a shot and try my best;-)
Cheers
Peter
Ok, I understand what you are saying.
I have the main nav menu "Portfolio" and all the galleries in there will be TTG-galleries. Once I select a gallery, it loads the page with the thumbs and at that point the main menu "Portfolio" is not selected anymore, none ist. I realize, that it is designed that way, but since I don't really have any submenues, it would be nice for the viewer to still see the main nav "Portfolio" highlighted.
Is it possible to add code, that all subpages are also included in the "select" process? Like
galleries/
galleries/01_corporate/
galleries/02_editorial/
galleries/03_stills/
etc.
Cheers
Peter