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Is it possible to password protect a standard PHP page, located inside to the Backlight/Custom/PHPlugins folder?
I'd like to set up a photo workshop. Once the course is up and running I'd only like the paying participants to have access to the content of that page. Perhaps asking for too much, but it'd be great to have other "private pages" the participants to click through, like supplies, schedule, assignments, field session info, etc.
Can Backlight support this kind of page [site] management?
Thanks!
Don
Quatrain ƒotographic, LLC
…seeing, thinking, teaching. Visual Poetry.
https://quatrainfotographic.com
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Backlight doesn't have options for creating a protected members section. For that, you might want to use Wordpress. There are plugins you can use to facilitate the member access, and you can use Backlight's Wordpress Add-on to create a theme matching the rest of your Backlight-powered site.
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Thanks Matt! Just wanted to make sure before moving forward.
Don
Quatrain ƒotographic, LLC
…seeing, thinking, teaching. Visual Poetry.
https://quatrainfotographic.com
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Is it possible to use wordpress as your password protected home page and Backlight for all the photography and the wordpress add-in for the blog as part of backlight?
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You can use WordPress as the basis of your site and your blog page (using the Backlight WordPress add-on to create the theme) and Backlight to control your albums and album sets.
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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So if I have installed my wordpress under the blog folder as shown on http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … ress_setup, I would now need to move the wordpress directories to match this summary
You may then intermingle these folders with your Wordpress installation:
/public_html
.htaccess
/backlight
/galleries
index.php
/wp-admin
/wp-content
/wp-includes
etc…
In this scenario, the index.php and .htaccess files belong to Wordpress.
Am I correct?
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yes, you are correct. What you're showing is the setup for a WordPress based site using Backlight to manage the albums.
If you already have an existing blog in the blog/ folder, you'll need to migrate the database to the new location so that your permalinks, etc will work. There are WordPress plug-ins that can do this for you, like WP-Migrate-DB https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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