Remove share buttons in your Backlight albums

UPDATE: Backlight 4 now has a setting to remove all of the social sharing icons. However, if you don’t want them all removed you’ll still need to use the custom css solution. If you choose the “slideshow” presentation for your Backlight albums, you’ll see a “picture” icon in the upper right-hand area of the large […]

Creating and Styling Backlight Popup boxes

Note: the pop-up box below was initially used in Pangolin-based pages. It also works in Kookaburra-based pages. There is updated code however, introduced in Kookaburra. That code can be found in the Kookaburra documentation here. The newer code also works in Pangolin-based pages.   Backlight popup boxes are useful critters. Your visitor clicks on a […]

Custom Footer in Backlight

This is a fairly straightforward use of phplugins but it requires some html to provide the structure for the footer as well as some custom css to style the social media icons. These icons are links to my social media sites, but you can just as easily use code for social sharing. For the html, […]

Toggling your Client Response Legend

NOTE: In Backlight 2 and 3, there is now a Gallery Help button that will open a pop-up box. Below applies only to Backlight 1   I recently got a question about hiding a Client Response legend that’s been placed in the page copy of a Backlight album. It’s really pretty easy to do with […]

Some css “recipes” for your Backlight site

Here are just a few css tweaks you can use for your Backlight site. Just add to your custom css file. Note: Originally written for Backlight 1.1, some of the below have been updated for Backlight 1.2 and have been noted as such. Image border and shadows Center footer text Add borders around thumbnails Center […]

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Current TTG versions

Backlight  4 & 5

See the Backlight Modules page on your site for latest Backlight and module versions and changelogs.

You’ll also find the latest version number and download link for the Lightroom Publisher plugin.
(BL 3 and later)

 

Backlight 1 Versions

Backlight 1.2.4
Pages module 1.2.4
Cart Add-on 4.1.7
Client Response Add-on 7.1.3
Theater Add-on 1.2.6
Galleria Add-on 1.0.0
WordPress Add-on 1.2.6
Publisher 3.2.3

Backlight 1 has seen its end of life. See this post.

CE4 Versions

note: CE4 is no longer being developed or sold. See this post.

TTG-BE: 2.0.5a
Autoindex: 7.0.8
Cart: 3.1.4a
CRG: 6.1.3a
Gallery: 6.1.10
Pages: 7.0.15
Publisher: 2.3.3
Stage: 6.1.6
Theme for WordPress: 3.1.2