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, […]

How about text above and below a gallery?

In the past I’ve seen a number of queries in the forum about how to have text both above and below the thumbnails in an album. This is actually pretty easy to accomplish using jQuery. First you add a bit of script via phplugins, using the ttg_scripts hook (in Backlight 1, see updates below), that […]

Using the browser’s inspector to implement custom css

(Note: this post was written in the Backlight 1 days. Some selectors have changed in subsequent versions, but the concepts here still apply. And here’s an earlier post from the CE4 days on using the inspector) Here’s another real-world example of using the browser’s inspector to help you find the css selectors needed to affect […]

Converting a Publisher-based CE4 site to Backlight

There have been several questions in the forum about the best way to go about converting a CE4 site to Backlight. So instead of answering that multiple times, I give you this: Scenario: you’ve got an existing TTG CE4 site and your albums are Publisher managed. (For a TTG site not using Publisher, see this […]

Make your own Backlight typography preview page

The TTG CE4 series of Lightroom plug-ins had an option to preview the typography settings right in the plug-in. That was handy for checking out fonts, form buttons, table shading, lists, etc. But Backlight has no such option other than to create a page, make changes, and look at the page. So, at the prompting […]

The Basics of Backlight Templates

(Note: this was written for the first iteration of Backlight, up to version 1.1, but applies equally to the latest version. Some naming conventions may have changed and the screen shots may be outdated, but the concept is the same.) Need a little help getting started with Backlight? Well, here are the basics of Backlight […]

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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