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 […]
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, […]
You may have noticed that the success message you see after sending an email from a Backlight contact form has a blue background. There is nowhere in the Backlight Designer to change this, but with a teeny, weeny bit of css you can style it to match your site’s color scheme. Just add this to […]
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 […]
Here’s how to use jQuery to change the Backlight mobile menu icon to the word “Menu.”
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 Some naming conventions may have changed and the screen shots may be outdated, but the concept is the same.)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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