Using Font Awesome in your Backlight site

All those icons you see throughout your site: the little down arrows in navigation, the side arrows in breadcrumbs, the social media icons and the icons in the image menu of a standard album slide show, nearly all of them come from Font Awesome. And Matt has licensed Font Awesome so that we, the users […]

Taming Your Backlight Mobile Menu

Currently we cannot assign one navigation menu to desktop displays and another to mobile devices. If you have a lot of albums on your site,  they’re probably organized into nice and neat album sets that are reflected in the drop-down menu displayed on desktop sizes of your site. Because there are a lot of albums, […]

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 […]

Phplugins hook locations in Backlight 1

NOTE: This is for Backlight 1. Hook names are slightly different in Backlight 2 On my Backlight test site I’ve created a couple of pages that show the locations for those phplugins hooks that appear on pages (as opposed to those that are behind the scenes, like the head and script hooks). These hooks are […]

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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