If you’re using the Top Pallet in your page template for your site title masthead but instead of a text title you want an image logo, this post is for you. First, be sure to set up your page template to use the Top Pallet Title and disable the Primary Masthead. In the Top Pallet […]
Adding borders and box-shadows to the Vegas inline slide show
Here’s how to add a border and box-shadow to the inline Theater Vegas slideshow using custom css. If you’re not already using custom css on your site, refer to the Backlight documentation to set it up. This one’s a little bit tricky because of how the Vegas inline slide show is constructed. Using the browser […]
Accessing the Backlight database
Accessing your Backlight database to delete albums and sets when all the standard procedures don’t work
Change the PayPal button in your TTG Cart
Want to swap out the default PayPal button in your TTG Cart? Here’s how.
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 […]
Placing Backlight pallet content above the mobile menu
In Backlight, pallet content, by default, will appear below the mobile menu when the site is viewed at mobile sizes. Here’s how to get that content to appear above the mobile menu.
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 […]