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 […]
You can make the Gallery Help button in your Backlight Client Response albums “stick” to the top of the gallery by adding it to the top-pallet widget container. This way, when your client scrolls down the page the Gallery Help button will always be available. First of all, be sure to enable the Gallery Help […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Using the phplugins feature of the TTG web products allows you to customize your site beyond what the web engines can already do, and managing navigation with phplugins is probably the most popular usage. So popular, in fact, that Matt has already coded the phplugins.php file for use in navigation. You’ll first need to have […]
Note: the disappearing text issue has been resolved with the Cart 3.1.4 update. There’s a tiny quirk with the TTG Add to Cart dialog box. Some of the styling comes from a file named modal.css (from ttg-be/cart/lib/css/) and some of it comes directly from the style-common.css file of the gallery from which your clients are […]
Use CSS filters to add hover affects to your gallery thumbnails.
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