Community @ The Turning Gate

In trying to adjust some settings, it looks like I messed up the menu display on my main page.  I have not been able to figure out where this is controlled in the last couple hours of trying various things.

I have made menu display changes that apply to all my linked pages (the ones that a user can navigate to through the menu).  However, I cannot find where the main page menu color are controlled.

Right now, the main menu is blue text on a white background.  Not bad, and I can live with it (this has been the color since I first started using BackLight).  However, when I hover over the menu, it becomes a blue background with (a slightly different shade of) blue text.  Nearly impossible to read, and rather ugly to boot...

My website is at -- www.mindstormphoto.com

Can anyone point me where to fix that main page menu color?

I have created a "private album page" for those that were with us to a falcon rescue center yesterday. I have no objection to anyone seeing it, but it is "private" because it has far more photos of individuals that I would ever include in a generally viewable gallery page.

However, it has our total menu along the left edge (column 1) and I don't see how to get rid of that. In the Lightroom album page, I turned off 'map' and anything else that looked related.

In the Backlight template I expected to be able to turn it off, but I find no reference to it in the template, so no idea how to accomplish that?

For reference, here is the page I am trying to modify --

    http://www.mindstormphoto.com/galleries … on-rescue/

When I created the Backlight template, I set it to automatically save and publish all changes, as recommended in the documentation.  Except it isn't...?

Sometimes I see the changes in my site, and sometimes not. I haven't figured out what does cause it to forward.

I played with the Header, and yes saw it show up after several tries.  I don't like it (the current variation is hideous and was done when trying to figure out how to make the template change propagate at all) and want to turn it off.  Instead, I seem to have lost my side panel, and have that ugly header up there, complete with an extra search button that I do not believe I asked for.

Exporting is not right, since that just creates a text file for backup purposes.  How do I force the changes to propagate through to my web site?

Here is a screenshot of what my site looks like in the WordPress designer, using Backlight -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/24fq13qwv3tev … 6.png?dl=0

Note that it shows the side panel and does NOT show the header (both of which are correct).

However, here is what my website (www.mindstormphoto.com) looks like tonight -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/acjomi3eiqjog … 6.png?dl=0

Note that it no longer shows a side panel, and DOES show that ugly (because I mucked it up) header...?

For the last few years, my home page has shown my blog, with "recent posts."  I have a menu across the top that goes to various galleries.  I have found that almost nobody notices that menu though, and pretty much nobody sees when a new gallery has been added (they are kinda buried in the menu structure).

I do not want to move the menu to a side panel. Though it would be more visible, it would take up too much space.

What I want to do is to put a sticky perm post as the top item in the blog, followed by my recent posts.  In that static post, I would have a brief comment about the galleries, and what was the most recent gallery added.  I would edit that post from time to time, as new galleries are created.

In the "static page" setup in WordPress though, I can only find the ability to have 'static page' OR 'recent posts' and not both.

Is there a fairly easy workaround?

I have been using Backlight for my gallery for a couple years, yet still using the CE4 WordPress theme.  Decided tonight to migrate that portion too.  Bought the WP-Backlight module and installed it.

The theme does not show up in my WP theme panel?  I still see the CE4, but not the BL version.

I note that the YouTube on installing says to put the "module-wordpress" folder into the 'modules' folder on my ftp.  However, the 123 version supplies a "pangolin-wordpress" folder instead.  I assumed that the folder had just been renamed, and put it in the "modules" folder, but to no avail.

I had hoped to include a screenshot of my ftp hierarchy, but I don't see a facility for that here.  Instead, I put that screenshot in my DropBox -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/rrgvwvv43h9cv … y.png?dl=0

I expect there is something simple I am missing. Any idea what it is?

I want to add meta keywords to my albums, so that a search for "Cuenca artist" will bring up the art section of our website.

I don't see any place to add keywords in the TTG publisher.  Is there a place that I overlooked?

http://www.mindstormphoto.com/galleries/art/

Our workflow has been that I set up the initial collection of images, my wife then reviews them and will mark ones she thinks should be removed.  Occasionally I disagree and decide to leave one of her deletions in anyway.

With TTG Publisher, when she deletes and image, it goes into a "Deleted Photos to Remove" stack.  I don't see any way to unmark it for deletion (or "undelete" it)?