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And http://test.samcos.com/galleries/album- … er-test-2/ is an album created (i.e., first published) with "enable maps" unchecked. BL Viewer "map" icon doesn't show for album's image (implying no geolocation info available).

I already looked at publsihed jpg's metadata -- no GPSInfo entries there. I didn't know about album's "enable maps" option. Let me find that and try it out ... I can't find it in BL Designer's Album Settings ... where is it? Ah, found it (it's in Lr's Album Settings/Features, on a per-album basis). It was checked. Checked it off, republished, and geolocation button still shows photo's location! Republished again...still there. Tried different browser (i.e., guaranteed not in cache), geolocation still there.

Created new album, with brand new image...published it and geolocation button (therefore info) not there!

So (a) mostly a pilot error (didn't know about "enable maps" feature (assumed that Lr Publisher options controlled that). But (b) there is a bug -- once an image is published with geolocation info, it isn't cleared if album's "enable maps"feature is unset/cleared. It isn't even cleared when an image is republished after its album's "enable maps"feature is unchecked!

Since I found published photos to both my BL 1.2 sandbox website (http://test.samcos.com/galleries/album-set/) and CE4 public website (http://rick.samcos.com/galleries/a-Favorites/) having geolocation info, it seems to me that the culprit is somewhere in my desktop Lr configuration. So, I performed the following tests on a separate laptop:

Re-downloaded BL 1.2.2 install zip and installed TTG Publisher plugin out of onto laptop, & verified that's it is v3.2.2.
Temporarily (re-)moved all other plugins out of my ../Lightroom/Modules directory.

Copied to the laptop my desktop's current Lr catalog.

Created & published new album (http://test.samcos.com/galleries/album- … sher-test/) to my BL sandbox website with "Include: Copyright & Contact Info Only" checked in TTG Publisher's  settings.

When album's photos are viewed thru BL, geolocation data is there. That is, the geolocation button in an image's share menu takes you to photo's location in google maps!!

I then used Friedl's  exif/iptc viewer to view metadata for one of the album's images, http://test.samcos.com/galleries/album- … 2_Edit.jpg , but metadata looks OK (e.g., no geolocation or camera info)!?!?!?!?

So, how/why does photo's geolocation show through BL's viewer????

I'm finally getting back to this ...

After LOTS of experiments (see below), I have concluded that BL's "TTG Publish Service" in Lr is completely broken when it comes to filtering out the metadata of published images.

As suggested in this thread, I explored different Lr Publisher setup settings to no avail. Neither checking Lr's "Remove Location Info" nor selecting its dropdown "Include: Copyright & Contact Info Only" worked. All of an image's metadata was always published.
I then tried using Friedl's Metadata Wrangler and it didn't remove metadata data either. I used its "remove all metadata" preset and all image metadata was still published.

All of the above were tried with the Lr Publisher setting "Push metadata without updating existing photos" checked. So I then tried to publish with the Lr Publisher setting "Push metadata without updating existing photos" now UNchecked. The now totally regenerated publsihed images still included all metadata.

I then looked at my current CE4-based website and found that its published images also had unwanted metadata (e.g., all camera and location info)!!! I know that at one time this wasn't the case. Even though it is a CE4 site, I switched over from the previous CE4 Publish Service to BL's new "TTG Publish Service" earlier this year. I did that in preparation for migrating the website to BL. I suspect that that's when all metadata started being published.

But I was now starting to question my own sanity and also wondered if Lr's publish services framework was at fault. So I did an experiment with a non-TTG publish service -- a simple Lr "Hard Drive" service, where published images just get copied to a local directory. I set it up with Lr's "Include: Copyright & Contact Info Only". This worked as expected!

Therefore my conclusion that the "TTG Publish Service" is completely broken w.r.t. metadata filtering. But I still can't believe that I'm the only one to have experienced & reported this problem (i.e., I'm still questioning my own sanity).

Yup, Rod, tried that -- ".gallery figure" puts a drop shadow on each thumbnail's surrounding frame, not on the thumbnail itself. See http://test.samcos.com/galleries/album- … /index.php versus what I did in CE4: http://rick.samcos.com/galleries/a-Favorites/.

I forgot to include a link to a classic album set in my test sandbox: http://test.samcos.com/galleries/classic-album-set/
And here's one to a iconic album set: http://test.samcos.com/galleries/iconic-album-set/

I just changed from Magnific Popup to Touch Display galleries and noticed that full sized gallery images are now blurry on retina devices ... and found this post in researching the cause/fix. Since no one has commented with a solution am I to assume that that's the way it is and I should move back to using Magnific Popup galleries if I wish to have sharp retina gallery images? True? Rod or Matthew could you comment, please? TIA.

PS I switched to Touch in order to have its slideshow feature.

In addition, the 3 albums under the problematical album set are broken -- only thumbnail outlines are shown, but none of the thumbnails themselves! These are thumbnails which were already published and did correctly display until now.