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Thanks, Matthew, for the suggestion and my apologies for not responding sooner. I started work on other projects, thinking that as my web site was working, albeit without the background, I could return later to the issue.

Before I saw your response, I restored the Backlight 2 version of my web site. I can sign on successfully to that; so my thinking with respect to being unable to sign on to the Backlight 1 version, is that it is a registry issue or some other hidden or not-so-obvious reason. I am going to continue working on the Backlight 2 version of my web site with the suggestions provided earlier.

I inserted your code into phplugins.php in \backlight\custom\phplugins. It does not appear to be working because my background pattern is still missing from my web site.

How do I upgrade to the Pangolin based templates? I see nothing about them in the Backlight 2 installation and upgrade instructions.

You do not sound like a broken record. However, having spent over 50 years in the IT industry both as a designer and programmer of systems, I cannot help but dig into the code to see what is wrong. I changed all coding references to 'backlight/custom' to 'backlight/custom/css' but to no avail; the background problem still persists. So my simple fix is inadequate. I suspect that other code in my version of custom.css is also not being executed.

I notice that in setting up a Guest Administrator I have to assign a password and enter other information. To do so on this site in the open such as in this response would be a major breach of security in that anyone can read it and possibly use the information. Is there a more secure way of doing so?

Hi, Daniel.

What is a BL2 based slideshow?

Charles

Interesting. On my desktop, the slide show starts automatically if I use Firefox or Microsoft Edge, but not if I use Opera or Chrome. I posted this issue when I tested with Opera which is my main browser; the slide show had always started automatically with this browser in the past. I did not think to test with the other browsers before I posted initially. I will mull over the problem; it is not a show stopper.

Thanks, Rod. I will address my other issue shortly.

Thanks, Rod. That worked. Deleting the album from the Backlight interface also deleted the photographs for that album from my website. I then recreated the album in Lightroom and republished.

Very good, Ben. That was really fast. Thank you very much.

Although I haven't tried it, I imagine that deleting, renaming, and then republishing the image files will work. It's an easy procedure. The issue I'm raising could be in Lightroom, not Backlight. Even if it is in Backlight, unless an easy find and fix, it may not be worth the trouble.

It would be best, however, to have a regular collection duplicating the collection to be published and do the renaming there. I did my original renaming in the TTG Publisher collection.

By the way, I've changed my mouse.

Somehow my post was duplicated and I have two similar answers. (I'm using a new mouse that seems super sensitive.)

I agree that both similar responses will work. The interesting thing, however, is that the photos folder contains only the renamed files; the duplication occurs only in the thumbnails folder which implies an issue somewhere in the software.

Everything is looking good except for one small item. This is a mobile issue, but you can see it on the desktop. If you move the left or right border towards the other, at some point the site will switch to the mobile view. The problem happens only on the Galleries page. Above the text will be a small strip of the texture which should have disappeared. This appears to tie in with the margin above the text because if I lessen the margin, the strip of texture lessens.

www.charking.com/galleries

I implemented Matthew's code form his response above and have been modifying it in various ways to see if I can fix my problem, but no luck.

I can easily get the black lines (the current default colour) by setting their width to >0px. Right now they are set to 0px and do not appear which is what I want. I find them unnecessary and distracting. At one point early in this thread, as I was developing the css code, I was getting white space left and right of these lines; but that has now disappeared. It may have had something to do with that original background colour line of code we kept talking about in the custom css file. It contained a gradient, and at one point I noticed white space appearing on the left-hand side of my screen and gray on the right-hand side. That line has long been gone. The appearance of my web page is now the same regardless of the setting of the Negative Space switch.