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Thanks!  The documentation for the Responsive Text stuff is rather sparse (and that is being kind...), but the example code gives me something to work from.  I think I can read the HTML well enough to customize that code for the result I need.

I'll try "for real" tomorrow, and will let you know if I hit any more snags.  If not, I will be able to add my site to the CE4 Showcase soon.

I use the Identity info stuff to say what the page is about. It gives the header to tell the user what he is reading, before he has to delve into the paragraph of text.

Perhaps there could be a title block for the paragraph descriptor then?

I definitely did not realize this was not what was intended. I have 29 gallery pages broken into things like art, studio, Ecuador (where we now live), travel, events and projects.  It doesn't seem useful to repeat the same header on all 29 (and growing) pages?

Oh well, tomorrow I tackle the blog portion.  I have 5 years of blog entries on SquareSpace that I am migrating to this site.  Hope it all works...

But I need to go into Site Info for every single gallery page in my web site??  I need to change:

• Meta: Keywords (scroll down a large screen in Site Info to reach it)

• Identity heading - several screens of scrolling down to reach

• Identity subheading - 8 fields below heading above

I set the keywords appropriate to the page, not the site. The Identity heading and subheading are what displays at the top of each page, and I certainly don't want that the same on every page?

It seems the only way I could bypass the Site Info would be to use one set of keywords for the entire site, and not use page headers or subheaders.  Those are items I think need to be grouped with the Album description, since they both change more-or-less in sync. Though the actual text for each field is different, they are both reflections of the content of the current page -- rather than of the site as a whole.

All of this jumping through hoops did leave me with one philosophical question...

Why doesn't the LightRoom CE4 export just create all that stuff correct from the start??

IOW, why does it create a "phplugin-sample" folder that must be renamed?  And why is it missing that code that must be copied/pasted into it? And why isn't the path to WP entered correctly automatically?

Seems that just makes it far more likely for the user to have problems like this.  Every time I make a change to my index page, I am going to have to do all those steps again.  Even if I remember to do it over the next couple weeks when developing my site, I will almost certainly forget it when I come back and update the site a year or so from now.

It seems to me that the steps up to this point could have been reduced to a simple 'export and ftp' one line instruction.  Or am I missing some key rationale for all this?

Yes, the phplugins is definitely activated, as shown in a LightRoom screenshot earlier in this thread. I also verified it was still active on the last upload (I deleted the old folder, then uploaded fresh, which is how the folder name returned to '-sample').

I did not re-edit the php file on this last upload.  Sorry, didn't realize you still wanted that.

Did it now, and it definitely does make the page look different.  Red borders now, though I don't see any text about the css, which I thought you described.

And the menu still does not map...

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I just had another thought... This website was originally created as a stand-alone gallery using CE3.  That code is all still there, just moved to an 'old' directory.  Thus, if you go to:

     http://www.mindstormphoto.com/old/

you see the earlier version of the website.  Any chance that is interfering somehow?

Well... bummer...

I deleted the 'galleries' folder via FTP.  Made a slight change to the title of the auto-index page so I could verify the new one was really there. Exported and uploaded the new galleries folder.

The menu still does not 'magic' for me... 

Starting at:   www.mindstormphoto.com

I see the 2 menu items.  Press the 'galleries' menu.  I see the new auto-index (title now says 'Index Attempt 2'), but it has all 7 default menus.

At this point, I think maybe I will just manually create the menu on each page. This 'magic' thing doesn't seem to want to work for me.

I did see that 'image' icon, but didn't realize I was supposed to put a url for an uploaded image between the tags.  Will do that next time I need to show an image.

Yes, that autoindex and all other LightRoom templates so far have that enabled, and that is the path.

Not sure how to add an image to this comment (when I try, it just shows the image and not the rest of the text?).  I created a screenshot of that section of the site info, and put it here:

http://www.mindstormphoto.com/ScreenShot.png

Similarly, not sure how to attach a file in this forum either?  I created a zip file in the same folder as the original php, so you can download it from here:

http://www.mindstormphoto.com/galleries … ns.php.zip

hmmm... At this point in the installation, I don't think I have created the blog yet. I have the 'galleries' folder, but not a 'blog' folder yet.

Even if so, your docs say nothing about a blog folder? The above paragraph talks about the 'galleries' folder.  That Step 7 is very confusing from the point where you say to copy-paste to the end.

I will try to look at it again tomorrow (just got back from a "wild music and dance party" here in Ecuador), but right now it still does not seem to compute...?