I’ve been working with tags in different applications for a while and every time I use them, I write the functionality from scratch. It’s not complicated, but by rewriting the code, I always tend to neglect safety checks and nice to have features. What are tags? It’s a string that contains elements, aka tags, that […]
Sending Record by Email (Updated)
(Updated April 3, 0223/bug fixes and linked form support added) This is a simple form script for emailing a TapForms record without using the print feature. Here is how a record will look like in the email: Title: Fall Colors #4 Folio: Fall Colors Bar Code: 2022 Print Size: 16×20 Medium: Panel Mounted Print with […]
Customize Google Image Structured Data Support (updated)
Updated September 19, 2024, based on Perry’s feedback (thank you!), enhanced structure a bit to make Google happy 😉 Backlight provides a way to embed structured data into your photo website that is used by Google Image to display photo licensing badges. This badges make it easier to find images available for commercial licensing. One […]
Adding Google Analytics GA4 to Backlight 4
Google introduced yet another tracking feature, called GA4, that provides more insights than what is currently available with their universal tracker. GA4 is not yet supported out of the box by Backlight 4, but using phplugins, it is easy to add to your own site. In order that this code works, you need to have […]
Embedding Photo Search Results
For a long time, I wanted to structure some of my albums based on search results instead of a fixed content. This would enable something like a smart album structure that supports themes (e.g. bridges, mountains, people, etc) where images are shown that are already published in another album. A week ago, Chumby asked the […]
Customizing Page Footer
Did you ever wonder how I created a page footer such as? With Backlight, there is only a limited number of options available to customize the page footer. But if that is not sufficient, then there is an alternative way by using the phplugins function footer_top(). With just a few lines of code in your […]
Using Automator and Dropbox to Automate Photo Import
Someone in the Tap Forms forum recently asked, if it is possible to automatically import an image from a folder using Automator into a new Tap Forms record. Since I was thinking about a similar application, I further investigated this. Currently, the Javascript API doesn’t support file system access, but adding an image from a […]
Using Backlight 3 JSON API from PHP, take 2
This is an update to my original post. It improves on error handling and has some other cosmetic changes. One of the new features of Backlight 3 is a JSON API. It is a standard REST API interface and is very easy to use. The documentation shows all the endpoints and provides even a JavaScript […]
Common WordPress End-of-Post Content
I like to have a common element at the end of all my blog posts, but before the comments section. Sometimes this is to highlight upcoming shows, other times it is a special sales discount, a cool tagline, or like here on the lab blog, the Buy me a coffee block. There are many WordPress […]
Customizing Language Selector (Updated)
Backlight supports multiple languages which can be selected by clicking on the globe button in the top pallet. Although my site is only in english, I prefer language labels instead of a globe icon when browsing sites. Here I’ll show you how you can add this to your site. Doesn’t this look prettier? Changing the […]
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