Backlight2 provides the option to access certain image metadata using `Metadata One`, `Metadata Two` and the `Tokens` field. This limits creators who need to access more metadata to provide additional information to the user. Using additional metadata might increase SEO as well. In this example, I use `Metadata One` which can be found in Backlight […]
Customizing single-page view
The single-page view is a bit of a neglected child. Its main purpose is to provide a static link to an image that can be easily shared on social media. But there is more! With Backlight 2 and later, the internal classes photo and album are exposed now.
Adding breadcrumbs to non-gallery pages (updated August 2020)
Updated August 2020: I now use the newer Schema.org vocabulary for the breadcrumbs structure instead of the now obsolete data-vocabulary.org. For consistency reasons with my other phplugins tips&tricks, I renamed the my_crumb() helper function. It is now called dlp_my_crumb(). Updated August 9, 2020: Added support for backlight/search. Backlight provides the option to use breadcrumbs on […]
Using Markdown with Phplugins
It couldn’t be simpler than that: Or you can have text that spans several lines: Or you can assign text to a variable and then output that content using the Markdown parser: This last examples shows as well how you could add text to an already existing variable. Please note that this will not work […]
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