Adobe Portfolio for hosting a Backlight-created website design

Backlight 4, 5 & 6 Support
#1

Is it possible to put the “hooks” for publishing a Backlight created website design into an Adobe Portfolio website so that the Backlight design can be published to that website using the Publisher function in Lightroom Classic?

Doug C

#2

I don’t think that’s going to be possible.

#3

Matthew,

Thank you for letting me know. I thought that would be the case but thought it would be worth checking.

I have used both Lightroom and Backlight (and its predecessors) since their respective introductions. I switched the hosting of my family website to Bluehost a number of years ago when it was still recommended. I am still happy with it and don’t see any reason to change hosts at this time.

So, my reason for asking this question was not for my own plans, but rather that I have a 2nd cousin with whom I am exchanging family tree, etc. information. When I shared my website (Backlight created) with photos of ancestors we share, she was very impressed and asked how she might create something similar to share the many photos she has collected over the years. She is an experienced user of Lightroom and Photoshop, so is planning to set up a website on Adobe Portfolio. If she is not happy with what she is able to do with Portfolio, she may want to try Backlight, but now she will know that she would need to register a domain and sign up with a hosting company to create a completely custom website design.

I imagine you might be thrilled if people could use your Backlight software directly with Adobe Portfolio. Adobe, not so much!

Thank you again for chiming in on this.

Doug

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#4

We would love for everyone to be able to use Backlight everywhere, of course. But things like Adobe Portfolio, Squarespace, etc. are closed platforms and typically to not allow users to run outside software.

Fortunately, we target a pretty common baseline for generalized hosting. So you should be able to run Backlight most places that offer standard domain and hosting options.

#5

Hi @DougC, the way I could imagine this working would be for a Backlight module to export a page design as a theme that can be imported into Adobe Portfolio. This is the approach we use with WP Theme for Wordpress. It looks like Adobe Portfolio only provides in-built themes, without an option for third party themes, so I can’t see how this would work with Backlight.

#6

Ben,

Thanks so much for letting me know . I am not surprised that Adobe doesn’t allow third party themes in Portfolio, but I thought it was worth asking.

Doug