Embed galleries in other sites

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#1

Hi guys,

I am a long term user, currently on BL2 as I’m too lazy to upgrade when things are working well!

I use backlight mainly for sharing photos on from my personal photography page www.peterblandford.com

I have a charity which I run https://www.christianblandford.com/ and I often want to share photos on a blog post on the charity’s site.

Is there any way of embedding a gallery (for example this one in a blog post on the charity site?

What I tend to do is export photos from lightroom and create a gallery in word press with low res images and then link to my site for better quality downloads like this

But it would be great if I could embed gallery directly into the charity’s site if that is possible?

#2

Embedding just the album? Probably not.
You could probably embed the entire album page in an iframe though.


The album may not work as expected.

Backlight 4 can embed an album into a WordPress post. But the Backlight album needs to be published on the same site.

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#3

Thanks Rod, I thought as much.

#4

You should upgrade! Upgrades from B2 to B4 are super easy. Just like installing any other update, you purchase B4, visit your Backlight Modules page and click a few buttons. Ultimate upgrade experience for “too lazy” people. :wink:

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#5

So I am now happily on BL4 and trying to embed a gallery on a wordpress page hosted on the same domain.

I have followed instruction:

  1. enabled JSON API
  2. found the gallery number (757337) - gallery here
  3. I have put the following code into a test page
    [backlight gallery=“757337” columns=1]

it doesn’t seem to work

I really want to embed a slideshow rather than a gallery, is that possible?

#6

that should be
[backlight album="757337" columns="1"]

Only regular Pangolin albums can be inserted at this time.

For slide shows, I’ve found the free version of the NextGen plugin looks great and is easy to use.

#7

Thanks Rod

#8

You’re welcome.
I’ll go ahead and close this topic since we’re now away from the original question.

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