Starting to experiment with Kookaburra and Blogs in BL6…
Adding a photo presentation in a blog fetches the images from an album. With that it also inherits the settings applied to that album. In particular, the metadata shown on the images. For me the needs/wishes for the metadata differs from the album to the display in the blog.
Therefore, I am looking for a way to differentiate. The ‘solution’ I found until now is creating a separate album template and a new album (based on that template). So selecting images from that new ‘blog album’.
This leads to an album which I do not want to show, so ticked ‘Hide from Album Set’ in Lightroom. That also removes it from the list of selectable albums to choose from. Disable, you can select, thereafter enable the images remain visible (which is in itself a bit strange behavior). Not too elegant…
All in all not the way of working I would like to have. Am I doing something the wrong way around?
What I would like to have is that for the blog templates I could select an album template (next to the page template). That (blog) album template would than enable a specific layout of image metadata for that blog. And I can select any image from any album.
Or, add the metadata settings of images to the blog template. That would probably mix up settings too much (i.e. allocated at the wrong level).
Presentations source images from the albums to which they were uploaded, and will have access to whatever associated metadata for each image.
The particulars of the presentation are mostly to do with the Kookaburra Page template, not the album. Might be you’ll want to create an alternate page template for your blogs.
Presentations should be identical between blogs and essays, again due to their settings being tied to the page template.
If you find there are options you would like to have for customizing presentations, which are not currently available in the page template, then please let me know, and I can evaluate whether it makes sense for us to add whatever features you request.
When opening from the blog the popup views of the images the metadata is defined by the album template (in Photo Presentation) where the images are taken from. That metadata should differ (in my case) from that view in the album as opposed to the blog. As both are using the same album template these do not differ.
Here - JacqFish Reizen is now the first set of images from a new album with a new album template specifically made for the blog. The second is taken directly from the existing album with the existing album template. That gets the now a bit silly ‘Foto 15 van 36’ in the pop up.
The metadata in the grid view can be switched on and off in the Grid Cell Metadata of the used page template. Therein is stated: “Enable Metadata 1
If enabled, can be overridden by the album template.”. However, I do not understand the ‘can be overridden’ as it can not be set here…
Main configuration is in the page template, as this allows presentational consistency for albums, essays and blogs. It sounds like you might need to create a second page template.
Or, you might be able to customize your page template to be used by blogs and essays, then use the overrides in the album template to do something different with the albums.
Also, if your doing “Photo 1 of 15” as a caption, I’m not sure that’s helpful. Captions should ideally be used for descriptions/info relating to the image, and might factor into SEO.
Slideshows have a counter in the top-right corner, so putting that info in the caption is redundant anyway.
I see only in a Kookaburra album a counter in the top-left corner in a slideshow. It is not present in the Pangolin type. So, introduced in Kookaburra? With this feature indeed my wish to add the counter in the caption is gone.
I believe I now have the right options to configure the presentation. Thx for explaining.
What remains…
If I want to show a (series of) image(s) in a blog post but these are not part of any album. And I do not want/need those images to be elsewhere. What would be the way to handle this?
This relates back to the ‘solution’ I described in the first post:
“This leads to an album which I do not want to show, so ticked ‘Hide from Album Set’ in Lightroom. That also removes it from the list of selectable albums to choose from. Disable, you can select, thereafter enable the images remain visible (which is in itself a bit strange behavior). Not too elegant…”
If this is indeed the way to go, I see value in a state next to ‘in an album set’, ‘not in an album set’: ‘for blog post only’. These would be available to select from in blogs but not shown on the site.
Using a hidden album is complicated as the album is also removed from the selectable set of albums while selecting the images.
This would be alleviated if in that selection also hidden albums are shown. This would be like showing hidden albums (with the crossed through eye) while being logged on as admin.