LRG Complete 2.5.6 released!!

We are happy to annouce the release of the latest release of the LRG Complete template, LRG COMPLETE 2.5.6, it includes all the latest bug fixes, revisions, user suggested items, and new features as posted in the forums and via email.

Please delete any previous versions of this template and install this version. You need to update ALL template files, not just some of them.

NOTE: Full documentation for this release is coming soon! The majority of stuff is the same, but there are some things you need to know to get it working correctly. I will point out the changes below. We will make a posting when the updated documentation is released, but for now see the instructions below

New Features and updates include:

• You can now link images in a gallery to other galleries! this is great for creating a thumbnailed index of your galleries and/or pages. Links for the images are set in the “provider” IPTC field under the “instructions” field.
• Galleries are now (actually MUST be) uploaded to a “galleries” directory and pages to a “pages” directory for better portability.
• You can now specify international taxes for Google Checkout purchases
• You can now change the color of the divider color that appears under certain cases in the side menu between category buttons.
• Back to Site button can now be linked to a page, gallery, or external link
• You can now choose what IPTC field you want to use as the image’s Item Name in the shopping cart. (remember though, these must be unique)
• Recoded the entire slideshow feature of the pages
• You can now position images in pages either top, bottom, left, or right justified with the text.
• When closing large image the image closes first then the thumbnails appear. there is no overlap
• You can now turn off the dropshadow
• You can now hide or not use image frames for images
• You now have an option to choose between 4 different types of preloaders
• New Zealand dollars added
• Fixed issue with spaces in gallery/category names. Now you must place an underscrore “_” where you want a space to appear. The gallery will do the rest and convert that underscore into a space
• Side menu can be disabled
• And much more!

DOWNLOAD 2.5.6 | TEMPLATE MANUAL | DEMO | FORUM THREAD

=============UPDATED TEMPLATE INSTRUCTIONS================

New Upload Paths

The first major thing we need to go over is the upload paths for galleries and pages. Previously, galleries were uploaded into the same folder that your shell files lived, for example:
ROOT
Category1
-Gallery1
All shell template files located in the root

In this new version all galleries are uploaded in a folder named “galleries” (all lower case) in your root folder or any subfolder you are installing LRG Complete in. This is the same as how you upload pages, which all go in a “pages” folder.

So In a complete installation on your web server, with galleries and pages, your folder structure should look sort of like this:
ROOT
galleries
-Category1
-Gallery1
pages
-aboutus
All shell template files located in the root.

When uploading galleries your “put in subfolder” field within Lightroom should look like this:
galleries/category1/gallery1

For pages:
pages/aboutus

Creating A Gallery Index

To create a gallery index, an gallery of thumbnails that link to other galleries, you need to use the Gallery template and follow all the uploading rules for galleries. The only difference really is that the links for each image MUST be defined in the IPTC metadata field “Provider”. You can find that IPTC metadata field under the “Instructions” field when viewing the images metadata.

You can link each image to another gallery or a page. To do that we need to enter our links in the “Provider” field using the following linking conventions.

To link an image to another gallery you follow this convention:
(gallery) followed by a dash (-) followed by the Category the gallery is in (Category_Name) followed by a forward slash (/) followed by the name of the gallery you are linking to (Gallery_Name).

The result is something like this:
gallery-Category_Name/Gallery_Name

*The word “gallery” that goes before the dash tells the template that everything following the dash will be a path to the gallery you want to load. You must use the word “gallery” and the dash as is, do not modify it.

To link an image to a page you follow this convention:
(page) followed by a dash (-) followed by the page name (About_Us) of the page you are linking to.

The result is something like this:
page-About_Us

*The word “page” that goes before the dash tells the template that everything following the dash will be a path to the page you want to load. You must use the word “page” and the dash as is, do not modify it.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: If you enter something into the “Provider” field for the image, the template will attempt to link that thumbnail to something other then a larger version of the image. After you are done creating the Gallery Index i would highly recommend deleting and “Provider” metadata for your images.

This covers the major instructions that are needed to get this new version of the template working. More detailed instruction will be in the latested version of the manual, which will be released soon. You can allow post in the forum and i will help you out. David at http://www.outdoorimages.blogspot.com has been kind enough to write up an amazing manual for this template. As soon as he gets a bit of free time he will update the manual to cover the new features in 2.5.6. Please be patient and give David a big thanks for all his hard work! Thanks David!
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