Hi Valerie,
Thanks for the great question. Since BoldGrid's products are built into WordPress, the most popular website Content Management System, you can use ads and affiliate marketing with or without BoldGrid Premium, as long as your Ad Network and Affiliate system have integrations into WordPress.

Hello,

Thanks for the great questions. I'm sorry you're having trouble restoring your backup files.

For backups that large, especially if you're on a shared hosting plan, I suspect that you might be running into limits for your server's Disk I/O. Most shared servers limit the amount of data written into and read out of the hard disk (I/O meaning input and output). 

Since your backup ZIP files are corrupt, your best bet will be to try to repair them. Here's an article I found that has some ZIP repair utilities, some free and others that are paid.

If your Web Server is Linux-based, you can also try logging into your server with SSH and using the following commands (if your backup directory is set to the default value of boldgrid_backup, otherwise replace the directory name in the cd command):

cd ~/boldgrid_backup
zip -FF boldgrid-backup-[abc123]-corrupt.zip --out new-repaired-boldgrid-backup-[abc123].zip

For a zip file over 4GB in size, this might take a considerable amount of time to run, and any files that are too corrupted may be lost.

Make sure that your new ZIP filename contains the strings "boldgrid-backup-" and your unique BoldGrid Backup ID, which is a 6-character random string. Then you should be able to restore the backup from your Dashboard.

I hope this helps! If you need additional assistance one-one-one, you can file a private ticket via BoldGrid Central -> My Account -> Premium Support so that we can help you out further.

Hello,

Thanks for the great questions, I'm sorry you're having a frustrating experience creating Galleries.

Let me try to address your each of your questions:

How to add either a carousel or lightbox style gallery? The "Slider" type galleries most closely fit these needs, as well as the "Coverflow" style gallery, which adds a little more stylistic appearance.

There are a couple of ways to actually add the gallery, either via the "Add Media" button or via the large + button, as demonstrated in the video below

Sometimes just 1 image, sometimes just a sliver of each image... As you can see in the video, I also experienced the issue where only a sliver of the images appeared. In order to get around that, you can click the "Save Draft" button. I'll let our developers know about that bug.

...both the carousel and lightbox are shown on the home page in the demo but are not in the theme install. What goes?

The starter content is imported during the BoldGrid Inspirations installation. The content will change depending on which Industry and Content set you choose. I recommend choosing the "Kitchen Sink" so that you can see all of the different content types available.

...my screen does not give me the option to "Edit Gallery" as shown in the tutorial.

As shown in the video above, when you click on an image in your gallery, you should see a small menu with a Pencil and an X. Click on the pencil to edit your gallery.

I hope this helps and answers all of your questions, feel free to reply if you're still having difficulty.

Hello,

Thanks for the great question. At this time, we recommend running AMP in Website Mode -> Transitional mode to preserve the look and feel of your Cobalt website while serving accelerated mobile pages.

I suspect that switching to Transitional mode will fix your issue with your 404 pages as well, but if it doesn't you might also try disabling the 404 template in your AMP settings:

Hello!
Thanks for the great question. The easiest way is to use a plugin, such as BoldGrid Easy SEO, which lets you set your Title as well as the description that appears in search engines.

Hello!

Great question. Some of the BoldGrid Themes have this feature built-in to the footer, but in some of them, such as Evolv, you'll need to use a widget.

Navigate to Customize -> Active Site and scroll all the way down to your footer. Look for the +Widget button, and add a Text Widget. You can paste your copyright mark into that widget.

I hope this helps!

Hello,

Thanks for the great question, I'm sorry that your backups aren't uploading as expected.

To get a little more information, what happens if you click on View Details next to your backup archive, and upload the backup manually?