Need help with Slider container

Hello!

You were right, the slider div has a box shadow property. This CSS code should get rid of it:

#slider{
	-webkit-box-shadow: none!important;
	box-shadow: none!important;
}

You should install Simple Custom CSS plugin and paste the above code to Appearance->Custom CSS.

Let me know if this worked, and if you have any more questions.

Cheers,
Toth Balint BT

Genius! yea that worked. Thank you for the custom CSS plugin its awesome!

You are welcome!

If you have any more questions, I am happy to help. Just drop a line here.

Cheers,
Toth Balint BT

since you offered I posted a new issue. Wondering if you could help?

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/center-nav-menu-1?replies=1

Sliders do not work at all! The Minimatica image shown in promotion of this template do not work, period. There is no information on how to get the site to look like the advertised screen shot. This is very disappointing. There are no controls to adjust/add/delete/find “sliders.” All this looks like is a sloppy blog post, not a photography site. The image shows a site that should allow you to slide through galleries of photos, select any one photo, go to that enlarged photo, and continue to see the enlarged photos of that site.

garymak.photography

I have spent hours and hours on this and can find nothing to get it to work.

Thanks for you help. FYI, I was on squarespace and had the site up and running just the way i wanted in about 30 minutes after uploading about 100 photos. I had hoped I could do the same with WordPress…

Thanks again for your help!

also having trouble. can’t figure out how to make my photos visible. can’t figure out how to add menu items underneath the slider. i am completely wordpress illiterate, but i thought the preset themes would mean that didn’t matter. so confused and have my heart set on this theme.

Here are some thoughts, Sweet66, for what they’re worth…

I, too, never figured out how to get Minimatica to work (at all) and tried several other templates, such as “Autofocus”, “Picturesque”, “Origami”, “News Channel” but none of them came close to the image layout that I wanted (like “Minimatica’s”) nor could I figure out how to tweak them to get them closer to the functionality I wanted. That seems to be a common theme (no pun intended) with a lot of the layouts in photography, which are a lot trickier and temperamental than simple blogs with a few photos. (Even those blogs with photos can be tricky, though, as I learned with my blog https://www.internationalperspective.org) Handling photos is tough and tricky in any post, more so with photography-centric templates. (And then you have to get a theme that will handle each of the main browsers well, as well as mobile: iPhone, iPad, Android… They’re all a bit different.)

It’s also frustrating because the photography templates rely on subtle differences between “media”, “portfolio”, “gallery”, “post” – and sometimes that’s so subtle it’s confusing. Sometimes the way you set up one affects the other down the line…

So I was pretty frustrated, too. I realized that since I needed a lot of support, it was difficult to do this with free themes. So I looked at paid photography themes.

Then I discovered “Photolux.” This was a paid download but I really liked the layout even more than “Minimatica” and it seemed to offer a lot of variations. So I bought it.

Then, more frustration! At first I couldn’t get it to work very well or to look like the demo version at all. But – and here’s the important thing – the author walked me through each and every problem I had. I was very specific. “How do I do this?” or “Why doesn’t this show here” and he provided good details. There is a 24 hour turnaround time from when you post to when you get an answer; fair enough. But he was very prompt in answering, showing and explaining, (and very patient) and several times, writing CSS snippets and telling me where to insert them. Gradually, over a couple of weeks, things started to resemble what I originally had in my mind’s eye.

Also, though the process I learned a lot about WordPress and a couple of times was able to figure out the solution I had asked before I got the response. It’s a learning process…

Right now, I’m pretty satisfied with the look, feel and function of the site. You can check it out at: https://www.garymak.photography

I’m not saying don’t use “Minimatica.” I am saying that if there’s a paid version, you may get more functions and features and quicker response from the author than with the free version. (I’m not sure if there’s a paid version of “Minimatica”, I can’t remember.) Certainly I can only speak from my experience with the paid theme i used and attest to the author’s responsiveness, patience (!) and effectiveness as helping me understand better and resolve me issues.

Be confident that you will become more competent as you plunge into it, you will gain more confidence, and the more you work with it, with the right consistent and prompt help, you’ll eventually get to your solution, and it’ll start to make some sense.

I hope this was helpful. Again, one man’s experience.

Good luck to you!

thank you gary. i definitely need luck if i’m going to pursue this. that said, there are people who have successfully used this template. i don’t get it. beautiful site btw. i must say though, that if i’m going to pay for a template, i will use something much easier than wordpress.

WordPress is the easiest of the “user managed” template formats, “easiest” being the operative word…

Here’s an idea: You might check out Squarespace. (https://www.squarespace.com) 30 day no-credit card trial. Photography-centered web-hosting. The photographer and author Ibarionex Perello* (https://ibarionex.net/thecandidframe/) uses them to host his website and recommends them (they support his website, and yes, that’s his given name!) I tried it for a month and almost went back to it. You really can be up and running in 30 minutes or so. (OK, if you’re a total newbie, 1 hour..)

Good luck, ’66!

*He has great podcasts. I listen to them a lot.

look what i found….

https://blog.gautambhutani.com/code/minimatica-tutorial/2/

That looks great! It looks like it will really help get the site up and running. I read through the first 3 pages and was impressed. I think it addresses some of the fundamentals that I now know but didn’t when I first tried Minimatica. Go for it then! It should get you up and running and with some “figure-it-outness” you can probably do a lot of tweaking on your own.

A few general tips:
1) Create a folder in whatever folder you are using an call it “Minimatica Settings (Page) 140526” (or whatever date convention you use) where “Page” is the settings page you copied. (There are lots.) After you get it basically working, take screen shots of the settings as a baseline. Then, create a new folder each day (or as appropriate for your filing system) and take a screen shot each time you make progress. It gets very confusing and hard to remember what you changed and where it is. This will be helpful.

2) Try to understand the difference between “media” (the basic folder containing your images) and “gallery” and “porfolio” and “pages.” If you can master that, then you will be rolling!

3) Askimet is plugin that will suck the spam right off your sight. It’s free and does a great job. I recommend it. I didn’t install it at first and after just 3 days, i couldn’t believe the spam comments I was getting. “Nice site. I really liked it. Good job. Amazing wrinkle cream for sales blah blah blah…” I installed it and now I don’t get any of that.

Let me know some time when your site is up and running and “ready for prime time” as it were.

Good luck!