Only 1/2 inch of slide show displaying!

I solved the problem by naming a slide show and inserting existing slides into it. I now see most of the slide. While I am not sure why that is, I’ll probably recreate slides a little smaller and see whether they fit–unless you tell me something wonderful before I get a chance to do so!

There are also bigger fish to fry than that… I have another problem, one that I could not solve for months: My default line spacing in tables is expanded, which I want. For whatever reason, I cannot reduce the line spacing (using the “line height” command) when I want to. The line spacing of the text to the right of the slide show needs to be tightened up. If you happen to know what would fix this, I’d appreciate that, as well.

Did you get this figured out, or is there still part of the image missing? The slide images are cropped to match the slideshow dimensions, so if the images were upload before setting the current slideshow size, they would be cropped. Try re-uploading the slide images to fix this.

You can tighten up the text by styling the h6 tags in your theme’s stylesheet:

h6 {
line-height: 15px;
}

I’d really recommend not using tables to layout web content like this. This isn’t really done anymore and most themes style tables for only standard tables of content, and when you use tables for content you can get unexpected results.

If you need multiple columns of content, try using a plugin like Grid Columns to do this. If you just need to change the layout of the slideshow, you can change the slideshow alignment to wrap text around it or center the slideshow.

I didn’t. Don’t let the website fool you. I do not know what I am doing. Here’s the thing: I had no intention of using Heading 6, in the first place. This was the only solution that I found, though, to get WordPress to “listen” to my commands to tighten space up. When I didn’t use a heading style and just HTML’ed it, whether in a table or in a <DIV> paragraph (thanks for the tip about Grid Columns; I used tables because I tried everything to see what’d resolve this problem), my commands were ignored. In fact, you can see this problem still in the table at the top of page (https://www.lionreach.com/hebrew-language-links/). There’s like no way to tighten it.

* I am not sure what a stylesheet is.
* My theme allows me to enter CSS into a theme CSS menu option.
* My friend, years ago, if I recall, entered code someplace, at my request, forcing default line spacing to be generous. I thought WRONGLY that, on any given instance, I can just enter HTML into pages where I wanted to stray from this default. This is not so. I had to “trick” WordPress by using H6 style and then adding to it the attributes I wanted.

Thanks for listening and thanks for trying to help.

As for the image, I don’t know what was wrong, in the first place, but I just played with my PowerPoint’s dimensions, reexported several times, and then got good results. Can’t tell you how.

Thank you,

Roni

You can’t tighten that table up because it isn’t just line height that is adding that space, the table cells have padding on them too.

Learning CSS can be tough, but if you can get the hang of a web inspector like Firebug it is a lot easier. Then you can look at specific elements on your page and see what styles are being applied to them.

Check out this tutorial I did for more info on using an inspector:
https://jleuze.com/inspecting-wordpress-with-firebug/

No doubt, I need to learn CSS. Tightening lines didn’t happen in a padded table, or in a plain page, or in a div with no table on the page. In fact, you can see that I still need to tighten the right column of the same page (https://www.lionreach.com/todays-word/). I just let it go. Thanks for all of your help, Josh. I’ll check out the inspector too. As it stands now, it is several hundred percent better than it was when I first put out this SOS.

You’re welcome!