sidebar image plugin ??

  • Resolved jayjerome

    (@jayjerome)


    18 years, 2 months ago

    Is there a plugin to quickly add (and delete) images from a sidebar?

    I want to show the cover images of books I’m reading each week (jpg scanned images) in a sidebar.

    Any suggestions or recomendations?

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  • I never used anything like that… but I used the Search box (for you) – https://www.ads-software.com/search/currently+reading?forums=1

    Thread Starter jayjerome

    (@jayjerome)

    moshu — thanks for the link. I downloaded the CG-Amazon files and unzipped them. But the Installation Instructions look intimidating.

    I just want to be able to put images (of book covers) with a caption under them, in a sidebar. What’s the easiest way to do that?

    You asked for a plugin. You got it.

    You don’t want to use it. Then edit manually your sidebar.php every time you want to change the image.

    What is so complicated?

    Thread Starter jayjerome

    (@jayjerome)

    If you’re saying it’s relatively uncomplicated to manually edit the sidebar.php (just adding or subtracting the name and location of the graphic files) that would be a satisfactory solution.

    Assuming, that is, you can provide or direct me to the basic code I need to put in the sidebar.php

    jj

    If you know basic html – it is uncomplicated.

    If you don’t know basic html and want to be the “webmaster” of your blog – you should learn it.
    https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp > See the Links section.

    Thread Starter jayjerome

    (@jayjerome)

    moshu — so far it seem that I’m the second apprentice to the third assistant of the ‘webmaster’ of my blog.

    Following directions at W3Schools.com I used the suggested html code in sidebar.php, and the alt text appears, but not the image.

    I created the directory ‘sideimages’ and put the image there. Here’s the code I used:

    <!– Left sidebar –>
    <div class=”sidebar”>

    <img src=”https://www.jayjerome.com/wp-content/uploads/sideimages/donaflor.png&#8221; alt=”Dona Flor” width=”100″ height=”200″>

    The image file donaflor.png is where it’s supposed to be (I checked it with my FTP program, which allows me to view it, and it’s OK).

    Am I using the wrong protocol for the path? The FTP program shows my directory tree as: root/jayjerome.com/ etc… do I have to include that ‘root’ in the src?

    What am I missing?

    Don’t include the “root”.
    But the URL for the image is wrong:
    https://www.jayjerome.com/wp-content/uploads/sideimages/donaflor.png
    It should show the image but it doesn’t.
    If the URL is correct, it shows the image like this:
    https://www.jayjerome.com/wp-content/themes/nerima-daikon-3c-01/images/jjheader-r.png

    Thread Starter jayjerome

    (@jayjerome)

    OK, thanks, I got the image to appear by moving it directly into the ‘uploads’ directory–

    (any reason why the directory ‘sideimages’ I created wouldn’t work?)

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