67tallchris

Hi

Taking a look at the theme you chose, https://tesseracttheme.com/ it does appear to be a responsive theme. Have you updated to the latest version of that theme? Comparing your sites header to the default theme’s header I can see your site is now using inline css compared to one overall stylesheet for the site. The person that made changes to the default theme did not follow the responsive conventions initially implemented.

You can compare your header to the default themes header by right clicking in Chrome, and selecting “inspect” then hover over the top of your site.

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by 67tallchris.

Hi @schma,

A better place to post this question would be on the plugin’s support page at https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery

Hi kadiyamanudeep,

I checked and your blog is now showing correctly. Looks like you got it working! If you need further help, let us know.

Cheers,

Hi there,

One way of accomplishing this is to manually go in and change the permalink settings to “Post Name” instead of your custom permalink structure. You can navigate there by going to Administration Panels > Settings > Permalinks and selecting Post Name. Once you make the change to the selection of posts, change it back to your custom structure.

Cheers,

Hey Mike,

There are a few things you can do to optimize images so they load faster and are optimized for your visitors. I will not try to explain all the options, as there are some great posts explaining the benefits of each plugin, like this post about the 10 best image optimizer plugins for WordPress. With all of those plugins, you don’t need to have Photoshop or other image editing software to reap the benefits, but of all the plugins I read, the resulting optimized image would be stored on the host server where your instance of WordPress lives.

If you really want to speed up image load times for users all around the world, the next step in your need for speed would be using something called a CDN (Content Delivery Network). In short, it is a way of having all your images stored on servers around the world, so anytime a user in another part of the world wants to see a picture, that picture does not have to travel as far and transfers quicker. Here is a rundown of CDN plugins/services that work with WordPress.

You asked specifically about the best image size for your users, and I wanted to point out Hammy from the list of top 10 above as an option.

Hammy takes your regular content images (only within posts and pages, not custom post types) and regenerates a number of smaller sized images. When a person visits your website, it then automatically provides them with the most appropriate image (or the smallest one possible). This makes for a better experience, especially on mobile.

Using Hammy you would not have to choose which size, but would allow the device your users visit your site to dictate what image size they see (and image file size downloaded).

Happy Blogging!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by 67tallchris.

Hi @jet-pro

There are quite a few map plugins for WordPress, and I personally like Google Maps, so that is the direction I will recommend. Here is a great post covering 7 different plugins that allow you to display Google Maps on your WordPress site.

The plugin that looks like it would allow you to add routes to be displayed is the second plugin on the above page, WP Google Maps, although I have not used it personally.

Check those out and see if they fit your needs, and let us know here if you need further direction.

Cheers,

Hey Rossulik,

I may need more info to help you pinpoint exactly how to change the images in that slider, but let me share with you what I have found so far and see if that helps. When I inspect your page (right clicking on your site and selecting inspect in Chrome) I see that the slider is called “flexslider home”. That can come in handy to know exactly what that gallery is called.

Next, have you tried Appearance > Customize from the WordPress dashboard? The theme you are using is Nevia, and the author provides support for this specific theme here (I don’t have this theme so can’t give specific instructions how it handles the slider).

It looks like the default slideshow for this theme is ‘LayerSlider’, and you can check out their documentation on how to manage it here.

Hope that helps point you in the right direction. If you have more questions, please ask away.

Cheers!

Hi @ehmehm12345 ,

I don’t have much personal experience with Multisite (other than installing and testing on a local environment) but did find some useful articles comparing sub-domain vs sub-directory. The answer on which you should choose really depends on the application, and the differences apeear to affect the Search Engine Optimization of your site. These two articles did the best job (in my opinion) of detailing the differences:

MOZ community question and answer on subdomain vs subdirectory

Blogflail article on the same topic

Second, once you decide which route to take, WordPress will help you setup the document root path. This article in WordPress codex describes that process:

The multisite installation process uses different terminology. A sub-domain install creates a domain-based network, even though you might use separate domains, and not subdomains, for your sites. A sub-directory install creates a path-based network, even though it does not use file system directories. If you want to use a sub-domain install, you must install WordPress in the root of your webpath (i.e. domain.com) however it does not need to be installed in the root (i.e. /public_html/) if you choose to run WordPress from it’s own directory.

After the multisite network installation is complete, WordPress uses the terminology domain and path for each site’s domain and path in the Network Admin user interface. A super admin (that is, a multisite network administrator) can edit sites’ domain and path settings, although it is unusual to do this to established sites because it changes their URLs.

The next section on that page also points you to plugins that will help with the administration of multisite, and would work on a localhost install as well.

Hope that helps point you in the right direction.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by 67tallchris.

Hey @buyinza,

I did some searching on the WordPress plugins page for a plugin that might work, and found a combination that may suit your exact needs (I have not tested these plugins, but the number of downloads of each tells me others have found them useful).

There are 3 plugins to this solution. A discount plugin, membership plugin, and finally WooCommerce to membership plugin that will connect everything together.

The first is the WooCommerce Discounts Plus plugin that allows you to do discounts in WooCommerce. Next, the s2Member plugin found on their website covers the membership aspect (looks like downloading the Framework option at the bottom of that page I linked should fit your needs). And finally
WooCommerce and WP eMember Integration will allow you to accept payment for a membership via WooCommerce.

Hope that points you in the right direction. Best of luck, and let us know if you need further guidance.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by 67tallchris.

Hey @mandarmarathegmailcom,

It sounds like you are looking for a plugin that would use shortcode to insert the gallery, and that gallery would pull all the pictures you upload and display them on each post the shortcode was on.

If that sounds like the right solution, I searched this page of all the WordPress plugins available for ‘gallery carousel’ and out of those search results found one that may fit your purposes.

The plugin is called Meta Slider and Carousel with Lightbox and the two options of a slider or carousel can be inserted in each post by just adding the shortcode [meta_gallery_slider] or [meta_gallery_carousel] depending on which you like.

Your last requisite, that clicking on the thumbnail of the picture takes you to the blog post with the picture, is not already built into this plugin. I don’t know how to make those changes, but you could pose this question to the plugin developers on the plugin support page if all the rest of the features fit your request. If this plugin is not quite what you are looking for, check out the search results I linked above for other plugins and see if any of those better suit your needs.

Cheers!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by 67tallchris.

Hi @trancedbrain,

Are you wanting to add a logo to the header of PhotoBook theme? I took a look at that theme, and it does not have a logo section (in the header for instance) already built into the theme. This is not a problem as you or the theme developer can go in and add it. The theme developer has free support for their theme here. They may be wiling to add the ability to insert your logo for free or possibly a fee.

If you want to try your hand at adding this feature yourself, I can point you in the right direction, but have not done this myself. You will need to edit two files, both header.php and the bootstrap.css file.

This forum post can help guide you, but is fairly high level (not beginner focused whatsoever).

Best of luck!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by 67tallchris.

Hi @bsanchez ,

Can you describe a bit more what is happening? What image from IIS7 is showing up? What is the image you do or don’t want to show up once you click on the link to your site?

I searched google for compu link and your website was the third result.
(screenshot here)

Once I clicked on it, I was able to go to your site from the latest version of chrome
(screenshot here)

Are you getting the same behavior? If not, please share what browser you are using, what is happening vs what you expect to happen.

Sorry you are having website issues, but glad to step in and help once I understand a bit more of what is going on.

Cheers,

Hey @iislb ,

I have not used these solutions yet, but thought I would make some suggestions from my searching skills, and see if that helps to point you in the right direction. Checking the plugins page,I ran a search for “woocommerce multistore” and came up with what looks like some good solutions that would do exactly what you are wanting.

When I ran a similar search in Google, I found this Woocommerce Multistore plugin whoes description matches exactly what you described:
“The plugin facilitate an easy way to manage and publish products across a WordPress MultiSite environment with multiple web shops at different domains, sub domains or sub directories. There is a main product manage panel where you can manage all products for all the stores. Still, at each store you can manage the store specific products. Any product in any store can also be put on sale on other stores while keeping the maintenance only for the main product.”

All of these plugins are based on having a WordPress Multisite installation from what I can tell (but I have not tested them, so YMMV).

Hopefully that helps point you in the right direction.

Hi @nickp87 ,

That sounds like an awesome personal project! I have used Gravity Forms before to take user inputed info, and then be able to display that info on a site. You can check out all the other available form plugins for WordPress here, but I only have experience with the one plugin in this respect. It aggregates all the data, and would show all of the user submitted data, so would not silo the info from each user and show just that users info, but that may still meet your requirements. I believe you can also take the data from Gravity Forms and generate the graphs and charts, but that is beyond my experience.

Check out this specific page on how Gravity Forms could display DataTables.

If neither of these work for what you are trying to accomplish, let us know so I (or someone else) can make a more accurate recommendation.

Hey @tmerr ,

There are quite a few options for restricting access to a part of your site (where you could host pictures, videos, or in your case audio files). Depending on what you are looking to do, this might be called a membership site, or a paywall, or if you just want to limit permissions with a password. (which happens to be built right into WordPress) Check out that article, and see if it does what you are looking to accomplish, and if not detail a bit more here so someone else or I can direct you to a better resource.

Cheers,