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Hi morgannunan,

You’re welcome – glad I could be of help!

Hi morgannunan,

If I have understood what you are looking for, I’m not actually sure if this is possible at present without changing core files – the Codex seems to suggest that yes, it should be, but there is a bug report out for what I believe you are trying to do. Check out https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/11581, that I think relates to what you are trying to do, and details a bug that has been reported, but not yet fixed or committed to core files.

Hi dragonsdraw,

esmi and I were both posting at the same time – it is the luck of the draw that my response came in after hers; I didn’t know she had responded, until I had posted…

Hi FaithAnne,

It sounds like you need to log into the administration pages for your WordPress site, then click on Appearance in the left-hand menu. You should find a menu option in there for Widgets; click on this, and it will show you the Widgets (such as the Categories, Archives, etc you mention above), installed. Drag and drop from the list on the right into the main area, those that you do not want to keep. Alternatively click on the drop down arrow beside each widget, and then Delete on each one (this does the same thing).

There is a possibility that some entries may still remain, but try the above first, and see how you get on.

Hi vnick567,

esmi is right – WordPress is not a Windows application, but something that needs to run on a webserver application, and be viewed from within your browser.

I suspect you don’t have a webserver application installed on your PC, such as Apache, WAMPServer or XAMPP. To test this, could you please enter https://127.0.0.1/ into your internet browser, and post back what you get? I suspect you may get a 404 error – if so, I think I will need to take you through installing a webserver (don’t worry – it is easy to do!).

Not sure if you are still seeing this post, but as far as I know, you can’t add a “read more” to the excerpts produced using eShop; you need to use WordPress’ the_except function to achieve this. The two links below should hopefully point you in the right direction:

https://www.thetechfaq.com/2008/03/04/how-to-show-excerpts-instead-of-full-posts-on-your-wordpress-blog-homepage/
https://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2008/02/29/using-wordpress-excerpts/

I’m still no closer, although I have been playing with the CSS using IE’s Developer Toolbar that is available; if you put IE into Quirks Mode, it will display the image higher up, but with all of the content justified to the left. It does display the black overlay over all of the page though.

I have found this as well:

SRC
https://kikatus.net/wordpress/kuvat/auto.jpg

Actual Width
526px
Actual Height
744px

Adjusted Width
526px
Adjusted Height
526px

Alt text
[Empty Alt Value]

Title text
[Empty Title Value]

File Size
73459 bytes

DYNSRC
[No DYNSRC]

LOWSRC
[No LOWSRC]

This is the report on the final image at the bottom of the https://kikatus.net/wordpress/portfolio/vektoripiirrokset/, which as I understand it, is having the problem; it shows the image size as being different to the other ones. This is the same report for one of the others that works:

SRC
https://kikatus.net/wordpress/kuvat/enkeli_pieni.jpg

Actual Width
300px
Actual Height
140px

Adjusted Width
300px
Adjusted Height
300px

Alt text
Enkeli

Title text
[Empty Title Value]

File Size
-1 bytes

DYNSRC
[No DYNSRC]

LOWSRC
[No LOWSRC]

I’m not sure if this is anything, but I suspect the size of the image at the bottom of this page is causing an issue; are you able to try with an smaller one temporarily, to see if this makes a difference?

Hi Anselmiina,

I agree – this is really confusing! I still cannot replicate the issue anywhere when I check in IE8 and FF2. At the moment, the only two things I can suggest at the moment are:

1. Have you set a minimum screensize within your CSS files? If so, is it any higher than 1024 x 768?

2. From my experience – lightbox scripts tend not to work so well when used on some images that are not in proportion. On the images that you have, where the overlay is stopping short of the whole screen – what happens if you temporarily resize the image by say 30-40%? I’m not suggesting that it be a permanent change, but if you resize it and it then works, it is something to think about…

I will continue looking at it – if I see anything, I will post.

Hi Anselmiina,

This is interesting – I only see a transparent black background in IE 8, on both the Lightbox JS and a local development site I am working on. One thing you could check, although I am not sure if it will make a difference:

element.style {
height:1082px;
opacity:0.8;
width:1263px;
}

I think this is the CSS behind the opacity setting for Lightbox – the line of interest is the opacity:0.8. To check this – see if you can get IE Developer Toolbar installed; it is the same as Firebug, and will let you check the CSS being used. Do this on your site – what setting do you get back?

Hi anselmiina,

When you say it is plain black, I assume you mean it is solid black, and not partially transparent, as it should be? Have you checked the settings in WP Admin? There is an option to change the Lightbox Appearance, which should be set to black if in doubt. Which version of IE and WP are you using? I’m using WP 2.8.4 and IE 8 – both work absolutely fine for this plugin.