betholsoncreative

Thanks for the info @jeherve
However… I don’t have Akismet installed so then I’m not sure how these messages are being filtered! Maybe Akismet is running in the background of another plugin like Jetpack?

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by betholsoncreative.

I’m curious about this too but in the opposite direction (everything’s set to link to the attachement page but I want it to link to nothing). I’ll let you know if I come across anything useful!

RickC4-

Are they using the same database?

No they’re not. They are completely separate installs with separate databases as far as I know. I used the auto-installer provided by the hosting company so I’m assuming it creates a new db for each install.

What about the prefix?

I’m not sure what you mean by prefix. The website is installed at the root and accessed at https://www.mysite.com. The blog is installed in the subfolder /blog and accessed by going to https://www.mysite.com/blog (i also have a domain pointed there so people can reach it at https://www.myblog.com but it’s simply forwarding them to the https://www.mysite.com/blog)

You do not say WHY you want to change it, especially if the second one is image heavy as the size of the two combined may force you to have to implement a staggered backup.

I’m wanting to merge them so that I don’t have to have separate logins for the site and the blog. They are both image heavy and I update them often because of portfolio stuff. I also just thought it might be nice to have everything tidy and working together within the same install so I’d have the option to have sliders that pull from blog posts and things like that with the new design I’m working on.

@jan Dembowski-
I’ll check out the link page in more depth. My main concern is that with the dozens of times I’ve ever tried using the wordpress import as described there I’ve never, not once, had it import everything properly so my hopes for it actually bringing over the hundreds of images is basically zero.

Anyone might have ideas of what I might even search for to find answers? I’ve been looking around and still can’t find a simple way to do this without using something like a clone plugin which I’m pretty sure will mess-up the existing site’s pages.

Hey, I think I figured this out.

Short version:
change your css height to a percentage.

Longer version:
Go to your PLUGINS>EDITOR and choose one of the css sheets to modify. )I chose flexi-quote-rotator/styles/wide-plain.css)

I changed the Height and Width to % instead of fixed px. so it looks like this:

#quotearea {
   background: #333;
   width: 65%;
   height: 70%;
   padding: 20px 50px 20px 50px;
   margin: 15px auto;
}
#quoterotator {
   line-height: 120%;
}
#quoteauthor {
   display: block;
   text-align: right;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-style: italic;
}

These specific % work for my specific site to keep the quotes inside the section and the section to auto-resize for each quote size. This also worked to fix the problem of my quotes getting cut off on the mobile version.

My next problem was that without the fixed height, the moment in between quotes that space “blinks”, or shrinks momentarily til the next quote comes up. I found that changing the HEIGHT to 100% in the css and then turning off the fade (change it to 0) in the Flexi Quote Rotator Options page helps minimize the problem though I haven’t been able to eliminate it as of yet.

Funny, I have this exact same question. Mostly because on mobile it doesn’t recognize that the words are appearing outside the space. Or if you try to use one of the included stylesheets the box goes clear outside of the webpage.

No, I never did figure it out. I just hooked up jetpack and enabled the “tiled gallery” feature.

Richard,
Your suggestion fixed it for me too!
Thanks!!!!

I could really use some help on this subject if anyone knows anything or even has ideas about what I might search for to find more information would be a huge help!
Thanks!!

Just out of curiosity, how did you get the plugin to bring in a different size of image? I can see that it’s calling in the stupid tiny thumbnails and making them even smaller by making them 100x100px but I can’t figure out how to change which size image is being called in and used for the thumbnail.

And while I’m thinking of it, did you change the plugin code it’s self or is there a way to make changes that don’t get overwritten with plugin updates (such as how child themes work for templates).

Hey CobaltCat-
I still have not found a plugin to help do this. I have found though, that if I zoom out the screen (command + “-” on a mac) far enough, I can get most or all of the long list of photos I want to rearrange to show up on the screen at once. Then I can drag and drop the tiny thumbnails in the order I need them.

It’s still a much longer process then it should be but it’s a work around for the moment.

I’d be grateful if anyone has suggestions on plugins that can just simply add the photos to the top of the library list.

I’m having this same problem. It’d be nice if someone would offer support on this potentially useful plugin :/

Or if anyone knows what file in the Plugin Editor I could change the wording in, I suppose that would be a slightly messier way to do it too. I wasn’t able to find it on my own.

Hi!
I just had this problem also. I remember reading somewhere that often the permalinks have something to do with it so it’s smart to remember that your original site and new site have the same permalink structure selected before restoring the .zip clone.

After importing the site the first time it was only working on the front page but all links within the site to other pages, posts etc. were just 404 errors.
I simply tried the restore (import) again using the same restore link and it fixed everything.
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PS- I did the manual restore where I copy the .zip file to the new site’s wp-clone folder using an ftp client. That way when I hit the “restore” button I’m using a link that is pointing to the server of my new site and not the original site.

Hi!
I just had this problem also. I remember reading somewhere that often the permalinks have something to do with it so it’s smart to remember that your original site and new site have the same permalink structure selected before restoring the .zip clone.

After importing the site the first time it was only working on the front page but all links within the site to other pages, posts etc. were just 404 errors.
I simply tried the restore (import) again using the same restore link and it fixed everything.
***********

PS- I did the manual restore where I copy the .zip file to the new site’s wp-clone folder using an ftp client. That way when I hit the “restore” button I’m using a link that is pointing to the server of my new site and not the original site.