bettyhills

After searching the WP Forum & codex without success for the cause and a solution, found the plugin version 0.4.0.9b zip on the CactusMasonry site to reinstall manually. All is good.

Following up, if I wait long enough the gallery appears, however the “Notice…304” displays across the top of the images.

Rather than go back to the prior iteration of the plugin, is there any way to eliminate this problem and retain the update? Thanks.

Bortpress, thank you. The Cactus-Masonry Gallery is working. The problem indeed was user error. I did not select a “featured image” for my sample post thinking that it would change my site header image. Once I selected the featured image, it popped right into the Cactus-Masonry Gallery as it should.

Thank you for your swift response to my query and patient help. I am marking the topic solved. Also, thank you for this WONDERFUL plugin. You are most generous.

Thank you so much for responding.

On the Graces site, I am trying to show the gallery on the page called PASTIMES. I am new to WordPress, and as far as I know it is a normal page that I created using the front page template because I wanted it to be a full page across without a sidebar and I wanted a small amount of text at the top before the Cactus-Masonry gallery displayed an array of images from posts of specific categories only beneath the text on the same page.

Instead, the first sample post with image that I created is appearing on the HOME page. I figure that I will deal with that later.

I do not believe the page is theme-generated. Any page will do for the gallery. If we can get it working on any page, I will be thrilled. I can move pages around later on.

If you go to the page PASTIMES where the shortcode resides, you will see that nothing happens. The shortcode does not appear. The images do not appear.

At your suggestion, I tried [cactus-masonry] with no parameters. It does not display.

Thank you for directing me to the code inspector. I ran it as you suggested on PASTIMES. It showed the Cactus-Masonry plugin on the page but I do not know enough to recognize whether the plugin is operating as it should. It did not look like it was reporting javascript errors.

Questions:
Does Cactus-Masonry require a lightbox plugin installation?
Should my functions.php file or something else on my site have a command line asking Cactus-Masonry to run?

Thank you for taking time to help me with this.

Still trying to figure this out, I found in another posting with a similar problem. The solution mentioned enqueuing jquery. That is WAY above my pay grade, but I did my best to research the topic.

Jquery appears nowhere in twentytwelve or twentytwelvechild functions.php. If inserting code referencing it is the answer, I do not know the correct syntax. I DID find some code for Owl Carousel, another plugin, that may be a clue to what is missing in my Cactus-Masonry installation. Should I be adding something like this to the functions.php (referencing Cactus-Masonry files where applicable)? Here is the code:
‘// in functions.php

add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘bboyjuss_load_javascript_conditionally’ );

function bboyjuss_load_javascript_conditionally() {
wp_register_script( ‘owl-script’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/js/owl-carousel/owl.carousel.min.js’, array(‘jquery’), false, true );
wp_enqueue_script( ‘owl-script’ );

wp_register_style(‘owl-style-carousel’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/js/owl-carousel/owl.carousel.css.’);
wp_enqueue_style(‘owl-style-carousel’);

wp_register_style(‘owl-style-theme’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/js/owl-carousel/owl.theme.css.’);
wp_enqueue_style(‘owl-style-theme’);

wp_register_style(‘owl-style-transition’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/js/owl-carousel/owl.transitions.css.’);
wp_enqueue_style(‘owl-style-transition’);
}’
I will be very grateful for any help getting the Cactus-Masonry image array to work for posts that fall into the three filtered categories.
Thanks.

James,

Your advice about FileZilla sent me to researching how to install it, and ultimately to its network configuration page. At https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Network_Configuration, I learned that routers and firewalls can time-out the transmission of large files without warning to the user. The wiki is an extensive treatise on network configuration and I learned much more, but the time-out issue is the critical clue to my problem.

Since FileZilla no longer supports XP, for grins, I tried uploading the WordPress files again in small parts using WS-FTP Pro. It worked! The local files transferred to the server without breaking. The problem is SOLVED. WordPress is working beautifully. Thank you for your time, and for pointing me to the solution.

Many thanks, James. I am off to try a different uploader.

Thank you for taking the time to answer, and for directing me to the detailed install instructions in the codex.

I will use another uploader.

Good to know that servers load alphabetically. My WordPress installation is located in https://sitename.com/blog . The index.html file is at sitename.com/index.html not in the same directory with WordPress. Should I delete index.html?

Did I read somewhere that there is a problem placing WordPress in a subdirectory (in this case “blog”) in the example https://sitename.com/blog on a secure server?

Your help is much appreciated.