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Is there a way to put a menu (widget) in one of the 3 columns?

Search in youtube for:
Twenty Twenty Theme: Set homepage & style with Gutenberg blocks!

Its not a complete tutorial about your question, but might help you a bit

I saw a tutorial where they made a (landing) page (customizer, fixed homepage), with a table/columns. Recent (or all) postst were called in de cells of this table. There are plugins to have the featured image in it as well cause that doenst work with this method.
Is didn’t see a way to have a menu in one of the columns however…

Thanks for your reply James,
I used nexgen before, which is awesome. But the fewer plugins the better i.m.o. so I was thrilled that WP5 has a very nice gallery itself. Maybe this functionality will come in the future.

In addition:
– is it possible to navigate to next/prev image?
– is it possible tot open an image (by clicking on the thumbnail in the gallery) in a new window?

Thanks for your reply. Which plugin do you recommend?

Solved this and other problems by completely deleting WP and the database and start all over again ??
See this post https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/cant-create-posts/#post-11067651 for more information
Thanks talldanwp for all your replies

I tried a lot of things, but nothing helped. So I made a backup, uninstalled WP en deleted the database. Then I created a new database (DB10 this time) en manually installed WP.
The health plugins says everything is cool now. I imported my old posts (via WP-import, not with phpmyadmin). However, creating/saving posts still didn’t work. I uninstalled all pluging and re-installed them one by one and now everyting works fine?!
So I guess things were messed up in the WP5 update somehow and a fresh install (on SB10 and PHP7) solved this.
Thanks bcworkz for all your replies!

Thanks again,
I troubleshooted with the health plugin: with all plugins disabled and default theme, the loopback error and the api error are gone. Seems that my captcha pluing causes this problems.

So all pluging’s reactivated, but not the captcha, it passes the health test, of course except the php en DB warnings.

However, a I still can’t create a post of insert a (block) album. I got the same outcome.

By the way, I do see an error message in/behind/over the editing screen that says “notice undefined index path in …/l10n.php on line 919”. I don’t know if this has anything to do with my current problem, but it started after updating to WP5 just like the post creation problems.

So all tests are good, but the outcome isn’t? What’s next? I checked the server, there is no user php. Synology uses a user called http (and a group http). I think that’s like your user php?

I’m thinking if I can’t find the problem, maybe I should export the whole site, deleting the database, uninstall WP, and start al over, on DB10 and (hopefully) PHP7, and WP5 from the beginning. And then import back the post, comments etc. Will that work and does it help?

Hi Bcworkz,
I checked the folder permissions, maybe this was not correct for the child theme I made for 2019, but correcting it, doesn’t solve my problem ??

I use a synology server (6.2), wich had PHP 5.6 and 7.0 installed. I told the server to use 7, but the health check says I use 5.6?! The synology has DB5.5 and DB10. My server runs on DB5.5; I didn’t succeed in transferring it to DB10.

The health plugin reports, other than PHP en DB: “The REST API request failed due to an error” and ” The loopback request to your site failed, this may prevent WP_Cron from working, along with theme and plugin editors”

Any suggestions how to move forward?
BTW, everything worked perfectly before the WP5 update!

Thanks Bcworkz,
Json seems to work correctly, since I do get a long long list of all my posts.
About the other part, the funny thing is, it worked before. Actually it worked untill the wp5 update. I didnt change anyrhing else then updated to wp5. No changes in serverconfiguration, in plugins, in htaccess or whatever. I do run my own (synology) server.
Hope someone has some other ideas?!

Hi talldawnwp,
I use a synology server, with apache 4.2 and php 7.0
Uploading a new image to the library works. Uploading from the library to a galley also works. But when I try uploading (the same) images from (the same) a map to a gallery, it fails?!
So there is a workaround, however, I like to keep my media library “clean” for some specific images only (like header images and so), since I use about 1700 images in about 40 different galleries!

Hi talldanwp,
Thanks for your reply. I do use some plugins. However, deactivating them all, doens’t fix it ??
So WP 5.01, with 2019 theme and no plugins activated, and a new post (of old post) gives me this error. Maybe the 5.02 releas later today…

Regards,
Bas

Hi Antonis,

Thanks for your reply.
No, uploading new or old images doens’t matter. Images from the original folder, from the nextgen gallery map, from.. whatever map, doesn’t matter. Deactivating nextgen makes no change either. Any other ideas?

Bas

ok, I fixed it.
In wp-confing I filled in nl_NL at define(‘WPLANG’, ‘nl_NL’);
and put a # in front of define(‘WP_LANG_DIR’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-content….

Still don’t know where to get the plugin, but it works again ??