coryshubert

Ok, after some debugging in Chrome on a Mac, I tried this and now it works again…

Ursula was close for me, but her fix didn’t do it. Then another post said to remove the . infront of the mp3, so I tried BOTH of those and now I am back in business.

Tested in Safari and Chrome on a Mac, and I will do some more now that I have it working. So, here is my fix….

wpaudio-mp3-player/wpaudio.min.js This is the file I edited

NOT WORKING CODE: {jQuery(‘a[href$=.mp3]’).addClass(‘wpaudio’);}

WORKING CODE: {jQuery(‘a[href$=mp3]’).addClass(‘wpaudio’);}

I too am not a coder, just an old web designer ha ha ha, but I have worked with enough pages of code to feel comfortable rummaging around in there… so, it now works for me, but the adding of the ” ” marks didn’t… go figure.

I hope it helps some of the rest of you that were not having any luck either.

Cheers,

Cory

I’m with Jaco23. My site was working as it should, then either the latest WP update broke something because now the .mp3 links also open in a new window. I edited the .js file ( nice catch Ursula) but that didn’t fix anything, same issue. I deactived all the plugins, no change.

The odd thing is that another plugin is also not working as it should, the Lightbox Plus one. These both are on the same page: https://www.madrigaldinner.com/samples/
and they both stopped working at the same time, but different functionality, hmmmm.

I am stumped and hoped sooo much that Ursula had found my fix, but sadly no.

Anyone else found another fix maybe?

Cheers,

c

Ok, I am using theme F8 Lite
https://66.147.244.208/~ravenwor/gallery/gates-and-railings/

and all I want is a simple set of thumbnails that when the user clicks on open in the Shadowbox effect, and no, nothing. They all just open in the same window but without any “lightbox” effect.

I have read all the posts in this forum and most deal with older issues of WP. I am using 3.0.3 and want the basic effect, but for some reason nothing is working. I don’t know if it is the F8 theme, though the author says no, or something else going on?

I have reset the default, etc, and still nothing. Could it be that I am using a temp url or something? I don’t know what else it could be, but I am stumped.

thanks

c

So, another question while you are here… does the new child CSS file show up in the WP editor sidebar along with all the others, or in the drop down above them, or do you just have to do your editing in another app outside of WP?

c

Yes, I see that now. I promise to be a better WP advocate from now on and I will go ahead and use the child theme approach on this and all future website gigs.

c

OMG, is that the case? I had no idea that WP was using that as the new default… holy crap. I have never used Twenty Ten before so I didn’t even think of that.

Well, lesson there, I guess I have to worry about the template I use and make sure in the future NOT to ever use the default template, and to check to make sure that I know what WP is using as their default.

I guess I can go back and see if my host has any backup file setup that I can pull from, otherwise it is another few hours of wasted time to redo things.

Thanks for clearing this up as it was driving me crazy to think that WP could overwrite another themes files… DOH, I am such an idiot.

c

Hi ipstenu,

I have about 9 websites that I have designed in WP in the last 5 years, so while I am not some big time WP developer, I do know the basics and how to work in WP.

My MO is to setup an account (I use BlueHost.com) with WP installed. Then I have them create a temp url so I can work on the site before porting the dns servers over since most of my work is on websites that already exist and don’t want the site I am working on to be seen until it is ready…

Ok, so that is my background. Now, what I did, which is what I always do, is take a free template from out on the web, install it in WP, then begin to change that so I don’t have to start from scratch. This is what I did for this client and I used the Twenty Ten template. I do things like change the colors/fonts/size and hide other things that the client doesn’t want. In this case, I also added some rotating images that lived in a folder I created in the images directory that WP uses when you upload files. Then I adde a php rotate file in the same folder as the images and added the call in the header.php file so the images will rotate for each refresh, pretty basic stuff.

So, last night I saw when I was in the Dashboard of this project that WP 3.0.2 was out and asked me to update, so, as I always do, I hit the update and watched it go through its motions. I NEVER for a sec worried about the Twenty Ten template becasue I was not updating it… but when I went and refreshed my preview page of the site I was working on, blam, all the stuff I had added was gone, back to the default including missing pics from the banner.

So, my confusion here is that I always do the WP update and have NEVER, NEVER had that update do anything to the template I was using or any of the code changes I have made, never once.

If someone can explain how this could be, I am all ears.

Let me say again…. I did NOT update the Twenty Ten template. I never update the templates after I have worked on them because of this exact thing… updating the template you chose would throw away the work you did on it.

I DID update the WP version from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 and in that update, it somehow trashed my CSS file update/changes as well as changes I made to the footer.php and header.php files through the Editor functions built into WP… that is what has be in a mess.

But this is NOT what happened to me… I did the WP version update as I always do when one is available. BUT, in doing the update, some of my template files and the main CSS file were reverted to their original state and this is what worries and pisses me off. Never before has hitting the WP version update button ever done anything to my template files, only the WP master files.

I am using the template Twenty Ten just like the poster above mentions, and this is what is odd/wrong.

My next thing is to contact the creator of the template to see how/why this could happen with a basic WP update.

Ok, issue solved. Apparently, when the guy moved the site from the temp hosting place to the current live one, he had to update the uploads directory in WP/settings/miscellaneous, and now it works.

I had not seen this one before, so add it to the list of fixes.

Thanks all,

Cory

Sigh, never mind… seems I was doing the change on the WRONG contact form… grief.

All is well, great plugin!!!

c

thanks whooami, I will try to purge it by re-listing with Google.

Cheers,

c

mores…

Fair enough, no harm taken. I understand the thought process and welcome any opinion as that is the nature of art.

The reason clients hire “pros” and not just someone with the same camera hasn’t changed in all the years I have been doing this. It isn’t the “tool” but the tools user.

Thanks for the kind words and for caring enough to post and reply as that is what makes the web such an exciting medium to work in.

Cheers,

c

>>ChgoWriter First, Pick another subject for the front page…

Well, the idea was to rotate projects as then come up, so while this one is corporate in nature, the next one won’t be.

>>mores…

Lots of good ideas and suggestions. I don’t agree however with the idea that using off the shelf, WP for example, tools are a negative in the creative world. It doesn’t make sense to redesign the wheel for the sake of having your “own” wheel, at least not to me. Over the years of working on the web I have come to the decision that easy and clean makes more usable sense than artsy and new… but that is just my take.

Cheers,

c

Ok, I did a browser check and IE7 seemed to work fine, but IE6 and 5.5 were the ones showing the menu section below the main content.

I will have a poke around the code and see what is up. I am sure it is just a simple div/size issue… I hope.

Cheers,

C