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Hi ALCYMYTH, All.

I’d really love to solve this so I reuploaded the two sets of code more clearly to the following link under “WordPress Blog Number of Entries”.

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/gB6pt9BG

I tried simply putting the insert code before the ?> at the end of the existing code but this completely blanked out the site as well as the admin editing portion.

I’d be grateful for a little code help on this.

Thanks.

Hi. Many thanks.

I seem to have done something wrong here but fortunately just replaced the uploaded edited file with the original.

First off can I ask you if I am putting this in the mydomain > blog > wp-content > themes > F8-static folder (assuming I am using F8-static)? This appears to be where all my themes are loaded and my assumption is that this is correct.

Also, I have uploaded some code to the pastebin that you suggested but I was not sure if there was some link to this that I should have copied. Can you tell me if I can tell you how to get there? This is the link https://wordpress.pastebin.com/GGhYeVMa

I am pretty sure I took the code from “add_filter” to
“return $variable;
}”

and put it just before the “?>” at the end of the functions.php but the page came up blank after I did this.

Again a big thanks as I’d really love to accomplish this.

Cheers.

Hi ALCHYMYTH,

Thanks so much for your help.

I have not done anything except change a phone number and delete a “Subscribe to Comments” section of my header.php.

Do you mind if I ask you for specific instructions on where to put the code in the functions.php? I would very much like to clean this up and if I get some really specific instructions I think I can make it happen on my end.

I plan to first download the functions.php to my hard drive and save it in an “original php” folder.

Can I go ahead and add your code at the end of the functions.php after a paragraph return…?

Thanks very much,

Jonathan

Hi ALCHYMYTH,

Thanks a ton.

Can I please ask you if there is a way to get this number to show up /inline/ with the name of the category?

Right now it appears to show up /under/ a line and /after/ a paragraph return (i.e):
cooking
_________________
(2)
roadtrips
_________________
(21)

etc.

This makes it appear rather sloppy and un-minimized and it also makes it look like the roadtrips category has 2 posts whereas it actually has 21…

Can anyone help with this? My main page seems so clean with the exception of this.

Regards,

Jonathan

Oh.

https://www.formpig.com/blog

just adding a subscribe checkmark here so I can follow this post…please ignore

just adding a “notify me of follow up posts via email” to this so I can track it. Anyone know if there is a way to get this to be set as a default…?

yeah, not so easy to find that one.

open the header.php file that was uploaded as part of wordpress in a text editor and you will see this information listed which you can change.

I’m still trying to find out if there is a way to remove the subscribe to comments section as I am not allowing comments on my blog…

Hi. Anyone have any ideas as to how to fix this?

I have deleted the image in the post and then re-inserted the image in the post.

I have also run regen thumbnails.

Again the image shows up in the post but not as a thumbnail…

thanks

ok. no can do on this one. apparently you have to upload manually sized thumbnails.

Hi Esmi.

thank you so much.

the only plug-in i have is the regen thumbnails plug in.

i have been trying to work around this by using the html tab instead of the image tab in the Edit Post section. However this also seems really buggy.

when you are to the right of the image or at the top of the image, there appears to be no way to keep the text (which should be on the right hand side) from moving to the top of the image. in fact, even if you have text on the right of the image, and you then add text that causes the text to “return” and go onto another row of text, the original row of text is getting “smushed” up to the top of the image, while the newer text row stays on the right where it is all supposed to have stayed.

anyway, i will keep trying it but if there are any solutions i am interested in hearing them.

thanks again!

thanks very much for the help.

hopefully I’ll nail it down with a little help from my friends.

cheers. thanks.

Hi Thanks very much.

I will try this for a thumbnail and run regen thumbnails and see if I can get the thumbnail to display as 1:1. My impression from the mods’ help is that I have to go and edit the thumbnail separately – as you suggested earlier – and then upload a dedicated thumbnail to prevent wp from stretching or cropping thumbnails.

This is a nice feature which I have not used however. Can I please ask you how this feature is different from the Edit Post > Click on the SLIDE icon functionality?

The former allows you to scale an image proportionally (i.e. 1:1) and the latter lets you scale an image percentage-wise (i.e. 80%)? I mean are these two areas both editing the same image just in slightly different ways?

Thanks very much for the help,

Jonathan

Hey Man.

Sorry if this is aggravating. I haven’t been having much fun with it.

My impression was that you made a suggestion to change the php code to manipulate the size of the post images in a global way.

My understanding is that you are manually changing the size of each thumbnail and then re-loading these in some manner so that these manually sized thumbnail images are then used by wordpress in some way.

I can’t say that I find any of this particularly straightforward but I do appreciate your previous help in helping me straightening it out.

Cheers,

Jonathan

Hi. Thanks.

Are you talking about the images in the post itself or are you talking about the thumbnails that get shown when you click on a Category and WP shows you all the posts in that Category?

– Jon