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You’ve seemed to have figured it out quite well. I am amazed by your thinking here. Here is my short story:

This theme is originally a boldy theme with a basic slider included and modified for the theme. I felt that this one was not sufficient so I first tried to install Nivo Slider myself using the nivo slider light plugin. To enable this slider, you need to handcode the slider which works well because the home page is not accessible via WordPress anyway.

But I was having trouble loading the plugin so I installed another one that installs Nivo but is integrated into WordPress. I hoped that it would install the necessary Nivo backend and I could just use the slider by handcoding.

I’m going to try what you said and connect with you after:

UPDATE: I’ve disabled the nivo-slider.css from the original theme , reinstalled the fresh plugin, and gotten rid of all the unnecessary css (the beauty of backing up). Now we’ve got a nice Nivo slider with correct display and proper bullets.

Thanks for all the help.

Kraignos, one more item would help and I think we can call the slider finished. I’m sure in my frenzy of changing this slider, I might have changed the display of the slider bullets to vertical but I am not sure how to change it back. Which part of the css would let me do that?

There’s also some sort of merging between the two bullets you named which gives a weird effect when the slide bullet is highlighted. I’d like to take it back to default if possible.

I really need to be more careful keeping track of my edits but I think it’s validating pretty well so I’ve done okay. This last change would be a great help.

You’re a great help Kraignos. Thanks for the input and continued support.

Didn’t seem to work. Could it be a problem with the image source? I’m not sure I have it in my images folder but then again, I’m not sure if it’s even an image.

Thanks so much for the help! I’ve been tweaking an existing template and commenting out the stuff I wasn’t using but this has fixed it.

I knew such a site existed but lost track of it because I haven’t been designing sites in a while. Thanks again for the help.

One problem I thought to be connected to this, but perhaps not, was that I cannot see the navigation buttons on the slider. I have used the different options but to no avail. When the slider was somewhat broken there was a way to see the navigation buttons (those small bullets that show the place in the slideshow) but there were far more displayed than actually posted (i.e. 17+ bullets for 3 images). Now this is completely disappeared.

If this is not related, I’m sure I can find another thread but I think others have had this problem before, also without solution.

Here’s the code: I’m not seeing this empty link tag in the slider but perhaps there is some definition of it in the css?

<div id="slider" class="nivoSlider" style="height:260px; width:840px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">
	  	<a href="https://www.labratsstudio.com/games/muse">
	  	<img src="https://www.labratsstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iPad11.png" alt="" />
	  	</a>
	  	<a href="https://www.labratsstudio.com/about-us">
	  	<img src="https://www.labratsstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iPad21.png" alt="" />
	  	</a>
	  	<a href="https://www.labratsstudio.com/about-us">
	  	<img src="https://www.labratsstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/iPad31.png" alt="" />
	  	</a>
	  </div>