Lane Lester

Thanks for the tip about Discussion; I’ve made that change now.

And thank you for Path. I’m very impressed with what I’ve seen so far, and I know I have not yet explored all of its capabilities.

Lane

I decided to try to do the right thing, and it seems to have worked. I updated to Path 0.1.3 (eliminating my edited files) and added this to the child style.css:
.avatar {
display: none;
}

I think the theme is no longer going to gravatar.com, something I want to avoid.

Lane

I added a php.ini for more memory, but it didn’t take. I filed a ticket with the hosting company and they took care of it. I need to find out what they did.

Anyway, it’s working now, but I have either forgotten or missed something:

How do we get content that has any connection with our niche? I made a YouTube SlideDeck, and it’s displaying random stuff.

Lane

I don’t know why I didn’t get an email of jamie3d’s question.

The errors are seen on the manage page under “News and Updates” and “Latest Tweets.”

I just checked the site, and the errors are still there.

I went through the steps to create a YouTube slider, clicked to save it. No feedback whether that was successful, except the window jumped to the top.

Back to Manage Screen, and there it is! But I’m thinking, what is going to control getting only videos relevant to my niche?

Well, I go to create a page, and a new error pops up:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 500001 bytes) in /home/birding/public_html/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 900

class-snoopy.php is a WordPress file, so it looks like something more general is wrong. It looks like this happens only with Posts and Pages.

Whoops, maybe not. I disabled the SlideDeck plugin, and now Posts and Pages work just fine.

Yep, activate SlideDeck, and P&P are again broken.

Lane

DIYmom, I’m sorry I don’t have a quick answer for you. I remember the anguish I went through.

500 Errors are the worst; they can be caused by more than one thing. I have them come up and then go away on their own.

I would download a copy of the db with phpmyadmin. Then I would delete all the wp stuff except wp-config. Save a localcopy of any wp-cont you have modified. Then install a copy of the latest version and hope.

Maybe someone else will have a better idea.

Lane

OK, thanks. I think I’ll throw in the towel on that one. If it becomes essential to have a label, I’ll just edit the graphic to have the label.

Lane

Thanks, esmi. I already have a child theme for other changes I’ve made. Looking at header.php, it seems this is the line that displays the header graphics:
<img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo $header_image_width; ?>" height="<?php echo $header_image_height; ?>" alt="" />

But I confess I still don’t know how to accomplish my goal.

Lane

By changing a bunch of things to 0 and getting no effect, I finally hit on the right one at line 4825 in my child style.css:

/* Reposition the site title and description slightly */

#site-title {

padding: 0 0 0;

}

Making the padding zero got rid of the extraneous space.

But I would still like to learn more about what makes different parts of the style.css effective, based on the device used.

Lane

A small improvement: I got the logo to display completely by changing to this stanza in style.css:

hgroup {
max-height:200px;
max-width:590px;
}

But as you can see in this screenshot I still have the undesired extra blank space at the top. I’m going to look around in style.css to see if I can find what’s sticking that in there when the screen width is small (5″ in the case of my tablet in portrait position).

Suggestions have already helped a lot, and more are welcome!

Lane

Oops, I hadn’t seen you added “max-” to the hgroup stanza. When I fixed that, the extraneous space above the logo went away on the desktop view.

For some reason, the tablet portrait view remained the same. I think it’s related to the shift of the Search object to above the logo, rather than beside it.

If no other fix presents itself, I’ll try getting rid of Search, since it’s not needed for this site.

Later: Nope, taking the Search out didn’t change anything.

Lane

Thanks, David. That changed things for the better, but I’m not there yet.

The change produced more padding under the logo in the desktop view, and I’d like to eliminate that somehow.

In the tablet portrait view, things are better, but part of the logo is under the header graphic (screenshot).

Lane

I also appreciate the thorough reply. My first try with P3 was a shocker in that WordPress Database Backup is using as much time as all of the other 22 plugins combined! I did two runs with the same result. Since I have backups only once/week, I don’t understand the load from the plugin.

Deactivating that plugin reduced my plugin load time from 1.2 to 0.5 seconds. I don’t get it.

Interesting point, Rev. I’ve long used my account for casual storage of stuff: screenshots, personal images, etc.

OTOH, it’s pretty much a low volume item, so maybe the red flag would go up only if I started storing many megs.

Lane

You may be right about the hosting company.

I don’t “need” to do this. It’s just a learning exercise to see if it can be done without having use FTP.

Actually, I have a pretty nice dropbox script that’s easy to upload and download stuff. But I wanted to see if I could get the same type of functionality thatone gets with the big cloud guys.

Lane

I see I failed to communicate. I was thinking of trying to set up a cloud system for easy reading and saving of files from desktop programs. The standard upload/download in WP wouldn’t do it.

Lane