MJ-Jazze

Did you receive my email yesterday?

Hi Dave;

I’m on 3.4.1dev which fixed my mis-aligned display problems – a ticket from the other day.

Other ideas?

Best,
MJ

I also read this support post: https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/support-forum/support-questions/submit-listings-only/

Based on that, it looks like what I want to do is possible; it’s just not working correctly.

Some confusion about the “add listing shortcode” versus the “submit listing” shortcode that I am using. I got the shortcode from this post: https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/support-forum/faq/valid-bd-shortcodes-2-1/

Thank you!

That resolved it! Thank you!

I’ve sent the contact form through with my phone number and email address. Thank you.

I should clarify my above note. When I switched to Twenty Twelve, the same problem existed. When I switched back, the same problem persisted. I was, however, excited that everything else looked just the way I left it. Hope that didn’t cause any confusion.

This thread is marked “resolved” but it is not.

Thanks!
MJ

Hi BDP;

I took a deep breath and switched my theme to Twenty Twelve. It still looks bad.

It looks exactly the same as it does on my current theme, with the exact same formatting issues as I stated in the original post above.

The good news (for me!) is that when I switched back, it all looks fine. Whew.

I had a thought that it might be browser-related, so I tried it in both IE and Chrome. I normally use Chrome. Looks the same in both.

What’s next?

Thanks so much,
MJ

Hi BDP –
This does not appear to be a plug-in conflict. (Of note, when I deactivated my event manager, then reactivated it, the widget in the sidebar disappeared, so I had to re-add it. However, that’s the only one that gave me an issue in the process.)

I have just updated my theme to the most current version. I have changes in Functions.php and index-one.php that I have re-made. (I tried to figure out the child theme thing and could not, so I documented the six lines or so that need changing, and just re-did them after the update.) If I switch my theme to something else, then switch back, what are the potential risks? I’ve spent a ton of time getting this set up correctly. (I know, I’m a worrier.)

My theme is AccessPress Lite. This is the only plugin that is having an issue with formatting, and this is only happening on pages where I have instructed it to display only a single category. I am using this shortcode on the page: [businessdirectory-listings category=2]

I have also tried removing the text above the shortcode, in case there was a stray HTML code, and that had no effect.

Is there maybe something else I can add to the shortcode or to the page HTML to make this display correctly? It really looks terrible now.

Thank you so much.
MJ

Still working on this. Have another challenge that has taken precedence. Will open a new ticket on that one. Thanks for your continuing assistance.

Hi BDP –

This is a totally fresh install of everything; it’s all been done in the past week. I am on WordPress 3.9.1. I’m on v.3.4 of BD, again a fresh install.

I’ve not yet done a conflict check, as the process terrifies me. What risk is there to losing content, customization, and settings? When you say “disable” a plug-in, is that the same as “deactivating” a plug-in?

Thank you.
MJ

Dan, thank you.

Is the form and the query parameter-passing you mention something that you are considering adding to the plug-in, or already there and I haven’t seen it?

MJ

Thank you so much. I am very happy with my theme choice and your excellent support.

Dan – Thanks a million!

You’ve probably figured out by now that I know nothing about how to write CSS. I appreciate your working through this with me.

I added the lines you gave me above, and I didn’t think 250px was wide enough after looking at it, so I changed it to 400px, and now it is at 600px. The title still does not stretch beyond what seems to be defined as a left column. Also I want the title to be above the image, not below it, if that’s possible.

The sorting option described on the installation page seems to be as decided by me (admin) and not an option that I can offer a user. I may have hundreds of papers on this site, and sort (as well as search) will turn out to be very important to the user experience.

Should I keep trying to make this work, with your help, or should I throw in this particular towel at this point? If the towel-toss is the best idea, I’d love to know if there’s another plug-in that you would recommend (if it’s not too brazen of me to ask that!).

Many, many thanks.
MJ

Dan –

Thanks for your reply. To my mind, it still doesn’t look very good. The document title is constrained to under the image, so each document takes a ton of vertical space (depending on title length).

I would ideally like to have a list, with categories, the ability to sort by different criteria including categories, author etc (though I could name a category with an author’s name). I’m going to go research the Media Library Categories and see if it includes any sorting functionality.

It’s so hard when you have a vision in your head of what you want something to look like, and what you want it to do, and then have to go through pages and pages of plugins hoping that one will come close. ??

Thank you in advance for your response. I am not a programmer, so I might have to ask you to be patient with we if we continue down the road together with me using your plugin on my site.

Best,
MJ

Stephen – Yes, that’s the text indeed. Thank you for replying!

I am not a PHP programmer, by a long shot. I can do no original work, but I am very skilled at copying what people tell me to do. ??

Below is the section of code that I THINK is impacting this issue, but I could even be wrong about that. It is the standard index-one code and I have made no changes. So the default is causing the problem, and that’s what I need to change. Does that help?

Happy to have any help on this (as it is driving me crazy!). I want it to look like the post looks; click on the word “Welcome” and the proper formatting is there. I have also set the excerpt length to 2000 characters in the Theme Options. There seems no way to prevent it through Theme Options from doing an excerpt.

<p><?php echo accesspresslite_excerpt( get_the_content() , $accesspresslite_welcome_post_char ) ?></p>
<?php if(!empty($accesspresslite_settings[‘welcome_post_readmore’])){?>
” class=”read-more bttn”><?php echo $accesspresslite_settings[‘welcome_post_readmore’]; ?>
<?php } ?>
</div>