nacinla

PS: I tried renaming the template to home.php and it does pull in the posts, but without headlines and any other tags, metadata; and it still pulls in the main/home page header. So that won’t work. But thanks!

Thanks. Content appears on pages because of code. Somehow code someplace is overriding my selection of a full-width template (which I tried after I saw that suggested and apparently accomplished successfully by others trying to remove the sidebar in online posts elsewhere). Whether or not there’s a template that the Posts page uses, there is code someplace saying “put the sidebar there, and grab the main header instead of the header you assigned to the page.” And that code should be changeable. I will try renaming the template “home” but meantime I’ve solved the problem by rebuilding this simple site using the Divi theme, which so far is allowing me to build a posts page the way I want. Thanks again.

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So I received an email from Andrew Nevins asking me:

@nacinla, Can you re-write this review and make it about your experience with Gutenberg?

But my post is no longer in the thread to which I was responding, so I gather Andrew deleted it. Yes? No?

The solution is as I stated above: The photo goes into its own block element and the alignment is set left or right for it. When the photo is resized smaller, the text flows around it. Otto is correct that “inline” is not the same as “text wrap.” With inline the photo sits on the baseline of the text into which it is inserted. With Gutenberg, a photo is in its own container, which is aligned left or right to create a wrap. It is not “inline.” BTW, I’ve learned since my first post that the caption, if left blank, is not a problem.

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Thanks. Yes, in viewing the page it appears the space is collapsed, so that’s OK. The <figcaption> tags disappear if there’s no caption text, so that’s a good thing. I stand corrected about the space issue. Onward!

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Experiencing something similar with a small site I had started building. When I edit a page, it shows message that the page was built in Divi. When I Enable Visual Builder, there’s nothing on the page. Going to delete the pages and start over.

I had the same problem and was forced to use the standard Image block. I’m just learning this, so maybe there’s a workaround for the issue I have: The problem with the Image block is that it includes the caption. If you don’t want a caption, you can leave it blank, but the space remains, throwing off your layout. I couldn’t find tags for the caption in the HTML view for the block; I thought I just might be able to delete that. I suppose there’s code that can be written to suppress that, but this should be easier. Suggestions?

Thanks, Halo. Doesn’t look like anyone is monitoring these messages. I had actually forgotten I sent mine it’s been so long ago!!

Thanks, guys. Right, normally I would never edit the original theme; I have a child theme with extensive changes to the regular theme, but this one is pesky. I just can’t pinpoint the selector to change the images. alcymyth: The image I’m especially referring to is the smaller one on the page; it’s got a border and lots of padding around it. I can see the borders on all the pictures in the edit window in WP, so they’re there.

I tried including an all-purpose override on the img tag of border: none, padding: 0px, but that didn’t work.

My next step will be to try CSS Hero on this.

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Great plugin. I know how to change the description box text characteristics, but what I’d like to do is not have the next/previous buttons behind it show through when the description box slides up. When that happens, you can’t read the description, only the photo label.

I did this by:
1) COPYING the home.php file to my child-them folder.
2) opening the page in a text editor. I replaced the “Recent Posts” text with what I wanted.
3) I created a div for text below that in the new home.php and add styling for it in my child css file.

Here’s what that code looks like:
get_header(); ?>

<div id=”primary-home” class=”content-area”>
<div id=”headwrapper”><h2 id=”page-title”><?php _e(“happening at the studio”, ‘sixteen’) ?></h2></div><div>
<div id=”homewrapper”>Spirit Studio is a performance, art exhibition and meeting space for the Silver Lake community. Click on the images below
for more information about upcoming events. To see a full calendar of events, click on the “event calendar” link above.</div>
<main id=”main” class=”site-main” role=”main”>

And here’s a link to the live site: spiritstudio.org

There may be better ways of doing this. But you DO NOT want to edit the original home.php file. I likewise updated the footer.php file to say what I want using the same method.

@digbymaass: Thanks for the tip. As I said, I’m going to try installing the plugin again AFTER I get my site working on the remote/live site. If I can’t get it to work I’ll try to find someone who can answer my questions.

@digbymaass The plot thickens: After I upgraded to NGG 2.0.65 on my live site, I can no longer see the Visual display of pages and the tool bar. When I deactivate it, I can see my visual display and the toolbars. I think I’m going to deactivate this plugin and forget about it for now.
You’ll notice, btw, that photocrati didn’t answer any of my questions above.
Clearly, there are bugs with this plugin but a solution doesn’t seem forthcoming.

@digbymaass: I couldn’t agree more.

@photocrati I plan to attempt this after I get my latest site up live. For now, it will have to do without a NextGen gallery and use a different plugin.
What happens, though, if I upload it onto a host server and it still doesn’t work? Because I’m having a problem with an existing site, where I went back to a previous version of NextGen, and I still can’t insert a gallery in a page. I click on the “Add NextGen Gallery” button, choose the gallery and slideshow style, hit insert and a zero (0) appears in the little window. I don’t even get bad code. I’ve tried this multiple times.

And btw: If this is a problem with all Mac MAMP installs and your plugin, shouldn’t you post a warning and instructions on how to avoid this by setting it up right in the first place? Are there only PC users using this plugin and therefore they’re not having problems?