ravi swami

I’m using Filezilla..

..seems to be missing altogether..

Looking at other replys on the WP forums re .htaccess – it should be in the WP root folder
, but it doesn’t appear to be in my WP root folder.

Where would I find that ? – I’m looking at the root directory on my FTP & the list of files is as follows :

sitemap.xml
index.html
default.asp
WHO.html
EMAIL.html
BLOG.html

followed by these folders :
js
images
css
blog
aspnet_client
_notes
Templates
SpryAssets
Scripts
OPTIMISED

The files in caps are all content for my main website at <www.happy-robot.co.uk>

Hi Esmi,

Thanks for the prompt reply – I have tried all of the above as per your reply, but when I go to the URL <happy-robot.co.uk/blog>, it is still displaying the index page of my main website at <www.happy-robot.co.uk> instead of the default WordPress template.

I have reset the plugins folder as instructed and have also deleted the plugins which were required for the theme I was trying to install (“Konzept”) before doing all of the above, and have also deleted the new theme folder.

FYI, on my server, the WordPress blog folder is called “blog” – I just tried re-naming it “WordPress blog” and this resulted in a blank page with no content at all, when opening the blog site page.

R

Hi Josh,

Magic!…it works…have a look at https://www.raviswami.com/blog/?portfolio=schweppes-storyboard

I owe you a coffee, or two ?? – and a definite plug for your plugin.

cheers,
Ravi

Hi Josh,

I’m not using custom permalinks.

The individual slides are pointing to the URL for the Portfolio post.

R

Hi Josh,

Thanks – I have just replaced the line :<?php if ( function_exists( ‘meteor_slideshow’ ) ){meteor_slideshow();} ?> – with the new code, and also re-named the title / slug for the slideshow to match, so the portfolio file is now called “schweppes-slideshow” along with its slug, and the slideshow title & slug are the same.

However, there is no slideshow displaying at all on the page now.

Any thoughts ? – not sure how to implement custom fields – I’m assuming its just a case of entering the shortcode in the blank field and calling it “slug” in the “add new” option and then updating?

R

Here’s the (partial) code as it appears in the Portfolio.php – I’ve removed the shortcode in the post, for the time being…

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div class=”container clear”>
<div class=”content”>
<div id=”show”>
<?php
$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’,
‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’,
‘order’ => ASC,
‘numberposts’ => -1,
‘post_status’ => null,
‘post_parent’ => $post->ID,
‘exclude’ => get_post_thumbnail_id()
);

$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ( $attachments ):
foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ):
echo wp_get_attachment_image($attachment->ID, ‘full’);
endforeach;
endif;
?>
<?php if ( function_exists( ‘meteor_slideshow’ ) ){meteor_slideshow();} ?>
</div>
</div>
<div class=”l_col”>
<div class=”post_portfolio”>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<p class=”post_divider”>—</p>
<div class=”post_text”><?php the_content(); ?></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Hi,

Tried inserting the template code into the header.php – doesn’t work with this theme…

Inserting the template code within Portfolio.php seems to work as regards placement of the slideshow in the page, but it’s still ignoring the slug which is specified in the slideshow.

I think including shortcode in the portfolio post html just creates a new instance, but one which works with respect to the slug.

R

Hi Josh,

Happy New Year !

Have a look at the following page :https://www.raviswami.com/blog/?portfolio=schweppes-storyboard

I managed to figure out how to insert the shortcode correctly into the html of the theme “Portfolio” page – and whilst this fixes the issue with loading ALL the slides instead of the (3 in this case) ones specified, it creates an additional instance of the slideshow on the page, but ignores the correct page formatting.

The one displayed in the correct position (seen “behind”), still displays all the slides.

I’m wondering if this has to do with where I have inserted the template code ?…right now it’s in the “Portfolio.php”, at a point in the syntax where it displays correctly as regards the page formatting.

Inserting shortcode seems to insert a slideshow, but ignores the formatting altogether.

Ravi

Hi,

I had a look at the codes you’ve listed but not sure where they go (ie in the Header.php?) – I’m also assuming that one or other has to be edited to include the slideshow slug ?

The following code : <?php if ( function_exists( ‘meteor_slideshow’ ) ) { meteor_slideshow(); } ?> – currently resides within the Portfolio.php for this theme and this I how I got it to work.

R

Hi,

A question re assigning specific slides to a portfolio : currently a slideshow seems to be displaying images which don’t belong to the specified slideshow – see : https://www.raviswami.com/blog and click on the “Schweppes” thumbnail.

I have assigned slides to this slideshow by copy and pasting the URL of the “Portfolio” page for each slide & then checking the relevant slideshow box in the right-most field, but it seems to be displaying slides from another slideshow / Portfolio page – how do I fix this ?

R

Hi,

I finally managed to get it to work – works a treat, and no stacking issues etc – since it’s over-riding the slideshow in the theme.

If you visit https://www.raviswami.com/blog and then click on the “Meteor_Test” thumbnail, it should open a portfolio page.

It took a few attempts at getting the syntax correct in terms of where to place the code supplied for your plugin, in the correct .php doc’, which I mistakenly thought would be the Header.php, but turned out to be a doc’ called “single_portfolio.php”.

Thanks for your help

Ravi

Hi,

Both themes seem to include slideshow setup within the Header.php document, since you can edit slideshow parameters like transition duration etc from there – so I’m guessing this is the part you would edit ?

There are some JavaScript files (3) included with the themes which I’m also guessing are what would need to be edited, in the absence of a plugin like Meteor.

I’ll try and add a slideshow using Meteor but I suspect the theme might override it – worth a try though.