richardpd

OK I finally solved this with Mike Jolley’s help.
The issue is I run WP multisite and with this uploads go to blogs.dir so I needed to find that folder on the server at wp-content/….blogs.dir and search through there to find the file. I did this and it was in there..found it at last!
Solved.

I run WP-multisite and have to activate plugins from Network so that will be why it isn’t working?

I GIVE UP!!

I get the same security error uploading .webm .m4v

Perhaps there is some way I can use html5 tags directly in my post & upload these files to my server NOT through WordPress media uploader BUT it is just too much effort…..I’ve spent way too much time with this sorry state of video use through WordPress!

Thankfully the video I was trying to insert in my post is freely available on YouTube so I can just add a YouTube embed code to my post and I have done and the video displays.

If anyone is interested the video is a fun intro explanation of pointers eg Pointers in C with Binky take a look …Pointers in C with Binky

Thanks Noel..
I should have added I don’t think it is a size issue..The .ogg size is 6.9MB and my WP media maximum upload file size: 14MB.

I’m still trying videoconverters (have used Miro/Handbrake with no success yet and now am trying free version of easyhtml5video converter…)

Thanks again alchymyth
Sadly I still do not understand what caused this problem or how to detect it using tools or what the fix with z-index does to solve this!

Also the last link in the sidebar widget (My Tweets) is not working still-all the others work. What do I need to do to fix that?
Do I need to play around with the z-index value?

I do also have Developer Tools installed-if I use Inspector I see no errors. Using Error console I get a load of errors in respect to JetPack plugin and object depreciated. I also have this:

Error: Image corrupt or truncated:

I have no idea what it relates to! Hopefully I might find out or figure out and understand what happened with this!

alchymyth
Many thanks-that has fixed the problem & the links now work again.

How did you find that #main_bg img was the problem may I ask?
Have you seen this sort of error before?
Did this show using any webdev tool as I used firebug but didn’t see any clues with that!?
I presume the fix with z-index: -1; is putting that img as a layer below another layer? I’d be really, really grateful if you could just clarify those points so I can learn the most from this.
(I don’t like CSS, oh no I love it! Or is it a love hate relationship I have with CSS?..Well not quite, for when it works for me it is very good and when it doesn’t it’s not!)

Again good work, alchymyth and thanks too for the speedy reply. This goes someway to restoring my somewhat shattered opinion of help from the forum.

@decentguy49
Have you found a good reference yet? I’m starting to look around at responsive designs & there is loads of material around for general sites and I suspect most of the principles can be implemented/applied to a WordPress theme.

@dbeja
Thanks for the link

@bigmike828 aka @bestwpdesigner
Surely you mean HTML5 ?!…..

Ok-I’ll look into it, but this is another thing that mystifies me. So the thread is 9 months old but the subject matter is very similar to my question. Why if this forum cannot handle old posts, hasn’t someone already closed this thread then? (Shame you didn’t have some advice on my question-that is definitely the way any forum should run).

I am getting this error with NSlider in WordPress IIS localhost:
local/host/wordpress

Timestamp: 21/04/2013 18:16:39
Error: TypeError: jQuery(…).nivoSlider is not a function

Source File: https://localhost/wordpress/
Line: 206 afterLoad: function(){} // Triggers when slider has loaded

I’m not sure whether it is jQuery loading twice (so much conflicting advice re using jQuery & WP on Google! & the WP Codex not exactly clear/definitive with this) or problem with NS code eg

jQuery(window).load(function() {
	jQuery('#slider').nivoSlider({
		effect: 'random', // Specify sets like: 'fold,fade,sliceDown'
        slices: 15, // For slice animations
-more effects-
 afterChange: function(){}, // Triggers after a slide transition
        slideshowEnd: function(){}, // Triggers after all slides have been shown
        lastSlide: function(){}, // Triggers when last slide is shown
        afterLoad: function(){} // Triggers when slider has loaded
	});
});

It would have been good to have had a reply from the OP here confirming the answer/solution or not.
Never mind.
If anyone else can help me (OK-I know some think I’m beyond help-LOL!)please feel free to pitch in to solve these 2 thorny WordPress problems eg using jQuery & NivoSlider in WordPress.
??

I still get this problem & still none can help me fix it.

Why does WordPress ask for localhost FTP details to update to latest version in IIS localhost server & what are the ftp details for IIS I need to add (I have tried many combinations of username/passwords with no success). Why does WP do this when it does NOT do this when updating plugins? (plugins update automatically in IIS localhostserver!)?

Please can someone at core www.ads-software.com development team sort this out!

That is a good question Mike-do you have a backup?

I just updated my blog site/s to WP3.5 & my main site has crashed giving me an error message that there is no Theme directory (but the Theme directory is present on my server). Why can I still access some of my other sites?
For me, I expect this crash will have been caused somehow by updating to latest BuddyPress plugin version which gave me a few lines of php error code. I tried deleting the plugin & renaming my plugins folder which has worked in the past but not now. I spoke to my server live chat and the op said they could only do a WordPress restore for a fee-great! He also said lots of WordPress users had problems with this update?
I will try & do my own fix but this is a right royal pain…

Unfortunately Mike I do not think there is a roll back option in WordPress. You might try disabling/deactivating/deleting the offending plugin & or renaming your plugins folder entirely. It may also be a good time to check for theme & database backups & create them if necessary as a restore/reinstall of WordPress maybe necessary.

Goodluck with fixing your install & I hope I can get my site fixed too!

Thanks WPProHelp
The reason I do not want to edit wp-config is because I want to try & understand IIS localhost fully (including ftp) and insert the correct ftp credentials WordPress is asking for from the localhost IIS server!
Nowhere can I find an answer to this but there have been many posts on the topic with other fixes proposed including editing the wp-config file. I find it so strange that none here on WP support forums can help me with this!?(still this unfortunately is not an isolated case-quite a few WordPress queries go unanswered in WP forums).Doesn’t anyone know how to set up IIS localhost WIMP server with correct ftp credentials in IIS manager? Obviously not-the WordPress codex has a very basic page on WordPress in IIS but I have followed that without success.

I posted a while back on wordpress.stackexchange(.com)& had a reply back from mauri which helped me autoupdate from IIS localhost to the latest WP version but by another means-not by inserting ftp credentials. See wordpress.stackexchange.com

For me, this issue is still not fully resolved as my original question remains unanswered even though I have a fix by another means. Whether I will ever figure out the answer remains to be seen and I find it hard to believe with all the expert WordPress users around this problem has not been clearly answered before. Anyway, I still would like to know more about running WordPress in IIS localhost (WIMP server)and about IIS localhost in general and look forward to learning & using WordPress more.

I still haven’t fixed this.
Tonight I have tried all sorts of different ideas (allocating ftp user name as the user account eg IUSR & setting ftp password & permissions-anonymous and basic authentication too)with no success.
I’m still not sure that the WP site folder is the root of the ftp user.
I’m still confused!
Over the last few days I have googled & found several posts on this issue but none with a simple and clear explanation and fix that works for me. Many posts just say ensure the user has read/write permission on the WordPress folders. The WordPress codex Extended itself seems to encourage manual upgrading! IIS Express via WebMatrix allows this to work automatically but I do not know it’s settings.

Help…….(this cannot be that hard! There is a post on digwp.com about editing ftp variables in wp-config which I haven’t tried yet….)

Hi
Thanks for your reply.

The WP is installed in
inetpub>wwwroot>wordpress3

wordpress3 directory contains wp-content / wp-admin etc and presumably is the root directory and afaik is ftp enabled but I will double check….
(I am about to go out to work for the afternoon & will have to look at it this evening)

I still haven’t fixed this yet (Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /home//public_html/richard-dickinson.com/wp-content/themes/animassrdblogbp_kid/functions.php on line 32). However I posted about it on bbPress forum ( https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/theme-format-lost-on-latest-bbpress-update/#post-116948 )& the reply from there seems to indicate it is a problem with BuddyPress-so I will post on BuddyPress in search of help to fix this!