silvergenes

Update: I had failed to notice that with margins included, the images were a few pixels larger than the columns allowed. It was this that caused the different appearance in Firefox and IE. Once the images were scaled down, everything worked and the column heights were consistent across all browsers.

I solved the problem after a couple of days trying various things and offer the solution here in case anyone else is struggling with similar issues. Ideally I wanted a slideshow on my homepage that would allow people to click on the photos to take them to the article. The plugin I eventually chose is WP-Cycle because the photos are able to be linked. It’s a simple slideshow and just what I needed. I wanted it to appear in the space above the content so edited header.php and replaced the Constructor slideshow with this code:

</header>
   </div>
<div id="wrapcontent" class="wrapper"> 

*inserted my code at this point*

<div align="center">

<?php if ( is_page(xxx) ):?>

<?php wp_cycle(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>
</div>

I’m continuing to experiment but hopefully this will help someone else who wants to do something similar.

For a few brief moments, it worked properly using the default, then the homepage lost the slideshow again. When I tried using the Nextgen shortcode for theme templates, the slideshow appeared where I wanted it but the contents and sidebar vanished. Does anyone have a fix for this? The Constructor theme has been amazing to use and I’m sure there’s a way to get this working properly. Any ideas? I’m getting rather desperate for a solution.

Just in case anyone else is in the same situation one day, I solved it by finding the Mamp file folder on the Mac HD and copying the table files to Windows. I set up Wamp on windows and imported the files to create the database. Exported the database and it worked. Much easier though to backup somewhere other than the computer! Lesson learned.

Absolutely! And dont keep it on the computer either. Im going to see if I can set up my salvaged hard drive from the Mac as an external device and with luck, may be able to find the database in the Mamp app files and export it.

Thanks very much for the links! Ill be having a look at those too. At this point, Im willing to try no matter how geeky.

Thank you. It’s going to be a busy week.

It was never uploaded to Bluehost. I was working on my Mac so had everything in a local file and used Mamp as the server. It sounds like it’s going to be a rebuild. I thought perhaps if I recreated the exact same settings in Mamp on a borrowed Mac that it might work.

Unfortunately, I don’t have an .sql file. It would be on the Mamp server, because I didn’t back it up before the crash. Within the local folder I can see several table files so thought perhaps there was a chance. I’m bypassing Wamp entirely at this point and trying a few things on Bluehost.

This is probably a silly question but do you think it might work if I copied the WordPress local folder to another Mac and created the same settings in a new Mamp setup?

My issue was resolved by creating a single php.ini file and locating it in the public/html directory of my site. This allowed me to change settings with regard to my upload size and have them apply to all subfolders as well. Instructions for how to do this are on the Internet so it’s pretty simple. Your hosting company may have options for creating this file as well. I use Bluehost and they have a one-click system for creating a php.ini – just make sure to choose the “single” option if you want it to apply to all subfolders, otherwise you will need a separate one for each subdomain.

With the new settings in place, I can upload my large zip files directly through the media library and they show up properly now. I hope this helps someone else out there with similar issues.

That worked perfectly – thank you very much!

Thanks for posting this solution. It works perfectly!

Thank you Anton. I’ll just wait for the update then. This is an incredible theme – you are brilliant! ??

I’m having the same probem. I can display one or the other in the header.
Here’s the link to my site: SilverGenes Living Well
Any help would be greatly appreciated since I would like both in the header.
Thank you for your help and for this really incredible theme!
Alexandra

Got it! THANK YOU! Now I can play with this awhile and get just the right image to separate the entries. You’re amazing! ??

I must be doing something wrong. I have copied the background line here:

.hentry .entry {
    font-size:1.4em;
    line-height:1.6em;
    padding:4px;
    overflow:hidden;
background: url(myImage.png) 50% top no-repeat;
}

The actual image is in the same directory but I still have nothing showing.