TheSupercargo

Hi Stef and thanks for getting back to me.

The only Gallery widget I see allows me to create a gallery with the following options.
Link to: attachment page, file, none
Columns: 1-9
Random order checked or unchecked
Size: thumbnail, medium, large, full size

There are no other options and I cannot set a mosaic.

This is exactly what I see if I try to set up a gallery in a post (which is what I want to do and what I was able to do before).

So, sadly, this doesn’t solve my problem.

OK, maybe I’m misunderstanding “inclusion in core functionality”. Does this mean the galleries previously included in Jetpack have all been included in WP?

I’m running WP 4.9.6 but the extra galleries are clearly NOT automatically included in the core functionality on my websites.

How can I turn them on please?

Thanks for your quick response Steven.

Yes! That’s the solution. Thank you so much!

If anyone else has the same problem and comes by here, go to:

Jetpack > Settings > Enable the WordPress.com toolbar — and disable it.

John

Thank you barnez! A great help.

(Thanks also to bhogben, but barnez’ explanation was clearer.)

John

Hi rajros,

Fantastic response, thanks again (and sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you – real life intrudes sometimes ?? )

If you go here for example you’ll see what I’m doing with this option.

The only problem I’ve run into is that [image_size="thumbnail"] doesn’t seem to work. I have it set on the linked page, but obviously those are medium sized images. Clearly the plug-in can pull thumbnails – those are the images in the column here – in the shortcode used in a widget. It’s just not pulling them in the shortcode used in a post Any suggestions?

Cheers,
John

Hi rajros!

Many thanks for your quick response.

I tested the featured image by swapping one out and replacing another. Both worked without problems.

The excerpts are just what I was hoping for.

I’ve given the plugin a 5 star review.

Will experiment a bit more later.

Cheers!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by TheSupercargo.

OK, I solved item 2) above by changing the widget padding left and right.

But now I notice the plugin is not necessarily pulling the featured image. I think it ought always to pull the featured image and only look for another picture if no featured image is available.

Hi pd,

I had already provided some of that information to you in a response on the Styles forum (here) but I agree I should have included it in my initial post above as well.

This is what I wrote: Styles appears to be in conflict with the GeneratePress theme and/or the GP Typography add-on.

Since reading your comments above, and because I truely appreciate the work you and other volunteer programmers put in to helping programming semi-literates like me make decent websites, I’ve now carried out a double check on a sandbox single site. I can confirm the conflict appears to be with Generate Press’ Typography add-on (part of a paid-for plugin).

With the GP plugin inactive, Styles works perfectly. With the GP plugin activated on my single site, Styles is completely without effect.

On my multi-site, however, with the GP plugin activated – though geared to a different site – Styles works on the target site BUT the input field for fonts remains blank.

It seems it’s not possible to restrict the GP plugin only to one site of a multi-site – “network activation” is the only possible setting. I shall be writing to Generate Press to bring this problem to their attention as well.

With best wishes,

Styles appears to be in conflict with the GeneratePress theme and/or the GP Typography add-on. Unfortunately, this is a multisite where I am using GeneratePress for a different site then the one where I want to use TwentyThirteen/Styles. The site with GP works well, so I’m going to choose to delete Styles and find another theme and solution for the site where I wanted to use it.

I now regret setting up a multi-site. I don’t find it has saved me so much time when it functions, and problems like this make for a great deal of extra work when it doesn’t.

This is not Styles’ fault. I continue happy to recommend Styles to single-site webmasters.

OK Paul,
Thanks for your reply. I’ll see what I can do.

Thumbs up to @stephencottontail!
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Hi @bmulu.

Have you remembered to enqueue the parent and child theme stylesheets?

Does your child theme folder also contain a functions.php file?

According to the WP Codex:
“The only required child theme file is style.css, but functions.php is necessary to enqueue styles correctly”

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Apologies if you’ve done all that and you are still in difficulties, but I thought it best to check the fundamentals. Don’t know how long it took me to work out when I was first learning about child themes that I did need a functions.php despite the Codex seeming to suggest it was optional.

Courage!

Thanks @alexandra.

I appreciate your quick response. I will play around with this when I have some time over the weekend.

Cheers.

Thanks @ygirod.

The problem with that code is it doesn’t centre the galleries on the page. It floats it them left regardless of how wide or narrow I set the content width.

Possibly I need to set the content width somewhere else as well.

I still don’t know why the code I gave in my original post works, but it might have to do with TwentyThirteen’s out-of-the-box content width (604px). I really thought I’d managed to override that, but perhaps not all the time.

I’ll take another look at this over the weekend. Maybe come back with some links to illustrate my problem.

Hi @ridhwanyt,

I’m having exactly this problem and it’s very irritating. My solution at present is to add the following code to my child theme stylesheet (style.css).

.tiled-gallery {
max-width: 600px;
margin: auto !important;
}

This is from a suggestion I found somewhere else on the WP forums from some years ago. (I’ve lost the link now.) I don’t know why it works, but it does.

Once you’ve pasted it into your stylesheet, you may need to adjust the max-width figure till it suits your site/theme.

Good luck!