wholemilklatte

problem solved – they sorted it on their end (i can’t modify those rules on my own but they were fine with whatever needed to be added).

Thanks for the quick reply!

Cool, i guess i was seeing the same thing. i didn’t know if it’s possibly an issue in the plugin or in the security plugin. I’ll look into how to adjust it with my hosting provider. thanks!

Hi Tobias – i just DMd you (email) the output of the apache error.log that appears to be logging the exception. The WP_DEBUG log didn’t catch anything.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by wholemilklatte.

Hi there, i’m having this same problem and came across this thread via a google search. sandalsand – could you post what your hosting provider changed? or tobias, do you happen to know?

I’ve updated a few settings around php memory allocation and similar, i haven’t had any problems with other parts of my site. Tablepress too works totally find but trying to save the custom css gives a fast “Internal Server Error.”

I’ve got this sorted out now. I think the naming in the sample theme config was confusing to me, specifically the use of dash *and* underscores and the prepended slb_theme syntax in the example along with the additional prepend of slb_theme in the css that i can’t find mentioned.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I figured it out just by iterating over a bunch of different combinations until i figured it out. I can now track the CSS via inspect, and it makes sense both in the styles.css as well as the main.php theme config.

EDIT: Now that i understand how it works i see the notes slb_theme being a prefix in CSS, the config variables in main.php i think were the thing that got me, and i wasn’t making the connection between that plugin config and how it applied to the CSS.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by wholemilklatte.

Thank you, this is helpful but it’s still driving me nutty. Here’s what’s been difficult for me to figure out:

• naming my “custom” theme and how that translates to the correct config in main.php to register it. I think it’s what gets pre-pended and appended to the theme name that’s confusing.
• Following the docs on your site the other pages aren’t using the same name as the example theme so it’s hard to follow changes all the way through to the CSS using the example theme
• Having some css examples in the example theme would probably help this, it’s just an empty file in the example. The example theme name is straight-forward but it’s also very close to some of the other function names.
• The complete example that you provide of the layout.html file is very helpful, something similar for css and js would be great, especially if it ties back to the example theme.

I’m still working through this is but it’s continuing to confuse me unfortunately.

I don’t know what else to try with regard to debugging this – but it does seem that the slb theme css isn’t being processed appropriately, or maybe more likely is being overridden by something in my wp theme / child theme.

I have been able to apply most of the styling i want just using my wp child theme and so i’ll probably just stick with that for now and maybe keep trying to figure out the slb theme in the background.

I’ve tried a few other examples that you have listed in the custom theme documentation (related to css and styling) too with no luck.

What seems weird to me is that changes to the layout file (layout.html) are working fine, but the CSS doesn’t seem to be working, or is possibly being overridden. I’m not sure how to troubleshoot this though.

thanks for the reply! i seem to be having some issue with the CSS not working properly (the layout.html changes are working fine). eg: font size changes take effect, but formatting changes don’t.

Here’s the contents of my main.php

	$properties = array (
		//Theme name
		'name'			=> __('Simple Lightbox: Liberty Thermionics', 'slb-lt'),
		//Parent theme
		'parent'		=> 'slb_default',
		//Custom layout file
		'layout'		=> $base_path . '/layout.html',
		//Custom scripts - Each script is an array containing the script's properties
		//Example: array( $handle, $src [, $deps, $ver ] )
		'scripts'		=> array (
				array ( 'core', $base_path . '/js/client.js' ),
		),
		//Custom styles - Each style is an array containing the style's properties
		//Example: array( $handle, $src [, $deps, $ver] )
		'styles'		=> array (
			array ( 'core', $base_path . '/css/styles.css' ),
		),
	);

Then the contents of plugins/simple-lightbox-lt/css/styles.css is:

#slb_viewer_wrap .slb_theme_slb-lt .slb_group_status {
    display: block;
    text-align: right;
}

I’ve tried several other things in the CSS and it doesn’t take effect.

I’m going to try troubleshooting it some more this evening. I’ve got a couple of other minor things i want to do with the fonts / sizing too but there’s something going on with my child theme css i can’t figure out.

Hi there, apologies for the delay. What i’ve been trying to figure out how to do using a theme is change the layout and look/feel of the page. Basically how to specify values for color, font, image description etc… that override the parent theme.

The provided sample theme is pretty empty, if it had some more configuration that was part of it it might be much easier to figure out how it works. Do you have a “sample” theme that has a different look and feel to it from the included theme, or that builds on the parent theme?

Granted i’m not good with wordpress and am trying to figure this out as i go. SCSS is another thing that i’m learning about so adding that as a variable here causes some confusion for me as well i think.

done, and it appears to work perfectly fine now after re-enabling those 2 config settings.

awesome, thanks david!!

excellent, i can confirm that that resolves the issue for me.

I was going to start going through those config options later this afternoon hoping there was a fix in there. I’m glad it’s able to be handled this way.

cheers david!

(apologies, i’ve been mucking with the metadata and taxonomy with the site i’m building. i haven’t been able to try this yet)

Cool, thanks for the help!

I’ll see if i can give this a go later tonight or tomorrow. i’ll report back.