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You’re welcome Brian.
The life is so much easier if we help each other out ??

I would advise you to use Firebug which is a free Firefox plugin(addon) that takes hard ‘trial and error’ style out of your work. You would be able to locate and inspect any element(s)on your site easily and test possible changes right there in Firebug window. You are also given the exact path to the CSS file. Once you are satisfied with an element’s change, you can copy code lines for your reference and make necessary changes to CSS file accordingly.

I would also advise you to create Child Theme for every site which will preserve all changes that you’ve made when original theme happen to be updated. Otherwise you will lost all of them and will need to do all the work over and over again (this happens often even with themes that allow for custom.css file to be created)
It’s quite easy to do so, search wordpess.org on ‘child theme’ for more info. You can make already easy child theme creation even easier and faster by using a free plugin such as

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/orbisius-child-theme-creator/

Kind regards ??

I checked with firebug and here is what I found.
It’s line 252 in layout.css, full path to the file bellow:
https://poorboysoutdoors.com/trinity/wp-content/themes/mystile/css/layout.css?ver=3.8.2

The original code is shown bellow.
You have two options to fix the problem.
-1-
You can change the color for background to #000000
i.e. the first line should read:
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #000000;
OR
-2-
You can change height to 0(zero)
i.e. the fifth line should read:
height: 0;
…………original code……..
#header #navigation ul.nav > li.parent:hover a:before {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
bottom: -1px;
content: “”;
display: block;
height: 2px;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
z-index: 99999;
}
……………

Hope this helps ??

(Note that the values are “negative” i.e. have a minus sign)

Hi likiriki,
You have specific reason for the above css “recipe” not working for you.

On your second link (mail share), the box display is not ruled only by css code but is define in the HTML code as shown bellow
(showing only the part connected to the problem, style defined by HTML is in bold ):
……………………….

<div id="TB_window" class="TB_ajaxContent TB_titleTop" <strong>style="margin-left: -266px; margin-top: -219px; display: block; width: 530px;"</strong>>.....(showing only the part connected to the problem)</div></div></div>

………………………..
HTML style is what gets loaded if define, regardless of CSS code, so in this case, for this particular pop-up box, position is actually corrected by HTML.

So you need a bit different “recipe” for the pop-up box that doesn’t show in the centre (newsleter, your first link)i.e. you will need to
add a line in bold, as shown bellow:
……………………………….
#TB_window {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
border: 1px solid #555555;
box-shadow: 0 4px 30px #000000;
color: #000000;
display: none;
left: 50%;
position: fixed;
text-align: left;
top: 50%;
z-index: 10102 !important;
margin-left: -300px;
}
…………………………….

This will center pop-up box horizontally:

————–xxxxx—————
It’s ok IMO.
However, if you would like to center it vertically too, you will need
to add one more line:
………………
margin-top: -120px;
………………

Hope this helps ??

Exactly the same here.
PHP 5.3.27 on server and message “Plugin not active…” (requires PHPv5.3+) after update to v.131206
??!!
Any explanation, please ?

Glad you did it ??

Take care to change it again on every thickbox plugin update.

I am surprised that CSS plugin didn’t work for you.
It works just perfectly with any plugin or theme.

Are you sure it was SIMPLE CUSTOM CSS plugin?
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/simple-custom-css/

Did you make sure that brackets {} were inserted correctly ?

If nothing else, try to write the code this way:
…………….
#TB_window {
left: 25% !important;
top: 25% !important;
}
……………..
Believe me, it’s well worth trying. Simple Custom CSS plugin is a life saver. No more worries because of plugins and themes updates. Otherwise you must do changes over and over again.

Hi,
I have a concrete example of the free plugin Sexy Contact Form with shortcode that I can’t get to work.
I would just give up and try another one but this one has advantage over all others in that direct language localization is possible.
On the plugin’s support forum I found the topic on the problem that reads:
………….
Question:
I’ve installed the free version of Sexy Contact Form on my WP Blog. I have it all setup and inserted onto my contact page but when I test it, it comes back with an INVALID TOKEN error.
Answer:
Some sites has template structure, which sends additional requests to server during loading, which changes the session variables, that is why you get Invalid Token message.
If you give me access to your administration, I will change the script, so you will not get such message.
…………

Any idea on what could be the problem (regarding theme ) and how to fix it?
(I just asked the plugin’s author too, to give some directions so we can understand what’s all about and fix it without his personal intervention)

Thank you very much for your time

Hi,
Thank you so much for your quick reply.
I checked wp-admin -> theme options but there’s no FAQ on top.
I have no idea why.
The page reads “Mesocolumn Theme Options”, that’s it?
( I am quite sure that I would had noticed FAQ earlier if it was there)

I can’t tell exactly what’s working what’s not because I didn’t have time to test heavily (and make a notes on it). Because of being in a hurry to meet deadlines, I just dropped some plugins that didn’t work and used those who work at least partially of what you expect.
For example, Tedlock’s Whistles tabs work fine on posts/pages, but I can’t get the plugin’s acordian to work in widget as I wish.So, well, I can live without it.
I was just reading about your shortcode plugin and would give it a try, so maybe I will use that one instead of Shortcode Ultimate.

Just want you to know, I am one of those who appreciate your work (and gladly support it). If there was an option to buy a premium version, I wouldn’t think twice.
Now, although I am a bit afraid of possible results, I must go ahead and update the theme. Just hope that the result will not cause sleepless nights in order to keep up with my deadlines.

Thanks again !

Hi,
I have v 1.5.6 and created a child theme while working on a current project. I am concerned about what you said for shortcode.
Does it mean that we GENERALLY can’t use ANY OTHER plugin that outputs shortcode but yours?
For example, besides Shortcode Ultimate I am using Justin Tedlock’s Whistles, Advanced Responsive Video Embedder, Nimble Portofolio gallery and a few more…and each of them supplies a shortcode. I’ve noticed that some of them don’t work as expected but didn’t know it was due to the theme restrictions. Or, am I wrong ? Honestly, I do not understand what’s exactly a scope of theme’s restriction for other authors’ plugins using shortcode.

I’ve just read changelog for the new theme update 1.6.1 where it reads:

“- Remove/disable script insertion in theme options for security reason. Read FAQ #11 how to use script with shortcodes”

Where can I find FAQ ?

In this reply you’ve said that already back
“in v1.5 onward, shortcode were stripped and import ot (of?) plugin” , so what’s new about it in the newest version 1.6.1 ?
If I update to 1.6.1
Will I have (even more) problems with plugins like those mentioned above ?
Will I need to re-work all that’s been done so far using those plugins ?

Thanks in advance for your reply

Hi,
I looked into your site ( nice one indeed :-)!) and used Firebug to inspect CSS.
The setting for position is in the plugins’ CSS , line 2
(/wp-content/plugins/auto-thickbox-plus/thickbox.min.css?ver=1.9)
Where it says “left: 50%” and “top:50%” should be changed to 25% for the both to get it in the center of the screen.
It should be like shown bellow:
………….
#TB_window {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
border: 1px solid #555555;
box-shadow: 0 4px 30px #000000;
color: #000000;
display: none;
left: 25%;
position: fixed;
text-align: left;
top: 25%;
z-index: 10102 !important;
}
(bold is where values are changed)
I took a screenshot after I changed values as shown above, yo can see it here:
https://hayhi.com/beta_cleantelligent_com.pdf

If you don’t use Simple Custom CSS plugin I would warmly advise you to try it. You will not need to edit the ThickBox plugin and search for where is this line of code. You just open Simple Custom CSS plugin’s editor and add only this lines (copy from bellow and paste):
…………
#TB_window {
left: 25%;
top: 25%;
}
………….

What’s even more important in doing it this way -> your setting will not be overwritten with possible Thickbox plugin update (as it will be if you edit and make change directly in the plugin’s CSS)

Hope this helps and good luck with your business !

Ah ! The post is 5 months old.
Now the plugin 3.5.1 works on blog WP 3.4.1 with no problems ( although I am using Quick Cache plugin on that site). Don’t ask me how and why, I don’t know, I am glad it works.
Thank you for the great plugin, I’ll rate it 5 stars.

Wow !
This was so quick and helpful answer !!
I just renamed the whole folder ‘plugins’ and it did the trick. My dashboard is back !
Well, now I have a work to do with one by one plugin, to check which one(s) cause problem.
I already asked for help a few months ago but didn’t get any response.
Thanks a million times ??

The same here. Doesn’t work any more.
Didn’t change anything so guess ‘not my fault’.
Hope to get any info and help on that.
WP 3.3.1, YARPP 3.5.1

OMG, I hoped the answer / help finally arrived …
Don’t know about you but I am really sick and tired of
all those updates and all those ‘hundreds’ of cross-compatibility
issues.

Hi,
thanks for the input.
Maybe you could add it as an optional feature so everyone could decide to use it or not based on their own preferences, blog type, number of videos etc.