Actually, I installed the slider first — before any pages or images were added — and immediately changed the settings to 1140, as per usual. I didn’t add any featured images until after I put up a few pages, so that I could add the featured images. As I’ve mentioned, I’m using this slider on quite a few sites and this is the first and only time I’ve had an issue with the images. I doubt this has anything to do with it, BUT… this is also the ONLY site that’s hosted on GoDaddy. (I SO HATE godadddy!)
I’ve already tried reloading the images. But haven’t used the Regenerate plugin. I’ll try installing the Regenerate plugin and then reloading the images again.
Hi Eric,
I saw no need to use Regenerate Thumbnails since this is a fresh new site and all images where created and uploaded at 1140 x 400. The settings are correct. What’s confusing me the most is that this exact slider, dimensions and all, is installed on another site and nothing was automatically cropped or resized. When viewing the image (via right click), I see that the image is not the 960 width; It’s 920 x 400. Also: The drop shadow does not show up at all.
Here’s a link to the site (edited) (NOTE: Clicking on the Home link will take you to his old/current site.)
Can you delete the link from my post when you’re done? I shouldn’t be posting it.
Thank you!
P.S. Please tell Wes I said Congrats on his new baby! I saw you mention his new baby (boy??) while I was pouring over the forum looking for a solution to the slider problem. 馃檪
email sent.聽 I hope. 馃檪
Wow… I replying to you and my screen just went blank!聽 All I could see was your post.聽 I would love to discuss this in email.聽 Thank you for the offer!聽 What email address should I send to?
Hi Wes,
Yes; I get confused as to which support forum I’m signing into and ended up posted on SP when I wanted your forum.聽 Sorry for the duplicate.
This project started out so simple.聽 Then too many people got involved.聽 Now it’s a nightmare.聽 As for letting you know ahead of time, as mentioned in the other topic, I have to get this done by Sunday.聽 At one point, I WAS a week ahead of schedule with this.聽 Now I’m a week behind.
Hi Eric,I’ve Googled ’til the cows came home, read dozens of How To’s, and tried at least a half dozen different box-shadow CSS code.聽聽 My last attempt placed a box-shadow around body (or #inner, if placed there)聽 but not around the entire content area including the slider and welcome message.
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 30px 2px #5a5a5a; box-shadow: 0 1px 30px #5a5a5a;
I’ve tried placing it in wrap, and in inner, and somewhere else, but can’t seem to capture the ENTIRE content area like in the above referenced website.聽 Maybe I’m not placing it in the correct place?
Terri
Thank you for your trademarked Quick Response Time, Wes!聽 馃檪聽聽 The vast majority of developers take days on end to answer a question, if they answer at all.
I’ll give that solution a try.聽 Since the person who originally posted that question never came back to say whether or not it worked, I’m going to assume that it must have.聽 馃檪
Regarding search box:聽 I meant “theme related.”聽 Many times when I use the search box on the main forum page I get tons of results that don’t relate to the theme I’m using….not to mention all of the non-descriptive subject lines such as “Help!”聽 or things like:聽 “this doesn’t look right.”聽 馃檪
Hi Wes,
After spending about an hour on this forum (which could REALLY use a search function), I found this post:
https://appfinite.com/topic/featured-pages-instead-of-posts-on-home-featured-posts-widget/
Does that solution NOT work?
Terri
Just figured out how to get rid of the gradient slider wrap.聽 I had to delete the background image from the upload background admin area, and then manually upload the bkg and link to it.聽 Now I need to narrow the gap between the slider wrap and the welcome message.聽 Geez…why can’t anyone just use these awesome themes AS IS?!?
None of that worked, and I even tried adjusting the height in functions.php
OK.聽 Plan B.聽 How do I get the gradient slider background replaced with the actual background image so that the large solid gray (gradient) does not show up?聽 I’ve tried replacing replacing this:
.ally-dark #slider-wrap {
background-color: #000;
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,from(#000),to(#333));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#000,#333);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#000,#333);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#000,#333);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top,#000,#333);
background-image: linear-gradient(top,#000,#333);
}
With this…
.ally-dark #slider-wrap {
background-image: url(images/bkg1.jpg);
}
FAIL!
I have about 10 days to get this site done and still have about 100 pages & products to add!
Now that just made my day!!聽 I’ll bet you were having one WTF moment trying to figure out where that was coming from, on top of having to hear him stuck in loop. Imagine how many times I’ve heard that video!聽 Thanks for the much needed laugh!
Yes; I had figured out how to turn off the auto play, Thankfully!聽 However, I’m still having a problem getting the logo closer to the slider.聽 No matter how I change the height in #header it won’t budge.
Ugh… I should have guessed that when it didn’t work in the main #header, go to the ally-dark.
I also found the auto play feature in the slider and now have that annoying not auto playing as I’m working on the site.聽 I’ve had the F-bomb dropped on me at least a hundred times with that video constantly playing. 馃檪
Thank you, Eric!
Sorry I forgot to post a link, Eric.聽 http://webdesignsbyterri.com/mockup/聽聽 Also: How can I get the video in the slider to NOT autoplay? The darn thing is driving me crazy as I’m working on this site.聽 It doesn’t auto play in a post, just in the slider.
Terri
Thank you, Eric.聽 That solved the problem.聽 I was going to tell her to just make her post titles are longer than 1 or 2 words, but I know she’ll forget. 馃檪
Terri
You’re not seeing what’s wrong because I had changed Number of Posts to show on her site to 5.聽 However, I just now changed it to show 7 so that you can see what happens when the number is set to 6 (and above).聽 For whatever reason, the problem only happens at the 6th post mark.聽 To further clarify, if you look at her post titles in the sidebar widget you’ll see post #5 and #6 get scrunched to one line (joined together)聽 so that it comes out reading:
The Day I Became a Carney (which is post #4)
Priscilla (5)The Evil Eye Bead(6)
Buttons, Fashion…(7)
None of the other Post Titles “double up” on one line.聽 Only posts number 5 & 6.聽 She’s tried deleting post 5 (Priscilla) and reposting it, yet no matter what the date of the post is it will still get paired up with another post title.
Terri
Sorry I forgot to post that, Eric.聽 http://epame.net