[GracieAllen]

Got it in the email. I’ll update and give it a try.

[GracieAllen]

Done. Appears to be working.

[GracieAllen]

I changed the .htaccess file to temp.htaccess. As near as I can tell, I now have thumbnails and images for the galleries.

I can verify that I followed the instructions in the codex – I copied index.php, changed the line, and changed the Site URL in the general settings.

Here’s what’s in the .htaccess file… I’d guess something is wrong, but since I’m not sure what most of it means, I’ll leave the contents to folks more knowledgeable that me.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^facebook [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?/(.*)facebook.com [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^Pinterest [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(wp-admin) [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*)?.dperezphoto.com/wordpress [NC]

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !(127.0.0.1|localhost|:1)

RewriteRule .* http://127.0.0.1 [L]

</IfModule>

BTW: I had to get the site working so users can get at images from shows, so those icons on the home page now dump users to Shootproof so they can view and buy products… BUT, if this .htaccess thing works, I can change that back and let people know the site is live…

What do I need to change in the .htaccess file? Or can I just leave it as temp.htaccess and ignore it permanently? And should I do that with any OTHER .htaccess files I encounter?

[GracieAllen]

Cool. Thanks Peter. I’ll give it a try.

[GracieAllen]

Thanks Peter. I’ve never used the “important” tag because I don’t have a real understanding, and the common sentiments I’ve read… This is what I’ve most often run into when trying to understand this qualifier:

“Using !important has its purposes (though I struggle to think of them), but it’s much like using a nuclear explosion to stop the foxes killing your chickens; yes, the foxes will be killed, but so will the chickens. And the whole neighborhood.

It also makes debugging your CSS a nightmare.”

I’ll put “important” on the CSS I’m adding and see if it works….

Thanks again.

[GracieAllen]

The link to the home page is [www.dperezphoto.com/wordpress/]

Once there, click the icon for “ACFA Cat Shows” (top left). On the next screen, the custom CSS should be making the text in the box either red or green (it typically uses the one that makes it green). If I take the exact two lines in the plugin’s CSS and make exactly the same changes, the changes take effect.

If you click either of the album covers on that page, you’ll go to a gallery page. Again, the text should be (I believe) green.

I figure it’s got to be something I’m missing that incredibly simple, but…

The plugin should be original – I re-installed it the other day to erase my changes.

[GracieAllen]

I changed the css that’s in the custom CSS plugin. I pulled everything out except these two pieces:

#albumcontainer .album_item_bottom_t2 .album_item_name_t2 a{

text-decoration: none;

color: #ff0000;

}

#albumcontainer .album_item_bottom_t2 .album_item_name_t2 a:hover{

color: #00ff00;

}

At a minimum, the top one of these should set the caption text on the lowermost album and gallery thumbnails to red… they don’t.

I can change the actual plugin CSS and the changes show up. These don’t even through they were copied directly from the CSS and all I did was modify the value for color…

What am I doing wrong?

[GracieAllen]

Thanks Peter. Now, unfortunately, I have to ask for a basic css lesson… I looked at other css files, and found places where they created what I THOUGHT were comments using the “//” thing. Does this NOT make the following rest of the line a comment? I”ll go do some research and see what I’ve got wrong, but, if this isn’t the comment delimiter, can you tell me what is for css?

I”ll go update my updated css and see if it works…

[GracieAllen]

This plugin doesn’t appear to be working… I downloaded and installed the plugin. Activated it and put a definition in there:

#albumcontainer .album_item_bottom_t2 .album_item_name_t2{

font-size: 24px; //10px;

}

which is a piece from a larger one. This is from album-template-2.css.

Nothing happens.

If I change it in the actual css file, it works. In here, nothing……

Is there something that isn’t in the video that I need to do to get the site to recognize there’s special CSS sitting there, and to use it to override the original css file?

[GracieAllen]

This is an older topic, but if I may, I’ll throw my support in… I too am trying to sell different products for an image – standard prints, canvas gallery wraps, metal prints, other stuff… Having a bunch of galleries specific to a price list seems extremely cumbersome.

If possible, I’d much prefer a setup similar to what shootproof uses – you select an image from the thumbnail, press “add to cart”. You get a sidebar or popup or whatever that has the different types of products. Click on one and you get that pricelist. Much smaller price lists, easy for users to use, no additional pages (there are already a HUGE number of pages getting created just to do my basic albums/galleries)…

[GracieAllen]

Thanks. I was about to yank out the last few of my hairs… All that activating and deactivating and forgetting to activate and deactivate (I’m persistent but I don’t learn fast) was causing angst!

[GracieAllen]

I must confess, I went looking for a theme where I found the plugin because I thought I could be confident it would work, but I didn’t find any – which is not your fault – it’s more me still being woefully ignorant and not finding things.

As long as the plugin will work happily with most themes, I’ll probably stay with what I’ve got since I can at least get rid of a lot of the extraneous junk and just have images.

Thanks for the response.

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