Wanted: WordPress Expert

  • Is there someone out there willing to work with me for a while to try and sort out this problem.

    My website has been down for 2 months while I try to move over to WordPress – My old site was made up mostly of pictures that I shared with family and friends back home – and they are all wondering what’s taking me so long.

    I’ve been beating my head against a *&*$@*% brick wall for the past 3-4 weeks trying to get a gallery in place – looks like I’m leaning towards coppermine.

    The problem is:

    I can’t get any photo software to use my WordPress header and footer files. – I think I’m close, but not there yet.

    If there is someone who knows what they are doing and understand WordPress and would like to give me a hand using email, I would appreciate it very much.

    I set up a temporary email address as follows:

    email AT rvadventure DOT ca

    I could really use some help here.

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter rvblog

    (@rvblog)

    Oh yea,

    Here’s the problem:

    https://www.rvadventure.ca/photos/index.php

    My guess is that your path to your header and footer is wrong, as going to the image linked in your source for the header I get a file not found error.

    https://www.rvadventure.ca/images/rigmap620114.jpg

    Not Found
    The requested URL /images/rigmap620114.jpg was not found on this server.

    Thread Starter rvblog

    (@rvblog)

    Sorry about that Philpeeps,

    I started working on another photo program because I just can’t get coppermine to include my header and footer files.

    So the link that I posted earlier did not reflect the question that I was asking. I apologize for that.

    I guess I just grew tired and gave up searching for the answer.

    Unless you have some spare time to email me and help me figure it out – because I would still like to use coppermine if possible.

    go to your selected theme’s template.html and replace the header img with the URL of your header img file

    For example, using the Coppermine Hardwired theme, look for:
    <td width="778" height="61" valign="middle" align="right" background="themes/hardwired/images/hw_01.gif">

    and replace the background attribute with the URL to your image header.

    ‘htp://www.rvadventure.ca/your_wp_dir/where_ever_your_pic_is/your_header.jpg`

    Do the same for the footer and any other images you want to replace…

    Do not use relative paths (you can, but if you don’t know how, just use the whole URL), as they are installed in different directories….

    Thread Starter rvblog

    (@rvblog)

    Someone who appears to know a lot about coppermine had a look at the wordpress header.php and footer.php files for me and he told me that the way those files are coded, you cannot include them into a coppermine theme.

    So now I have to work the reverse way and just change the cpg theme template to mimic my site – an easier way to do it but not the preferred way as it just makes it more work when it comes time to updating me website in the future.

    Anyways, thanks for all your responses

    looks like you are getting closer…good luck!

    looking better now, just add you header back like you had yesterday…..

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