amca01

Thank you for your reply. The IP Address is 125.63.50.145 and the URL is https://numbersandshapes.net

By the way – I think QuickLaTeX is quite superb, and its existence is one of the principal reasons I switched from wordpress.com to a self-hosted blog using www.remarpro.com. So I’m very much hoping that I can use it again!

I wonder if QuickLaTeX can be configured to use a local TeX installation? I could easily install TeXlive and make calls to that instead of an external server.

Thanks for your help,
Alasdair

Further to my query: I have installed Core Control, and every QuickLaTeX call fails with http_request_failed. The transport is WP_HTTP_curl and I have installed curl, restarted apache2, and checked that curl is properly enabled (with a script I found called curl-check.php), which it is.

So I’ve done pretty much everthing I would have thought is needed, except that calls to QuickLaTeX still fail.

When I last posted to my blog (some months ago) there were no problems – so something at my end or in QuickLaTeX has changed since.

FWIW, I’m running Ubuntu 14.04 on a self-managed VPS.

Thanks again,
Alasdair

I’ve got another question: anybody got advice about good themes or layouts for a text-heavy blog? (Mine has hardly any pictures, but a lot of text.) I do love the masonry/infinite scroll look, but I’m aware that maybe it’s not so suitable for a text-based site. Thanks!

Oh: numbersandshapes.net is my site.

Dear wpdevsolutions,

Many thanks! However, the theme documentations seem to me mainly a walk through of their menus. I still don’t know how to set up a masonry-styled page! There are plenty of pages which describe how to use CSS, and others about how to “enqueue” masonry…some of which are a year or two old. I’m not quite sure where to start here, or what’s the easiest solution. I’m open to suggestions.

I don’t actually mind writing code (CSS/HTML) or copying somebody else’s public code across, but I’m hoping to get a set-up which I then have to fiddle with as little as possible.

As I say, any starter points would be most useful.