datdesignguy

Thank you!

Are you attempting to build a featured posts style slider or a slider that will display only images attached to a specific page?

The tutorial you linked to above is intended to demonstrate how to build an image slider for display on a specific post/page by building a query (using the code above) that pulls the attachments specifically for that page.

The reason the above code is displaying nothing when you attempt to add a category argument is most likely because attachments don’t get category assignments.

If you would like to build a slider for a home page, where it displays the featured images for a select group of posts, you’ll need different code, I’m afraid.

Let us know, and I’ll see if I can help you out

-greg

Most welcome ??

Your theme has the following css code:

tbody tr:nth-child(even) td, tbody tr.even td {
background: #E5ECF9;
}

Add (at the end of your css file, or if you’re using a child-theme, in your child’s css file:

tbody tr:nth-child(even) td, tbody tr.even td {
background: black;
}

Hope this helps

-greg

Your function doesn’t ACTUALLY require any arguments since you’re already pulling in the $post variable by setting global $post in your function.

So I’m wondering if perhaps it would make more sense for you to attach your determine_thing function to a standard WP action such as wp or wp_head.

Your function doesn’t need to return anything either if you take this approach, as you’ve already set the $thingType variable to global as well.

I hope this gives you some ideas. Be sure and let us know what solves your problem!

-greg

Hmmm… that could be any number of things. I use very similar code to what I pasted above all the time without issue. You may need to try using element-inspector and/or firebug.

If there are any floated/absolutely-positioned elements nearby, it’s possible you may have something overlapping the clickable area to activate the text field. I had that problem before and it took forever to solve!

Without being able to look at your site myself, I’m afraid I can’t point you in the right direction. I’d need to be able to peek at your source and css.

try this code for your css:

input#s {
  width: 160px; /* Width of image minus the padding to clear the search icon on the left */
  height: 29px;
  padding-left: 26px;
  border: none;
  outline: none;
  background: url( Images/Searchbar.png ) no-repeat;
}

because twenty-eleven positions the background by adding the css rules to wp_head(), I might recommend that you either, a) manually set up your bg image using css (preferred) or b) manually insert the background positioning css after the call to wp_head() in your child theme’s header.php file.

That’s my two-cents anyway. Hope it helps!

Hi swthate,

I feel your pain. I went through the same kind of struggle when I had to tackle a very customized comment section for a theme I did last year for a client.

Here is a post from Justin Tadlock I found that finally got me moving again: https://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/07/21/using-the-wordpress-comment-form

I hope this helps you like it did me!

Any chance the “|” could be getting injected via css? Perhaps an :after pseudo-selector or maybe it’s even a right border? Just some ideas. The code snippet you pasted above doesn’t seem to be much help.

I believe that it’s possible the $result array reference in line 4 of your snipped could also be getting transformed using php’s implode() function, where the separator could be a pipe.

There’s a few ideas for you, I hope one of them helps!

You’ll need to read up on CSS Media Queries for that bit. It can be a bit hairy.

Also I recommend reading up on Responsive Design.

I’ve been known to accidentally transpose a digit-or-two when hard-coding ID’s. After looking at your code, myself, I can’t figure out why it’s not working.

This might sound silly, but are you sure the page id is valid? The only reason I ask is because if the page is not found get_page will return a null value.

Hi GnosticGirl…

If you’re just wanting to change the BG of the featured posts section, you would actually need to do something a little bit different than what’s been described above.

For starters, let’s tackle the easier of the two requests, which is changing the wording of “Featured Post” to “Featured Article”…

Copy the showcase.php file from your parent-theme into the child theme.

Now open the file and find the line where you wanted to replace “post” with article, make the edit, save, and upload. That should take care of that little change.

To get rid of the white background, simply add this line to the bottom of your child theme’s style.css file:

.featured-posts section.featured-post {
    background: transparent;
}

Give that a go and let me know if it solved your problem.

– Greg

When you visit the permalink for the page you want to borrow content from… does the content show up there?