erikas_boy

Jon,
I’m assuming the JS in question is the snowflakes? If so, they’re there and falling for me. Did you work it out?
Ciao,
Chris

No worries. Most tutorials (mine included) take for granted that the user is an admin. Little things like that can lead to end-users blowing heaps of time on a fruitless exercise. Sorry it happened to you.
Best,
C

Yup, pretty sure only admins can add plugins. You’ll have to talk to whoever runs the site.
C

daxel11,
If you use Firebug, you should be able to delve into your code deeper, and find what you’re looking for. It will give you the div names and info for your menu. You will still need to find where to change the theme, but I’d bet it’s in the header.php file. Incidentally, I use a Mac/Safari and your menu just looks like it uses a .css hover rule. (Assuming your menu is the one “Home” link in the top right). If you’re using the fade, you might slow it down a bit.
Chris

laurie,
I’m just tuning in here, so pardon me if I restate anything.
First off, you are using a self-hosted WordPress install, right? Not a myname.wordpress.com site?

If you are, log-in to your back-end at yoursitename.com/wp-admin using your name/pw. When the dashboard displays, it should show you stuff like “Right Now”, “Quick Press” “Recent Comments” etc. On the left you should have a vertical menu bar. It might be hidden, and just be a line of icons, in which case you can expand it by clicking the little arrow at the bottom.

Somewhere in the menu, around the middle or bottom, is a link for “Plugins” When you click that you will get a page displaying your currently installed plugins (even a stock install comes with two, Hello Dolly and Akismet). “Add New” is at the top (in up-to-date versions of WP, you can actually reach the add new through a fly-ou sub-menu).

The Add New link takes you to a screen where you can search plug-ins. You can either search TinyMCE here and choose which plugin you want to install. If you’ve downloaded it to your computer, you can click the link at the top “Upload” and use the file upload window to navigate to where the .zip is on your local computer.

When you click “Install Now” a screen will appear (very quickly for small plugins) that show your the progress. Once it’s installed, there will be a few options on under the report. “Activate Plugin” is one of them. Click that and it will be activated. You can also activate it from the main “Plugin” screen. Once activated, it should have some options or configuration screens. These can be just about anywhere in that vertical menu on the left, but generally are found under “Settings” or “Tools”. Not having ever used TinyMCE, I can’t really speak as to how it behaves from here, but this should get you off to a good start.

Let me know how this goes, and if it doesn’t work, where things go wrong for you.

Chris

Depending on your theme, you might only need to use the js folder in your theme directory. I use child-themes of Thematic, which calls any .js files in the js folder. So all it takes is to write your code in the appropriate file, upload it to your server and you’re off.

If your theme doesn’t do this, it kind of varies what you’ll need to do. At the end of the day, linking to a .js file somewhere is your best bet, but you will have to work it out based on your theme. Child-themes are really the ideal way to do things, if you need to make changes to an existing theme, as changing your theme’s core files will be over-written if your theme developer updates their work (if they don’t consider a new theme). A google search of “wordpress child theme tutorials” should help out here. Themeshaper has a great tutorial (based on thematic, but you can apply it to any theme).

The only JS problems I’ve heard of in WordPress is conflicts with plug-ins, but you pretty well have to deal with those on a case-by-case basis.

Chris

Kristen,
Yeah, I would actually make the body 960px (which is roughly the size of the majority of displays), which means it will show without horizontal scroll bars for a lot of your users. Then for your #page div “#page {margin:0 auto;}” which will centre that div on the screen.
C

Krsten,
your body doesn’t have a width assigned in your .css, and your #page only has a max width. If you didn’t make this theme, I’d guess the person wanted it to be a fluid layout rather than a fixed one. You can see which divs are shrinking when you re-siz the page using firebug, which will help. But if you simply downloaded this theme, you might be better served finding one that does what you want it to, rather than trying to “fix” this one into something I suspect it’s not.
Chris

Ritter,
This is how many developers (myself included) pay our bills. I would say it’s a simple process, but then again, I’ve been doing it for a while.

Step one, re-ceate the artistic layout of the site in photoshop or wherever you prefer. Chop it up into a theme (actually, ideally a child theme. I use thematic as the parent).

Step two, once you have a working theme (most easily developed on a local testing server like MAMP/XAMPP), rebuild your IA from the original site, using some combination of pages and blog posts, possibly using custom taxonomies depending on the complexity of the site, and test to make sure it behaves the way you expect it to.

Step three, create your 301’s to ensure Google knows where all your content has gone.

Step four, export your DB, install WP on your remote server in a sub-directory, import the DB, and check to make sure it works the same as at home.

Step five, move the testing site live, replacing the current one.

Each step has reams of sub-steps, but I would suggest Google or more specific searches here would help you cover those off.

Chris

Hmmmm, nobody checking in through Christmas? Any help would be great, still looking for an answer…
C

I know this isn’t a solution to the combination, and I’m not getting anything for saying this, but the easiest solution is:
Get rid of All-in-one and opt for Yoast SEO instead. A much much better SEO package, and it works with Contact Form 7 on every site I build.

Dalton,
Sorry, I just want to confirm, you said this doesn’t work on a front page? I’m trying to use it on my front page, but it only shows one picutre, regardless of having timeout=5000 in the shortcode, and the pause, prev, and next links are all just “#”.
Thanks,
Chris

Sorry, just to clarify: You somehow have wp-reCaptcha running on Contact Form 7? How? I’ve seen a reference to an add-on, but have never been able to find it. Any help would be appreciated.
Chris

Okay, turned out that it wasn’t wp-super-cache that was the problem, it was wp-security-scan. I just started deleting the installed plug-in folders in reverse order until things started working again. If you’re in a similar position and are also experiencing total radio-silence on the forums, this is a good first step. Hopefully you, as well, won’t need a second step.

A bit more info: I’ve just realized that I can’t add a page either, it also just comes up blank. Sidebars and header are all still there, but nothing to add the page.

Any ideas?