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Actually I don’t think I am going to wait on a reply. I have noticed that is seems to have been about 3-4 months prior to this post since the plugin author has replied to any questions. Not really the kind of author interaction that I trust in a plugin. I think I will find one that has better communication from the author.

Sorry Cyclone Slider………

No problem. I like to give credit when it is due. By the way. Sorry about the misspelling in the title. Meant to say “Works like it should”. Lol. Have a great day.

That did the trick. Thanks! Always love it when it’s a simple solution.

I deactivated all plugins except Fast Secure Contact Form. Still same problem.

Hi mbrsolution. I activated Twenty Fourteen and checked the form. Still the same problem so it is not theme related. And, thanks for the super quick reply.

By the way. Using latest version of WordPress and version 4.0.21 of Fast Secure Contact Form.

OK. As usual I figured this out for myself. My database or original installation was corrupted in some way that I was not able to figure out, and that made me unable to upload images. I appeared to be a permissions problem but the host was not able to see any problems there. I fixed my site by doing the following:

• I reinstalled my original site from my backups.
• I took screenshots of various screens in the admin area such as plugins, and content blocks, or any other areas in the admin where I needed to remember settings, content, or what was turned on or off.
• I backed up my database one more time.
• I backed up my server content.
• I did an export of my site within the tools/export area of dashboard.
• I deleted my old files from the server.
• I created a fresh installation of WordPress on the server complete with a fresh mySQL database.
• I double checked my new installation to make sure I could now upload media files. I could.
• I performed an import within the tools/import area of my dashboard.
• I uploaded my content from my backed up folders such as uploads, theme files, and plugins to the same folders within my new installation.
• I turned on the same plugins as before.
• Did one last double check on my ability to upload media files. All is good.

All in all, didn’t take to long to do these steps. Just remember to have backups of everything, and triple check all your steps.

Anyone else?

Thanks Esmi.

I checked with my host and they could find no problems with ownership or permissions.

I decided to try a fresh install of WordPress. When the fresh install is first instantiated and has no data I can use the uploader for media with no problem. When I update my database with the tables from my existing site, I am no longer able to use the media uploader. I get the same error as above.

What tables or settings can I check in my database to find this problem?

P.S. I have optimized my tables and done a repair also and that did not make a difference in this problem.

Hi Pascal.

What the above course in Lynda.com and the previous course: “Creating a Responsive Web Design” show how to do is use a header structure similar to this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/screen_styles.css" />
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/screen_layout_large.css" />
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="only screen and (min-width: 50px) and (max-width: 500px)" href="css/screen_layout_small.css" />
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="only screen and (min-width: 501px) and (max-width: 800px)" href="css/screen_layout_medium.css" />
        <!--[if lt IE 9]>
            <script src="https://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
        <![endif]-->

to call different .css files with differing content based on your browser resolution.

Try to Google how to achieve that if you do not want to use the courses from Lynda.com. I am sure there are several free tutorials out there explaining these media calls. And there is probably a way to do this in a single css file as well but I am not to that point yet.

Hope this helps.

I am not sure how to do this in Bootstrap so I have been taking time to figure out how to make this happen in with my own coding in the template files and with jquery. Lynda.com is a great resource for anyone out there who is needing answers to questions about web design and many other things as well. I used the course: “Creating a Responsive Web Experience with Chris Converse” from the Lynda.com library of courses to learn the answer to this question.

Thank you Roland. This did the trick. I appreciate your help and your plugin. Have a great year!

This resolved the issue I was having. I think that another of my plugins was conflicting with the background gallery loading. My particular best option was using your static background option.

Thanks Gunjan. Great theme. Thanks for your quick responses to my questions. That in itself make a theme a winner to me.

I compressed my image even more. It is very small now. 179KB. That did help a little, but there is still a lag of about 3 seconds on my pages with maps and contact forms. Also I notice that one my Droid Razr phone when I scroll all the way to the top or the bottom of a page, I have the same reloading of the background image.

Is there a way that I can get this to not happen anymore? I love your theme, but this is not making the owners of the URL happy. Can I change the load order of the javascript or something else to take care of this? And as I stated above, if not, how do I remove the background gallery and go with a static background that is just called by my css?

Thank Gunjan.

I did already used multiple images but decided to go with just one in order to see if that would speed the load time. I also shrunk the size of the images used and that did not help. The delay is still around 15 seconds load time. To me is seems that the javascript is lagging not the size of the images.

How do I disable the background from working at all so that I can go with a static background image if I choose to do so?

Thanks for your communication, Gunjan.