jumpqbert

Hi Tom,
Sorry for the delay.

Thank you for the reply. I changed the permalink settings to default (I had them on post name). Refresh the home page and both sliders are fully working/showing slides. However, the nav breaks and I get 404 page not found errors when trying to go to the other pages. Reversing the changes (permalinks=post name) gives me the original problem again, not all images showing up on sliders, but the nav links for website pages work as expected.

With the permalink settings on default, the media library/image uploader works as expected, and I can upload images, then open the meta slider and add them to a slideshow and they show up on the web page no sweat.

ok, regarding the image mentioned in your post: yes, when the permalink setting is on post name, and the image does not show up on the slider on the web page, I can drill down to it and see the image in the file browser window (Windows networking, no need for ftp).

this is so weird. Why do things halfway work depending on how I set the permalink structure?

thanks,
jumpqbert

update: I don’t seem to have any errant <p> tags in the code, not that I can tell anyways. Also, I thought it would be worth a try to switch to another theme. So I went to themes and did a live preview of about 5 other themes, and the sliders remained broken in the live previews. This is with the plugins still deactivated except for the backup and the meta slider.

Also, in Chrome, I found 9 js errors:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (URL Rewrite Module Error.) https://www.uintalibrary.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/quiltraffle13wp2.jpg
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (URL Rewrite Module Error.) https://www.uintalibrary.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/noticewp1.gif
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (URL Rewrite Module Error.) https://www.uintalibrary.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/wishlistbanner1wp1.jpg
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (URL Rewrite Module Error.) https://www.uintalibrary.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/facebookwp1.gif
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) https://216.119.69.193/gizmos/loading.gif
Uncaught TypeError: Property ‘$’ of object [object Object] is not a function https://www.uintalibrary.org/wp/:186
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (URL Rewrite Module Error.) https://www.uintalibrary.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/wishlistbanner1wp1.jpg
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) https://216.119.69.193/gizmos/loading.gif
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (URL Rewrite Module Error.)

“Media Slider Lite” oops. I meant Meta Slider Lite ver 2.3. That’s the one I was using originally and then now using.

I’ve also tried SlideDeck 2 Lite ver 2.3.3 and Slideshow ver. 2.2.18

I will try posting in the plugin dedicated sub-forums too, looked through posts there and found no related posts so thought I would start here thinking it might be a problem with the wordpress upgrade from 3.6 to 3.6.1 after noticing some posts about the media library having problems sometimes…

https://www.uintalibrary.org/wp

btw I was going to note that right now I have two sliders on the home page… the top one has some images in it that were added before things stopped working. I have left those in. The other slider below has images added after my upgrade to 3.6.1 and even though they seem to be going into the media library ok, they don’t display in the slider.

these are both Media Slider Lite.

yep. i removed the width and height attributes and voila, it just works.
cheers

ok, sorry. I will ask over there and see if anyone can help. Just seemed like this was a wordpress issue, but I guess not.
thanks anyhow.

installed and activated the Widget Shortcode widget and now have the Arbitrary section in my widgets…

put a custom menu in there and have a shortcode for it now.

seriously. I’ve got nothing. please, help a buddy out here.

I’m loathe to continue stabbing at this with by best guesses as I want to keep my code clean and really I need to be moving on, this is just one little piece. At this point I may just give up on this and try doing an image map for the header. Don’t really want to, but it may come to that.

…maybe, maybe not. I added what seemed to be the positioning tweak for my one shortcode button in the css of the child theme style.css so the button has the following, but when I saved and refreshed, it did not move up to the top corner as expected.

Based on section 4 of the tutorial above on barelyfitz.com…

‘position: relative !important;

position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
width:200px;’

aaand since that may be pretty vague as to what I’m doing, let me post the css for the one button: (that’s currently the green Catalog button that is in the middle of the home page.)

‘
div.maxbutton-1-container {
position: relative !important;

position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
width:200px;

}
a.maxbutton-1 {
text-decoration: none !important;
color: #ffffff !important;
font-family: Verdana !important;
font-size: 16px !important;
font-style: normal !important;
font-weight: normal !important;
padding-top: 15px !important;
padding-right: 25px !important;
padding-bottom: 15px !important;
padding-left: 25px !important;
background-color: #98ba40 !important;
background: linear-gradient(#98ba40 45%, #618926);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(#98ba40 45%, #618926);
background: -o-linear-gradient(#98ba40 45%, #618926);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(.45, #98ba40), color-stop(1, #618926));
border-style: solid !important;
border-width: 1px !important;
border-color: #618926 !important;
border-radius: 4px !important;
-moz-border-radius: 4px !important;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px !important;
text-shadow: -1px -1px 0px #618926 !important;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #333333 !important;
-pie-background: linear-gradient(#98ba40 45%, #618926);
position: relative !important;

position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
width:200px;

behavior: url(“https://www.uintalibrary.org/wp/wp-content/plugins/maxbuttons/pie/PIE.htc&#8221;);
}
a.maxbutton-1:visited {
text-decoration: none !important;
color: #ffffff !important;
}
a.maxbutton-1:hover {
text-decoration: none !important;
color: #ffffff !important;
background-color: #2270df !important;
background: linear-gradient(#2270df 45%, #12295d);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(#2270df 45%, #12295d);
background: -o-linear-gradient(#2270df 45%, #12295d);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(.45, #2270df), color-stop(1, #12295d));
border-color: #0f2557 !important;
text-shadow: -1px -1px 0px #12295d !important;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #333333 !important;
-pie-background: linear-gradient(#2270df 45%, #12295d);
position: relative !important;

position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
width:200px;

behavior: url(“https://www.uintalibrary.org/wp/wp-content/plugins/maxbuttons/pie/PIE.htc&#8221;);
}
‘

So… first thank you danedral.
Are you saying that all I need to do is place the shortcodes in the body of the home page and then in my child theme tweak the css to make the maxbuttons show up where I want them?