MightyGeekMan

Kristarella,
Thank you for your help! What you said helped me to figure out what I did to mess up Exifography and how to repair the damage. So, in order to help others who might run into this issue, let me give a brief rundown of the issue and how to fix it.

If you are creating, or editing, a post and use the Media Upload feature to insert an image into your post, Exifography will pull the exif information and add it to the end of your post. If you add multiple images to a single post, Exifography will only pull the exif info for the ALPHABETICALLY or NUMERICALLY first image. For me, setting the featured image did NOT change the exif info displayed in the post.

But this can lead to a problem if you’re scheduling posts for the future.

The problem arises if you are creating or editing a single post but use the Media Upload feature from WITHIN THAT POST to upload images for different posts. For example (and in my specific case) I was creating a post for the Sunset photo and decided to also upload the photo for the following day’s post (Hula Girls). So, using the Media Upload button from within the Sunset post, I uploaded BOTH the Hula Girl AND the Sunset photos. So, even though I only included the Sunset photo in the Sunset post itself, Exifography thought BOTH images were part of the post and pulled the exif info from the alphabetically first image that I uploaded, in this case Hula Girls. And the following day, when the Hula Girls post was posted to the site, Exifography DIDN’T attach any exif information to the post because it thought the Hula Girls photo was already included in the Sunset post.

All of which meant that the Sunset post had the Hula Girl’s exif information, and the Hula girls post had NO exif info displayed at all.

The fix was pretty simple. Remove both photos from the Media Library and the posts, re-upload the images and then re-link them into their respective posts. Once I did that everything worked perfectly again.

Hope this helps people in the future.

Kathryn,
I did try what you suggested and it didn’t work. In light of these issues I’ve simply set the “meta” information to be hidden for now. I’m going to spend some time studying up on creating child-themes and see if that will allow me to do what I’m looking to do.

Thank you for all your help!

GeekMan

Thanks for the links!

Kathryn,

Thank you very much, both for this topic and my other issue with the meta links. Since I can’t seem to do what I wanted, and the meta links are causing so many other issues, I’ve currently set their display to none so they no longer show up on my post pages.

I plan on studying up on how to create child themes and then see if I can re-jigger everything to look and act the way I want on my own time. You’ve been so helpful and nice during this whole thing, so I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Best to you.
Geekman

Kathryn,

I tried that before and it doesn’t work correctly. The “Image” link stays grey but turns orange when hovered and/or clicked. The “date” and “author” links turn blue, but they lose the hover and active states, which means they don’t turn orange when hovered or clicked.

It’s very weird and the only thing I can think of is the first meta link, in this case the “entry-format” (in this case the “image” link) is not contained within a span tag like the other two links (the date and author links) are and somehow that is causing a bug. Could that be the case?

Absolutely!

Here’s the screenshot.

Here’s the link.

Kathryn,

That worked for the permalink (I should have thought of this, duh!), however the meta links are still grey when I’m logged into WordPress, but blue if I visit in incognito mode. It’s a little weird. I also tried being more specific by adding .entry-format, .posted-on, and .byline to the list to see if that would help. Nothing seems to work on the meta links using the class ids in the code I can see.

On a related note, I have another thread where I’m looking for help rearranging the location of some page elements. Would love some help with that, too, if you can spare some time.

Appreciate any and all help! You’re awesome!

Thanks for catching that!

OK, now here’s an odd thing. The links are all blue with orange active states, which is what I wanted, so yay. However, if I am logged in to WordPress (which puts the black editing bar on the top of the page and adds an “Edit” link to the post) then the meta links and the permalink link are NOT blue. I only discovered this because I checked the site in incognito mode and everything looked correct there

Is this a bug in the code?

Kathryn,
I have a rudimentary understanding of CSS and can usually work my way through the changes I need on my own. However, in this case, I’m having some trouble. For example, I’ve now added the following code to my custom CSS file;

/* Sets page text link color to blue */
.entry-meta a-link, .entry-content a:link, .entry-footer a:link, .comments-area a:link {
   color: #07a1f2;
}

/* Sets page text link hover and active color to orange */
.entry-meta a:hover, .entry-meta a:active, .entry-content a:hover, .entry-content a:active, .entry-footer a:hover, .entry-footer a:active, .comments-area a:hover, .comments-area a:active {
   color: #ff9933;
}

The above SHOULD turn all text links to a blue color, with an orange highlight when active. However, if you look at an individual page of my site, for example A New Beginning, you’ll see that the meta links are not blue, yet they turn orange when active. Even more confusing, if you look at the footer which contains the text “This entry was posted…” you’ll see that MOST of the links are blue with orange active states, yet the permalink is NOT.

*** EDIT ***
The permalink is blue when I am not logged in to WordPress. If I am logged in to my WordPress dashboard and the “Edit” button is visible, then BOTH the “Edit” and the “Permalink” links are grey, yet turn orange when active. Looking at the source code for the page does not reveal why this would happen for the “Permalink” link.
*** /Edit***

I’m having trouble understanding why some links are properly affected by the custom CSS and why some are ignoring the link state and only using the active state.

Kathryn,
I did try your code and I think it will work for text in the body of my content, but it doesn’t work for the meta, footer, or comment links. Do I need to add separate CSS code for each of those areas?

Red Deer Web Design;

Thank you, I didn’t realize no bumping.

My website is Dots on Screen. I’ve actually figured out how to change the color of the text, but am having trouble figuring out how to change the links and add a rollover state. Any help would be great!

Thanks again! You’re pretty awesome.

BTW, I do know that search can be added to the footer. What I’m really looking to do is add it to the top menu bar so it’s always visible.

Thank you so very much! That was exactly what I was looking for.

Another question; is it possible to include a search field in the main title? I have a lot of posts and sometimes searching the site is faster/easier than looking through the entire archive.