tallhat

i had problems with the slideshow and thickbox not working although gallery grids were fine.
firstly make sure your wp_head and wp_footer calls are in place in your theme (usually in the header and footer elements) otherwise things like the thickbox js file don’t get called.

in my case my slideshow wasn’t working because i had a clash with a call to an older jquery js file in one of my theme files. so check your jquery versions and calls (check you haven’t got 2 calls to jquery in your compiled pages).

the flash imagerotator location issue can be a red herring. i’m not using the flash version for the slideshow so don’t have anything in the URL field for the imagerotator. lots of the support on this focus on this file location.

ah, this worked

global $post;
echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'sidebar_title', true);

seems the ‘global $post’ bit is crucial and possibly a new version 3
requirement??

turns out the ‘old slug’ bit was a red herring.
it actually seems to be a really weird (and inconsistent) conflict between an uploaded image ‘title’ and a page slug. the fix seems to be to delete the image in question and reupload.
hard to replicate the problem as it’s inconsistent, so not really sure what really happened…

yes, i had this. <br clear=”all” /> gets stripped.

the solution is to use <br style=”clear:both;”>
(this is the better XHTML way of doing things. the first way is probably deprecated code.