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Kori, good catch. I had a similar problem with MailChimp. My Firefox didn’t accept changes; Chrome did. MailChimp fixed the issue.

I’ll make the browser part of the test.

Thanks. No, this is the first time. It came for awhile when I was updating a menu and changing parent, template, and order.

I haven’t tried that again yet.

The other was yesterday when I created a new page, coming back later to update the page content, which didn’t update.

I’ll test the plugin thought. I don’t use any that I’ve looked at so all can be uninstalled.

My first test is to reboot the laptop and try again.

I’ll post whatever I figure out.

Looks like either will be fine (although the child theme is a bit of overkill right now).

The trick will be to come up with some css that allows me to avoid having to change it when the maps are replaced (i.e. not using the caption tags). One way would be to use the caption child of the maps page. That page should be static (i.e. not replaced) so it’s ID is far more stable.

Thanks again for your help.

Oops! You’re exactly right. Sorry about that.

You mentioned a couple options in your earlier posts, specifically a child css and a css plugin. These ideas were to avoid losing changes if the theme is updated. Would you expand briefly on each?

I have good html and css skills so not much detail is needed.

Thanks, especially for the note about preserving the change if the theme is updated.

I’ll think through whether I want to make the change to the caption to consider whether I want the change to be that global.

The question still remains: Why setting the caption IDs #attachment_nnn (for the 3 map images) to clear:both doesn’t stack the images on the page I provided the link for?

#attachment_665, #attachment_683, #attachment_685 { clear:both; }

I’d like to open this thread up again for comments.

The images I was referring to in the original post are maps. These maps are updated periodically (at least annually). When the new images are loaded they are obviously assigned new ID numbers. This means I have to go back into styles.css and change the the clear:both statement (to update the #attachment_nnn numbers).

Can anyone think of a way that 1) I can avoid modifying HTML or CSS (I’m versed at it but don’t want to assume any successor will have those skills), and 2) if I need to make such mods, don’t need to go back each year to update the css.

The web page link earlier in the post is still the page being worked.

Thanks

Tom

Interesting. That worked.

As a beginner with WP but with some experience with html, etc. I’d like to understand what we just did. The css statement is clearing the float for the three IDs. This implies that the theme has them floating, presumably based on the choice I made when inserting the image onto the page. If I remember the float rules, the behavior of putting two images side-by-side would result if the main text column didn’t have a width declared.

Looking at the page code, I see the images are bound in a [CAPTURE} statement. I’ve never seen html code that uses brackets. I’m also not familiar with the align=”alighright” part of the capture. Is this something from PHP or unique to WP, the theme or perhaps a script?

I’m intending to stay away from too much coding until I get the site converted to wp and get comfortable with vanilla.

Tom

Sorry

FourCreeks.org/maps

Although this may not be very helpful, I have a WP site on GoDaddy and have no issues uploading images. One thing I’ve done is to NOT use the ftp capability on GoDaddy but instead to do all the media adds via WordPress. That practice has worked for every file (jpg, pdf, etc.) that I’ve uploaded.

Hi, and thanks for the post. Your comments are helping with my learning of WP.

I’ve worked enough with WP (couple weeks) to kinda “get it”. My past work with html along with a little php and MySQL has been a great help.

Right now I’m going to stay with as much off-the-shelf as I can. The only mods I’ve made thus far are the insertion of a favicon and a change to a theme template to have it not display the page name for the home page below the header. I may need to make a small mod in the footer and might even want to create a new template to allow me to add a second, non-sidebar column for some pages.

Not for this site but another I building from scratch using WP, we’ll be experimenting with BuddyPress so, again, a relatively unmodified code will help both the speed to get the site up and to keep our focus on learning.

I’m warming up to the idea of taking the blog capability to do the minutes, news, and correspondence. I’m assuming I can pull all the aspects of blogging that I won’t need (comments, links to social media, etc.) and just add either the pdf or that actual content (e.g. minutes).

Tom

Thanks,

For Krishna, I don’t have a problem with WP coding. I’m just looking for an alternative approach to the method I think I’d be using (i.e. upload pdf and then create linked text on a page). Keep in mind, I’m a beginner with WP so some of my posts are to aid in learning.

jnhghy, I tend to agree that blog entries might be easier. The site is being converted from a non-WP site (where I used Dreamweaver). One of the reasons for going to WP is to open up the ability for others in the organization to add content and eventually take over site management.

Most of the pages are fairly static. WP opens up opportunities to blog minutes, news, and correspondence. Does WP limit me to one blog page? If so, are tags or categories the way to mix content?

Tom

Remember I’m just getting started.

Is it true WP stores all media in one “location”? If you intend to have a lot, is it wise to put it in folders outside wp?

I’ll do some homework on whether the wp media location can be organized.

Tom

Thanks. Will do.

Sorry

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Sorry

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