Comments on: Configuring WordPress & WPFolio http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:46:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: danielwiener http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-3775 danielwiener Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:20:26 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-3775 Dread, Nice meeting you, as well. Yes. I came across this problem with students at RISD. The slug needs to be one word without spaces or underscores or dashes too. It is a bit of a problem. You cannot have categories like "Recent Work", etc. Dread,
Nice meeting you, as well.

Yes. I came across this problem with students at RISD. The slug needs to be one word without spaces or underscores or dashes too. It is a bit of a problem. You cannot have categories like “Recent Work”, etc.

]]> By: Dread Scott http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-3765 Dread Scott Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:58:22 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-3765 Hi Daniel, I noticed Simon on Dec 31 came across a problem that caused a Catchable fatal error. I just got that error when using the WPFolio Categories widget. It seemed to be caused by having a space (or a hyphen) in the name of the category. The slug name may be a problem too, but definitely the category name is a problem. Hope this helps. Good meeting you the other day. Best, Dread Hi Daniel,

I noticed Simon on Dec 31 came across a problem that caused a Catchable fatal error. I just got that error when using the WPFolio Categories widget. It seemed to be caused by having a space (or a hyphen) in the name of the category. The slug name may be a problem too, but definitely the category name is a problem. Hope this helps.

Good meeting you the other day.

Best,
Dread

]]> By: danielwiener http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-3097 danielwiener Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:52:25 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-3097 Meghan, This was caused by couple of issues. First it was caused by creating pretty urls (when you added /%category%/%postname% to the permalinks settings). Your .htaccess file either was not writable or did not exist. Read the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks" rel="nofollow">Wordpess Docs on Permalinks t</a>o solve the problem. Most of the information you need will be in the section titled "Using 'Pretty' permalinks". The other reason this happened is that the "WordPress address (URL)" was different than your "Blog address (URL)" in Settings->General. Your Wordpress Address was www.yoursitename.com/art (you had placed your wordpress files in the folder called "art", as I suggested) but you used the root url (www.yoursitename.com) for you Blog Address. This is a perfectly fine thing to do but you need to configure some files in order for it to work. In the Comment section of <a href="http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/installing-wordpress-at-godaddy" rel="nofollow">Installing Wordpress</a> there is an explanation of the problem and links to instructions for solving it. A 500 server error is often difficult to solve because the error does not give you any information about what is causing it. The solution to the problem is a little more technical than other parts of these tutorials but is solvable nonetheless with a little patience and careful reading of the instructions. Meghan,
This was caused by couple of issues. First it was caused by creating pretty urls (when you added /%category%/%postname% to the permalinks settings). Your .htaccess file either was not writable or did not exist. Read the Wordpess Docs on Permalinks to solve the problem. Most of the information you need will be in the section titled "Using ‘Pretty’ permalinks".

The other reason this happened is that the “WordPress address (URL)” was different than your “Blog address (URL)” in Settings->General. Your WordPress Address was http://www.yoursitename.com/art (you had placed your wordpress files in the folder called “art”, as I suggested) but you used the root url (www.yoursitename.com) for you Blog Address. This is a perfectly fine thing to do but you need to configure some files in order for it to work. In the Comment section of Installing WordPress there is an explanation of the problem and links to instructions for solving it.

A 500 server error is often difficult to solve because the error does not give you any information about what is causing it. The solution to the problem is a little more technical than other parts of these tutorials but is solvable nonetheless with a little patience and careful reading of the instructions.

]]> By: Meghan http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-2895 Meghan Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:45:56 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-2895 I have gone through these steps and when I go to "view post" this error come up.... any idea what I am neglecting? <blockquote>Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Apache Server at meghanrosemorrison.com Port 80</blockquote> I have gone through these steps and when I go to “view post” this error come up…. any idea what I am neglecting?

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache Server at meghanrosemorrison.com Port 80

]]> By: Sam http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-2534 Sam Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:44:30 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-2534 I used photoshop, and it worked great! thanks again. I used photoshop, and it worked great! thanks again.

]]> By: danielwiener http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-2532 danielwiener Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:45:37 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-2532 Sam, Thanks for the tip on "one button fly" ftp. I took a look at Lightbox 2 with auto-resizing. To help you troubleshoot I need more information. If I were troubleshooting this myself I would check to make sure the files are all where they are supposed to be. I would check the page source for the page (in Firefox, it is View->Page Source). Check the settings in Wordpress. I also use the Firebug extension for Firefox to debug javascript. If you give me more information I may be able to give more specific suggestions. --And some more thoughts--- I think the problem is that your images are too big. As with everything digital, images will be rendered on different sized screens with different resolutions, so you have to compromise to fin the optimal image size. Now, I suggest that images be no more than 900 pixels wide and 600 pixels high at 72dpi. This size will fit on an average-sized screen without scrolling but aren't too small on a big screen. This means that you will need to delete the images you have up on your site now, prepare images with photoshop or another image editor and upload the resized images to the image gallery on your site. As an alternative you can tell Wordpress to resize your images when you upload them. Go to Setting->Media in the Wordpress Admin, enter 900 for max width and 600 for max height for large images and save. You will still have to upload your images again for this to take effect. If you want to use larger images that are resized to the screen size on the fly as they are displayed, this is something more complicated. I am sure that there is a JQuery plugin or hack that will do that, however I am not familiar with one and I expect using it will require some programming knowledge... not just copy and paste. If you find one, though, please let us know. Sam,
Thanks for the tip on “one button fly” ftp.

I took a look at Lightbox 2 with auto-resizing. To help you troubleshoot I need more information. If I were troubleshooting this myself I would check to make sure the files are all where they are supposed to be. I would check the page source for the page (in Firefox, it is View->Page Source). Check the settings in WordPress. I also use the Firebug extension for Firefox to debug javascript. If you give me more information I may be able to give more specific suggestions.

–And some more thoughts—

I think the problem is that your images are too big. As with everything digital, images will be rendered on different sized screens with different resolutions, so you have to compromise to fin the optimal image size. Now, I suggest that images be no more than 900 pixels wide and 600 pixels high at 72dpi. This size will fit on an average-sized screen without scrolling but aren’t too small on a big screen. This means that you will need to delete the images you have up on your site now, prepare images with photoshop or another image editor and upload the resized images to the image gallery on your site.

As an alternative you can tell WordPress to resize your images when you upload them. Go to Setting->Media in the WordPress Admin, enter 900 for max width and 600 for max height for large images and save. You will still have to upload your images again for this to take effect.

If you want to use larger images that are resized to the screen size on the fly as they are displayed, this is something more complicated. I am sure that there is a JQuery plugin or hack that will do that, however I am not familiar with one and I expect using it will require some programming knowledge… not just copy and paste. If you find one, though, please let us know.

]]> By: Sam http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-2530 Sam Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:27:12 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-2530 Hello Daniel, When I click on thumbnails, lightbox launches a massive un-centered image. I found this hack: http://nooxnet.com/2009-07-12/lightbox-2-with-auto-resize-in-wordpress/ but it didn't work for me. Any suggestions? Oh, and I'm using "one button ftp," which is simple and somewhat annoying to use, but free. thanks, sam Hello Daniel,

When I click on thumbnails, lightbox launches a massive un-centered image. I found this hack:
http://nooxnet.com/2009-07-12/lightbox-2-with-auto-resize-in-wordpress/
but it didn’t work for me. Any suggestions? Oh, and I’m using “one button ftp,” which is simple and somewhat annoying to use, but free.

thanks,
sam

]]> By: danielwiener http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-2162 danielwiener Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:58:26 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-2162 Lars, Sometimes things that seem like they would be easy are difficult. This is one of them. The code for floating images that is created by Wordpress is a little funky and not too flexible, so if I were doing this I would make some changes to the CSS. However, this can be a bit complicated unless you have a good understanding of CSS. My recommendation is to create a composite image of your 3 chosen images in your favorite image editor (photoshop, etc.) and then upload that image. I do this frequently, even though it is a compromise. I hope this helps. Daniel Lars,
Sometimes things that seem like they would be easy are difficult. This is one of them. The code for floating images that is created by WordPress is a little funky and not too flexible, so if I were doing this I would make some changes to the CSS. However, this can be a bit complicated unless you have a good understanding of CSS. My recommendation is to create a composite image of your 3 chosen images in your favorite image editor (photoshop, etc.) and then upload that image. I do this frequently, even though it is a compromise. I hope this helps.

Daniel

]]> By: Lars SAmuelsson http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-2153 Lars SAmuelsson Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:19:21 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-2153 Hi I am have set up my site with a static homepage or frontpage. Just curious if it is possible to have more than one image on there.I am thinking like a triptych l. Have tried, with different alignments, but it just comes out uneven and generally strange looking Thanks muchly Lars Hi
I am have set up my site with a static homepage or frontpage. Just curious if it is possible to have more than one image on there.I am thinking like a triptych l. Have tried, with different alignments, but it just comes out uneven and generally strange looking

Thanks muchly

Lars

]]> By: danielwiener http://www.danielwiener.com/is/artist_website/configuring-wordpress-wpfolio/comment-page-1#comment-1895 danielwiener Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:40:41 +0000 http://www.danielwiener.com/is/?p=132#comment-1895 Simon, I have not come across this problem so I may not have a quick easy answer. A few questions: Did Wordpress and WPFolio work before you tried the hack for ordering Categories? In general I would try to get it to work before changing the code. Once you get Wordpress and WPFolio to work then try the hack. Once you are changing the code, my guess is that it is a missing semi-colon, quote, bracket or some other small mistake that computer code does not like. What version of Wordpress? What plugins do you have installed? When troubleshooting it can help to turn off all the plugins, see if the problem occurs and then turn on plugins one by one to see if they are causing the problem. Errors like this are very frustrating but we'll figure out a solution. Daniel Simon,
I have not come across this problem so I may not have a quick easy answer.

A few questions:
Did WordPress and WPFolio work before you tried the hack for ordering Categories?
In general I would try to get it to work before changing the code. Once you get WordPress and WPFolio to work then try the hack. Once you are changing the code, my guess is that it is a missing semi-colon, quote, bracket or some other small mistake that computer code does not like.

What version of WordPress?

What plugins do you have installed?
When troubleshooting it can help to turn off all the plugins, see if the problem occurs and then turn on plugins one by one to see if they are causing the problem.

Errors like this are very frustrating but we’ll figure out a solution.

Daniel

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