I took a look at your site. It can be hard to diagnose these kinds of problems without being able to look at the WordPress Dashboard but I notice 2 things. First you are using a plugin called something like Custom Contact. Sometimes plugins will conflict with each other. I think you should try deactivating the Custom Contact. Go to Plugins in the left hand sidebar of the WordPress admin, hover the cursor over Custom Contact and then click “deactivate”. That may work. Also you don’t need it since you are not using it on your contact page. Then try your gallery again to see if the slideshow works. If not, try de-activating other plugins.

The other thing I noticed is that your images are way way way too large. For WPFolio images should be 72dpi with a maximum width of 900px and a maximum height of 600px. For instance Coffee Scene in Illustrations is 2000+ pixels wide. Not only will it not fit on the screen it takes a long time for users to see it because of the download time. I recommend sizing your images with an image editing program before you upload them to wordpress. Photoshop Elements is a fairly inexpensive product for image editing. http://www.pixelmator.com/ and http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ are also inexpensive. And http://www.pixlr.com/ and http://www.aviary.com/ are online image editors that you can use for free and will do everything you need. I would recommend that you delete all the too-large images on your site and then re-upload the newly sized images. That may not solve the slide show problem but will help the overall functionality of your site.

But I’m at a standstill right now and would love your help. I want a nice slideshow for each collection of images I post. I’ve uploaded jquery for lightbox. I see how nice it looks in other pages. Also I am using the wpfolio test version. Anyway, no matter what I do, I can’t seem to make it work so that when you click on an image thumbnail you get a slideshow. I assume there’s some really simple thing I’m missing. Can you help?

Thanks!

I looked at your site and you have uploaded tiffs. You need to convert/export your images as jpegs. WordPress (and any website) only works with jpeg, gif and png image formats.

1) So you should delete all the images you have uploaded. Delete them from your posts. Then delete them from your Media Library. In WordPress go to Media. Click the check box next to all the images and then delete them.

2) Export your images as jpegs with a maximum width of 900 pixels or height of 600 pixels.

3) Read the instructions carefully. And check out http://wpfolio.visitsteve.com/wiki/
Make sure you have configured the Media settings in WordPress correctly. And that you have installed a Lightbox or Shadowbox or equivalent plugin.

4) And then re-upload them to the appropriate posts. This should work better. WordPress and WPFolio will create and display thumbnails for you.

Good luck. Write you if need help creating jpegs.

To choose a an image to represent the gallery on the category page you need the most recent version of WPFolio. You can update it on the Themes page. And you need WordPress 2.9 or later. After you have updated your theme and WordPress return to the gallery dialog box on the Edit Post page click “show” next to the image you want and click “Use as Featured Image” towards the bottom of the image dialog (below title, alt, caption, etc. text boxes). Click Save Changes in the image dialog box. Click Update for the Post. And that should do it.

Write if there are problems.

Apparently you just save your draft post before inserting images. Silly, but it works for me!

I just realized that the titles of my paintings are jumbled when in the gallery slide show. My titles tend to be long and some do not fit within the width of the image. I also would like to have other information (date, medium, dimensions) listed below the title in the gallery slide show. I am using jQuery Lightbox. I really like the way
http://matthewdeleget.com/2009/05/war-monochromes-2007-present/
has his slide show formatted, but can’t seem to figure it out myself.

thank you once again
-sofia

-I also would like to know how to change the order of my posts of galleries.

-And, I wanted to know how I can choose which image represents each gallery post.

Thank you! I love this theme, I have been searching for this style for a long time.

1. I want to change the picture on my homepage to a photoshopped collage jpeg I uploaded into my gallery to show multiple works. I tried replacing the other photo, but then nothing showed up at all, so I restored it to your settings. How can I make my new image work?

2. In my painting category, I have three pages and I want to change the order of them as well as the thumbnail images on the links. I tried to reorder them by looking for the number order box that I remember seeing before, but I couldn’t find it. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place? And as for the thumbnails, I have no idea how to alter those.

Thank you!