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1. bjdbjd
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Hello, I want my site to look exactly like this - http://www.fishershotcrete.com/
   I'm newbie and I did not know until recently how to use shortcodes, etc.
   ok I realized that to show on parent pages a table of clickable thumbnails of child pages I must to put this shortcode [autonav display="images" pics_only="1"] in each parent's pages visual window , right? I do this and it works fine :)
   But I can not figure out how to do so when I'm in Homе page there is displayed table of clickable thumbnails (each linked to each parent page) of all parent pages just like in http://www.fishershotcrete.com/ ?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/autonav/

2. wlindley
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   That shortcode, exactly as you show it, will display a table of "the child-pages of the current page". If you have a home page, and then you also have several other pages which are also at the "top level" -- in other words, they are not children of the home page, then try:

   [autonav display="images, siblings" pics_only="1"]

   If you use the original shortcode on the page which is set in the WordPress settings screen as the Home page you do not need the ,siblings modifier.

3. bjdbjd
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Thanks, but as i said i am newbie...Please explain me again with more details - step by step :)
   What options exist to make my home page, just as the site
   http://www.fishershotcrete.com/. In other words - every time when I click on "HOME" then on the screen I see table of clickable thmbnails linked to each one of the parent pages ( in http://www.fishershotcrete.com/ they are named •Structural Walls, •Industrial Coatings, •Swimming Pools, •Soil Stabilization, •Arch Culverts, •Special Applications ? - As far as I understood there are two ways to do this in the order as you said? :
   1st way: I have created this six parent pages which have children pages within them (•Structural Walls, •Industrial Coatings,etc etc).After that I should be create and other parent page named "HOME" which have NO children pages within it, right? And then I must to put this shortcode [autonav display="images" pics_only="1"] in the visual window of the page named "HOME", right? I tried this, but no luck :(

   2nd way: You said: on the page which is set in the WordPress settings screen as the Home page - what you mean? In the WordPress settings screen>Reading>Front page displays I must choose •A static page (select below) and then in Front page: I must choose my last created page named "HOME"?

   Maybe I have not understood properly what you explained me?
   Please explain me again how many ways there are to do this in my home page and how to do it step by step and with more details - remember i am newbie

4. wlindley
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   In your "1st way" -- for the shortcode you show, that will only show the children of the "Home" page. display="images" as explained in the documentation creates a table of the CURRENT PAGE's children (i.e., the children of your "Home" page if that is where you put it). The "siblings" parameter means, "all the _other_ children of the parent of the current page."

   In your "2d way" which is the correct way to do it, yes you are correct. Set the static home page to be the page you are calling "HOME". And then the shortcode you give, should work.

5. bjdbjd
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   About "2d way"... you said the shortcode you give, should work which exactly shortcode you mean? I say again - I am newbie :( Please explainm me step by step what I must do after "Set the static home page to be the page you are calling "HOME""? Which shortcode I must put - [autonav display="images" pics_only="1"] ? or other??
   Do you have some messener to write ? Skype may be?

6. bjdbjd
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Or simply... explain me step by step How is made the "HOME" page in http://www.fishershotcrete.com/ ...

7. wlindley
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   1. create page called (with slug of) "Home"
   2. create the pages to be displayed on "Home" page
   3. Set "Home" to be the "Static Home Page" in WP Admin
   4. In "Home" page use [autonav display="images" pics_only="1"]

   That is all that I did with the Fisher Shotcrete site.

8. bjdbjd
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   thanks,
   let's explain to you step by step how I tried to create my site exactly as http://www.fishershotcrete.com/ :
   1. I created page called "HOME". What you mean called (with slug of)? In my Permalink Settings>Common settings is choosed Default and permalink of my "HOME" appears as http://mysitename.net/ and the rest of my parent pages appears as http://mysitename.net/?page_id=648 etc etc.
   Also I used two "Hierarchical Page" widgets. First widget is without Title and only field "Show the static home page?
   (always shown if it has child pages)" is choosed. In field "List of page IDs to exclude " i wrote 648,477,475, etc etc - all IDs of all my parent pages. Second widget Title is called "PAGES" and only field "Show the static home page?
   (always shown if it has child pages)" is NOT choosed.

   2. You said : create the pages to be displayed on "Home" page - what you mean, which pages you mean? You mean all the parent pages except "HOME" page- in http://www.fishershotcrete.com/ they are: •Structural Walls , •Industrial Coatings , •Swimming Pools , etc etc ??

   3. You said : Set "Home" to be the "Static Home Page" in WP Admin - Yes, I did it immediately after I created page called "HOME" :)

   4. You said : In "Home" page use [autonav display="images" pics_only="1"] - ok, I did it! But nothing appear in my "HOME" page???!!! Where I make a mistake??? :(

9. wlindley
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I have tried to explain this as well as I can here. The Plugin should be working for you now. Perhaps you could contact my company or perhaps someone else here can help. I imagine you have made some simple mistake or are confused about terminology, perhaps there is something about your web-host that is causing problems. It will take further work to find out why.

10. bjdbjd
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    You said :
    1.create page called (with slug of) "Home"
    2.create the pages to be displayed on "Home" page
    3.Set "Home" to be the "Static Home Page" in WP Admin
    4.In "Home" page use [autonav display="images" pics_only="1"]

    Ok, but I think that you had to say something more... To appear table of clickable thmbnails in "HOME" page In Each parent page must to be attached a image as Thumbnail (or Featured Image) and then your plugin will work... right? If so - where in your description might read this??

11. wlindley
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Yes, that is correct. From the readme:

    [in] Navigation [mode]. Creates a list or table of the current page's child pages. Tables are composed of linked thumbnail pictures based a custom field in each child page, or the child page's attached picture.

    Perhaps instead of "the child page's attached picture" it should say, "the child page's featured image; or, if a child page does not have a featured image, the first image which WordPress considers as an attachment for that page." (Note: that part of the readme predates WordPress calling them "featured images.")

12. bjdbjd
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Well I just what I meant - that you nowhere wrote about this case ("HOME" page does not contain child pages)! But you again talk about child page!!?? What child page my friend?? In my "HOME" page does not contain child pages - I said this much times-Do you read this in my previous post??? I said much times that I am newbie but I am not stupid....Why you talk again about child pages and NOT for "HOME" page does not contain child pages???

13. wlindley
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Please be polite. See my first reply, about the siblings parameter.

    There is a special case in the AutoNav code: If invoked on a page that does not have children, and that page is the home page, then all the pages with no parent are considered child-pages.

    I hope that answers your question.

14. bjdbjd
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    no, but thanks

15. wlindley
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Did you get everything resolved? Please email me if there's anything more I can do.

16. wlindley
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    In certain cases, if you look at the Autonav default settings that are shown in the admin page, you will see that post_id defaults to 0 ... that should be blank.

    That may prevent Autonav from displaying images.

    To resolve, download version 1.4.2, and Save Changes in your Autonav settings. That should clear the post_id default field.

17. bjdbjd
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    Thanks,
    You might not understand me....I realized that: To appear table of clickable thumbnails in "HOME" page In Each parent page must to be attached a image as Thumbnail (or Featured Image) and then your plugin will work
    Ok, now I have another question: In my "HOME" page clickable thumbnails of parent's pages are sticked (glued) to each other ( The same happens in Parents pages that includes child pages in them)!!?? Also "Titles Under Images" are left-aligned, not center-aligned
    What I can and must to do to my thumbnails are not sticked (glued) to each other and to set distance between them - 2px, 3px etc.?
    What I can and must to do to "Titles Under Images" are center-aligned ?

18. wlindley
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    CSS -- Styles -- can be used for the arrangement. I recommend the Firebug add-on for Thunderbird as the easiest way to discover, and even make sandbox experimental changes "on the fly"... Do you have a public URL for the work in progress to show here?

19. bjdbjd
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    AS I said I am newbie and I think that I can't use this Firebug add-on :(
    my website is http://clip-art-free.net

20. wlindley
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    OK so you are a beginner, ... why can you not use Firebug?

21. bjdbjd
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    Ok I would try... give me link to download this stuff pls :) did you see my site?..

22. wlindley
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    Looks good! ...In Firefox: Tools; Add-Ons... search for Firebug and add it.

23. bjdbjd
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    thanks, but..hm...I thought that you talk about WordPress plugin to do this: "What I can and must to do to my thumbnails are not sticked (glued) to each other and to set distance between them - 2px, 3px etc.?
    What I can and must to do to "Titles Under Images" are center-aligned ?" How I can do this by Firefox browser??
    You said : "CSS -- Styles -- can be used for the arrangement" - ok, explain me please what exactly I must do :(

24. bjdbjd
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    What about this plugin : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/firebug-lite/screenshots/ ?

25. wlindley
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    No, what you want is this: http://getfirebug.com/

    If you want control of your web page's appearance, you need to learn CSS. There are many tutorials -- see especially http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS

    The AutoNav Readme describes which styles the plugin uses.

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