Adding Plugins and HTML Help

  • knechtcc

    (@knechtcc)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    I have the free version of wordpress and am trying to add a thumbnail slideshow into a page. I am not able to access any plugins which I assume is because I’m on free version. (Is this correct in thinking?) So instead I wrote the HTML code for the slideshow, which I’ve tested elsewhere and am sure it works. I know the HTML editor on wordpress does not support heavy code but this one is pretty basic. (Can attach code and website if necessary)
    Being able to have this thumbnail slideshow is really important to my site and if I’m not able to use it here, I’ll look for other website platforms. Thanks for any help and advice you can offer!

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  • Lindeni Mahlalela

    (@mahlamusa)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    Can you show me the code and the link to where you want to display the slideshow on your website?

    There is a few things you need to consider when adding your html code for it to work properly:

    1. Check the paths to your slideshows images, css and javascript to see if it is in the right place on your server, wordpress stores images and other uploads to a folder wp-content/uploads/<year>/<month> like wp-content/uploads/2015/12 and you will find all the images uploaded in DEcember 2015 in this folder. If you uploaded your images using the wordpress uploader, then you must use the full url to the images in this folder like http://domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/image-name.jpg

    2. You also need to verify the paths to your .js and .css files that makes your html work. Even here, you also need to use the full URL to each of these files, otherwise if you use relative links the code will not work especially when you are viewing a page like http://domain.com/page/ – any code referenced as /js/script.js will not work because in a url like this it will imply you are trying to get the script located at http://domain.com/page/js/script.js while the script is actually located at http://domain.com/js/script.js or http://domain.com/wp-content/plugins/<plugin-name>/js/script.js

    One thing I have to ask you is this: Are you using a plugin or you are uploading the scripts manually and then pasting the html directly into the page editor?

    I hope this helps you and I will be happy to help you further if you need more help.

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