Ok, to give you a little more info – everything works fine when I have Meteor Slides using the CSS from its own plugin file. But as soon as I move its CSS file to my theme’s CSS file the nav and pager buttons totally disappear, even though I’ve copied over the .png files to my image folder. Changing the paths from (‘../images/buttons.png’) to (‘images/buttons.png’) does nothing. Oddly enough, I can see what I think are all of the buttons clustered together in the upper left corner of the slide box as the slide fades out. I have no idea why they are up there, I haven’t adjusted any of the positioning. Please help!
Hi, it looks like Meteor Slides is seeing the CSS file on your theme and loading that instead. But the file itself is 404ed: http://www.gayliawagnerdesign.com/wp-content/themes/C-Cbaby/meteor-slides.css
That’s pretty strange, it has to be there for Meteor Slides to load that instead, but the browser say’s it’s missing. First thing I would try is just removing the file from your theme and trying again with a fresh copy from the plugin. Also, check the permissions of the file via FTP and make sure it matches the other theme files, it may be unreadable.
Otherwise, if it doesn’t work and you only need to customize the slideshow a bit, you can do it right in your theme’s stylesheet and just tweak the default plugin styles.
I tried deleting it, recopying it, and changing the permissions (upping them from 644). Nothing has worked. I’m wondering if this is an underlying problem caused by the parent theme – Custom Community. For some reason the child theme will not read the style.css sheet that’s in the child theme folder. It only reads the CSS if I add it directly to the CSS page in “Theme Settings” in the Dashboard, and those changes do not get saved to the child theme’s style.css file at all. Do you think I need to copy all of the code from the plugin’s CSS styleheet and paste it directly onto the one in “Theme Settings”? All I’m trying to do is change the color of the pager buttons.
Are you sure you have the child theme activated and not the parent theme? I can take a closer look if you want to send me a login for the site.
Ok, exactly as I thought – when I copied and pasted the CSS into the CSS page in “Theme Settings” in the Dashboard the plugin started functioning normally again. But now the pager and nav buttons aren’t showing up at all (not even hidden in the upper left corner) so I must have the image paths wrong. Huh, I wonder if you’re right and I don’t have the child theme activated. Yikes! I’m sending you my login info – please take a look because I’d hate to lose all of my hard work when an update comes out! (You will see that the child CSS sheet has code in it, but that’s because I’ve basically just been using it to store a copy of my changes.)
The problem is with the child theme’s folder name, “C-C baby”. That space in it isn’t working in the path for the custom stylesheet, the space is being removed. It should at least have a dash instead of the space, but I like to keep it all lowercase, only letters and dashes, like this: “c-c-baby”.
Oh. Oops. Feeling a little silly now. Thank you so much for pointing that out to me. I had been going a little crazy trying to figure out why nothing seemed to happen when I would add to the style.css for my child theme…. Everything seems to be working perfectly now. You’ve been a great help, and I’ve been really impressed with your responsiveness both to me and to others. And your patience! I’m sending a donation to you directly. Thanks again!
No worries, it’s all part of the learning curve! You’re welcome, thanks so much for your donation!
