WPZOOM Academica Homepage Slideshow question

OK I didn’t go to bed. I wanted to, but I couldn’t. When it comes to tackling coding problems, I’m like a fracking Roman legion.

And I GOT IT!

I did all of the above and checked everything at least three times. Nothing worked. Then I suddenly remembered something … just a wild guess. I placed an .htaccess file into the theme’s script folder — i.e., /wp-content/themes/academica/scripts/ — with these rewrite rules:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE:%{HTTP:If-Modified-Since}]
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH:%{HTTP:If-None-Match}]

And man, suddenly the timthumb cache folder (that I had created, see my comment above) fills up with generated thumbs, and the slides are displayed on the homepage!

Can’t tell what the problem was: my guess is that there’s a serious flaw in the theme’s installation script.

But now I can go to sleep. (It’s 8 a.m. now haha). Thanks everybody for your advice! And maybe someone will find this solution useful. But maybe not: it looks like we all have the same problem, but each of us needs different solutions. Decidedly weird.

Thanks a bunch gyokusai! So, in essence, to make the slideshow work I have to do the following:

1.)
Open /functions/wpzoom-functions.php and find these lines (#328):

Code:
echo get_category_parents($cat, TRUE, ‘ ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘);

Replace with:

Code:
if ($cat) {
echo get_category_parents($cat, TRUE, ‘ ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘);
}

2.)
Quote from gyokusai:
I placed an .htaccess file into the theme’s script folder — i.e., /wp-content/themes/academica/scripts/ — with these rewrite rules:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE:%{HTTP:If-Modified-Since}]
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH:%{HTTP:If-None-Match}]

3.)
Checked if WP “Reading” settings “Front page displays” is set to “your latest post”.

4.)
Enabled Slideshow in WPZOOM settings “Homepage Options” & set a static page.

5.)
Click “Add a New Slide”.

6.)
Create title for the slide.

7.)
Upload picture/photo via “Set featured image” under “Featured Image” panel.

8.)
Click on “Use as featured image”.

9.)
Repeat steps 5 to 8 for any additional slides.

Did I missed out anything?

I appreciate your detailed response gyokusai, just one more question though, all these are accomplished on WordPress ver 3.3 or 3.2?

gyokusai – Thank you.

For me in the end it was the timthumb.php that needed updating, however, i did follow your instructions. All Works now!! Yippee
WP3.3.1

I must be a complete newbie… I’ve done everything (as far as I know) that this thread has to offer. Also tried to reinstall everything with no luck – keep getting the problem. After using incredible amount of hours I can only conclude that I must be doing some of the steps wrong.

I got the code for timthump and went to my ftp client, opened the timthump file and updated the code.

Did the same for the echo get_category fix so the code looked like this: } elseif ( is_year() ) {
echo $currentBefore . get_the_time(‘Y’) . $currentAfter;

} elseif ( is_single() ) {
if (!is_attachment()) {
$cat = get_the_category(); $cat = $cat[0];
if ($cat) {
echo get_category_parents($cat, TRUE, ‘ ‘ . $delimiter . ‘ ‘);
}
echo $currentBefore;
the_title();
echo $currentAfter; }

I named the slides “Slide-1, Slide-2 …Slide-5”

I found the .htaccess in my root folder and have the following code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE:%{HTTP:If-Modified-Since}]
RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH:%{HTTP:If-None-Match}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

All my ftp folders are 755

Finally I don’t have any cache folder in my directory… is this something I need to create manually or is it a mistake if it isn’t there?

Since it seems like people have gotten success after trying the advices from this thread, I suspect that I’m messing up in the system. Could anybody verify specifically what the custom field should say and if you need to do something on the page you want the slider.

I really really hope that somebody can offer me the last needed advice as my frustration has reached mountain high. Anybody with Skype and the 30 minutes to spare would also be greatly appreciated.

Now I am having problem with academica theme 1.2.2 slideshow , it shows only featured image in slide show, i have also added latest version of timthumb.php, can any one tell me about how to create slideshow,
geaves can you tell me what minor changes you made in image editing?

Hi geaves,
your trick
As there is only one image on each slide/page and that is the featured image, then that is correct.
worked for me but beside it i also followed all the instructions given before like function.php modification,placement of .htacess file and WPZOOM/settings/Home page Options,
so a BIG thanks to you.