macguru2000

Hi Marastev2, so your HTML/CSS is fairly messy, and I don’t understand why your content div is set to 100% wide. That’s ok though, really though it is important to do two things.

1. Remove the div with id catblog2 from your template code, or where ever it is, unnecessary. Also the catablog-images-column should be removed since you have only one image and it is also unnecessary. Have you looked at the gallery template?

2. Set the width of catablog-catalog to something like 900 pixels wide for your design. Now set the margin to 0 auto so it is centered.

If you remove your changes, step two is all you need to do to center your catalog, you can bust out the calculator and figure out the exact width of your catalog my adding the width, margin, border and padding of each catablog-row and multiplying it by 4.

total-width = 4 * (width + margin + padding + border)

Good luck and hope that helps you solve your problems.

Put this css class into your theme’s style.css file or a catablog.css file in the theme’s directory.

body html .catablog-catalog .catablog-row .catablog-image:hover {
  // what ever css you want in here
}

Now each catalog item is specifically marked as published upon import. No more problems. Marked as resolved.

I’m not really familiar with e-commerce or shop so I can’t help you compare CataBlog to them. Maybe other members of the WordPress community can? I can say what CataBlog does do though…

• It has a simple admin interface that isn’t cluttered down with tons of form fields, settings and controls switches. The options panel does have a lot of options, but day to day usage doesn’t require using the options panel.
• The template system allows you to to set exactly how your catalog HTML is rendered, down to the tag, class, alt, rel, or any other attributes.
• A store template that is used to make a “buy now button” in the template system. This means CataBlog can integrate with almost any shopping cart system. CataBlog does not have a built in shopping cart.
• The ability to turn your catalog items and categories into single and archive pages with their own permalinks using public custom post types.
• Import and export features let you convert spreadsheets or other databases into catalogs.
• Built in LightBox JavaScript feature for easy integration
• Attach multiple images to one catalog entry and show or hide the “secondary images” whenever you want with the template system.
• Incredibly dedicated developer who offers support for reasonable requests to tons of people.

Some things CataBlog does not do.

• Customizable data fields for catalog items. (if you are doing a online store CataBlog does not have a shipping price field currently, show stopper for some.)
• Sort or filter your catalog by any catalog value. You may only sort by standard WordPress fields like title, order, date or randomly. You may only filter by CataBlog categories.
• If you turn the Public feature on you cannot customize the slugs for the category and catalog item without MySQL knowledge. An interface in admin will be added in a future release.

I’m sure there is more, I am curious to see if other people post their opinions on here and what they have to say. Also, check out the Facebook page and the official blog for more information about CataBlog.

Does your CSV file have a date column? Are the published dates of the catalog items you are importing in the future? If so then your catalog items will not be ‘published’ but instead marked as ‘future’.

So make sure your date values are before the current date.

I want to note that the instructions posted by me directly above this one have now become simpler with CataBlog 1.3. No longer do you need to wrap your catalogs in a div tag, because they are automatically wrapped in a div tag. Enjoy 😉

Interesting, so the default view is designed to make your catalog look like the product listing on the demo page, while the jellyfish gallery is obviously the gallery template.

If you go to your CataBlog Template Admin Panel and click on the gallery template tab (usually the fourth tab). Do you have any content in there? Here is the default gallery template code.

<div class="catablog-row catablog-gallery">
	<a href="%LINK%" class="catablog-image" %LINK-TARGET% %LINK-REL%>
		<img src="%IMAGE-THUMBNAIL%" alt="" />
		<strong class="catablog-title">%TITLE%</strong>
	</a>
	<div class="catablog-description">%DESCRIPTION%</div>
</div>

If you still can’t figure out your template problems, can you please give me an example link or screenshot so I may see in more detail exactly what is going on. Thanks.