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Go to “Appearance->Menus”. If you don’t see “Posts” there by default, then click on “Screen Options” in the upper right-hand corner and check the “Posts” box. You’ll see it now show up under “Pages” to be added to the menu.

WordPress did change things up a bit with the new update. Best of luck!

Yes, there is a solution. What you are doing, in theory, should work. It might be the way you are creating your taxonomy. I do this on a regular basis and don’t have any issues using taxonomy-custom_tax_name.php, without adding special code or query_posts.

Here are the arguments I use (I left out the ‘labels’ here as those don’t matter for this purpose, but of course I use those as well):

$args = array(
	'public' => true,
	'hierarchical' => true,
	'show_ui' => true,
	'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
	'query_var' => true
);

These few args will set ‘publicy_queryable’ and ‘has_archive’ to true, along with a bunch of other options that need to be set to true. It’s also good practice to create the taxonomy before you create the custom post. Not sure if it really makes a difference, but according to WordPress articles I’ve ready, tax should come first in the order.

To better assist, I would need to see the code you use to create the taxonomy. Both of you.

Simpler, yes… but you won’t learn that way :).

The plugins you mentioned will work, if you hosted the images through WordPress. Since you are hosting the images remotely (smart move for bandwidth reasons btw), you’ll need custom code.

There is no easy answer… and as I’ve said it’s still uncharted territory. We haven’t jumped in head first yet either, but we are currently planning on doing some websites with Retina real soon. Do your research and have another go at it after you get a non-retina site up and running. Good luck!

You are correct in that they detect the device and offer up a Retina or non Retina version, but you still have to have both versions. All these plugins do is change the URL of the <img> tag to show Retina or regular versions of the same image.

This is taken from WP Retina 2x:

• HTML Rewrite: The HTML is rewritten at the very end, and the images are replaced by their retina counterparts if available. Very fast, no 404 errors, but HTML caching cannot be used.
• Client-side: This method should work in every case. Normal images are loaded first, then the client-side checks for retina images and download them if available. Works with caching but loads 2 images instead of 1. This method uses the Retina.js script.
• Server-side: Uses a server-handler that decides whether to send the normal image or the retina image. Efficient method, but since the filename is the same either way (as seen from the client-side), it might not play well with services such as Cloudflare or Google PageSpeed.
• Do you have any other idea? Let me know! 🙂

Don’t rely on the plugin for advice though, do more research on Retina. Here is a good article to get you started, but you can also do a Google search for “Coding for Retina Display”:

http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/coding-for-retina-on-the-web

It’s still a widely unknown area as it’s difficult to “detect” devices and also difficult to serve one image over the other. When you “detect” devices, you cross into the realm of browser/device sniffing and that is highly frowned upon.

Nice esmi 🙂

On a side note, the following can be deleted:

Simple WP Retina
WP Resized Image Quality
WP Retina 2x

Since you are not using WordPress to host these images. These plugins appear to only affect images uploaded through the media library. You are linking to external images, so they do nothing for you. If you decide to move the images from photobucket.com to WordPress, then you should hold on to them.

My guess is this line:

if ($menu_to_use) :

Because your get_post_meta function will return:

• If only $id is set it will return all meta values in an associative array.
• If $single is set to false, or left blank, the function returns an array containing all values of the specified key.
• If $single is set to true, the function returns the first value of the specified key (not in an array)

If there is nothing to return the function will return an empty array unless $single has been set to true, in which case an empty string is returned.

Since you are getting an empty string, your if statement still holds true because the variable is set and contains something, even if it’s nothing. Make sense 🙂

Basically you want to check if the string is empty. Change that line mentioned above to this:

if( ! empty( $menu_to_use ) ) :

Which states if $menu_to_use is not empty, or contains something other than:

• “” (an empty string)
• 0 (0 as an integer)
• 0.0 (0 as a float)
• “0” (0 as a string)
• NULL
• FALSE
• array() (an empty array)
• $var; (a variable declared, but without a value)

Well, if you view the source of your website you’ll notice the 3 at the very top of the source file. Directly below that is a ton of JavaScript that sites ABOVE the <!DOCTYPE>, which is a big no no.

My guess would be to look in your header.php file and see where that JavaScript is coming in from. If it’s in the header.php file, then look for the 3 and delete it (probably a typo). If it’s being included, look for the file containing the JavaScript and find the 3 in there.

When you remove the 3, move the JavaScript into either the <head> tag, or right before the </html> tag. You shouldn’t have ANYTHING printing out before the <!DOCTYPE>.

Here is a list of 10 popular jQuery popup scripts… if this helps 🙂

http://jquerybyexample.blogspot.com/2013/01/jquery-popup-window-tutorial-plugins.html