Dave Naylor
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WooCommerce thumbnail image resizing problemsI usually give this advice to clients when they run ecommerce or image intensive sites. Do some preparatory work on your images prior to uploading them to WordPress.
WordPress will create different sized images of your uploaded images according to these settings:
Dashboard –> Settings –> Media Settings
WooCommerce –> Products –> Product Image Sizes
Your Theme –> functions.php(mostly) –> add_image_sizeLook at those sizes. See what the aspect ratio of the images sizes are. Before upload, crop and scale your images to match those dimensions. Not necessarily the exact to the pixel sizes, just match the ratios.
What will happen then is that you will end up with a media library of images all cropped and scaled to the same dimensions and will look uniform on your site.
The error people make is to upload a hotch-potch of different image sizes thinking WordPress with automagically deal with it. It won’t, it’ll just blindly do what it’s told in the various settings I listed above.
If you don’t have an image editor on your computer, something like
will help you create better images.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Completely StuckI think you should speak with wpengine. They pride themselves on hosting support and this is really a hosting issue.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My online blog redirecting to localhostSite URL?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Where to insert code for Custom FieldsCan you say exactly you are hoping to insert, using what code and indicate where on your site you want it to be?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Website speed suddenly droppedWhich may be the problem. Your site is still trying to load them:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: general help reinstating forum (no database)The content is held in the database. The folders just create the framework to show it.
Using one database for more than one application is common.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Website speed suddenly droppedIf you look on your Home Page, under Knowledge is Free, you’ll see some of the images are missing from the slideshow due to a TimThumb script error. That may be having an impact on your site’s performance.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Slider Images Randomly MissingUnfortunately, since you have a commercial theme, forum members have no access to its source to try and advise you. The good news is that your vendors have dedicated support forums here:
https://www.elegantthemes.com/forum/
Hopefully the guys over at elegant themes may be able to help you out.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Where to insert code for Custom FieldsThe codex page for get_post_meta has some useful examples. You need to place the code in your child theme template at the point where you want the information to appear.
Generally speaking, WordPress will create the page using the template from top to bottom. So if you want the meta information to appear immediately after the post content, locate that area of the template and insert the code after that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: general help reinstating forum (no database)To restore your forum, simply follow the installation steps from when you first created it. It should create all the required tables etc in your new database. Your forum should then at least look like it was before the database corruption.
As for any content, and this includes titles, descriptions and posts, they’re gone. Unless you can recover them from the corrupted database, you won’t be able to restore them.
When you get back up and running with your new site, your first job is already waiting for you. Regular, automatic, database backups.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: BLANC PAGESpeak with your hosts to get FTP details for your account. Then grab a copy of FileZilla and access your site via FTP. Download and edit the files you changed before re-uploading them.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: New beta word press header images and other problemWhat do you mean by:
None of the themes that says header
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Website speed suddenly droppedWhat’s your site URL?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: BLANC PAGEWhat changes were you making? Can you access your site via FTP to revert them?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Anchor Text Updates (Making Changes)I seem to be pointing a few people towards this plugin recently. Anyway, I present you with: