New photoblog theme problem… solved!
May 9, 2008
In an earlier post I related how I’d been trying out the new “Monotone Photoblog Theme”, but without much success. Basically, I couldn’t get the pics to display.
Well, the designer of the theme, Noel, very kindly added a comment to that post, offering to help sort the problem out.
There was an exchange of emails, then nothing much for a coupla days cos he was otherwise occupied, as was I. Then I get another email from him asking me to create a new post on the test blog and send him the resulting code. Which I dutifully do (create the post, that is). And lo and behold, it works!
And I think I may have identified the problem. It seems to be in the underlying code for the post, in the “img class” tag. Seems the attribute wp-image- requires a value of 6, whereas in the test posts I did that didn’t work the value mysteriously appeared as 3.
Dunno how the error crept in but I’m mighty pleased its now resolved, and great appreciation to Noel for his offer of help.
(I can’t recollect having changed that particular attribute of the tag, but knowing me anything’s possible. On the other hand, the tag is generated automatically on hitting the “insert into post” button on the uploader, so perhaps there’s been some tinkering going on behind the scenes? But whatever, I just knew it had to be something simple!)
Only dilemma now is, shall I deploy the new theme on the “faves of the month” blog or stick with the one I used as a temporary fill-in (and for which I’ve developed a bit of a liking)?
Or maybe set up another blog entirely with the new theme, for a different class of pics? Hmm…
[Edit 10th May '08: Hmm... all that stuff about the value of the wp-imag- attribute of the img class tag's a load of rubbish! Having uploaded a few images now seems that value changes. Looks as though I'll have to investigate further. What this really means of course is that I still don't have a clue why the theme's working now whereas it wasn't before!]
6 Responses to “New photoblog theme problem… solved!”
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May 10, 2008 at 1:48 58
Yeah, that’s JUST what you need: more blogs.
May 10, 2008 at 1:59 47
My thinking exactly!
May 10, 2008 at 9:13 32
Fear not! I’ve relented, and pressed the new Monotone theme into service on the existing “faves” blog. Not entirely certain at the mo’ that its an improvement over the other one I was using, but I’ll stick with it for a while to see if it grows on me.
Of course, this isn’t to say that I won’t set up another blog!
May 11, 2008 at 16:59 47
I like the Monotone theme on your faves blog. It looks FANTASTIC!
May 11, 2008 at 18:21 20
Hi Tam Thanks for that, and I appreciate the feedback. I wasn’t at all convinced myself… think its the white bars either side that I find offputting. Would have preferred it had they either taken on the colour of the page itself or just been something like neutral grey or black.
However, I’ll stick with it for the time being, particularly given all the irritations of trying to get it working!
May 11, 2008 at 19:55 04
I agree that the white borders are off-putting. Seems to make the entire premise of the theme somehow lost.
But you’re still aces, dude!