Need Help [ Featured Content Gallery]

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Need Help [ Featured Content Gallery]

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Started 3 years ago by aljiro
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aljiro
Member

Hello.. I really need help with my blog design right now... Im using byty child theme.. I can't seem to make Featured Content Gallery to work. All I see is a black border. No content no nothing. :(

here is my site. http://www.aljiro.com and here is a quick screenshot of my problem http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll116/digitalphantom05/fcg.png

Looking forward to your answers. Thanks.

Posted 3 years ago #
dannydamnboy
Member

There is a problem with your JS files. You are using MooTools and jQuery together an dtehre is a problem of compatibility with the function ($) symbol. Without a deep analisys of your code is impossible for me to help you. First, try to remove every plugin that uses MooTools and check if the problem is still there. Let us informed.

Posted 3 years ago #
aljiro
Member

Hi there. Thanks for the reply. What is mootools and jquery? Sorry for being nooobish here. also what is dtehre? What Plug-ins use MooTools? Waiting for your reply.

Thanks.

Also if you want I can email you the whole source code.

Thanks.. Aljiro

Posted 3 years ago #
aljiro
Member

UPDATE: I tried deactivating all plugins and still Featured Content Gallery did not work. I don't really know the problem but when I use firebug to debug I see it declared and everything. I'm really lost please do help me..

Posted 3 years ago #
dannydamnboy
Member

Hey Aljiro , if you could email me the entire code it will be great! my email is dannydamnboy [at] gmail.com. please include EVERY plugin you are using and let me know which version of wordpress you are using...

Posted 3 years ago #
aljiro
Member

I have emailed you all the details... Thank You. btw my wordpress version is 2.7

Posted 3 years ago #
him
Member

Aljiro,

Try out featurific. It does the same work, has great features too. I also got stuck with FCG in the new version of Thematic. Featurific is working fine and wonderful.

PS- You will have to manually configure the size etc in the xml file.

best,
him

Posted 3 years ago #
aljiro
Member

Hey there him. Ive encountered featurific too. I haven't really tried it but got really turned off by the nasty big watermark... I hope this FCG gets figured out soon..

Thanks.

Posted 3 years ago #
Chris
Moderator

There's one last thing you could try: Using jQuery with other Libraries

This is one major reason why the Featured Content Gallery is not working with jQuery Plugins .. anyway .. the easiest way for the masses would be to put everything into an iFrame. But iePlexus never reacted on this request.

Cheers,

Chris

Posted 3 years ago #
aljiro
Member

Hi Chris. Thanks for the heads up. However Im kind of a newbie and don't know where to put the jQuery.noConflict() thing. Please do help me. What part of the theme will I put it in? In Index.php?

Regards,
Aljiro

Posted 3 years ago #
Chris
Moderator
Aljiro, add the following code to your child theme's functions.php:
```
function childtheme_jquery() {
?>

   <script type="text/javascript">
     jQuery.noConflict();
   </script>

<?php
}
add_action('wp_head', childtheme_jquery);
```
The report I saw 'bout FCG and jQuery said that this would be enough.
Cheers,

Chris
Posted 3 years ago #
aljiro
Member

An error showed up when trying to save child theme's function.php btw I was editing from wordpress.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/aljiro/public_html/wp-content/themes/byty/functions.php on line 24

Thanks for the time.

edit. I edited the file locally then uploaded via ftp. With the changes my site is not accesible with the same error above...

Please help.

Thank you my friend.

Posted 3 years ago #
Chris
Moderator

Send your functions.php to chris (at) wupperpiraten (dot) de

The code snippet was tested and is running here.

Cheers,

Chris

Posted 3 years ago #
aljiro
Member

Email sent my friend.

Posted 3 years ago #
maxchirkov
Member

I just had the same problem getting Featured Content Gallery to work with jQuery powered plugins. If anyone still needs help with this - I wrote a blog post on how I solved this on my own site.

Posted 2 years ago #
yahyaayob
Member

YES! Thanks maxchirkov! Your blog post helps! =)

Posted 2 years ago #
eastjane
Member

Hey yahyaayob/everyone,

How did you get Featured Content Gallery to work? Where do you add this piece of code?
<?php include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php'); ?>

I want to add the gallery to #container above the rest of the posts.

Thanks!

Posted 2 years ago #
em hr
Moderator

Hi eastjane,

I coming in in the middle of this discussion as well. Have you tried following maxchirkov's tutorial linked above?

http://www.ibsteam.net/blog/web-development/making-featured-content-gallery-work-jquery-jquery-powered-plugins

-Gene

Posted 2 years ago #

eastjane
Member

Yes I did try this. This is what my function.php looks like:

/*
*
* Add the image gallery
*
*/
function remove_featured_gallery_scripts() {
       remove_action('wp_head', 'gallery_styles');
}

add_action('init','remove_featured_gallery_scripts', 1);

function addscripts_featured_gallery() {
	if(!function_exists(gallery_styles)) return;
	gallery_styles();
}
add_action('wp_head', 'addscripts_featured_gallery', 12);

function add_image_gallery(){
	include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php');
}
add_action('thematic_above_indexloop','add_image_gallery',0);

/*
*
* Show only posts marked as 'front' category to show on the homepage
*
*/
function only_front_posts() {
	if(is_home()|| is_front_page()) {
		query_posts ($query_string . '&cat=101');
	}
}
add_action('thematic_indexloop','only_front_posts',3);

The gallery appears as a big black border of box but my posts disappear from only_front_posts(). If I comment out add_image_gallery() then my posts appear. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

Thanks for you help.

Posted 2 years ago #

eastjane
Member

3 hours later... no progress on my end. I still get an empty black box with my "featured posts" title below the box instead of inside the box. Also my post from only_front_posts() are still missing.

Please help!

Posted 2 years ago #
eastjane
Member

After many many hours... I figured out my problem. My server did not support short php tag, which is used in this plugin. So I had to edit my php.ini file to turn it on. Now it all works in perfect harmony.

I hope this tip helps other people stuck on such an issue.

Posted 2 years ago #
em hr
Moderator

Hi Jane,

I'm glad you figured that out. I was testing it locally and having difficulty reproducing your problem. I'll never understand why people will share scripts to the WordPress Community with PHP short tags. Especially given how widely distributed WordPress is on inexpensive shared hosts with little control over the server configuration.

Anyone running into the same problem who doesn't have access to the php.ini can simply open:

featured-content-gallery>scripts>jd.gallery.js.php

And search for all instances of <?= and replace it with <?php echo

-Gene

Posted 2 years ago #
nlesti
Member

Hi

I tried to post this question on maxchirkovs original post, but the site is not allowing comments. Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on this as it sounds like eastjane got this to work with her other jquery plugins this way. I am using SutdioPress which has FCG and it is conflicting with some lightbox functionality.

In step #2 of his tutorial, where do I need to replace the posts with get_the_ID() function?

I am a bit new & am just looking for more details about where I need to go to replace this.

Thanks for any help or advice.

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