Monte Cristo

that’s strange – email me host@fearlessflyer.com. i need to look at your server

i logged in and checked the plugins – made sure there’s no conflict. They alll look fine. I inspected the code in firebug and they look good. I really don’t know what’s causing fancybox not to fire.

youre the only one that’s having this issue though – I’ll have to check / research some more

1) On the Slider with Latests Posts, how do you limit the amount of text being shown? I thought it was pulling from the excerpt but that does not appear to be the case.

I find it best to just use the “Read More” tag where you want the post to break off. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

although, if you really want to change to the excerpt:

inside the theme folder – look for the file: “slider-with-latest-posts.php” and change the line that says: “the_content()” to the “the_excerpt()”

2) On the animated slider, where can I slow down the animation, it’s going too fast?

inside the theme\scripts\ folder – look for file named “easySlider1.7.js” – open and look for this line: “pause: 2000,” change the 2000 to a higher number represented on milliseconds

3) The slider isn’t pulling the images I linked to even though I double checked and it is listed under Custom Fields, etc. Any ideas?

this is because your hosting hasn’t enabled the GD library for your server, or your monte-criston/scripts/ folder doesn’t have full permissions:

This theme runs an image resizing script known as TIMTHUMB .PHP. The following are requirements in order for TIMTHUMB to run properly:

- TimThumb requires the GD library, which is available on any host sever with PHP 4 .3+ installed. – Proper write-permissions in folder * “monte-cristo/scripts/” to 777 and – Proper write-permissions in folder * “monte-cristo/scripts/cache” to 777

Contact your host and to add the following rules [ 1234234,340151,340153 ] to mod_security for www.yourwebsite.com. and Please whitelist for the domain

http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/issues/detail?id=8

*You also may want to update Monte Cristo with child pages support by downloading this zip file: http://fearlessflyer.com/downloads/Monte-Cristo-Update.zip – and simply replace the header.php and the style sheet youre using. – I tried updating the files in theme forest but they failed to.

Thanks for the quick response. I still haven’t gotten the TimThumb to work but don’t want to spend much time on it since it’s not staying on this server. Now I’ve got a new problem which is the Twitter feed. When I put in my rss link I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_item_quantity() in /hermes/web09c/b2837/pow.ltarrant/htdocs/ceoflow/wp-content/themes/monte-cristo/sidebar.php on line 26

Any ideas? Here’s the RSS feed I put in: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/44430344.rss

I don’t know what happened with the Twitter feed because I didn’t do anything to it, it just suddenly started working… odd.

Can you give me an idea of the cost for the custom work? Feel free to email me directly with that at lisa@helpmelisa.com

Also, as far as the sidebar, I’d like to make my widgets primary with the Twitter lower down, how can I do that?