I'm looking for WordPress help here as their forums are worthless. Hopefully a WordPress guru floats around my favorite Webmaster forum.

Q1: Since the upgrade to 2.8.2, my subscribers have not been able to edit their profile. They can access the area to edit, but when the click to submit, it reverts to what was previously there. I also tried manually going in as the Administrator, but it does the same thing.

Q2: I am looking for a plugin that can create product listings similar to this. I don't need to accept payment or have a crazy amount of features. Just list items like this and have the image pop up in lightbox. Alternatively, if someone can show me how to make the gallery function work in this manner, that would work for me. The way it is currently functioning is ok for me, but I do not like it pulling index.php...I'd rather it be pulling page.php.

I think those were my major two questions for today!

Q1: I think I saw something about that being fixed in 2.8.3? Not sure.

Q2: If you implement a lightbox, then, since the pop up will only show on the current page, I assume you will need to allow the user to ultimately click on that pop-up image to go to the post page for that product, correct?
http://visuallightbox.com/index.html?affiliateid=17894 Allows a link to be placed in the image. This can be the link to the actual product post page.

If you want the product to follow the page template then one way would be to add a conditional statement on your single.php file. This is because Posts do not allow you to choose a template(as I am sure you know) but you can use:
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if (is_category('Category A')) { ?>

now put the alternate code that makes the product page look like the Page template
(Obviously, Category A would be your Product category)

<?php } ?>
(this section would revert to the regular single template)

Or, you can simply copy a majority of the code for page.php to single.php if you want ALL posts to follow the page template.

This suggestion is probably only useful if you are ok with digging into the code, of course.
You can also try this: http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/wordp...ost-templates/, I have never used it though, can't comment.

as their forums are worthless

Couldn't agree more.

More help:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

Thanks!

Q1: Upgrading to 2.8.3 did not fix the problem with the profiles. I had hoped that would fix it too, but it hadn't.

Q2: I don't mind digging around in the code, but I am very limited in my knowledge of PHP, so any guidance is much appreciated. Reading what you wrote, I think the easiest thing might be for me to use their stock gallery, but allow the description to also be viewed on the main page instead of just the caption. Would you know how to implement this?

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Also a way to edit the gallery to be more esthetically pleasing would also be great. I fiddled with the CSS, but I can't seem to even manage a 2px border around the thumbnail and caption. It's pulling some strange space issues no matter what I attempt.

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I don't use the stock gallery much but NextGen gallery is great. Tons of presentation options and the css is pretty understandable, etc. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

I think something like NextGen would be good because it uses the same type of shortcode for displaying an image and allows the lightbox effect. The catch is that you still need some other link to allow the user to go to the product page, which is why I would display those home page product listings as individual posts, rather than images simply from a gallery where you have less control. this way the user can click on the thumb for larger view OR click on the link title to go to that post.

Are you familiar with 'custom fields' in Wordpress? This is one way you can craft a post preview by adding a thumbnail, then displaying that thumbnail exactly how you want. Then display the post title link(product title) and excerpt under that image.

Did you code this template?

The problem is, I don't want the images to be posts. I have a blog and that uses the posts function. The listings should have nothing to do with the blogging function. All's I need is something that creates listing that look like this. I really don't want it a two page listing. I want one page that lists all the animals for that section with all the pertinent information for each one.

I'll look at the NextGen...I was hoping to avoid a large plugin as this should be a relatively small thing to accomplish.

And yes, I coded the website.

Hi,

Check with these options:

Answer 1:
-> Upgrade your wordpress to the latest version 2.8.4
-> Disable all the plugins and enable it one by one to find out the culprit.
-> repair the database

Answer 2:
Check with these plugins:
http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpg2/