I just tried it on a few apple machines with chrome, firefox, and safari an it all worked well. I then tried it on a different windows machine (xp with chrome browser) and it worked also. I then tried it on my personal machine, (win7 chrome) and I overlapped a stack of photos. I wonder what it could be that causes this to happen on my machine?

Thanks for the info. I am hosting on standard go daddy account, so it is definitely shared. sometime in the near future I want to switch it somewhere else, it seems my emails sent from the go daddy account are often placed in the junk box of the recipient. They claim it isn’t them, but I don’t experience this with other accounts at all. I know there are many factors, but the breadcrumb trail leads back to go daddy from what I have looked at.

Anyway, that aside, So I guess I am totally fine with only 4 for the most part. And activating a handful others if needed should be ok also generally speaking. Thanks for a generalization on a normal amount of running plugins on any one wordpress website with normalish results.

I am sure everyone just recommends who they personally use, but if anyone has solid recommendations on hosts I would be interested. I want it to provide quality email hosting as well, at a rate normal for a private individual. Cheers

I will check out the plugin, thanks. I don’t have a retina display (other than iphone) to check it out on. And with the iphones small screen size everything (other than the logo) looks good. Is this a very common plugin to use? I am pretty new to wordpress so I don’t have a ton of experience with how many plugins is normal to be running.

Can I ask, in a completely general idea, what it is normal amount of plugins to be running before it gets too cumbersome or slow. I am running about 4 right now.

Thanks for the info Peter.
To wrap this up, after more testing if I use the priority of 10 and true to load at the bottom of the page and the names of the different scripts are identical it does in fact load. With the names the same and the values of 100 and false it doesn’t not load. But with the 100 and false and if I change the name of the new child scripts it will once again load.

So In conclusion I reverted the names to the same (like you started) and used you 10 and true values as my choice to the variables.

Thanks for staying with this to get more clarity.

Okay Peter,
I tried that without the 1 and it still didn’t work. Forgive what I am about to say as I know for a fact I am talking out of my shorts, as I don’t really understand php code at all. But figured you are obviously on the right track and tweaking stuff to get it to work. So I looked on the WP codex at the register_scripts, enqueue, dequeue etc to try and learn more about them for my own sake, definitely still way over my head, but on the dequeue script documentation it was talking about adding deregister along with dequeue, but I don’t know in what context as I didn’t understand it. So thought maybe that is the trouble, but what I gathered was the dequeue was turning off the script I think and then the following register and enqueue scripts are turning it back on but in the child theme location. I was just trying to figure out what the lines of code actually do.

Again without knowing anything I thought it was interesting that the dequeue, register and enqueue scripts all had the same name ‘avia-prettyPhoto’ I thought maybe the new child location script name should be different. This is based off the fact that most of the mod functions and filters you and devin have given me in the past seam to have arbitrarily made up names when including them into the child theme. So I simply changed the wp_register_script and enqueue_script name to ‘prettyPhoto’ instead of the ‘avia-prettyPhoto’ that we used in the dequeue-script before it in your code. And it then worked so then I used avia-Photo and it still worked.

So knowing that, will you look at it again and see if I can infact just use some made up new name for those two lines and call it good or is it more sophisticated than that, and that may give you a lightbulb moment to improve the code. Thanks Please advise.

Thanks Peter,
That leads me to one potential conflict, but I don’t know for sure so I will post it and let you tell me if there will be one or not. I just can’t yet wrap my head around php code.

previously I wanted to add a js file for google link tracking. you gave me almost the same code to add a js folder in my child theme and then place the google file in that child js folder. It looks like this…

if(!is_admin()) add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'avia_register_child_frontend_scripts', 100, 1);

function avia_register_child_frontend_scripts()
{
	$child_theme_url = get_stylesheet_directory_uri();

	//register js
	wp_register_script( 'avia-js-child-theme', $child_theme_url.'/js/googlelink.js', array('jquery'), 1, false );
	wp_enqueue_script( 'avia-js-child-theme' );
}

your new code in the above post for prettyPhoto is very much the same. So if I paste your new code after this code in my functions file, i dont know if that will make a potential conflict some how. can I use both as is, or do I need to combine them some how?

I can accept that, but why is it rendering so messed up. It is hard to see with my site background coolers. But look at this gallery it is supposed to be 4 columns wide. But shows at 3 with a weird extended background container. (the solid tan color) you can see the outline were there is no lines in the background. This shouldn’t be there. try it for yourself, if you change the columns to 5 you actually get 4, if you change to 3 you get two, all with this weird background. What is causing this?

http://i.imgur.com/we6esqo.png

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/we6esqo.png[/IMG]

Thanks for the compliment on the site. http://www.jackandaddi.com It has been a lot of work customizing it to fit my branding but fun also. But the theme does most of the work of course ;)

The issue isn’t with the mobile menu but the (jquery, I think) link to the top of the page that appears when you scroll down the page till a certain distance past the fold. You can even test it on this forum so it isn’t an issue with my site but the theme in general. if you scroll down far enough to the link in the bottom left corner appearing, then drag your window to a width anywhere between 480 – 768 the link will disappear, and then re-appear outsize that window size.

Hey Peter thanks for the code. It didn’t appear to work though. If you visit the link in my previous post that will take you to a masonry gallery page to test. The code you gave is still in place in my child theme for testing.

just for clarity, I noticed you had me change masonry_entries.php instead of masonry_gallery.php, now I admittedly have no idea what to change but as there is only two masonry scripts and two masonry elements (entires and galleries) I figured we would be changing the gallery php as that is were I want the media item title to show in the lightbox.

If we do in fact need to change the entires then disregard below. But if that was an oversight than please advise further. There was likely more you changed in the code you provided for the entires but the only thing I noticed on first glance was this…

				if(!empty($attachment))
				{
                    $alt = get_post_meta($thumb_ID, '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true);
                    $alt = !empty($alt) ? esc_attr($alt) : '';
                    $title = esc_attr(get_the_title($thumb_ID));
 
					if(isset($attachment[0]))
					{

you added the 3 lines in the middle. I thought maybe I could copy this work in the masonry_gallery php but didn’t find a similar location, and there was likely more you changed that I wasn’t seeing anyway.

1. So please advise how to make the change visible in a masonry gallery element, so the title of the image shows in the lightbox.

2. Also if the change to the masonry_entries was by mistake, what will that change do? If it does in fact show the title of anything pulled by a masonry entry that is opened in the lightbox I can just leave it, as I would like that functionality. I just don’t have any masonry entries on my site to test. But I could make one of course.

Thank you in advance for looking into this further.
Cheers

I re-uploaded the images at the largest size of 1210 wide vs my previous 1500px wide which of course generated new thumbnails) and the masonry gallery is now loading about a 705 px wide image in the thumbnail and then the 1210 px one in the lightbox.

So is the 705px thumbnail a new size that is now being generated in the functions file for the masonry galleries? Is that why is wasn’t and is now displaying that way? It was calling for a thumbnail that didn’t exist?

The images are optimized for web but with say 100 images at 500kb it is still 50mb total per say on the page at once. It is curious how if the same images load super fast on page as static images all at once, they are so much slower in the masonry script.

Oh well I will play with the images and see if I can get it faster. The trouble for everyone wanting to display large images, if you want to open 1500 pixel images in light box you have to upload them that large so its available. I just wish the masonry script only loaded smaller thumbnail images like your gallery script does, and then feeds the full size image upon request from the lightbox. that would presumably fix the issue, maybe. But that is only an uneducated observation/assumption.

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On another note. when I inspect my page with the masonry gallery an look under resources I see 1 of each image that is in the gallery. The full size image. And if I drag and drop on any of the thumbnails visible in the gallery the image that is copied to the desktop is the full size image. you can also open the lightbox and drag and drop that image to and it is the full size image.

The behavior on your demo is different. If you go to kriesi-shortcodes-masonry gallery and inspect that page and look at the resources there are 2 of each image loaded one full size at 1030 px for example and then a thumbnail at 705px for example. and if you simply inspect the code of the gallery you see that the smaller thumbnail is being loaded in the gallery by default. If you drag and drop this image off you get the smaller thumbnail as expected. But the big difference on your sample is that if you open the lightbox you get the full res image, great. It however is not drag and dropable.

So big questions.
1. Why is your lightbox image not drag/drop compatible and the one in the them is?
2. Your sample is the optimal behavior and why it is likely faster. presenting thumbnails and only full res upon request from the lightbox. How do we get this same behavior in our themes. your masonry script must be different than the one loaded in the theme pack for 2.4.1

Can this be addressed please. thankyou

Found one mistake Peter. Just a typo. It wasn’t loading and after analyzing the parent functions file and comparing with the code you wrote I figured it was just a typo. so after changing it, the script loads. Now I will have to wait a day and see if the links are being tracked.

wp_register_script( 'avia-js-child-theme', $child_theme_url.'/js/googlelink.js', array('jquery'), 1, false );
wp_enqueue_script( 'avia-js-child' );

needs to be

wp_enqueue_script( 'avia-js-child-theme' );

but after making that change it loads. Thank you

Thanks Ismael I will try to load it that way. Quick question though. How to you modify this for a child theme change.
the /* Register frontend javascripts:*/ function is pretty large. What do you put and where in a child theme directory?

Do I place this in my child functions.php and then place the new .js file in a js folder in the child directory?

add_filter('avia_load_js', 'avia_include_js_template', 15, 1);
function avia_include_js_template($paths)
{
	$template_url = get_stylesheet_directory();
    array_unshift($paths, $template_url.'/js/');

	return $paths;
}

I am assuming that is wrong though. as the
wp_register_script( ‘googlelink’, $template_url.’/js/googlelink.js’, ‘jquery’, “1”, true);
and
wp_enqueue_script( ‘googlelink’ );
were never loaded.

Will you please map out the change for a child setup please? thanks.