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I don’t mind at all. I’ll take what you have and modify it slightly I think. I don’t want the color in there as I think CleanTheme should control that. Right now I’m having some sort of weird problem in that I have an updated content-image.php on my site but I’m still seeing the old look (vertical bars, left aligned).
I have cleared the browser cache, so it’s not that, and I can’t imagine where that old code is coming from… not your problem however 🙂
Are you sure you’re running PHP 5.3.x? I was seeing errors like this and after lots of other things went wrong as well, it turned out that Bluehost had switched me to PHP 5.4 AND the cPanel was telling me it was 5.3.27 even though it wasn’t.
See this thread for details on how to check what you’re really running
I’m not sure whether all these suggestions make sense for a Symbiostock image site, but just for reference, here’s what it has to say about mine (which is similar)
http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=digitalbristles.com
In the case of the minipic images, possibly they could be more compressed and still look good?
Bottom line for me is that there’s no point in my site being fast if it’s a boring page of plain text – it has to have great looking images up front, IMO. So if that means a less than optimal load speed from Google’s point of view, I think that’s a reasonable trade off.
I don’t really understand what they mean about “blocking javascript” and whether there are any options other than removing javascript, which isn’t practical.
@sharpshot wrote:
I had the same thing happen with Bluehost. I was away from home and hadn’t changed anything. Hope there’s a way to stop this happening again.
I didn’t call Bluehost to complain or get an explanation – so possibly there is some more to this than meets the eye. What meets the eye is that they may change material things on the server without notifying users.
The really damaging thing, from my point of view, is that the cPanel said 5.3.27 which led me on a wild goose chase looking for another cause.
Now, at the first sign of trouble I will run the info.php file to see what’s actually there…
I’ve seen the graph moving up, but I think that’s just because my site is still getting indexed, so it doesn’t represent any real growth.
So when I went to PHP Config in Bluehost’s cPanel, it showed me the version was 5.4 – I guess you cannot rely on the information shown in the panel on the lower left of the main cPanel page.
I also don’t like it that they just upgraded things without my knowledge – no e-mail no warning…
I swear I have not touched PHP Config since I changed it to 5.3 a few weeks ago.
So FWIW, here’s the before and afterdisplays from the phpinfo() call (I’ll leave info.php in my root folder for future reference)
I guess Bluehost hosted sites need to keep an eye on unwanted configuration changes if things start not working on their site.
I haven’t solved my mystery edits problem, but as I only backed the changes out because a couple of things weren’t working (which was probably something to do with the PHP changes) I think I’ll go put the edits back and be happy 🙂
Thanks again for the assistance.
Thank you.
Here’s what that file shows – which is NOT what Bluehost’s cPanel is telling me (and isn’t what I picked when I changed from 5.2.x to 5.3.x a few weeks back)
http://digitalbristles.com/info.php
I don’t quite understand why or how Bluehost would be showing me something that wasn’t accurate. I’ll look into how to get that changed back.
As far as the php files being there – I reinstalled everything after deleting my edited files from the site. I use Fetch for FTP and it has a quick look feature to look at files from the remote site and my code isn’t in the files that are on the site…
I know it sounds nuts 🙂
I may have to talk with Bluehost support
This evening I am seeing the error reported above:
Warning: Illegal string offset ‘added_price’ in /home5/digitdt6/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/ss-professional/functions.php on line 783
This page, as an example, shows the error message. If you click on the radio buttons for license types the message will go away.
http://www.digitalbristles.com/image/airbrush-abstract-frame/
I have Standard & Extended Licenses set for some of my images (the ones where I can safely use the batch editor without wiping out my model/property release settings). I’ve looked at these before and played around with many of these pages before and have no seen this error until today.
I re-installed 2.6.5 this evening because I wanted to see if I couldn’t eliminate some odd behavior – I wanted all the files back to a “clean” state with no edits by me. I can’t imagine how that could have caused the above error to suddenly show up, but…
The odd behavior is that something is caching old code and I’m seeing my modified pages even though the modified php files are gone and the originals are in place.
I don’t have any caching plugins. I’ve tried Chrome, Safari and Firefox. I’ve dumped the browser cache on Chrome several times. Something on the server has got to be caching my old edited files.
A google search has brought up lots of articles about caching plugins, but nothing that explains what I’m seeing – any clues as to what might be wrong.
I’m on Bluehost – could this be some sort of server weirdness?
Symbiostock 2.6.5, professiona plugin l 1.1.9, PHP 5.3.27
Thanks
I unpacked a zip file that I thought was the one I am currently running – 2.6.5.
I’ll make sure I toss that directory and verify the version of what I start with.
Thanks for the explanation – I guess I’m lucky more things didn’t go wrong after I pushed the edited file up there…
@christine wrote:
Has anyone else found they have to answer questions multiple times before it lets you post?
You mean here in the forums? No questions to answer…did I miss your meaning?
@jsnover wrote:
Found the network-manager line and commented it out.
I did a file search in both the professional plugin and the main theme for daily_chron and can only find this in functions.php in the professional plugin:
add_action( ‘symbiostock_daily_chron’ , ‘ss_daily_tweets’ );
no do_action with anything related to daily_chron – might it be called something else?
So everything was fine in my WordPress admin page until just now. I got the following error:
Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in /home5/digitdt6/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/network-manager/network-manager.php on line 1648
Given the editing I did added a comment line, your line numbers won’t be the same, but here’s the line of code in my edits that this referred to:
ajt_network_search_all( & $query_list, $this );
I replaced the edited network-manager.php with the original one and life is back to normal.
The first time this happened, the WP admin panel was up in a tab and I clicked on the stock Images (ladybug) . I closed that browser tab, created a new one and clicked on a bookmark I have that goes to the /wp-admin/ page. Got the error again.
I went to the admin page and to the stock images page many, many times yesterday. Any clues as to why things went south – in a line nowhere near the line Leo asked to be commented out (which is the only change I made in that file) so long after the edits were made?
There’s a free version of Soliloquy
http://wordpress.org/plugins/soliloquy-lite/
I purchased the single site license to get the HTML overlay features (and there’s a 20% off code FUN20 you should use if you’re buying the paid version). Here’s the developer’s site:
@christine wrote:
Who else still has a testing site – maybe we can make a small closed network of those to try out networking features
mine is at http://tulip.kerioak.com If there is I will reactivate network but I don’t want it linked into the main network as there are a lot of left over errors from other testing and it is somewhat of a mess 🙂The other day I set up a subdomain and installed WordPress and Symbiostock into it with the goal of making a test site that wasn’t live
I haven’t done anything to populate it – I realized I need to think through how to do that with a minimum of additional work.
I like the idea of a closed network – perhaps it could be a named network (so in theory it could be more than one) where we’d only be visible to other sites in that same named network?
As my site gets closer to something useful, my willingness to trash it because I’ve been editing code or there’s a new version of something decreases. But there are complications.
For paid plugins – the premium plugin, CleanTheme or the Soliloquy slider I use on my home page – can we use on a second site that’s just for testing and not live?
Is there an easy way to migrate some content over from the live site so we don’t have to build from scratch? What I’d really like is to have the WordPress database on the test site point to the image data on the lilve site, but I’m guessing that’d be way too complicated to implement.
How do people who know what they’re doing (i.e. not me!) handle setting up a test site for a complex WordPress installation?
Now I see you’ve deleted your text that referred to symbiostock_daily_chron – shall I just forget about that? 🙂
