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Hi
I am muddling my way through setting the blog up and website up. First of all, how can I make it so that a comments section doesn’t appear on new pages,
http://leannecole.com.au/workshops-and-classes/social-snappers-photography-excursions/
That is a new page, and I don’t want the comments or pingbacks there, it makes it look too much like a blog, I want it to look professional.
I did go to the screen options and according to that the comments isn’t turned on.
Also, I want to know if I can make it so you can click on an image and have a new screen come up so people can leave individual comments on particular images in the blog.
So if anyone wanted in that post they could leave a comment on just the image.
Thanks
Leanne
Hi Leanne
You do need to disable comments on a per page basis, here is how: http://support.siteorigin.com/removing-comment-box-from-a-page/.
Screen options don’t control whether the comment box appears or not. It just controls what options you see in the WordPress admin. So you need to enable Discussion just to see those settings, then scroll down to them and then un-tick as indicated in our tutorial.
I recommend installing http://jetpack.me/. Then enable the Carousel module. This will give you a nice popup lightbox that is responsive and has a comments section. Give it a try.
So I have done that, I have made sure the discussion box isn’t checked, and the comments isn’t checked, but there is still a whole thing at the bottom of the page for comments, it won’t go away.
I have jetpack installed for stats, what is the difference?
Okay I found the carousel thing for jetpack and have activated it.
Still getting the comments thing.
Please send through a set of login details to [email protected] and I’ll take a look at the comment issue.
I installed carousel and nothing changed, so I contacted jetpack and it seems you have done something in the theme that disables the ability to be able to have a gallery that is not a slideshow. Jeremy from Jetpack wrote a plugin for me, but now I can’t have a slideshow at all, which I really want for my home page.
So is it possible for you guys to fix this problem. YOu have two options in create a gallery, the thumbnails or the slideshow, so can we please have those two options.
I’ll be back on tomorrow, but just at a glance, Origami has the ability to turn off it’s gallery feature globally under Appearance > Theme Settings, check that has been done.
HI Andrew, appreciate that, but that really doesn’t help either.
I want to be able to use the slideshow for my home page, and do the thumbnail grid for other parts of my site, really, I want to be able to choose between the two, not have no decision, either one or the other.
This is what I want,
http://leannecolephotography.com/2014/06/18/monochrome-madness-week-16/
This is a post I do on my blog every week, but it is getting to big for WordPress.com, so I want to be able to have the overflow on the blog on my website, but right now with the way it is set up, it will be impossible. I will have to load each image individually, which I don’t mind, but then people can’t leave a comment on an individual image.
I put carousel on there, but, it seems then I either have a slideshow for every gallery or no slideshow at all.
I want the option, like you give people when you create a gallery, thumbnail grid or slideshow.
I’m on still, let me take a look.
Really, for a website for photographers, it isn’t very photographer friendly, people can’t look at images any larger than what the website allows, you can’t click on an individual image to look at it without all the other stuff around it, so the images are never shown to their best ability. They are always crowded.
If you add a regular gallery and then click over to the Text tab you can add type=”default” to the shortcode. That will fire up a regular thumbnail gallery which will allow the carousel, which has comments, to fire.
Final result looks like the above, just with your ID’s in place of mine. Documentation ref: https://siteorigin.com/origami-documentation/galleries/
type=”default” only allows you to use the carousel from Jetpack. It doesn’t allow rectangular, tiled mosaic or circle galleries from Jetpack to render.
Please keep in mind that the Origami Gallery takes some work out of the equation, you don’t need to run a third-party plugin to render that slider. But sure, it has some downsides, I agree. In some instances you might need to consider turning it off globally. It’s not always possible for us to accommodate all usage cases, in those events we do our very best to accommodate the majority of usage cases.
(We are at GMT+2, just mentioning so we don’t set an un-realistic support expectation moving forward. We’re not usually online at this time).
No, I know you are not on the same time zone as me, I expect to find responses when I wake up really, you work while I sleep, so to speak.
There are just some issues I have found, I think it is a great theme and really like it, but the way it displays images can be problematic, like you really can’t show portrait mode images in a gallery slideshow, either it makes it square, which has happened to quite a few, or it makes it so large so it fits right across the area allowed, and then you can’t see the whole image on your monitor. I have had to remove so many portrait mode images, because they looked horrible.
For sure, the slideshow gallery is definitely not perfect in that regard. We do appreciate your feedback. My recommendation would then be the steps outlined above, to render a thumbnail gallery using type=”default” in conjunction with a carousel module like the one in Jetpack to push to full screen on click.
I have done the default thing and it is perfect, thank you for helping me with that. I will remember to do that next time as well.
I will have to see what I do, I do love the slideshow for some things, it is a shame that you can’t do galleries the same as you can on WordPress.com, like the tiles mosaic, I love that feature, but I guess it is something they are hanging onto, I haven’t seen any .org theme with it as a feature.
Super.
Our Page Builder plugin can be used on pages and posts. We’ve recently launched a Widget Bundle that has a simple but powerful slider in it. It doesn’t convert galleries into a slide show so it might be a little laborious to use for lager galleries but it is an option if the galleries you want to run slideshows on can be managed from Page Builder and inserted as a widget: http://wordpress.org/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/. This is all assuming you’ve turned Origami Gallery off and are looking for some kind of alternative. With Origami gallery off you can have Tiled Mosaic as a gallery option assuming that’s activated in Jetpack.
All the best.
I will check it out and see what happens,
If I have any trouble, no doubt you will hear from me, LOL,
That you for sticking around to help me out today, I do appreciate it.
Not a problem, chat soon.
Just when you thought it was safe, here I am again, I have lost the slideshow for the front page and I don’t know how to get it back, I’ve tried retracing my steps, but to no avail. Please help
Hi Leanne
If you were managing your home page from Appearance > Home Page you can edit or add a gallery widget from that location.
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for getting back to me. I am wondering if I should worry about it, will see. I guess I have to compromise somewhere, I really like what has happened with the rest of the site, and things are working better. I will try that, I will see, thanks.
Okay just tried what you said, it doesn’t work. Still don’t get a slideshow.
To resolve this you can check that SiteOrigin Gallery is still turned on under Theme Settings, you might also temporarily disable all non-SiteOrigin plugins to see if you have a conflict.
What do you see now? A normal thumbnail grid?