Comments on: Recent images box

By: Joe Streno

Joe Streno — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:40:52 +0000

I am in the process of redesigning my blog. I am customizing the Wordpress Christmas Theme (minus the MooTools features built in.)

What I’d really love to be able to do is use SmoothGallery in the header so it shows up on every page, then direct SmoothGallery to use an image in a custom field with the images URL as the field’s content. And if they click on that header image, go to that page.

I’ve tried everything, on this HowTo page … but can’t get SmoothGallery to work at all.

If you go to my current blog … I’m using another WP theme. The Christmas Theme I’m working on a localhost server & it is not yet active.

Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Thanks … Joe

By: Amr Darwish

Amr Darwish — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:22:01 +0000

i got this error

Warning: require_once(../utils.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/a/m/r/amrdarwish/html/v2wp/wp-content/plugins/smoothgallery/extra/recent_images_box.php on line 54

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../utils.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php’) in /home/content/a/m/r/amrdarwish/html/v2wp/wp-content/plugins/smoothgallery/extra/recent_images_box.php on line 54

By: Yelle

Yelle — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:51:08 +0000

Thanks for the link, Christian! Will try to work it out. I’m quite the newbie, so thanks for your patience.

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:21:01 +0000

Hi Yelle, the OpenBook theme already has a SmoothGallery and you don't necessarily need this plugin. Read the instructions here under Configuring SmoothGallery and learn how to fill the gallery with images.

By: Yelle

Yelle — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:26:15 +0000

Hi Christian! I’m trying to figure out how to put the SmoothGallery into the banner of OpenBook theme. Any help would be very welcome. Thank you!

By: boylogik

boylogik — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:30:30 +0000

Thanks Christian – I made the necessary adjustments. Thx for catching that. Unfortunately, still not working. I’ll continue trying.

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:12:39 +0000

Hi boylogik,
I’ve just updated the information on this page reflecting the changes I made to the plugin but forgot to update the documentation here.
Your implementation of the insertSmoothGallery looks fine so far, but having a look at your website I saw that you just added insert_recent_images_box(2) to the HTML as is – of course this is a PHP function call and must be embedded inside the PHP tags, i.e. .

By: boylogik

boylogik — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:35:46 +0000

FYI – I downloaded the latest plugin from wp today. The config.php file in there does NOT have the following text anywhere – - – -
ENABLE_RECENT_IMAGES_BOX_FILTER. It has the -ENABLE_RECENT_IMAGES_BOX, but NOT the _FILTER statement.

Also, I read above that if we use it inside our theme just for the home page, we should update the function to — if (is_front_page()) { etc —- BUT, if we use the ‘front_page’, don’t we have to change the line above it to also reference front_page – - – meaning — if (assert_functions_exist(array(’is_FRONT_PAGE’)) === false) return false;

5 hours and counting…still no luck. Just want it to pull the pics from body of most recent postings.

What am I doing wrong – need on homepage to show most recent posts:

function insertSmoothGallery() {
if (is_front_page()) {
return array(’width’ => 400,
‘height’ => 200,
‘timed’ => ‘true’,
‘delay’ => ‘2000?,
’showInfopane’ => ‘true’,
’showArrows’ => ‘true’,
‘Carousel’ => ‘true’,
‘embedLinks’ => ‘false’);
 
}
return false;
}

and then went into my index.php and inserted the following as instructed:
insert_recent_images_box(2);

By: U.S. Common Sense

U.S. Common Sense — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:16:03 +0000

Thanks Christian. I’ll give this a shot.