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Ok, here's another post about probably something you've heard already a hundred times… Sorry in advance if this has been posted before but after working on this for the entire day and now reading through the forum posts I still have no explanation for what happened to the plugn on my site.

I have removed and reinstalled the plugin twice, disabled all other plugins because of potential conflicts and still nothing…

My web site is http://realestatewall.com and up until today the plugin has worked perfectly for the past 3 months. Then I changed some html around it and it broke, even though everything else remained the same (Image sizes, posts, category, etc.). Really nothing has changed so I don't know what could be the reason. The path is correct too, all theimages are in place and I added the dfcg-image and dfcg-desc to the posts (after the reinstallation). 

The paths to the images are /wp-content/themes/thesis_16/custom/images/ for both custom field images and default images.

After a while some default images started diplaying, others not. I don't see why for some posts the default image is being diplayed and for some not. Really no idea how this all happened. I run another site with the plugin and that one is still working perfectly, no problems…

Could you please take a look at this and tell me what the reason could be?

Thank you so much for pointing out the missing default images for the categories. In fact I didn't have those created because they are all also category 118 (featured). So now, with creating the defaults for 30 and 134, at least the plugin is pulling those from the default folder. However, it is still not pulling anything from the custom fields (images and description) which are set up for each of these posts. The plugin seems to ignore them entirely. So all I am getting are the default images and the "Read More" default description that I set up under settings. Well, at least it's not looking too bad right now but I would love to get it working just like it did before. What do you think I can do here? Uninstall it again? That's all I can come up with now, but it's obviously very frustrating…

Thank you so much for your help and taking the time!! I really appreciate that!

I'm using Thesis 1.6. I did recently upgrade and the problem kind of coincided with the upgrade. However, I am successfully using the plugin on another site where I am also using Thesis 1.6 and on that one the plugin wasnt affected by the plugin (http://www.therealestators.com) Hope this helps :)

Thank you so much for sending the link!! When I first istalled the plugin I used exactly this tutorial and it worked fine. I think when I changed the html around I must have cut off some of the code and that messed it up. I just checked the site and what he suggests is actually not what I had ended up using before, but the fact that you pointed it out made me go to my other site where the plugin was still working – and there I found the solution. Since I am using Open Hook I have to use the following code in the Feature Box Hook:

<?php if (is_home()){ global $post; include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/dynamic-content-gallery-plugin/dynamic-gallery.php'); } ?>

So in case anyone else has this issue, try this :)

Thank you for spending the time and caring about this problem :) I am making my donation right now! And of course, thank you for providing us all with this great plugin!!!

Hi,

Having the same issue.  I am using thesis 1.6 and I did actually use the link from Mike that goes through the setup.  I have a couple issues if you can help.

1.  My first image shows up with the captions in the slider.  My second image does not..only the caption shows while it searches for the 2nd image.  I tried several different options.  Setup is as follows:

1960 Monaco grand prix slide.jpg – this image will not show up – only the caption

1957 Monaco grand prix slide.jpg – shows up with caption

both images are NOW located in the wp-content/uploads/ folder.  They were located in wp-content/uploads/dfcgimages/ but the same issue existed.

2.  I get these weird vertical white side bars that I cannot seem to get rid of.  The gallery is the same width as my content page.  Any way to fix this?

Funny thing about the Categories.  I did not label the jpegs per the category number. If both images come from Category 1, how can you label both images as "1.jpg?" Maybe I am misunderstanding.  

I assumed them both to be a Category 1 which is what I used in the Dynamic Content Gallery setup. This is the "Feature Content" Category. 

Been at this for 10 hours!  Your help is very much appreciated!  This is my site

http://www.drivenmavens.com

My Goodness!  It all came down to a descrepancy in naming convention.  I had the "p" in the

word "Prix" capitalized in the custome fields so it could not "find" the same name in the folder.

I still have an issue with the "box not being alligned properly.  Is there a way to fix this? 

You! My friend deserve a donation!

sgr said:

Hi,

Firstly, this image doesn't exist in your uploads/dfcgimages folder:

1960 Monaco Grand prix slide.jpg

Avoid using spaces in image names – use hyphens or underscores between words in the filename.

Secondly, what are your plugin settings for the Image Slots (see the plugin's Settings Page)?

Thirdly, the default category images are designed to be displayed only in the event that the dfcg-image custom field hasn't been created. The idea is that if you have two posts belonging to cat 1 and neither have the custom field dfcg-image, the plugin will try to display an image called 1.jpg (which should be uploaded to the folder you have specified for your default images).

Hope this helps!

Hi,

Sorry…I took the site down temporarily.    My wife has been helping me (used to be in IT and she just got back from abroad).  I think we have it fixed.  The white bars and "shift" of of the DCG may have been attributed to the width spacing of 980.  I changed it back to 960 and made the background color of the feature content box the same as the background.  She also changed the pixels of the side bar in Thesis.

I do have a question though..are there different ways that the DCG can display the pics or transition the pics?  I saw a website that would pan the pics smoothly from right to left or even vertically like this site http://londoneater.com/ Is this possible with DCG? Just curious.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I will have the site up again and you can take a look at it. Thanks for your help.