Wordpress - someone please help before I through my laptop into the garden!!

[AnnieBeansMum]

I'm hoping someone will be able to help with this. I have been battling all morning trying to sort it out and it just doesn't seem to work.

I have a blog/website with wordpress and the issue I am having is with my pictures. If you go to my blog and click on Photos and then Anya the third year you will see a gallery of photos. If you click on the first one you see the photo followed by a title, followed by the date, followed by 'previous' and 'next' links. These links work fine as you keep clicking next. UNTIL you get to page 10 where it mysteriously goes screwy. I cannot for the life of me see where the error is in the html code. I have even tried copying the code from page 9 (which works) and pasting it in to page 10 and changing the relevant links. Still nothing and I am losing my mind.

I am at the point of duming all my pictures and simply linking to a flicker account or something, but I want people the be able to comment on each individual photo without having to register for flicker iyswim.

Someone please point out the error to me. Or, if anyone knows of an easier way to create a gallery on wordpress, let me know.

Thanks.

Having a quick look at the code I can't see a "Next" or "Prev" link anywhere in that 10th page, so it's not like badly formed HTML is hiding it.

Page 10 also has an extra thumbnail on the page.

Page 9, which works, has the photo in a table where as page 10, which doesn't work, doesn't.

I've no idea how Wordpress works so I can't suggest what's actually happening. Do you write HTML or in some template language?

When I edit it in wordpress, you are given the option to edit visually (like ms word) or via html. In both of those screens in edit I can clearly see it laid out the way I want it, but when I publish it, my lovely layout disappears. I have absolutely no clue why it is happening but it is driving me round the twist.

just noticed the title....

Wordpress - someone please help before I throw my laptop into the garden!!

What happens if you quite literally copy and paste the HTML you get from editing page 9 into the edit window for page 10 and don't make any changes what happens?

You have no code for the Prev and next buttons on page 10, to start with.

Those two lines are missing from Page 10. I copied them from Page 9's code. I skipped to Page 11 and they are there, although if you click the Next link on Page 11 you get a 404 page not found error.

Badgers - if I do that I get two page 9s. I tried that, and simply changed the picture and the targets on the previous and next links and it still came out like this.

Tee - I cannot understand why they aren't publishing! They are there in the html code but when I publish they aren't there?? Arrggg...at this rate I am going to end up buying my own webspace and creating a page from scratch.

Is there anything in the code before those two lines that look like this:

What happens if you delete page 9 and link page 8 to page 10? Does page 10 work correctly?

Oh and the 404 error is there because I have only created 11 pages - that at least, is a legitimate error.

This is the exact HTML code I have put on page 10:

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Happy Birthday Annie-Bean

22 December 2009

Previous | Next

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And page 9 - including the link to page 10

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Happy Birthday Annie-Bean

22 December 2009

Previous | Next

----

???????????????

Okay, good to know on the 404 error!

I was going to suggest what Badger said or to delete 10 and see if 9 - 11 link correctly.

And recreate 10 from scratch.

I do this for a living and sometimes that's your only option. I've looked at your code line by line on both pages and there is nothing 'wonky' except that I've never seen ' and " both used to open and close A HREF, but it seems to work on 9 so not the issue on 10.

Wordpress allows very limited html code so I haven't messed around with it too much. As far as I can tell, the code on page 9 exactly matches the code on page 10 (with the altered file names and targets obviously).

I'll try recreating page 10 (again) and see what happens. Thanks

I've just re-done it and when I preview the page, it brings up this address:

summercashmore.wordpress.com/photos/annie-the-third-year/3rdyear010-2/

even though the page name should be 3rdyear010

OK there are a couple of problems with that HTML....

The main one is that you've got a tag when it should be just , you've got a space between the / and the tr.

Also the align argument of the final td should be spelt "center" and not "centre".

The invalid close tag might be the thing that's to blame, if the Wordpress system validates the HTML before displaying it to the browser it might then skip the block that has the next and previous blocks within it.

fixed the name (had to delete the old page out of the trash section) - but it is still screwing up!!

What the hell?? I'm just going to trash the whole website. What a load of crap!! I need it because we are emigrating in June and it will keep family and friends here updated with whats going on with us and I can also share photos and videos.

I'm deleting the whole site, I don't need the grief. I'll just get a flicker account and dump everything in there.

If it's photos of children then I'd recommend going for a web site that gives you some security.

Something like Facebook with all the security ramped up to the max (most definitely not the default settings) is a good example as you know exactly who can see your photographs.

The tag error above doesn't appear to be showing in the edit screen. I can't see a space. I've changed centre to center though and it is still screwed.

Thank you for looking at it for me. But this is stressing me out too much. I'm dumping all the photo pages and will just link to flicker albums. Family and friends won't be able to comment and they will be upset about that (they had asked for that specifically) but I am getting so angry sitting here and I don't need that.

Thank you anyway.

I have facebook at the moment but hate it so it is going. Hence the need for this site.

I've got a wordpress website set up on my own hosting to share pictures.

(I would share the URL, but I don't want it published widely as its for family and friends).

I'm using the NextGen gallery plugin to manage my pictures - and aside from a few minor niggles it does work.

Thanks for this liamsdaddy - I'll have a look at NextGen.

The one downside with NextGen (but also with almost any image management plugin) is that it needs a lot of memory to do the graphics processing for creating thumbnails.

I get around this by having a local Apaches/PHP/MySQL server installed on my home pc, installing Wordpress and NextGen and running the image processing there and ftp the locally created files to the server.

However, you could just as easily use a graphics program to create thumbnails, you just have to name them correctly.

(I guess i could just upload smaller pictures and then it would be ok, 3MP was ok)

By the way, just out of interest, where you using the Wordpress.com gallery?