I'm currently building a 6 page site and have finished the template for the navigation elements, the problem is, I just put the css & js into external files for the elements that will be the same on each page but now they aren't rendering on the original page or the new page, just showing white where there should be images.
Is this because I used id's on the elements instead of classes?
I thought it wouldn't matter if the id's were on separate pages that's why I'm asking here as it could be something else.
After putting the CSS & JS into external files Dreamweaver asked if I would like to update the links, I answered yes and it changed all background images in the external css file from (images/image.jpg) to (file:///images/image.jpg), I had to change them all back to the original path. Problem solved.
It does not matter if id's are on sepereate pages. You probably have a JS error somewhere in your migration. Did you load the page with firebug/chromedevelopertools/iedevelopertools open and see if there is a JS error?
ID are not the problem. check that the relative path is still correct according to the css file. to me that seems to be the most probable mistake.
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I need some advice on CSS placements for the sake of website load times
I read that it's best to have 'critical CSS' in the head and the rest can be placed in their respective page's body via the tag.
Is it good practice if I loaded all the CSS or at least the 'Generic' styles that many pages share while I kept page specific styles in a tag in the page's body?
One side question, some of my pages use jQuery, should I only load that at the bottom of those pages or leave it in the template head?
I tried both and the site loads just fine, but I know under the hood results may vary. I'm not sure how to even check. I tried websites that test a website's load performance and I got mixed results. So I'm not sure how to optimize my website's performance.
Usually all CSS files are called in the head, one thing you can do to improve performance is to modularize, let's say that you have the global styles in one file called global.css and it contains your font specs, global components used in all pages such as navbar, footer, layouts, etc... And in another file you can only put the styles regarding your specified page such as contact section that's another page called contact.css and there you can have overrides to global file and specific styles that you only use in this page.
This way you can serve less heavy files regarding the page that user's requiring.
Regarding you jQuery question I suggest that don't load jQuery library if you're not using it, it's useless. Only load it in the pages that you're using the library. Hope it helps!
I have an html 5, css, and javascript audio player that I'm trying to add to one page on my wordpress site.
I tried to paste the html into my page's text editor, while installing the JS and CSS folders for the player in my child theme's folder, which didn't work.
I tried placing the CSS for the player styling in my child themes CSS file, and that didn't work. I also tried linking to the style sheets and js scripts from the header.php file, which wasn't working for me.
My first thoughts are that because the html is showing up as it should, the css and JS files aren't being called. So I just need to figure out the path structure of how wordpress creates pages? Yet I know wordpress does something with a database to display the pages?
I saw some documentation about using I think it was either php or JS functions to call scripts or something and I don't understand enough of those languages to be able to make sense of it yet.
I'm still working with my developer, but he's 7 hours ahead of me and asleep. I just want to put the hardcoded version of the player and a few songs on my site for now so I can do some testing/see how it looks.
I hope that this question meets the SO req's. I tried to search on my own and I know the answer is out there, I just don't know enough to understand it yet. Trying to get a head start
The path to your Child theme's folder should be '/wp-content/themes/name-of-theme/'. You can use that in your header to call the files from wherever you might have placed them in your Child theme's folder.
To hard code the HTML, pasting it in the WordPress page editor should work fine unless there is another JS call or some weird iFraming going on.. if that's the case, you can simply create a Page Template (https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/page-templates/#creating-custom-page-templates-for-global-use) and paste the code there. You'll likely want to just copy an existing page template from your Theme, take out the inner loop, and replace it with your video code.
Adding the links to your 'header.php' file would be considered bad practice. You would want to create a 'functions.php' file inside your Child theme and call the JS/CSS from there. You can also find this within the WordPress codex (they literally give examples you can copy/paste and change your file names).
How to extract the header and the footer from this page to insert it in another page?
I'm a bit confused because when I copy and paste the header div it never has the same structure and graphics in the new page? Am I missing something here?
Typically when you copy/paste the div you're getting the HTML, but not the CSS styling (unless the styling is in-line).
There is a Chrome extension called "CSS + HTML" that allows you to, in the developer console, generate a version of the div that has all CSS turned into in-line CSS, so that you can copy/paste a pretty accurate version.
(Caveats: I've had some issues with the extension, so I don't enable it except when I need it, and the HTML produced is a) awful, because it has lots of unnecessary inline CSS, and b) not always a precise match. But it's pretty good.)
Yes, you are missing something. The CSS, images, and links... They are using relative links. You would need to be sure to replace those links.
The images are linked relatively so unless you copy them local you will not have access to them.
You would also need the Style Sheets as they are linked relatively in the head.
Not that the links in some cases are to .php files. Unless you know the php running in the background you are going to lose that functionality too.
I have tried to place the slider on every page on this website: http://atripathi.com
It works on the homepage, but doesn't work on any of the other pages (About, Services, etc.)
I know it's probably an easy fix, but I can't get it at the moment.
Thank you for any help or suggestions!
Looks like the original suggestion above is correct. I'm seeing slider javascript includes at the top of your homepage that aren't on the other pages.
Generally, a good way of troubleshooting is to make copies of both pages, index-c.php and about-c.php perhaps, and start removing everything that isn't pertinent to the trouble you're having (other HTML, css includes, etc.) until you get down to only the slider on the page. Once you've done that, you might notice that the one page is slightly different than the other, making it work. You can copy back and forth until it does.
The other possibility is that there's a relative path problem somewhere, because your one page is inside a folder (though I'm guessing you have a .htaccess redirect to a root folder page)? So if all else fails, move the reduced about-c.php to the root folder and see if that then works. If so, you know it's a path problem.
Hope these suggestions help.
I see that jQuery is being included on all your pages but the cycle plugin is only included on the home page. You should be able to update your template(s) to fix this.
I am trying to compare having a 1 page app with clientside routing to having a asp mvc app which just routes to html files, to see which is more appropriate for my current project. As I have no need for any Asp Mvc features its all javascript/html which communicates with a web service.
However one problem I can forsee with the one page app is that my site isnt really 1 page, so I would be having to have on main index.html which contained all shared resources. Then dynamically load in new pages based on the hashbang and add in any required scripts and css. This doesn't seem to hard as Jquery I believe provides a .load() method or something similar to get external resources... my problem though is getting rid of them once I am done...
Is there any way to do this, so you target ONLY certain script/link tags, can you give them Ids or something?
Any help on this would be great...
== EDIT ==
Added a simple example to show what I mean:
<!-- Script already in page -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/script1.js"></script>
<!-- Dynamically added script -->
<script type="text/javascript">
// some javascript
</script>
How can you tell which ones you should remove? If you could apply an id or uniqueness to each script then it may be ok, but thats what i am getting at with this question.
There are zero benefits to "removing resources." When a script has been loaded, removing the script tag from the page later has no purpose--it won't improve your browser performance at all, nor will it harm it to keep the files around.
Simply add your resources as needed and write your code such that it won't execute erroneously.
I'm not shre i understand why you would like to do that but link element (for css) and script (for js) are elements like any other and they can be deleted with remove().