@Staff:
Theme Visual. When none of the posts on the first page of posts has a featured image or a regular image, the second page of posts will load behind instead of below the posts of the first page. Visit this page and click "Older Posts" to see it happen:
http://donnadouvartzidis.wordpress.com/updatesnews/

You were right with the text on the photo gallery issue also, it must have been a browser glitch or something because I tried it again and it took a few seconds to come up but the text was there and then the photos appeared. That's fixed at least. Although I was sure I set the photo gallery up as a 'category'?

I have the Visual theme with responsive layout which works fine except that I have small figures with wrap around text and the columns get too narrow when reducing the window width before it switches from 3 -> 2 columns. I read that they are 265px wide (minimum I guess) but I don't know how to increase that with CSS.

Thanks for any assistance

Steve

I'm not sure the problem is really fixed: what I suggested makes the post load in a different way, so it doesn't trigger what you were seeing before, but what you were seeing isn't supposed to happen, so whatever it is that caused the problem must still be lurking somewhere... If you wish, you can set the number of posts per page to less than 10 in Settings > Reading, so I can see what happens when you move from page 1 to page 2 of your posts.

"Photo Gallery" isn't a category like the rest of the items of that dropown, it's a static page. Is that ok or should it really be a category? If you mean you want some text right above the images when you view this page:
http://donnadouvartzidis.wordpress.com/photo-gallery/
then no, there's no reason why you wouldn't be able to add it (other than a mistake of yours or a temporary glitch or a browser issue). You just go to Pages > All Pages, click the title of the page to edit it, make sure the cursor is at the left of the rectangle that represents the gallery, press enter to make room for the text, type text, click Update.
Perhaps easier if you switch the editor to Text (=code): place the cursor before the opening bracket of the gallery shortcode, press enter once or twice, etc.

I just tried to give you access to try and help me but the email won't send to 'justpi' or your wordpresss address 'http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/' ... what am I doing wrong ...

Widgets
You can configure a sidebar on single posts and pages by going to Appearance → Widgets.

Suburbia and the Columnist work the same way: an image you insert in a post will show on the front page if it's the first image you upload from your computer via the Add Media tool of that post, or if you set it as a featured image to that post. It won't show if you insert a previously uploaded image by selecting it from your media library, or if you insert an image hosted elsewhere.

Thanks, Joe

Its pixel height is fixed (450px), and its width is 100% of the main column content (in your case, 656px). Forty of those pixels are taken up by the borders. So, if you want your images to be as wide as possible, the ideal dimensions are 616x410px.

I've inserted a slideshow into my home page but it doesn't look as I want it to as the background image size is too large for the images I'm using or vice versa.

I'm using the Visual theme.

Anyone know what size my images should be or how to alter the background image size please?

Many thanks.

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