Hi folks,

As I have absolutely no experience with html, I paid a "design" firm (recommended by my hosting service)to build my web site for my new business. They finished the site and turned it over to me to maintain and update through WordPress admin. I am using ZenPhoto to replace the gallery they installed. They went ahead and launched my web site without my knowledge so it is now password protected until I can make it fit for public viewing.

ZenPhoto is much easier to work with and I am grateful to all of you that I found it. I am using the Effervescence+ theme and after much trial and error have figured out how to link to my web site and even integrate my logo on the gallery pages. The only problem I have is that there is an extra bar with a partial (random) image from my gallery that changes each time the page is loaded. This is only appearing on the main gallery page, when opening the albums it does not appear. I was able to insert a fixed image on the album thumbnails. Where do I go to eliminate this extra image bar? I could do without it all together and give more space for my thumbnails, but I would be happy to just insert a fixed image.

Any suggestions or assistance would be greatly appreciated! Forgive my lack of intelligent terminology, I hope my question makes sense.

Thanks.

The image you are describing sounds like the random head image that is a part of the Effervescence+ theme. It is there on both the index page and each album page. It is created by the function call `printHeadingImage()`. You can delete this call and there will be no image.

Note: if you are modifying a theme distributed with zenphoto it is recommended that you first make a copy with a new name, then make your modifications to that copy so that when new versions of zenphoto come out you will not risk overwriting your changes with the content of the new release.

Thanks so much, I will see if I can figure that all out.

Well guys, sorry to say, but I have tried and tried to edit the pages you suggested. In WordPress the template files are accessible within the admin module. The only place I can find the Zen files is in my BlueHost CPanel. How do I edit them? Whenever I make the changes and save the file it goes right back to the original version? Do I have to download software to edit these files?

Did you install Zenphoto via SimpleScripts or the like? If so you probably can't edit them, you need to install them manually as described on our installation instructions.

Oh thank you so much! Yes I did install via simple scripts from my BlueHost panel. I will go in tonight and read the install instructions and go from there. Hopefully, that will work for me - and I won't lose what I have already done??

Oh, by the way - I am running version 1.2.1 - do I reinstall as an upgrade or just start over from scratch?

You need to install from scratch, since there is nothing to upgrade. Be sure to enter the data for the same database and put the same images/folders into your albums folder then you probably will not loose descriptions (I can't guarantee)
You also could backup the database first.

Keep in mind that zenphoto is filesystem based, it adds what it finds in the albums folders. So if the database already contains the images Zenphoto finds it should not readd them.

Well, thanks for all your help, but I still have this big strip across the top of my gallery page. Once I open an album, it goes away, but whenever I return to the main gallery page it is back again - with a different image. I found and deleted the print heading image in the album page, but could not find it anywhere in the index page. I did find random image command in the index page and deleted it as well. Is there anything else I can try - I really like this theme and hate to give up on it, but I really need to get on with the rest of my site.

You see this is an art gallery with "Old Master" type reproduction art works. Due to the subject matter of some of these works, there can be some rather embarrassing body parts focused and zoomed in on in this frame.
Thanks again

You need to open indexpage.php and remove the parts "picture of the day". That is around line 37-53.

Thanks, I will try again tonight.

YIPPEE!!! I got it! First I edited the index and album pages as you suggested with no results. Then I removed the picture of the day part of the indexpage file - still no results. Then I decided to see if the random image references were also contained in the gallery file (I saved the original before experimenting) - then after I deleted the random image and printHeading image parts from that file it worked! I am so happy, Thank you, Thank you!

Now, the only other question I have now is do I delete the original files in place that I saved under another name - or do I leave them there for safe keeping?

No need to delete the original files.