Oh Dear. I told you it was something immensely stupid. I unchecked the 'crop image' box and then checked it again for some reason! That's why it did not work! (massive headdesk)
However, still the Options -> Theme -> Albums [ 1 ] thumbnails per row doesn't give me back one album per row. Not sure I maybe misunderstood the option? Why nothing changes anyway, no matter which number I put in?
These specify the Theme CSS determined number of album thumbnails that will fit in a "row" and the number of albums thumbnails you wish per page.
I am not using any plugin called 'static html cache plugin'. I just installed ZP so all is fresh and new and started working on the theme.
My goal is to get one album per row in the index page (not album page) and not 3 per row. Maybe that one is not the option I should check? I solved this with other themes by adding a 'br' or new paragraph at the end of each 'album print' (easy as it sounds), however it won't work here due to the different code, unless I of course rewrite the whole index page code (which is my next step once I got how the Albums - thumbnails per row works).
Thanks!
The theme option simply tells Zenphoto how many albums are displayed in a row by the CSS. Only the CSS can actually format the page. Also, the index page and album pages are considered the "same" in so far as these options are concerned. No way to split that apart simply with the options.
(If you are brave of heart, there is a way--by having your theme set the options for each script.)
Also, be aware that the static cache plugin is not a good idea while you are experimenting with your layout as it will indeed cache the page such that no amount of changing of your options or CSS will make a difference. Best leave that plugin disabled until you have things working the way you want.
So the option is useless, since it does not change display in ANY of the index or albums page (I gave it a try but I never see only one album per row (or more, or two, or..) - it's always 3 no matter what.
I assume then it's just a 'reference option' which does not override the actual content in this case.
Will check it later at home and see what I can do. I split the index and album pages number rows/columns in the past but never tried to change those options. First time I do, nothing happens, so that's why I was confused. I still can't get it but at least I know I have to rewrite couple of things :)
I am NOT using the static html cache things, unless it's activated by default and it doesn't show in the list of active plugins :)
Also please note I always clean my cache to make sure I am checking a fresh page and test it on different browsers and sometimes computers, so I hopefully get to see the 'right' data. Hopefully ;P
Thanks again :)
I think you will find after some thought that the option is not "useless". In fact if you want your paginaton links to work the option must be set as directed.
Zenphoto has no way to "discover" how your CSS lays out the page, so it must be told if you want things to work consistently.
You're right, sbillard. By 'useless' I just meant 'I set it and nothing happened', which is my experience with the functionality. I didn't mean 'useless' as you got it. Nothing in the whole world is useless. I should have used another word, still it did not work for me so it was 'useless' TO ME in that case. Hope I explained it better. Gjr did such an awesome work and you all have done an awesome work as well. I highly respect both of you and your efforts in creating something like that :)
Anyway, I am back with the solution that worked for me, so in case someone else wants to do something similar and gets stuck..
I solved the whole thing by creating another style for album-thumb in style.css, associated it to the index page (or well, 'gallery.php' in our case) and called it album-thumb-gallery. Then I kinda just discarded/modified the height-width sizes of thumbs (and fixed something in order to make the page look prettier) and everything works like a charm now.
Thank you everyone for your help and the support :)