Hi Nick,
Yes, I think you hit the nail on the head. I only did the columns in the dynamic template because this is my very first website and I have no idea how to code in order to get the right layout. I tried both the Awesome Filterable Portfolio (AFP) and Nimble Portfolio (NP) plugins but didn't quite have the result I was hoping for. What do you mean by archive pages?
AFP was ok, but I couldn't get a thumbnail or smaller sized image to appear on the page -- only the full sized image which looked even worse than what I currently have on my Artists page. It seemed to have some glitches as I could not delete Portfolio Items and it did not allow me to upload images to the Thumbnail size, I could only copy and paste a link. I sat through the video tutorial and some of the options available on the video tutorial screenshot weren't appearing on my dashboard. <--- I'm sure these comments are far more useful on AFP's plugin site, but this is all background for my Abundance question coming up.
I deactivated AFP and tried NP for comparison but could not get an actual image to appear despite all options and fields actually appearing on the dashboard. I left to grab some dinner and when I came back to tinker with the site, it said I had to log back in. The following screenshots are what I saw when I tried to login:
1) The first and second links were of the same page (the second link is just a screenshot of the same page scrolling further down), after clicking to edit a page from the dashboard:
http://s390.beta.photobucket.com/user/RhythmSF/media/SNAFU1.jpg.html
http://s390.beta.photobucket.com/user/RhythmSF/media/SNAFU2.jpg.html
2) After entering my login info and clicking enter, this is what I saw:
http://s390.beta.photobucket.com/user/RhythmSF/media/AfterClickingLogin.jpg.html
I restarted my computer and after entering this into the URL: http://www.lotussf.com/wp-admin this is what I saw:
Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /homepages/44/d376656399/htdocs/site/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/controller.php on line 131
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/44/d376656399/htdocs/site/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/controller.php:131) in /homepages/44/d376656399/htdocs/site/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 881
I can no longer access the dashboard and now most of the pages have this following bit of code at the very top:
Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /homepages/44/d376656399/htdocs/site/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/controller.php on line 131
This is actually the second time this has happened to me with the Abundance template. The first time happened in mid-December. I had just activated the Woo Commerce plugin and before I got to really play around with it, I was logged out and could not log back in. I had posted on the forum but nobody could figure out what was wrong. The only thing I could do was have my friend who setup the site originally, go in the back end and reinstall everything. I just saw this posting on the forum and it sounds pretty similar except that I can't even access the dashboard so I'm not sure how I would make sure this section of code is even there:
http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/site-broken
Any thoughts on what might be happening and if there are any alternatives to having my friend reinstall everything? Great suggestions with the portfolio plugins, by the way. Hopefully I'll be able to test them again soon!
Thanks.