Trouble with ExtraContent 8 in Rainbow DD theme

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I am relatively new to RapidWeaver so I am spending time putting a personal web site together and learning a lot. I purchased the Rainbow DD theme because I liked it and it had lots of options. So tonight I was trying to get the horizontal image that can be placed near the top of the page to work. I downloaded the ExtraContent stack and created a page with it. Added an image and attempted to follow the directions that the developer has shared.

I could not get the image to appear. I have tried a number of settings, but nothing works.

If I load this into the head (had to modify so it would appear)

id=“myExtraContent8”
img src="%resource(LockandDam4.jpg)%"

the image appears. I am using the latest versions of the software and have a very new Mac.

Any suggestions.

I looked at problems that others have had; no improvement with my work.

Screen shot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pq61tk1gjiyvxd4/Rainbow%20DD%20ExtraContent8%20settings.png?dl=0

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Hard to help if you don’t provide a link (URL) to the page in question.

Your screenshot indicates you are using Extra Content area 8. Are you positive area 8 is what you want to use? That’s a bit difficult for us to know. Somewhere the theme you are using should indicate where the various extra content areas will show up.

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What @Mathew says: a URL always is very helpful to solve the problem.
It looks like you are using just a background image in your Extra Content stack.
When the stack has no content, there’s nothing to show, not even the background image.

Clear the background image.
Then drop a picture into the empty EC stack (or drop an Image stack into it and then drop the image inside) and it should work.

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And of course be sure you chose one of the EC8 options

Menno.

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The site is not ready for prime time; I am just learning. Here is the raw site.

kfrist3.com/new_page/

I tried your suggestion Macmenno, but it did not work. I’ve used the directions provided by the developer of the theme so I am stuck.

Maybe I will contact the developer.

KFR

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I looked at the information on the ExtraContent stack and followed it to the tee. It still did not work as I expect. I guess I’ll give up.

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@kfriii Fred, I have no further hints, so I’m afraid I can’t help you with this.
Don’t give up yet. Maybe @henkvrieselaar (the developer) can help out here.

Cheers,
Menno.

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Sorry for the late reply.

It’s rather simple to add an image to the EC8.

  1. Drag an ExtraContent stack into the Page.

  2. Select 8 in the settings of the stack (so it’s now ExtraContent8).

  3. Drag your image into this ExtraContent stack.

  4. Go to the Theme variations > ExtraContent 8 Image or Slideshow. By default it’s hidden, so select an option, for example “Show EC8 below Title and Slogan…”

Now your image shows up in preview.

• Another option: drag your image into the Resources of RW.
Now paste this in the Content or Sidebar as plain text (RW > Edit > Paste as Plain Text):

<div id="myExtraContent8"><img src="%resource(your-image.jpg)%"></div>

Of course replace the name your-image.jpg with the name of your own image.

I hope this helps.
Henk

When it still doesn’t work, you can send me your RW project and the image.

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I had tried this on a page other than the home page, and it did not work. When I did it on the home page, it showed there and on the master style, but it does not appear on any other page. Is this correct? I assumed it work on all pages based on the master style.

Thanks for responding.

Fred Rist

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Hi Fred,

It should work on all pages, but be sure you’ve enabled an option in the Theme variations > ExtraContent 8 Image or Slideshow in the Master Styles. And you have to put the code in my previous post in all pages of course.

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I purchased your theme assuming that it would work with other add-ons. I tried using Flow from YourHead. The Rainbox DD does not display the arrows that control image movement correctly.Is there something that I am missing? Fred Rist

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All themes should work with other add-ons. Have you tried Flow with another theme, Fred? For example with one of the built-in themes?

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Yes, I tried it with other themes. Sometimes Flow worked OK, but when I went back to that theme, Flow did not work. I was trying different themes. The results are very inconsistent. i assume RapidWeaver is not rendering the code consistently. The obvious error I saw was that the image of the arrow was incorrect.

Fred