title: How do I fix a wordpress custom theme to work with plugins?
body: <p>This is my first attempt at coding a custom wordpress theme and I'm almost there.  There are a few bugs as there are with anything, but I've tried a few different options at fixing them but with no success.</p>
  
  <p>The link is www.studiosimplicit.com/wp.</p>
  
  <p>My first issue is with nivo slider on the events page (Www.studiosimplicit.com/wp/events).  Initially I was having an issue with the plugin itself, where the images were being stacked on top of each other.  To correct this I manually put in code to call in the nivo .js files, and that seemed to fix that issue.  But now the loading image is there but the images don't load.</p>
  
  <p>I've checked the URL of the images and that's not the issue.  I also enabled the "post-thumbnails" feature (as suggested on the nivoslider website as a common fix to my issue) but that doesn't appear to have fixed it.  It's worth nothing that when I switch to a default theme, the slider works fine.  It's when I activate my custom theme that it breaks.</p>
  
  <p>My second issue is with a plugin that is supposed to set a full screen background image, automatically resized to fit browser width.  Again, the plugin works when I switch to a default theme but it breaks when I switch to my custom theme.</p>
  
  <p>Please help!</p>