Fix plugin to work with new wordpress update

Ah, or you changed it all to go to pro?????

Can you please tell me what happened? Lite version is same as it was, there’s nothing forcing you to go pro if you don’t need to. I could help but I need to know what went wrong.

I share this frustration. After the first update, I got to where I was really happy with the slider again, and then you released yet another update, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to shrink the enormous fonts I’m getting for my slide titles or to get rid of the growing line that shows how far into each slide’s duration you are. I can live with the latter, but if I’m frustrated by trying to shrink the slide title fonts. Do I need to go pro for that? Or where do I look to fix that?

BTW, I don’t mean to sound ungrateful – it’s generally a pretty great plugin, and I appreciate all the work!

I totally understand and I’m here to help. Can you please give me a link where I can see this and offer suggestions?
You don’t have to go PRO unless you need the extra functionality.
Please let me know, thank you.

CodeFlavors, thanks! Here’s my site: https://www.waylandenews.com — the slider shows up top/center of the home page only.

My pleasure. Here are some pointers:

1. Slide title

To make titles smaller you should edit file /wp-content/plugins/featured-articles-lite/themes/simple/colors/default.css and on line 17 you will find this:
.fa_slider_simple.default .fa_slide_content h2{ … }

Change the font size to 1.5 or whatever size you want and titles will be smaller.

2. The timer (grey line at the top) is part of the theme functionality. You could hide it by CSS if you don’t want it. Into the same file as above, go to line 96:
.fa_slider_simple.default .progress-bar{ … }

Add display:none; to its styling and it won’t be displayed anymore.

You mentioned just these 2 issues bothering you, if there’s anything else, please let me know.

About why your modifications were overwritten now. By default, the slider contains slider theme files inside plugin folder themes. Any modifications you make to these themes, when you update, they will get overwritten because by updating the old version of the plugin gets deleted and the new one is installed.

To avoid this you should create a themes folder inside your wp-content directory and place the theme inside it.

Here are the steps:

1. By FTP, inside your wp-content directory create a folder named, for example, fa_themes;

2. Go to plugin Settings page, tab Themes and from the select box select folder fa_themes that you created at point 1 and save the settings;

3. By FTP, copy folder simple from plugin themes folder ( path in wp-content folder is: wp-content/plugins/featured-articles-lite/themes/simple ) inside folder fa_themes you created at point 1.

4. In WP admin, edit each slider displayed using theme Simple and just hit save, you won’t have to change anything.

From now on, the plugin will use your copy of theme Simple that you placed inside folder fa_themes in wp-content directory. When you update the plugin, your modified theme being outside the plugin folder won’t get overwritten so you won’t lose the modifications anymore.

Thanks for this!! I’ll implement and let you know if I have any trouble. I really appreciate the help!

Thanks again! That worked, and now I can tinker at will!

Again, my pleasure, enjoy.