Adaquate Basic Slidshow, But With Problems

  • This is a decent basic slideshow plugin, but there are a few things about it that keep me from rating it better.

    First, it would be great to be able to use images already in the Media Library. Even if you’ve already added it there, you have to upload it again into the slideshow you want.

    The most irritating thing for me is how the thumbnail slider screws up with slideshows having a huge number of slides. The plugin style sheet forces the slider to have a certain width that is much less than the actual width, so the thumbs end up in invisible rows below the ones that made the cut. It is corrected with a simple edit in one of their CSS files, but they keep overwriting it with every single update, so I have to go in and make the same change again and again. Maddening. I have posted ticket after ticket about this issue, but either they don’t understand what the problem is, or they don’t care, because they would tell me it should be fixed this time, but the next update always messes it up again. At this point I have given up on trying to get them to fix it, and I just take the ten seconds to edit the CSS.

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  • Plugin Author Tribulant Software

    (@contrid)

    @gregcrowe

    Thank you for your rating and comments.

    We’re currently working on the feature to use existing media library images for slides accordingly.

    Regarding the thumbnail bar, can you please tell me what CSS change you keep making. We’ve been trying to improve the thumbnail bar and was under the impression that it is resolved. Sorry for the trouble caused, we will work on resolving this once and for all.

    Also, can you put a link to your slideshow here again?

    Thread Starter gregcrowe

    (@gregcrowe)

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    Right now I have edited lined 38 of css-responsive.php to remove the “!important” from the width property of the “#slider{id#}”, which allows all of the thumbnails to occupy a single line. With that “!important” in place, it will overwrite the width to be the variable “$styles[‘sliderwidth’]” which always seems to be 825px regardless of how much width the thumbnail images actually need.

    When an update comes around, the css-responsive.php file is overwritten, and the “!important” is returned, causing the problem again and necessitating editing it out again.

    Let me know if you have any other questions.

    Plugin Author Tribulant Software

    (@contrid)

    @gregcrowe

    Thank you for your feedback.

    I think I know what is causing the thumbnail bar to overlap. You have left out the width of the thumbnail dimensions, right? You only specified the height?

    That’s fine and the plugin says you can do that but as a result, the width cannot be calculated as it should be and causes the problem.

    We are working on a solution but in the meanwhile you can specify a width on the thumbnails to sort the problem out.

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