After a content slider compatable with ie

  • Hey guys,

    I am very new to wordpress but have a working knowledge of
    html/php/css/sql

    Anyway i installed this slider

    And it was almost perfect besides two problems.

    1) Its not compatible with Internet Explorer, i know i hate IE as much as the next person but im too pedantic for my website to not support it.

    2) i want a semi transparent bar at the bottom with a title and subtitle
    so people know what the slide is about.

    So can anyone suggest a slider that can support those two requests?
    i have tried to look but there seems to be hundreds of sliders.

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  • personally i can recommend nivoSlider (website), (plugin)

    the only thing i think it might NOT do is allow you to have a title AND a subtitle.. instead this allows for a ‘caption’ but you could do some javascripty goodness to add linebreaks/html markup to make this display how you want i should imagine

    now if you are going to MANUALLY add the slider to your files and then just create your sliders in your template files you will need to know that for compatability with IE8 and below you CANNOT place the nivoslider settings javascript on your page (eg as part of your $(window).ready() function).. you have to manually edit the core JS file to have your settings.. i have encountered this issue personally.. (would link you to the support article but it has since been removed)

    Thread Starter serpentxx

    (@serpentxx)

    Thanks for the info

    I found one i think will be suitable called Flexible Slider (plugin)

    Its cool, seems to work with all browsers and even allows arrow key and mouse drag navigation, and its free!

    Only problem i have with it is trying to implement it into my template

    i cant find any php code to implement it so i tried to just echo the shortcode but it kind of bugged out spitting all the slides everywhere etc.

    Thread Starter serpentxx

    (@serpentxx)

    Seems that any sort of slider plugin wont work on the theme im currently creating, but will work fine on the standard twentyeleven twentytwelve themes.

    Is there some sort of “include” im missing?

    i have pretty much branched off this basic theme example
    https://www.developerdrive.com/2011/10/how-to-build-a-wordpress-theme-from-scratch-part-one/

    Thread Starter serpentxx

    (@serpentxx)

    Scratch that, after a late night of researching i found out i was missing my plugin API hooks

    added <?php wp_footer(); ?> & <?php wp_head(); ?> to their respective area’s and it works sweet now

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