Could there BE more problems with this plug-in?

Hi Mark,

Did you hit save after you entered all of your captions, before hitting the delete button? That’s a use case I hadn’t thought of (and one that’s not been mentioned before) but I can see why that could be a problem. I’ll put a “you have unsaved changes” warning in the next version.

I’m not sure what the permission problem would be, but it’s all WordPress based – if for example you deleted the images from the server, or moved the images without resetting the correct server permissions on the files, then those problems will be reflected in Meta Slider.

Regards,
Tom

Sorry, Tom. I had just got off a very frustrating phone call with the government and was in an ill-tempered mood when I wrote the post.

In the normal process of creating a slider I just add all the photos from my pictures/albums/family for example. It’s easier than trying to go through them one by one before creating the slider. With maybe a hundred photos it’s then easier to just edit the album, adding captions and deleting duplicates or ones I don’t want as I go. In this particular case I had added all the captions only to have the very last photo be a duplicate so I deleted it and, yes, all my captions were gone. Yes, I agree about adding a warning prompt to save changes.

Have you made any progress on a pause/play function? I so want to use this plug-in everywhere on my demo site but I need this function so they don’t all start playing at once.

Hi Mark,

No problem, I appreciate it must be frustrating.

It’s possible to add Play/Pause functionality with some custom code, but I don’t think it’s something that will ever be in Meta Slider or Meta Slider Pro by default – reasons being: it’s a rare requirement and only Flex and Nivo slider support it, even then it requires some custom CSS to get the buttons looking nice.

You would need to add this to your themes functions.php file:

function metaslider_flex_params($options, $slider_id) {
        $options['pausePlay'] = "true"; // enable pause/play
        $options['pauseText'] = "'Pause'";
        $options['playText'] = "'Play'";
}
add_filter('metaslider_flex_slider_parameters', 'metaslider_flex_params', 10, 2);

Caveats of the above code: as this is custom code (something to point you in the right direction) it is not something we would support as part of free support. It should give you unstyled buttons (you’ll need to apply your own styling) and it only works with flex slider. When you copy and paste the code make sure the single quotes aren’t converted to curly ones.

Regards,
Tom.

Didn’t work, Tom. Sliders both started and all that was different was the dots along the bottom.

What I was hoping for was the play button in the middle of the slider, similar to a YouTube video. This page (https://www.garycjones.ca/?p=1255) has two sliders in the sidebar, but I have a renovation page (https://www.garycjones.ca/?page_id=2135) which has four sliders to play in line with the text.

Cheers!

Gary