Either can't contol pic size or can't control link location

  • Resolved sarahsbakestudio

    (@sarahsbakestudio)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    This plugin is exactly what I am looking for except somehow I keep missing the mark. I want it to link to posts either automatically through post type – post or manually through post-type – slides. Either way I can’t seem to get it to work even though it should.

    I am using template 1. If I select “post” for the post type, it doesn’t matter what size thumbnail I select the images are always the wrong size. I don’t know where it is pulling the image from because they are all different size, the majority of which is WAY too small.

    If I select “slides” for the post type, I can control the image size but I can’t seem to control where the link type actually goes. The “permalink” takes to a slide page, which is useless and can’t be changed. My slides setup pages have a place to enter a custom link but it doesn’t work with the plugin. I can’t create a custom field as suggested because that is not an option on my slides pages.

    Any ideas or do I need to keep looking at different plugins?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/advanced-post-slider/

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  • Hi Sarah,

    This plugin works great for me, and I think perhaps you are complicating things by having a theme that includes a “slides” post type. You definitely do NOT want to use “slides” post for this slider as that is irrelevant and obviously not where you want people to go. You want them to go to the posts. So, put your themes custom slides out of your thinking. It is a feature you are not using and need to ignore for this tasks.

    I imagine you have many image sizes to choose from in your slider Template 1 template. And, perhaps you are using the incorrect image size, and that’s why you are getting inconsistent results. What you need to do is:

    1 – Go to the Thumbnails tab in the Advanced Slider settings. This is to the far right of the tabs for the three template types.

    2 – Modify one of the thumbnail sizes listed to be the dimensions you want your image to be. Be sure that the crop is set to true.

    3 – Go into your Template 1 settings and be sure select this image size and that the width of all the containers and excerpt accommodate this image size.

    4 – Upload an image to a post as the Featured Image and be sure it is the CORRECT size for the slider. If it is not wide enough or tall enough, the correct image will not be generated. You must upload this image FRESH, because WP only creates thumbnail images in specific sizes when it is first uploaded to the Media Library NOT any time after. If you have previous images that are the correct dimensions already in the media library, then run the Regenerate Plugins plugin to be sure to create this correct image size.

    5 – Test the slider.

    There is nothing tricky here, so I suspect the big issue is simply not using the correct image size in your slider Template and confusing your theme’s slider with this slider, and the reason the sizes were correct using the slider post is because your theme’s slider “knows” to pull the correct image size because that’s preprogrammed, whereas the Advanced Slider plugin can’t guess at which image size you want to use without your specifying it as above.

    If you post a URL with the slider and have other issues, I can look at those.

    I am not a plugin developer. I am just a fellow user of this plugin and like it a lot!

    Thread Starter sarahsbakestudio

    (@sarahsbakestudio)

    askwpgirl –

    Thank you for your reply. Your comments further cemented what I already assumed in regards to this plugin, which is that it is not compatible with my particular template. I was hoping there was maybe a work around, but your response have pretty much squashed my hopes of that.

    The “slides option” is in fact an option with this plugin. I was attempting to use the slides option bc the post option wasn’t working, and this plugin stated that you could direct the slides option to a custom URL rather than the permalink URL, which is in fact useless as we have both stated. Unfortunately, that does not work with my particular template BECAUSE my template already has its own slides feature built into it. The two essentially collide.

    Your reply was helpful in clarifying that the post option pulls the image from the featured image. I suspected as much, unfortunately that also doesn’t work for my template. The featured image is used in my blog excerpts, which are not even remotely the size that I would want for the slides of this plugin. If I change the featured image to be correct for the slides of the plugin, my blog excerpts will then be the wrong size. So, no win-win there.

    Unfortunately, this slide plugin just isn’t going to work with my current blog template.

    Once again, thank you for your response! I’ll have to see what other options I have. I may just take a different route all together. ??

    I actually think it probably could and does work. It’s just that you probably don’t want to use your slides posts as that is a theme thing. I know that’s an option in the plugin to use a custom post type, but from what you wrote, you didn’t want the slides plugin to use your slides custom post type. So, I think you have misunderstood what I wrote.

    You have regular posts. You can and should use these and control the image size as I’ve written above.

    You have slides posts. You do not as you stated above want to use your slides posts since these are NOT the actual posts. So, please leave that out of the equation.

    So, this plugin is very likely NOT incompatible with your theme. It’s just that you are not using it correctly to set the image sizes.

    Your theme’s slides and the plugin slides DO NOT COLLIDE. You are MAKING them collide by choosing your slides posts instead of your regular posts. And, as you wrote, you WANT to use your regular posts. That would be the purpose. To link the slides to the posts.

    And, in terms of the Featured Image, WordPress creates SEVERAL SIZES of the featured image. So, you can still use the Featured Image for your blog excerpts AND for the slider. You just need to upload an image that is the right size, so both sizes will be generated: the smaller one will be used for the blog excerpts and the larger one will be used for the slider. This is very common.

    If you need yet another image due to dimensions issues, you can use a custom field to upload the blog excerpt image and the Featured Image for the slider. This would require modifying the template that is calling for the blog excerpt so it uses the image from the custom field instead of the featured image.

    If you want a different slider option, you might consider:

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/soliloquy-lite/

    Also, is there a reason you don’t want to use your theme’s slider?

    I think the one above will let you manually link to a post.

    Sarah, I have another solution for you: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/dynamic-content-gallery-plugin/

    This plugin does NOT use the Featured Image for the slider image. It uses Custom Fields (as I described above), so it’s all done for you, and you don’t have to edit your current theme’s files. It’s a great Featured Post slider for sites using the Featured Image for other purposes as you are.

    I hope that helps!

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