Not my father's "Portfolio Slideshow"

  • Up until recently there was another plugin called “Portfolio Slideshow” written by “momnt”. There was a free version and a pro version. This plugin is no longer listed in the wordpress directory and the developers website is gone. I have version 1.9 of the old “Portfolio Slideshow”. The new “Portfolio Slideshow” is at version 1.10.

    The new “Portfolio Slideshow” has different developers. It works the same was as the older plugin, in that it display the attached images to a post or page. Unfortunately, as others have noted in recent posts, it is buggy and basic functionality from the older plugin is missing or not working.

    Perhaps the current developers can explain the relationship between the two plugins. Did they take over the code or just the name?

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  • Raygun originally made the plugin, then Momnt took it over while Raygun focused on client work. Now Momnt’s plugin redirects to the Royal Slider here: https://codecanyon.net/item/royalslider-touch-content-slider-for-wordpress/700256 – which is super fancy with all the bells and whistles (which is annoying if you just want a simple slideshow like Raygun’s version used to be).

    So, now there’s a new plugin BUT Dalton Rooney is listed who is actually a cofounder of Raygun. Full circle!

    I don’t know any of them have just been following since the beginning. Super happy to see this new plugin – I’m sure they’ll get the bugs worked out shortly. ??

    Plugin Contributor Dalton Rooney

    (@daltonrooney)

    Hi there, I’m the original developer of Portfolio Slideshow. Amanda is correct, we handed the plugin over to Momnt a couple of years ago and they took over development. Momnt was George, who is still the primary developer, he’s just supporting the plugin from https://portfolioslideshow.com/ now.

    George listed me as a developer on the plugin, but I haven’t been an active participant for more than two years. It looks like the plugin is being actively developed again, which is a good thing as some of the code was becoming quite out of date.

    Since the plugin is being developed again, my recommendation is to give the latest version a try and see if it’s working for you. If not, try posting some very specific feedback here on which bugs/errors you’re experiencing and I’m sure the fixes will make their way back into the plugin. If you check the changelog you’ll see that the last couple of versions fixed a lot of things that got broken and updated the plugin to work with the latest versions of WordPress.

    I can speak from experience as a plugin developer that’s it’s a tough job to maintain software that has to work with many different hosts, themes, and versions of WordPress, and it’s not always possible to respond to each and every bug report (especially for free software being developed on the nights and weekends), but those fixes do eventually make it back into the plugin.

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