[Plugin: AnythingSlider for WordPress] Latest update

well, i cloned my localhost and uploaded it and everything is as it should be. however, the slider is still broken on iPad/Safari. all of the slides are visible. none are masked

re: video on the iPad

found some info on another site. embeds from YouTube don’t mask properly on the iPad. embeds from vimeo work fine.

how do i make sure a video pauses or stops when the viewer changes the slide? otherwise you can get multiple videos playing!

clyde

Hi Clyde!

If you want to get rid of cloned panels, set the “infiniteSlides” option to false.

I don’t own an ipad but I’ve run into problem with the video tag in Safari. I believe YouTube uses these inside the iframe so it still occurs with the iframe. I’m not sure how to get around this problem as overflow: hidden doesn’t work, but if you add “display:none” to the tag it hides it, but it also prevents resuming the video since it resets it when visible.

What type of video isn’t pausing? The extension is currently set up to with with YouTube embed/iframe, Vimeo embed/iframe and the HTML5 video tag. Additional code is available to work with JW Player and Flow Player if you happen to use those.

Rob

i just scrapped YouTube and used the vimeo embed. i like the player customization better anyway. i had ‘infinite slides’ set to ‘yes’ btw.

now the display is correct but the slide transition frame rate is rendering really slooowwww on the iPad.

the video that is not pausing is vimeo iframe. if i play a video and then use a nav tab to go to another video and start playing that one, both videos will be playing at the same time.

you can see it at: https://syntheticblog.com/testbed

thanks for looking into this
clyde

Weird. Looks like there’s an error on the page whereby the anythingSlider video extension is throwing an error during page load.

Would you try setting the wmode option to either opaque or transparent? I don’t think that’s the issue, but want to be sure.

I’ll have a look and let you know what I find out.

-J

hey thanks! i’ll try the wmode.

clyde

Is there a way to randomize the content of the slideshow and also can each image in the slideshow be a link to another page within the site?

Thanks!
heather

Hi Heather,

What do you mean by randomize the content?

You can add any html to any slide, so links inside slides are totally possible.

-Jacob

Thanks for the quick response Jacob!

I’m building a site for a large group of acting studios and want to have a slideshow where each studio has one image that will advertise their services to the visitor (the visitor can then click on the slide to visit that studio’s page – thanks for the answer on that one). Because they are in competition with each other, the order that the studios are displayed in must be randomized so that every time someone visits the website, a different image is first presented. That way each studio has an equal chance at being that first image shown (it’s the only way I can think to set it up that would make everybody happy)

There will also be a studio page that will list them alphabetically, but in the past, the studios that start with beginning letters of the alphabet get most of the traffic.

Sorry, that was more info than you probably needed.

i tried setting wmode to ‘opaque’ and ‘transparent,’ but there was no change. the clips keep playing when the slide is changed.

i left it set to ‘transparent.’

thanks for checking this

clyde

Clyde, If you visit https://missingpiecestudios.com/, you’ll see videos pause when a new slide is selected. I’ll take a closer look at your setup now. Still not sure why the video extension is causing an error on page load.

Heather,

There isn’t, currently, a way to randomize the order of the slides. I think that’s a fantastic feature that I could implement very, very easily. I’ll try to do it today and push an update to the plugin this afternoon.

Once I push it live, you’ll add a new attribute to the shortcode that’ll look something like this:

[anything_slides cat=... order=RAND]

Clyde, I found the problem. Basically there are two copies of jQuery on that page. The first one is jQuery 1.6.2 and the second is jQuery 1.4.2. The slider code runs when the document is ready (before images and videos complete loading) using jQuery 1.6.2 and the video extension runs when the window is ready (after all images and videos have loaded) using jQuery 1.4.2, so it can’t find the video extension.

So, if you remove the second copy of jQuery way at the bottom of the page, the videos should start pausing.

Jacob:

You’re fabulous! Thank you so much for your assistance with this. I will share how the it all works out once I have it up and running. It might happen a bit slowly because I’m about to head off on vacation until early September. ??

Thanks again!!