[Plugin: AnythingSlider for WordPress] Won't play?

Hey Jacob!

Just wanted to let you know we figured out the problem (see this issue).

I don’t know why it was working for both you and I but to fix the problem just change the conditional code to load the ie specific css for IE8 as well as IE7. I don’t plan on changing it in the core plugin just yet since it seems to be an isolated incident, but keep it in mind ??

<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/anythingslider-ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->

Side note: Including the whole IE stylesheet for IE8 had the unwanted effect of also breaking the navigation link boxes. (They now look like vertical black lines at https://www.robinbijlani.com/lfrc/ for me.) But that’s easily fixed. I’ll just make a separate IE8 stylesheet for just the arrow issue, instead of using all the IE7 fixes.

Thanks to both of you for all your help and work on the slider!

Arrow navigation won’t work for me.

I had the same problem with the size until I made Resize “Yes”.
https://4dsysco.com

Hey beyoyo2. Sorry to hear your having trouble with the plugin.

It looks like I may have screwed up the Interactivity Settings… Try filling those in with “click” and see if that works. I’ll release a patch asap.

-J

Adding click in Interactivity Settings worked.

Awesome!

I am having trouble getting it figured out for a manual slideshow
have tried all kinds of different variables, but not much love

keyboard arrows will navigate but buttons then disappear (except left side), same with bottom nav button, click once then they disappear.

not sure if you can see the settings but currently
https://mubustories.com/elephant-gossip-book/

WordPress 3.2.1 loading jquery 1.6.1, SimpleMarket theme from wpmudev
same problem across chrome and firefox
swipeleft, swiperight, click in interactivity settings

Can you offer a list of default settings needed for manual navigation? I would really like to use this plugin— but having trouble

hope you can help, thanks

Hi wasanajones.

Sorry for the delayed response. Many apologies.

I just updated the plugin, which fixes the missing options. If you delete your current version and reinstall, everything should work. Deleting the plugin won’t remove your slides, it will just hide them until you reinstall.

Let me know if that works.

Thanks,
Jacob

Hi Jacob,

I’d like to add a conditional IE8 stylesheet to take care of the issue I mentioned above with only half of the arrows showing. (Applying the entire IE7- stylesheet messes up the navigation boxes.) But I’m having a hard time figuring out where the conditional stylesheets are set up for the plugin. I’ve been digging through the plugin folder as well as /wp-includes/. Any hints?

Hey petroica,

I don’t yet have any conditional stylesheets setup for the plugin. You could create your own conditional stylesheet for IE8 and add it to your theme’s header.php like you would any IE-specific stylesheet. Make sense?

-J

That works. Thanks!

I am also having the half a first slide issue in Chrome and Safari both PC and Mac. It looks fine on Firefox and IE9/IE8. Here is the build site: golftriporegon.com. Any Ideas?

Hey dj_hiking,

Looks like you got it fixed, no? I just tested in chrome/safari on my mac and everything looks good.

-J

Hi Jacob,

I just wanted to mention that I would love to see an option to prevent seeing the unstyled list of slides for a second before the slideshow is arranged properly.

The jQuery plugin fixed this in a recent version. Is there an easy way to tinker with the WP plugin to achieve this also?

Hi Petroica!

The unstyled flickering is called “flash of unstyled content” or fouc. A method to prevent this was added to the plugin in version 1.7.11.5, and the details are mentioned in the FAQ.

So, honestly, I’m not sure why you would be seeing fouc unless there was some other bit of css on the page over-riding it. This is the css from the FAQ, please make sure it is still in tact.

#slider {
  height: 200px;
  width: 300px;
  overflow-y: auto;
  overflow-x: hidden
}