[Plugin: Portfolio Slideshow] Customization of the nav bar

I’d opt for CSS modding as well – with a margin or padding you’d be good to have the numbers separated. Or are you depending on a real space character inbetween?

Thanks for getting back to me.
I hadn’t thought of the drag and drop. Sorry about that. Works great now thanks.

As for the numbers – perfect. Not sure why it’s .slides a, not just .slides, but i’ll live without the knowledge for now!!

Thanks again for your time.

It’s .slides a, because the div containing the clickable numbers has the class “slides” and you don’t want the container, but the a elements within the slides div to have the space. If you dig a bit more into CSS you’ll soon understand what it means ;).

Hi – This plugin is great and I have been using it on many sites I have designed and developed. I have probably used up the capabilities to customize my slideshows through css and shortcode. Does anyone know how to customize the prev/next navigation so that on the starting slide/image of the series, it only shows “next” and on the last one it only shows “prev”?

Sounds like logically i would need to get the number of images in the series, then the location of the current image displayed, if it’s first set the slideshow-prev class to display:none, if it’s last set the slideshow-prev to display:none. I know css well, but don’t know how to implement that syntax-wise in the jquery or plugin’s php file.

Any help is appreciated – thanks!

Supersonique – any interest in helping me beta test 1.0? There are a few new features including the ability to turn off slideshow wrapping… so when you get to the end, the “Next” link is grayed out: https://madebyraygun.com/downloads/3

A word of warning – this has been tested pretty thoroughly on my server, but a lot of code has changed between the previous version and this one. I would test it out on a demo account before deploying it on a live site. Specifically take note that it uses jQuery 1.4.4. Most plugins I’ve tested it against work OK, but one that was really out of date had a problem with the new jQuery.

Cheers,
Dalton

Sure – the site I’m making is still in beta, so I’ll deploy it there, and send you the link.

This is great, thank you.

With the version I had before (not sure the exact one but I installed it in late November of last year):

The home page used to have a fade transition of 1500 and cycled automatically with no “prev” or “next” navigation.

The product pages had no fade and did not cycle automatically – they were controlled manually with “prev” and “next” – the only problem was that I didn’t want those to wrap – some only have two images and others have up to five images, but we wanted the user to know there weren’t next or previous when they navigated. Anyways, I installed the beta version of 1.0 which seems to be working great (firefox and safari for mac), especially for the product pages.

URLs
home page:
https://bobsyouruncle.com.s110609.gridserver.com/
a product page:
https://bobsyouruncle.com.s110609.gridserver.com/dish-towels/

Some parts of the site (side nav) are still broken (still beta), however, the slideshows are working as described below.

I tweaked some css (perhaps some unnecessary lines of code in my css right now but I just wanted to get it done quickly & will clean up later), but I got the product pages to work exactly the way I wanted to, which saved me hours of work.

For now, the I can’t replicate the home page exactly as before b/c there’s no per-slideshow shortcode to do the following:
– make the slideshow wrap for that instance and
– make the transition speed 1500 for that instance (was able to do that because the transiton=none was enabled in that version, which i applied to the product pages)

It would be great to add those in, but understand that you’re super busy. I wish I knew more php.

No big deal because there’s only one home page and 60+ products so easy to just put in a more simple slideshow for the homepage.

Ideally would be great to use the plugin for both purposes, but the client wants the site live very soon.

Thanks again for making the new version available.

Glad to hear that worked for you! I will see if I can get those features in before the final release. Might be a few days.

Dalton

Thanks! For the time being I “ghetto-hacked” the portfolio_foot function with the is_home conditional to force the home page to do those things for launch (shortcode functions are way beyond my capability)

Hi Pam,
I just pushed Portfolio Slideshow 1.0 live, with support for transition style, transition speed, and nowrap attributes all in the shortcode. And a few more little surprises. Hope that helps with your project!

Dalton

Hey Dalton,

any updates on when you’ll be working your magic to make numbered navigation as proposed by me a feature of your truly great plugin? Or did I miss out on anything and you already incorporated it?

Have a great weekend ??

Eno

Hey Eno,
That was one of the features that made it into the paid version of the plugin, we just launched a few weeks ago: https://madebyraygun.com/lab/portfolio-slideshow.

The reason I’m not backporting it into the free version is that the HTML structure had to change a bit to support the several different pager styles (including a few still in the works) and it would have required quite a bit of work. So the free version probably won’t get too many new features from here on out but should continue to work OK for most people, and any new/fancy features go into the paid version.

Cheers,
Dalton

Ah, too bad, I didn’t recon with it. I see you moved the code on the free version a bit, so I would need to use my limited JS powers to incorporate it again – or go for the paid route….

Thanks for letting me know!