[Plugin: Promotion Slider] promotions do not show, i only see posts

hi woodent,
the promoslider works great!

but one issue, when i add a category and put the shortcode [promoslider category=”mycategory1″] it doesnt work!

i have assigned the category for two pictures. when i just put [promoslider] it shows everything well. am i doing wrong something? i place the shortcode on a standard page. can you help me? i have version 3.2.2.

hopefully you read this
regards
dichta

hi woodent,

i solved the problem. the category name “Handwerksleistungen” was too long! ??

thanx

regards
dichta

I have been trying to “set featured image” for the promotion slider, but cannot get it to work. I have read through the forum and do not see a button show up that says “use as featured image.” I only see “insert into post.”
I am using Atahualpa theme in WP 3.2. Firefox 4.0. I am wanting to add images via URL, but cannot get them to work from uploads or the gallery either. All I see is the black/gray blank image others have talked about.

Are you using WordPress Multisite? If so, you will have to change a setting in the network admin to enable image uploads.

If not, you probably have a theme or plugin that is overriding the support for featured images. Perhaps if you temporarily switched themes or disabled all your other plugins you could identify the culprit.

https://www.orderofbusiness.net/blog/troubleshooting-wordpress-plugins/

I have tried on other themes and same result.

Someone posted to paste add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); into the functions.php file. Will this fix my problem?

That line of code is actually in the Promotion Slider plugin, but because of the way that function works, it can be overwritten.

It is basically a case where the last bit of code to call that function ‘wins’. Most likely, it is a plugin or your theme that is overwriting it. If the Twenty-Ten (or Twenty-Eleven) theme doesn’t fix the issue, then it is probably a plugin. If disabling all the plugins except for the Promotion Slider doesn’t fix it, then it is something else.

Again, if you happen to be using Multisite, there is a setting in the Network Admin that likely needs to be changed.

Okay, I got the featured image function working now. I was trying to put in a URL for pictures rather than upload them. URLs cannot be set as featured images, I see now. Is there a way to do this with the promotion slider?
I am wanting to make a powerpoint-like show of slides without having to upload each of the pictures since they will come from a variety of sources and I plan to do a lot of this. If this plugin won’t let me do that, can you recommend one that will let me show pictures from various URLs?

In the ‘Promotion Slider Options’ box that appears on the promotion editing page, find the ‘Use Content Delivery Network’ section. Enter the URL for your image here!

I have an interesting issue. When I’m using Firefox on a Mac, I open a new tab in the browser. I come back a little later and find that the other images in the loop are starting to show up beneath the current image. For some reason, it doesn’t occur in other browsers I’ve tried: Safari, FF (on PC) and IE9.

Any ideas?

th3wildcard,

I loaded up my Promotion Slider demo page in Firefox on my Mac and couldn’t replicate the issue. I have had someone else mention this and they said that it is very intermittent and couldn’t be replicated reliably. I can’t really solve a problem that isn’t something I can replicate, so if you can find a reliable way of causing the problem I am all ears.

What happens is, I’m on the page with the slider on. I then open or go to a new tab in Firefox to view something different for about five minutes. The issue seems to occur when I return to the tab with the slider.

Try on one of the sites I’m working on and see if you can replicate it there or not: https://nightowlpp.mmidevsite2.com

Thanks for your help! It’s a good plugin.

th3wildcard,

You may want to try defining the height and width of your slider in the shortcode and seeing if that makes a difference with the issue you have. I was able to repeat it on that site.

Seems like that helped out a lot. Thank you very much!

The featured image I selected for the promotion is showing up in the header on the promotion page. Other wise it is working fine. How do I fix that?

Are you using the TwentyTen or TwentyEleven theme? Twenty ten has a feature where a feature image for a post that meets or exceeds the dimensions of the header will be used as the header image instead of the default. This is great because you can assign custom header images to individual pages. Unfortunately, not many people are aware of or use this feature.

So, because the slider also works off of the featured image, if the image is big enough, it will also be used as the header image. Chances are that you aren’t trying to run a slider that is as wide as the full page, so simply uploading a smaller version of the image should fix the problem.

Beyond this, you can disable the feature of the theme so that it only uses the default header.