[Plugin: WP Orbit Slider] Not working on my site

It has been tested in ie8 as working.
Not supported for ie6.

I’ll test again and let you know.

As far as I can see…gizmogarrett21 is using
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/thethe-image-slider/

If this works for you, go for it ??

Cool. Yea, I’m looking at mine on ie8 and it’s a no go. Would looking at my site specifically help you out any?

https://shiftisgoodweb.com/nfuzion

Thanks for the help.

Hey Gary,
Thats strange.
I’ve just tested ie7 and ie9 with native browsers and all works fine. Dont have a machine here with ie8.

Thinking out loud, you could try adding a min-height

In your style.css add…

#orbit-wrap {
   min-height:YYpx!important;
}

YY= the height of your slider.

Try it and let me know how you get on.
Hope this helps.

Hi,
https://www.tangodynamico.com
WP 3.3
Suffusion Theme 3.9.5

Thanks so much for your help!

I’ve installed orbit plugin and uploaded 5 slides (using url reference not with wp media uploader). (They view correctly in the Slides area of the wordpress backstage.)
I’ve put [orbit-slider] in a text widget in the sidebar area just below the header.
The page source resulting reads src=””.

Because I have a lot of visits to the website now, what I’ve done is create a custom sidebar with the widget and [orbit-slider] and put it only on one post:
https://tangodynamico.com/tangoforge/?p=959
You can see the slider arrows and
You can see in the page source that src=””.

I tried using the media uploader to upload one of the five images instead of linking to url. Just like before, we can see the image fine within the slider post, but the image location doesn’t appear in the page source.

My boyfriend tried putting the code below into the widget instead. This time we could see the images, and use the arrows to click, but they didn’t slide:
Here’s a post with that code in there:
<div class=”custom-slider”>

<div id=”orbit-inside”>

<img class=”orbit-slide” src=”https://tangodynamico.com/images/whydancetango.png&#8221; />


<img class=”orbit-slide” src=”https://tangodynamico.com/images/vioirridescent.png&#8221; />


<img class=”orbit-slide” src=”https://tangodynamico.com/images/viorogeometry.png&#8221; />


<img class=”orbit-slide” src=”https://tangodynamico.com/images/engineers1.png&#8221; />


<img class=”orbit-slide” src=”https://tangodynamico.com/images/engineers2.png&#8221; />

slider ?
</div><!– #orbit-inside –>
<span class=”orbit-caption” id=”slide-891″></span><span class=”orbit-caption” id=”slide-852″></span><span class=”orbit-caption” id=”slide-851″></span><span class=”orbit-caption” id=”slide-849″></span><span class=”orbit-caption” id=”slide-848″></span> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
</div><!– .custom-slider –>

Thanks again!
Violet

Hi Violet,
Sorry to hear its not working for you.

Firstly,
Are you setting the image as ‘Featured Image’ ?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Post_Thumbnails
See the section ‘Setting a Post Thumbnail’

If not, you should be setting the featured image as the the slide.
“Set as featured image” NOT “insert in post”.

I can see from view source there is a lot of js loading. Theres a possible confilct.
Try in ‘slider settings’ “load js in footer”.

Try these and let me know how you get on.
Hope this helps.

Thanks for your help!

I had no idea about the featured image business. Doesn’t say that in orbit instructions.

Also I researched and discovered that featured images cannot be url links, they must be uploaded into the wp filesystem. That sucks. Also missing from orbit instructions.

Now the images are loading.

I tried to make them bigger by following the instructions here:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-orbit-slider/faq/
which said to “add this line” to functions.php. Didn’t say where to put it.
<?php if ( function_exists( ‘add_image_size’ ) ) { add_image_size( ‘orbit-custom’, 940, 300 ); } ?>
My blog immediately stopped working! Even the admin area stopped working. Something about an unexpected <. Boyfriend had to unbreak it by removing ‘<?php’ at the start and ‘?>’ at the end. That instruction needs to be corrected or clarified on the faq page.

Now I have images, and they’re the right size, but there’s no sliding going on.
I clicked the button in slider options for “put the js in footer.”

Check here:
https://tangodynamico.com/tangoforge/?p=959

Thanks again!

Violet

Just a note … step 3 in the installation section on the wp library for this plugin says this … in bold at that

3. Create your slides by clicking on ‘Slides’ in your administration menu and selecting ‘Add New Slide’. As default the slider ONLY uses the featured image attached to any given slide.

The size issue more than likely has to do with the div that is containing the slider … if you click “custom size” in advanced setting, the slider will automatically stretch the containing div it is inside.

So the images look good, but as you can see when you visit the site, they don’t slide.
https://tangodynamico.com/tangoforge/?p=959
Do you know what’s wrong?

Thanks a lot!
Violet

Thanks Gary. It seems my instructions are not complete gobbledigook.
This is my first plugin so i’m learning at each step ??

Violet, sorry to hear it still not working. There must a javascript clash somewhere. Your site seems to be loading a lot of different javascript (to which, from what i can see, isn’t being used).
Have you tried deactivating certain plugins and testing whether the slider then works?

If not, i’m unsure to why its not working for you. All themes are different and perhaps this slider isn’t compatible with this one.

Let me know if deactivating certain plugins helps.

Hi,
I’ve installed your plugin, and it seems to be a very good job, the interface looks great and simply, but…it does’nt work on my page.
The slider is present, but images don’t slide automatically.
Slides work with navigation bullet.

I desactived all other plugins to avoid JS conflicts, but no effects.

Can you take a look on this page :
https://www.preprod.mossieurkent.com

Thanks a lot

Hey Clak,
You are missing the link for me to take a look at?

Send it over and i’ll see if I can help out

Here’s the link ?? https://www.preprod.mossieurkent.com

Hi Clak,
Thanks.

“The slider is present, but images don’t slide automatically.”
May be a silly question, check slider option settings.

Slide Timer Animation should be on.

Try that and let me know.
Hope this helps.

I’m sure that the problem. Its my bad, I should make this option a little more obvious in settings.

Ok, thanks, I thought it was an other option.
The slide seems to work great on google chrome and safari, but on latest firefox version, the slider time animation is 2-3 times longer.
I don’t know why FF doesn’t take care about the settings
Thanks a lot for this plugin !