Sadly full of bugs / issues

Hi jluster,

Thanks for your review.

Firstly, what bugs exactly do you mean? We really like to solve them, but just saying “full of bugs/issues” doesn’t really says what is wrong. Also please use the support forum instead of just giving a bad rating, as you just don’t give us a real chance to help you this way.

Btw. we use a version of TGM which does the necessary checks for clashes. So there just shouldn’t be any problem with this. At least not from our plugin. But we already saw, that many theme authors seem to use an old version, which doesn’t do the checks. So please blame them for this. Maybe there is still another problem with this, but then please just provide some more details.

Unfortunately we had to create a custom version of Vafpress to fix some bugs (we don’t wanted this too), as the original authors abandoned it and even didn’t merge pull requests. We plan to create our own version with custom naming in the future (maybe we have to do it earlier than we wanted).

As Vafpress is entirely optional, this shouldn’t be a real problem.

Regarding the shortcodes. Please just read the description. There is a short documentation on this. I think you known how to use shortcodes and will be able to create a slider just with this information.

That’s a little shortsighted, isn’t it? There are quite a few “just add a shortcode” plugins out there. Yours sells, for $15 ($20, because you have to give Evato that much at least) as a pro version. If the Shortcode and Visual Composer components (the latter does) don’t work you’re essentially taking your selling point away. If Vafpress doesn’t do it, do your own or switch, maybe?

So, “entirely optional” isn’t quite true, is it?

Your version of TGM can be adapted in your modules version to not have clashes, even if someone uses an older version. Yes, people using an older version is crap, I agree, but there are quite a few who do. I spent an hour hunting this down for a client, finally he gave me access to his logs. Would be amazing if that were front and center somewhere instead of all the way hidden.

Bugs:

– the handle for the slider doesn’t show if you use the one under the image. I didn’t go track this one down, I suppose it’s some conflict with the 2015 theme. Since it also happens in X and Divi, I am not sure what the culprit is. Tested in Chrome and Spartan (https://imgur.com/ukEWjPD)

– the visual Shortcode maker’s dropdown doesn’t work (2015, X, Divi, no other plugins activated, tested in Chrome and Spartan). (https://imgur.com/xREjmg4)

– The Handle on overlay “chases” the mouse. (this can be seen at https://www.moewe-studio.com/demo/before-after-slider-wordpress/demos/overlayed-slider/ under Chrome, Spartan, and newer Firefox. It’s annoying.)

– I guess you’re aware of the issues with ThemeCo’s Shortcode Generator not inserting its shortcode as long as Vafpress is enabled?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. This kind of feedback really helps us improving our products.

Regarding TGM I just don’t get what you mean. Why should I rename TGM to be just compatible with authors not updating their themes (I typically try to contact them, when such thing occurs)? I’m not sure about this idea, as it would promote authors not keeping their libs up to date.

As you know the WP ecosystem is quite large and there are a lot of possible combinations of plugins and themes. This makes it sometimes really hard (and annoying) to keep the plugin compatible.

Regarding your bugs:

(I think you are speaking about the pro version.)

the handle for the slider doesn’t show if you use the one under the image

In the last version we introduced some more subtle (hover) mode. Maybe this just don’t works as we expected it to work. So we will probably revert this.
If you still have a demo for this, you also can send me a link (adrian [at] adrian-moerchen.de), as sometimes this also happens through some other plugins CSS (some really bring some very generic CSS with them).

the visual Shortcode maker’s dropdown doesn’t work

Oh thanks, there is really something wrong. I wonder why no one (inclusive me) hasn’t encountered this before.

A quick fix that worked for me:

.select2-drop {
  z-index: 170008;
}

The Handle on overlay “chases” the mouse.

You are right, this wasn’t obviously to me as I favor the “under the image mode”. I will have a look, so hopefully this can be improved.

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I remember an issue with X and that I contacted the author about this. But I’m currently not sure what it was (I don’t know their shortcode generator either, so I’m not aware of this issue, but we really can’t support every theme out there).