Your plugin used to work before, now it messes my site up

Perhaps I can.

On what site did it change the width of your menu?

On what site did it mess with the font of your paralax banner? What do you mean, “mess with”?

Any particular browser?

What other plugins do you run?

Do you run a theme from www.ads-software.com or a custom theme?

It changes the width of the menu on dwdla.com (plugin is currently active)

It changed the font and size of the text on the paralax banner at davesworks.com (plugin not currently active).

This occurred in both firefox and chrome, from what I’ve checked.

I had no other plugins running. Both are custom themes created by themetrust.com.

All the issues occurred with the most recent update.

Cool, thanks for those details. Hopefully I’ll get some time in the next few weeks to check it out.

Hi Scott – I am wondering whether to install your plugin – sounds exactly what I’m after. ??

Has this issue been fixed yet ?

I have not had time to update my plugin since this thread was started, however the issue at hand is quite rare. And there’s no harm in trying it for yourself in the meantime!

OK – nothing ventured, nothing gained ??

Hi Scott

Just for the record – I tried your plugin on all 4 of my sites, with somewhat limited success I’m sorry to say. My technical skills don’t extend much beyond CSS tinkering, so I guess it must be clashing with my themes &/or plugins.

Site 1 – works great ! ??
Site 2 – I just get a blank black screen
Site 3 – it messes up my fancy accordion slider
Site 4 – I see a horizontal line at the top of page (as normal) then the rest of page loads all of a sudden, 2 secs later.

Uninstalling the plugin fixed things.

Thanks anyway – it does look good on my 1 site (which was the one I was most wanting it for, too).

Would you be so kind as to post links to the sites? I’m not asking you to re-activate my plugin, I just want to get a better idea of what kind of stuff it conflicts with.

Hi Scott

Sure – happy to help – and if we can be online at the same time, I can re-install for a few minutes to allow you to troubleshoot, if you wish.

Site 1 – works great ! ?? – https://photomaldives.com
Site 2 – I just get a blank black screen – https://marinesavers.com
Site 3 – it messes up my fancy accordion slider – https://reefscapers.com
Site 4 – I see a horizontal line at the top of page (as normal) then the rest of page loads all of a sudden, 2 secs later – * I’d rather not post the URL on here, but can email it if you wish.

Hope that helps.

I’ve updated the plugin and it might work a bit better for you now. Basically, if you have elements that are direct descendants of the body element and you want them to be hidden, even after document.ready … this this plugin might not be for you.

That said, the changes I implemented in the recent update will help some larger % of you.

In a future update, I could add an options page where you enter css selectors of the elements that you want to fade in. How does sound, from an approachability stand point? Those of you still having problems after this update, could you implement something like pasting in CSS class names into an options textarea in wp-admin?

Great, thanks Scott – will give it another try.

I’m not so technical, but I think I follow what you mean – I’d guess that most folks would just want the whole page to fade in as one. If this isn’t possible automatically for some sites, then a a few manual CSS tweaks shouldn’t be an issue, especially if you can link to a documented working example.

UPDATE

Hi Scott – bad news for me – all 3 sites behave in exactly the same way with this new 1.5 ??

(oh and btw – the latest changelog details aren’t showing up in the WP repository for some reason).

Thanks about the changelog stuff, I’ll take a look, that’s important.

Basically, the issue is that you have sites that have elements that need to stay hidden, even after the document.ready() event. These elements need to be revealed on some other event, such as clicking or hovering on something. But my plugin just bullies right through that and reveals them.

So, in a future update, what I might do is give a textarea where you would state the CSS selector for certain elements to fade/not-fade in. That’s really the only practical way, and unfortunately it requires some work & expertise on your part.

I could use a jQuery filter to sniff and see what element would be hidden if it weren’t for my plugin rudely revealing them, but that would likely be really really slow, and would cause other problems (the fade taking too long to occur).

If you know basic css/jQuery, you can likely hack the plugin file to make it work in exactly the way you want (I won’t be offended!)

Sorry this isn’t a better fit for you at this point and thanks for giving it a try!

No problem – and good luck with future development. ??

(off topic, and I can’t edit my previous post, but Scott – clicking on your WP profile would normally show a list of your 2 plugins, but nothing there for me ? – https://profiles.www.ads-software.com/scofennellgmailcom/ )