exploremarsgreg

There’s no way to just “force” a complete backup?

I examined the exclusion folders, there’s only 4, and they’re quite benign – old site version from 2011, and some multimedia folders.

No worries, there’s many players out there. Best of luck to you.

Not in detail, but several folders are missing. I’m happy to help with troubleshooting, is there an error-logging feature I can enable and send you the log file?

I’ll check back tomorrow, it’s late here in the Western USA.

Jason,

I’ve had times when my full backup clearly didn’t do a full one… like now, the download file is just 17mb (should be about 10x). I’ve had it happen more than once. Are you sure your code isn’t referencing the wrong value somewhere in the pipe with respect to the full/incremental?

If it helps, it seems to be backups generated just after deleting or overwriting another full one.

Greg

Anytime, Jason. We’re all on the same team when it comes to improving the user experience.

Good work again on the plugin.

I’m revisiting the app again, and had a simple wishlist item. When scheduling a backup currently the only options are to choose only one of the following:

Type of backup to perform:
Perform an incremental backup to the online vault
Perform a full backup and email it to the specified address

I suggest the two can be configured mutually exclusive of each other easily:

Type of backup to perform (choose one):
O Incremental
O Full

Destination (choose any combination):
[] Email (attachment)
[] Email (download URL)
[] Save a copy to the online vault (offsite)
[] Save a copy to the specified folder:
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1. Having a title/text display optional is a fairly obvious desired feature, isn’t it? The internal identifier is in the slide ID, at least that’s what it appears you use to refer to a slide.

I only mean a better solution might be to allow a null title; if the title and description are both null, don’t display an empty textbox – just display the image. If a null title breaks the code somehow, allow the user to put a single space or something like I did and check for it when it’s time to display the slide. Another option could be to create an additional boolean flag, or something similar.

The more individually customizable each slide’s behavior is, the more versatile the app is.

2. Most slides have links, of course, it’s just our initial title slide has neither text nor a link. In this case with no link is not specified it seems to default back to the same page… at least it used to before it failed to display at all. I even uninstalled the plugin, nuked the dir and upon reinstall it still fetched slides from the corrupt previous install. I deleted all these and all galleries, and recreated new ones, and it STILL would not display – no punctuation used. I don’t know for sure if it was the quote or the apostrophe – since a failure to deal with an apostrophe properly could result in an odd db write.

3. It’s reasonable to ask, though hosting is fine, caching was not an issue, I refreshed and obtained the same results in multiple browsers. I ended up using “Easy Rotator” while I searched for an implemented “Content Slide” — https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/content-slide . Incidentally it still displays a small text bar and links back to the existing page when no text or link is specified, very similar to your plugin (which has a better slide+gallery configuration interface) so I am guessing you’re both using some of the same code.

Where else would configuration be stored, in the database? Perhaps a script to remove all slideshow data would be useful?

Sorry I couldn’t upload screenshots, this forum doesn’t support it and linking to our domain is apparently considered improper, which makes sense to control spam. Hope this helps in your development.

…and it gets worse. Version 1.2.1 doesn’t seem available for download any longer

Doesn’t seem I can attach a screenshot but this may help:

My new gallery (ID#2) has 9 of the 10 slides. The original gallery shows 12 slides, when only 10 exist. The order#’s are 1-9 and 11 (no #10).

editing the gallery is also hosed, I’m afraid. Three “null slides were visible with dates of 01-01-1970. They couldn’t be removed.

I’ve installed the update on my 3.3.2 test environment. While we greatly appreciate the ability to handle more than ten slides, it seems a couple of issues persist:

1) A slide description is optional, but title is still required. It accepts a space and presumably displays the space in a single popup bar. We’d like to have some slides, particularly our title slide, appear without text or the popup bar. Is there a supported method or workaround for displaying a slide only?

2) Even with “no link” specified there’s still an assumed link of some sort – forcing the page to reload. Shouldn’t there be a conditional check for this flag that doesn’t display the box+arrow link in the center of the slide?

3) A more serious bug JUST occurred. Editing a slide to have quotes and an apostrophe (such as “Didn’t Click on it” – with the quotes) crashes the plugin — even after the quotes are removed. Excluding the slide from the slideshow didn’t fix.

Thanks again,
Greg

Thanks, I’m happy to find the update, since we ended up going with this plugin, at least in the short run. Unlike Easy Rotator, I’m impressed the “Fade” effect is standard, but more notably the interface is simpler, it’s javascript, and configuration doesn’t require external plugins (Adobe “Air”).

Our live site is running 2.9.2 – if plugin v1.2.2 is safe for this older WordPress version, I’ll upgrade right away.

Best regards,
Greg

Wasn’t aware of that. I was signing it for reasons of common courtesy. Doesn’t seem possible to edit or remove, else I would – an admin can feel free to.

FYI… Three more bugs:

1) It’s not possible to edit more than 10 slides.

2) Excluded slides are also available to re-arrange the order. Ordering of slides seems curiously to be just for the global set of slides, vs. for the individual slideshow (“gallery”), where it should be.

3) Settings (dimensions, colors) are global, not for each slideshow (“gallery”).

It’s worse than that. Even after fixing, the escape sequences show in the slides. I’m afraid we’ll have to go with a different solution, but I’ll keep this one in mind, please reply if the bugs are fixed.