Josh Leuze

You’re welcome!

Hi, it sounds like you’ve got a user management plugin installed, something that manages user permissions.

Are you using the Members plugin? Meteor Slides supports the Members plugin, there are options in the user permissions to allow users to access the slideshow settings and other options.

No problem Dan, let me know if you have any more questions!

Hi Dan, it is possible to do that. Meteor Slides looks for a single custom slideshow template in your theme, but you can setup some conditionals in your template to switch it up for each slideshow you need.

This could be as simple as adding captions to just one slideshow using something like this:

if ( $slideshow == 'caption-slideshow' ) {
	echo '<div class="meteor-caption">' . get_the_title() . '</div>';
}

Or you could setup the whole template as conditional like this:

if ( $slideshow == 'caption-slideshow' ) {
	// Paste meteor-slideshow.php template with captions here
} elseif ( $slideshow == 'custom-slideshow' ) {
	// Paste meteor-slideshow.php template with customizations here
} else {
	// Paste default meteor-slideshow.php template here for all other slideshow
}

That would replace all the code in that template, and then you would add all that code back in for the default part, with modified versions for the other two. You could also make your own custom template files and load them into those conditionals to keep each in a separate file.

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Josh Leuze.

Hi telston, the best resource for info on doing this blog post of mine about adding multiple slideshows with different sizes.

Basically, if you want to add a larger slideshow, you need to first set your current slideshow to that smaller size. That you can do using custom metadata to set the small slide show to 120×150.

Then in your slideshow settings you will want to set the dimensions to match your larger slideshow. Those are the new default settings, so you won’t need those in the metadata for the larger slideshow.

Finally, make sure you upload the larger slide images for the new slideshow after setting the slideshow dimensions, otherwise they will be cropped to the smaller size you had previously set.

I hope that makes more sense, let me know if you have any other questions!

Did you define the dimensions before uploading your slide images? If not, try re-uploading the slide images after setting the dimensions and adding those to the slides.

If that wasn’t the issue, please post a link and I can take a look.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Josh Leuze.

Thanks for sharing this warning, I’ll be sure to fix this in the next plugin update!

You’re welcome!

Thanks Dan! The slideshow will scale to fit the container it’s in. Right now that .slider container has a max width, but nothing scaling it down lower than that.

If you add percentages to the two columns, they will size fluidly like the slideshow:

.hp-container .slider {
    max-width: 652px;
    height: 350px;
    float: left;
    width: 66%;
}
.hp-text {
    float: right;
    max-width: 318px;
    margin: 15px 0 0 10px;
    width: 32%;
}

But they will have a fluid height as well and the theme would have to be modified to support rows with a fluid height so that backgrounds will resize with the content.

Thanks for your kind words!

By default, there are no layers, each slide has a single slide image. You can use a custom slideshow template to add additional content and position that over the slide images, like this slideshow caption skin. But jQuery Cycle doesn’t have a tile slide transition like what you are describing, you would likely need a commercial slideshow plugin that includes this transition.

You can change parameters in a shortcode using metadata.

These are the transitions that you can do with Meteor Slides:
https://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/browser.html

You would want to find a slideshow plugin that has that transition built in.

Sorry for my delayed response, it sounds like one of those slideshows isn’t setup to load the slides from a specific slideshow. There may be a typo or some other issue preventing it from loading a specific slideshow.

Thanks for your feedback, I’m glad Meteor Slides has come in handy for you!