Moofie

Peace Simon … noticed something today about the problems with the slides not separating into individual slides, but rather showing 4 slides per slide space in wee narrow columns. When my browser is pulled out to full width (I have a wide screen), the individual slides show up properly, however making the browser narrower, even just a bit, makes the slides all pop in together in narrow columns again.

I checked to make sure I hadn’t used any “hard returns” in my slides, and I haven’t … the text wraps around fluidly.

Regarding the problem with navigation, I’ve decided to design and use a graphic arrow at the bottom of the slide, showing people that if they slide left, there’s more to see, but even that isn’t working that well, because people will want to click on the arrow (which is a .png) rather than slide the page, and all that will happen will be that the page will navigate to the arrow graphic.

Yours is the nicest of all of the sliders I’ve found – and I’ve been to virtually everything available. I really do wish we could get this one working.

Thanks so much for your time and trouble.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by Moofie.

I downloaded/installed a plugin that prevents auto-updates, and activated the “Publishable Mag” theme, and then the “WP Bootstrap Starter”, hard-refreshing the test page with each theme, and nothing (but the theme) had changed. Reactivated the Ultra theme, and I’m back to where I started from.

Not sure where to go from here …

Okay… I’m not running any caching/CDN plugins. I am, however, running Wordfence as a security plugin. I de-activated it, hard-refreshed the testing page, and nothing had changed.

I checked the plugins editor, and found the exact section you quoted in the sa-owl-theme.css… so it does exist. As you say, the file must not be being read …

About quickly testing it in a different theme … I’m a bit leery of doing that. I’ve heavily modified the theme, and I need to be certain that re-activating it won’t cause it to update itself … I would lose months of work, and at this particular time, that would be disastrous.

If you know how WP handles re-activating a modified theme which has an update waiting to be installed, I would appreciate knowing – if it just reactivates it “as is”, then I’d be glad to test in another theme … if it re-actives with an update, I can’t.

Thanks for your time!

Peace!

Thanks for your reply … you’re not seeing the screenshot because I’m not sure how to include it in these exchanges …

What I’ve done – I’ve just gone ahead and posted a series of screen prints on the example test page: https://philippians123.org/church-life/rosary/test-sa-slider/

Hope that helps. If not, let me know what else I can do …

Thanks again for your time!

Here’s the link: Test: SA Slider … I’ve made it publicly visible for you to be able to see it, but I’m hoping I don’t have to leave it that way for long …

This is the upshot: I have 6 slides, and as you can see, 4 of the slides are crowded into 4 narrow columns, with the last 2 slides on the second slide’s “page”. I have the “Slide by:” set to 1.

I’ve deleted everything else on the page, so now you can also see that the navigation is not showing. I have it set to show the arrows all the time, and to show the paging.

Also, so that all of my issues will be in the same place, I’ll reiterate what I wrote elsewhere on this site regarding the Slide Transitions: I *did* have all of the Slide Transitions set to 1, and the transition itself is set to fade. I took a screen print of that, and am willing to screen print whatever you’d like to see, if you can tell me where to send it.

Thanks for your time and trouble.

Peace!

I just checked, and I *did* have all of those set to 1, and had the transition itself set to fade. It still only slides. As I mentioned above, I was wondering if that might have anything to do with the fact that it’s set to manual rather than auto-slide.

Also – when I left off last time, I had 6 slides, and with the exception of the slide transition issue, and the arrows/paging not showing (mentioned elsewhere on this site), all was fine. Going back just now to check, however, all 6 of my slides are on one slide, in narrow columns. I double checked the creation page, and nothing has changed there. I saved again – in case, but that didn’t change anything either. I did notice, however, that as the finished page loads, for just a flash, the slide looks like it’s supposed to – one slide’s worth of text, then it immediately snaps back into the narrow column mode.

I took a screen print of the settings for the slide transition … I could also do a screen print of the columns, and once that’s figured out, also the problem with the navigation not showing. At the moment, that part is out of sight completely because of how much room those columns are taking.

Sorry to be a pain. You have a great plugin – if we could only work out the current wrinkles.

Thanks for your time and trouble.

I have the same problem – none of the transitions work, with the exception of a simple slide. I wondered if that may be because I have the slide duration turned off …

Thought I’d follow up on this. I’ve since realized that the menu structure is visible on all browsers except Waterfox. For some reason, in Waterfox, my main menu shows up for a split second, and immediately vanishes. However, it shows up normally in Firefox, various versions of Chromium, Opera … and even Safari.

Thank you Danny. As I mentioned in my explanation, the Live Editor (Customizer) seems to be fine. It’s not the customizer … it’s the Appearance > Menus which is part of WP whatever theme you’re using …

After reading your reply, I did try using a regular Firefox browser, and the Menu Structure is working properly in Firefox, however I need to point out that it was also working fine in Waterfox until last night, and that nothing in the browser was changed between last night when it was working, and this morning when it wasn’t.

Is there, to anyone’s knowledge, a reason for the Appearance > Menus > “Menu Structure” to fold, or hide, its contents at any given time? Because – that’s exactly what it seems to be doing. The “Menu Settings“, which are just below, slide up to cover the area, and the items, which have been dragged into the location.

If necessary, I can go back to using Firefox for setting up my website for now, but I’m concerned that it will just happen again there. I’d like to actually find out what could be causing the problem, and get on top of it.

Thank you again for your reply, and thanks in advance to anyone else who has any ideas on what could be going on.