paulranker

Hi there Cientiros,

You most certainly can use the Ranker widget to show photos!

Here’s a step-by-step to create a slideshow widget;
1. Go to Ranker.com and create a new list (top right).
2. Add all of your picture titles as items and order them how you like.
3. For each item upload a large image.
4. Click the options tab and set the “view” as slideshow.
5. Click the “Submit” button to publish your list.
6. You can now use your new list URL in the Ranker Widget tool as usual and you’ll have a slideshow of all your pictures!

Hope that helps!

Hi IngiStyle,

I haven’t heard back from you for a few weeks so I’m going to assume your issue is resolved using the above steps. Please feel free to reopen the ticket if you have any further issues.

Hi Glitch,

I’m happy to announce that sidebar widgets now fully support adding items in desktop mode*. No need to update your code, our push last night should already have enabled this for you (you may have to shift+reload if you’re cached). I’m going to mark this ticket as resolved, but please do reopen it if you have any issues adding sidebar items.

Paul

*Mobile additions are on our road map but not yet implemented as optimization is needed to the UI.

Hi Glitch,

I wanted to update you on this issue: we’ve scheduled a fix for sidebar widgets on desktop in our next release. This should bring back all the addition functionality for you automatically, no need to update any codes. This should hopefully be live in about a week. I’ll keep you posted.

Thanks again for using the Ranker plugin.

Hi Glitch,

I’ve looked into this issue and I believe it is because the plugin is reactive and thinks your sidebar is actually a mobile view. Certain elements of the widget have not been optimized for mobile yet, so they drop off for a better user experience.

I’ll see what I can do about adding additional checks or settings for getting around this issue. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I’ll leave the ticket open and get back to you ASAP.

Hi IngiStyle,

If you have the plugin you don’t the code from the site. Some WordPress sites/installs also don’t let you use JavaScript in your posts and that’s why we created this plugin.

All you need to do after creating your list on Ranker is copy the list URL and paste it into the shortcode creation tool (in the plugins settings). You can then take the generated shortcode and place that into any post. After these steps your plugin should show up right away.

Please let me know if that fixes your issue!

Hi Refactoringlab,

Options for turning widget titles off are now included in the plugin!

Thanks again for your feedback, please let me know if we can help you again in the future.

Hi Refactoringlab, thanks for getting in touch.

Currently the widget doesn’t support hiding of titles, by extension that option is also unavailable in the plugin. We do however value all our user feedback and I’ll be sure to bring this feature up for inclusion in one of our next dev cycles.

I’m going to leave this ticket open and update you when I have more info.

In the mean time there is a CSS hack you can implement, add the following to your stylesheet and widget titles should be hidden;
.rnkrw .rnkrwHead{ display:none; }

Hi Jim,

Making the widget wider will only bump up the font size of widget elements and give everything a little more space.

If you’d like to reduce internal scrolling inside the widget you can either increase the Height option -the number being how many rows to display before scrolling kicks in. Or you can select the “all rows” checkbox and display all available rows.
The second option is the one you want I think: your blog would be scrolled to see more items, not the widget.

Thanks,
Paul

Hi Jim,

As long as you’ve updated the plugin to 2.0.1 (you should get a notice in your plugins panel), you can go back to using double quotes right away.

Please let me know if I can assist you further.
Paul

Hi Jim,

I’ve just tested a short code with additional double quotes and while it does break the name displayed the widget should still be working. I’m going to patch the quote issue soon.

Can you double check the plugin is still activated please? The plugin needs to be running to process short codes.

Thanks,
Paul

Hi Jim,

Can you try changing the name in the shortcode from:
Defining the Best “Slowtrav” Towns in Europe
to:
Defining the Best Slowtrav Towns in Europe

I think those extra double quotes maybe causing an issue.

Thanks
Paul

Plugin Version 2 is now released and ready for use. Thank you for your support!

Plugin Version 2 is now released and ready for use. Thank you for your support!

Hi Lrozenberg,

Unfortunately the embed button was non-removable in our V1 widget. We’ve listened to user feedback and our new V2 widget -launching today- no longer contains an embed button.