pressfore

Hi Dario,

Thank you. We are glad to hear that you like it.

Regarding Safari issue which you are having, I managed to reproduce it on my end too. Plugin is using owl carousel script for that part, and I managed to find very few topics with same issue, like this one for example https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2/issues/1697 but nothing in there isn’t actually solving it. Safari is know for having some strange glitches. If you resize browser slider width is going to be adjusted, and sometimes it adjusts by itself. As I can see you are using responsive images layout and by testing demo page https://gtmetrix.com/reports/designverbo.com/UOO0Ca7d I couldn’t replicate that again. Please try following:
– test demo page from your end to see if issue is present
– make sure that you are using latest plugin version
– disable additional plugins which you are using
– test with one of default wordpress themes
– test with larger images – try with 1920x1080px since yours are 1347px width

Also, I noticed that loading time isn’t great especially for images – see waterfall tab on GTmetrix https://gtmetrix.com/reports/designverbo.com/UOO0Ca7d and this is maybe causing trouble because script isn’t fetching images at needed time so calculation is wrong. Maybe if you can optimize images a bit, and also try optimizing website for speed a bit with some caching plugin like WP fastest cache.

Let us know how it turned out.

Best Regards!

Hi again,

Images are set as background not as img elements, that is the problem for setting them to be contained within holding container. If you are just showing image without any text inside, you can choose Responsive layout from slider options https://www.screencast.com/t/ls0tu24bW and then you can set images for this layout which will be loaded as images – over img tag.

For fading to image, it is indeed default behavior, but animation is slightly modified because users often want “easier” transition between slides, but since there was another request for fading to images we will definitely consider implementing it.

Best Regards,
PressFore

Hi again,

Interesting thought. I think that I saw positioning in effect with zooming in some slider, but really can’t remember of a example with ken burns. This effect is working with the aid of css scaling, so image needs to be bigger then holding container and while scaling, some parts of the image will be clipped, and screen size is playing another part in here. In our plugin, following script is adapted https://www.cssmojo.com/ken-burns-effect/ and if you check scaling https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/transform-function/scale it is very clear that even when smallest scaling is used some clipping will occur. Your point is just fine for being able to specify amount of scaling and direction but clipping of image is inevitable. Achieving this will require a lot of work since attributes needs to be set for each slide separately, but global option is certainly easier. I’ll add this as a feature request but really can’t give you any promise at this time.

Bests,
PressFore

@iantresman

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion. It is very nice feature to have. I just added this to our feature requests list, and we will consider integrating it in one of future updates.

Best Regards,
PressFore

Hi again,

Yes, that is correct, but slider contain a lot of custom option fields so it was convenient to add custom Import / export functionality especially for being able to offer users to Import demo content, and to export / import exisitng sliders. Focus was on migrating slider options, and images upon import will point to domain from which you are importing, and they needs to be set again upon import. This is fine because images may be copyrighted, but since users are responsible for their content, I guess that we can change this for some future release. This is not a bug, just different functionality. I can’t promise you right now when we are going to change this because we have a lot of things to do regarding upcoming theme release, so for now, you will have to set sliders images upon import, and we will certainly change this at some point.

Best Regards!

Thanks for explaining this further,

Yes, slider is using Import / Export functionality like native WordPress importer, adjusted for slider custom post type. Key focus here, because of a lot of slider options was to add functionality for importing these options, which is now possible, and importing images will work in same way like in WordPress importer – if exported xml file if from localhost, it will not import images – so importing file which can access images from live website will populate image fields.

Setting slider images after import may require some time, but comparing to manually setting each slide options, it is really not too much time consuming. Having export in maybe in .zip format with all the images inside is excellent suggestion, and I will add this to our feature requests list, but I can’t promise integration at this point, but if more users suggest same thing we will consider extending import in nearer future.

Again, thank you for the suggestion, and thanks for using our Rolo Slider.
Best Regards!

You’re welcome,

We didn’t notice any kind of slowness when importing, but we will surely check this, and if something needs to be improved, we will certainly do it.

Best Regards!

You’re welcome ?? ,

Yes, that’s definitely it. With all options in place, you will just have to set images again from live installation media library.

All the Best!

Hi,

It is working just fine, but import / export option is integrated in Rolo Slider itself, it will not work with WordPress importer. We decided for that approach because of lot of custom options. See screenshots below:

There is one slider on domain 1 https://www.screencast.com/t/sY9k0WjRy

By going to Export you can export all sliders or to click one which you want to be exported https://www.screencast.com/t/ynasfx8207

Since I clicked that slider xml file is downloaded rolo_slide_home-page-slider.xml

And then on 2nd domain, navigate to Rolo Slider > Import https://www.screencast.com/t/oROevnvw

Choose previously exported file https://www.screencast.com/t/W1D6XWA7

And it will be imported with all its options https://www.screencast.com/t/y0HpOO2XO

Like in most sliders, images will still point to imported domain https://www.screencast.com/t/rQpYRtvuzBA because images may be copyrighted, and end users shouldn’t use them, but this is not the case with our demos sliders and it is defiantly not the case when users import their own sliders, but functionality will like that since it is most legit way. At the end you can just replace images with ones located inside current installation media library.

Also, like with WordPress importer, if exported file is from some domain which do not exist, import may fail, especially for images.

Best Regards!

Hi again,

About page has been fixed and also Demo import along with Import / Export features were added in latest release, so please update Rolo Slider and tell us if everything is working now.

All the Best!

Hello,

I just wanted to let you know that responsive images layout has been fixed in latest update, and it now contain ken burns effect.

Best Regards!

Hi again,

This was an easy fix, so we already applied it, and it is now available with latest plugin version. You can now use two or more sliders on the same page ??

All the Best!

Hi there,

Although you can add 2 or more sliders on the same page, all animation will not transition correctly because we developed it like this initially. But, this is very handy functionality. Currently we are working on a major update, and we will add this as a feature request and we will defiantly consider it for the upcoming updates.

Best Regards!

You’re welcome ??

Hello,

And sorry for late response on this. It is holiday season ??

Also, thanks for the suggestion. As I understand, you are referring to portfolio filter functionality lie this for example https://isotope.metafizzy.co/filtering.html , and that indeed can be a nice “face lifting” for this plugin. Since there are several scripts which offer free license for open source project we will need some time to choose a good one, and we will definitely consider integrating this in one of upcoming updates.

Happy New Year ??