Joe Westcott

Thanks for considering it!

Thanks for considering it. Full-size images in list view would make your plugin excellent!

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Hey, I second this request to enable images in the list view. Just because it’s a stacked list of posts, instead of a carousel, doesn’t mean we hate images. ??

Also, didja know that carousels lower click-throughs in most cases? Carousels/sliders look cool but a number of A/B tests have shown that most people don’t click through to anything that’s not showing on the first slide of the carousel, which means that a lot of content gets ignored.

Conversionxl.com calls carousels “conversion killers” — https://conversionxl.com/dont-use-automatic-image-sliders-or-carousels-ignore-the-fad/

VWO, another testing firm, points to a a usability study by Neilson Norman group that confirmed that carousels annoy users and reduce visibility — https://vwo.com/blog/image-slider-alternatives/

And there’s this: https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

Anyway, I think your plugin is awesome! Thanks for making it available. If you would enable images in the list view, that would be excellent of you.

Thanks,
Joe

I’d really, really like this too! (This will prevent audience frustration because right now people find that they can’t easily close the box by clicking _anywhere_ outside it. The click-20%-away requirement isn’t intuitive.)

Oops, please disregard. I was responding to the wrong thing.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Joe Westcott.

Cool. In the meantime, thanks again for providing such a great plugin and for your great support. You are awesome!

You are so right! That is obnoxious.

I tried your suggested code for functions.php, and it worked! But it broke some other stuff, such as interpreting line breaks in another plugin’s code as ‘<br \> tags.

But based on your revelation that the auto-p functionality in wordpress is the cause (thanks for linking to the other support thread where you explained it), I was able to work around the problem by removing line breaks after [/expand] and [/expandsub1], etc. Not pretty, but it works. Now I have lines like this:

Some content here.

[/expandsub1][/expand][/panel]More content begins here.

Thank you,
Joe

I figured out which part is malfunctioning! It looks like there’s a bug if one uses these two options at the same time:

template=div
date_tag=p

I was expecting this to nest the date p tag inside the main p tag, but it doesn’t.

Hi Fernandobt, here is the shortcode I’m using when I see the empty p tag problem:

[catlist name=blog date=yes excerpt=yes excerpt_overwrite=yes excerpt_strip=yes pagination=yes numberposts=10 orderby=date posts_morelink=”Read More” template=div date_class=post-date date_tag=p title_class=post-title title_tag=h3 thumbnail_class=alignleft thumbnail=yes thumbnail_size=300,125]

Kimbolini, it looks like you and Velseenu found a workaround by using another plugin, but for anyone else who sees this thread and wants an answer, here’s my proposed solution:

Remove the content=yes option, and instead add excerpt=yes (and optionally, excerpt_overwrite=yes).

So you would end up with something like this:

[catlist name=cougar post-type=all excerpt=yes excerpt_overwrite=yes]

Joe
(FYI, I’m not the plugin developer, just someone trying to be helpful. ?? )