Van Patten Media

Rachel,

Thanks again for reporting this issue.

This should now be fixed in Total Slider v2.0.1.

Hi Ron Vis,

Thanks for your feedback. I’ve just today pushed out Total Slider 2.0, which is a long overdue update to modernise the way we store slide data, and also includes drafts and auto-saving of drafts.

Now that this ‘plumbing’ modernisation is complete, I’d like to look further at including more slider templates, which would give more options as to how slides are displayed, including more templates with navigation buttons.

You mention you’re having a problem with getting navigation working, but don’t give any more details. That makes it difficult for me to comment on why that might be!

Peter Upfold
Lead Developer
Total Slider

selestin,

What exactly do you mean by fetch the images randomly? Do you mean having the slides display in a random order, or somehow setting a random image background for a fixed sequence of slides?

I imagine the former would be possible by some light customisation of the JavaScript used to invoke the slider effect, but I’ll wait to see if this is what you mean before we look at this further.

Peter Upfold
Lead Developer
Total Slider

Rachel,

I’m hugely embarrassed to have just realised I missed your bug report, and I’ve just hours ago pushed out Total Slider v2.0. Doh!

Apologies, and thanks for reporting this (although over on GitHub is where we’ll see bug reports sooner!). I will make sure this gets resolved for the next release of Total Slider, and make sure I keep a closer eye on these support forums in future.

Peter Upfold
Lead Developer
Total Slider

Hi renathy –

Can you try modifying your code so it reads:

<?php _e($s->get_the_description(),'ts-metolat'); ?>

Note that the above sample uses $s->get_the_description() which will return the text, instead of $s->the_description() which will echo the text.

Let me know how that works for you. In the meantime, I’m going to mark this as resolved, as I’m pretty confident it will fix the problem. ??

Thanks for using Total Slider!

Hi renathy –

Can you clarify more what you’re trying to accomplish? Are you trying to dynamically change the description based on language? We haven’t tested this kind of functionality (or indeed anticipated the need for it), although I’ll ping Peter (the lead developer) to see what he thinks.

Thanks for your patience.

This is very odd. If you are still using the plugin, shoot me an email ([email protected]) with the link to your site and we can look directly at your code.

Hi fabienlege –

There’s a page at our developer wiki that describes how to add next/previous buttons. There are code samples as well.

Give it a look and let me know if it’s helpful!

So this boiled down to a jQuery No Conflict error (that I should have spotted at the start, but oh well).

Instead of

jQuery('.ts-twentytwelve').cycle({
	slides: '.ts-twentytwelve-slide',
	timeout: 5000,
	speed: 1000,
	prev:  $('#total-slider-previous'),
	next:  $('#total-slider-next')
});

the code should be:

jQuery('.ts-twentytwelve').cycle({
	slides:  '.ts-twentytwelve-slide',
	timeout: 5000,
	speed:   1000,
	prev:    jQuery('#total-slider-previous'),
	next:    jQuery('#total-slider-next')
});

Being consistent with the jQuery no-conflict fixes the problem!

Can you check your Console.log? Are there any error messages that look related?

Also, do you have this site available on a live domain? That would help me look further at the problem (feel free to email it to me, [email protected], if you want to keep it private).

Do the slides animate otherwise?

Also, when you copied the JavaScript into your new theme, did you remove the minified version? Total Slider will automatically pull that minified JS if it’s available.

Hi ksweck –

You’ll want to first create a custom template (follow these instructions). Then simply edit your “mytemplate.js” file, and adjust the timeout.

Hi elurie –

It is definitely possible to change all of those style elements for the text background. You’ll need to have some CSS experience though, and be comfortable with the process involved to create a custom template. It’s not easy out of the box, and we have no plans to provide ways to make these changes in the admin panel.

Hi sierramike –

First of all, very smart to use the declarative approach. I prefer editing the JavaScript myself, but using the CSS classes is a great trick.

I would recommend not altering the source code. What you might do instead is either edit the PHP so you check for that content (such as if ( $s->get_the_title() == 'No Title' ) :) or do the same in JavaScript, by checking those elements and then hiding the overlay (this would probably be a bit more involved).

In future versions, we are planning on making this functionality a bit less opaque.

Thanks!

Hi indira —

We need a little more information than this to help you diagnose the problem. Do you see errors in the JavaScript Console? Are there any errors in WordPress? Did you try to create your own custom template?

Any details you can provide are helpful.

Hi renathy:

This is a feature we have in mind for future versions of Total Slider. There is no time line for completing this, but we will let you know as soon as it is complete.

Thank you for your patience!