Livemesh Posts Carousel add publication date

Will it work for you if we populated just the date but not the category for posts only? Or perhaps we should think about populating the category beside the date inline as single line meta with a separator in between. I am leaning more towards the second option for posts only.

Will work towards having date and category in a single line as meta information for blog posts only. I hope there is enough space for it. Thanks.

Have added the date and author information to the post carousel in the 1.1 version. Also, the Portfolio widget is renamed to Grid widget and it lets you create a blog with post date in each of the entries. Thanks.

Gah – so this is what happened! I know you can’t make all of the people happy all of the time, but this update breaks the carousel for me. ?? I need the carousel showing categories, not author, just like it used to be – my clients either have only one person writing posts or don’t really care – the only thing that’s important is content and category. I can only think of even one that might care about the date.

The hover title for the post image still shows properly – title and category – but you have to hover for that to appear. The title underneath the image shows author and date and can’t be changed.

Any way to make what shows on the carousel an option, have the image hover info be always visible, or should I update the php myself knowing that I’m going to have to do it again with the next rev?

Sorry, I know you’re trying to make things better; whenever possible any ‘improvements’ like this would be best offered as an option imho ??

Hi

I had not notified for the first livemesh answers, sorry.

It’s the same for me ; not a success although I thank you very much !

Categorie indication are essential, author probably less…

The new image hover title is too large for the post element in carroussel.

<?php if (get_post_type() == 'post')
echo get_the_date();
echo lsow_entry_terms_list('category');
?>

was perfect for me (with a nice separator and display)

Categorie, author, date, hover .. maybe with options ?

Today I’m using the old template ??

Thank you very much anyway

Denaize I found a better option (for now anyways). It’s not as pretty as livemesh, but you can pick exactly the items you want displayed on the carousel, as well as a number of other things and even create your own CSS to use with it.

Check out WP Posts Carousel in plugins and try that out … so far I’m very impressed!

Thanks but I’m using livemesh with sitorigin page builder
and LiveMesh worked on my question , I will not let go !

Sorry wasn’t trying to convince you to switch – i love livemesh too, and use many of the other pieces – once this works how i need it i’ll go back to it myself! Just thought i’d mention as an option in case you were stuck ??

I will try to add a set of checkboxes for post meta with three boxes – categories, date and author so that user can decide the ones to display. Hope that meets the needs of everyone. Sorry for all the confusion.

May be we should also think about having a sort of “companion plugin” bundled with this that includes an example of subclassing of the widgets so that parts of the widgets can be customized. Hoping that will help make it easier for everyone to tailor the plugin to their needs.

I also ran into the problem of the additional information breaking my intended design.
Allowing the user to optionally select which information is shown would really help.

Also, is there any way to designate that all the carousel boxes match the tallest box? With information in varying lengths, the boxes all have different heights. Keeping the box height uniform (matching the tallest box) would look much better.

Also if you are including the post title underneath the image, it would make more sense to have different information displayed over the image on rollover.

In the options, it might help to have 2 sections:

1. Image Overlay
2. Below Image

In both sections you could offer the same options:

A. Author
B. Category
C. Post Date
D. Post Excerpt
etc.

With this setup users could select only the info that is useful for their users.

Have added a set of checkboxes which lets you choose the author, category, date and of course the title and excerpt for display below the image. This change exists in the latest version 1.2. Thanks.