[Plugin: Meteor Slides] possible to have text as well?

No, if you are using a custom stylesheet in your theme, Meteor Slides should automatically load that instead, no need to reactivate the plugin.

Hi JLeuze,

I have tried again to upload the plugin as you told me to do for the slide excerpts, it doesn’t show on the slide page…?

Also I would like to center the slide show on my main col and I don’t seem to have it work?

I created my theme with Artisteer, does that create these conflicts?

Thank you for your precious help,
Corrinne

hi,

sorry made it work for the excerpt, still have to figure out how to add caption to slides…

Hi Corrinne, that’s good news! So you have the excerpt in the slide editor and need to add the excerpt to the slideshow?

You can use a custom slideshow template and follow the instruction for adding the title as a caption, just use the_excerpt() instead of the_title().

To center the slideshow, try editing the custom stylesheet like this:

div.meteor-slides {
	clear: both;
  	height: 100% !important;
	line-height: 0;
	margin: 0 auto; /* Centers the slideshow */
	max-width: 100%;
	overflow: visible !important;
	padding: 0;
	position: relative;
	z-index: 1;
}

Hi Jleuze!

Thanks a lot for the great support! I managed to center and make the excerpt work too.

Just need some little help with the CSS. Have created a .png file for the background but result is odd… can you have a look >
https://www.permacultureandco.be/gallerie/

Also, is there a quick way to re-arrange slides’ order?

Cheers,
Corrinne

The slides are sorted by date, just like blog posts, you can change the published date of the slide posts to rearrange the slides. There are also some plugins that add drag and drop sorting which can come in handy.

There are some extra paragraph tags in the caption, this is probably because you wrapped paragraph tags around the excerpt, which already has them by default. Remove those from your template and that should help.

Another issue is that your theme is zeroing out the lineheight which makes the text very short, add lineheight to the style to fix that:

.meteor-slides p {
background:
transparent url('images/background_excerpt_slides_.png') repeat top left;
opacity: 0.6;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
color:
black;
margin: 0;
padding: 5px;
position: absolute;
text-align: left;
width: 100%;
line-height: 20px;
}

It looks a little odd with the light BG on white with some of the slides being portait mode, maybe a dark BG for the captions might work better?