[Plugin: Rotating Posts] Using multiple banners has stopped them rotating

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I’ve noticed that if I remove the MPU,
<?php rotating_posts(mpuwon); ?>
but leave in the topbanner and skybanner, the top banner will still rotate between two posts (although there are three), but the skybanner still doesn’t rotate.

I have upped the ‘Number of posts’ in RP admin to 30, but this has had no effect.

I’ve also tried pasting [rotating-posts category_name=”topbanner”][etc]
into the pages, but the same thing happens

I’ve found a work around. This is not a pretty solution, but it works.

Essentially, the problem was that each banner was given an id, but these were the same id’s in each instance of the banner – so the first top-banner was id=”rp_post0″, and the first sky-banner was also id=”rp_post0″.

To get around this, I made a copy of these four files:
rotating-posts.css
rotating-posts.js
rotating-posts.php
rp_admin.php

I renamed them and put them back in the SAME location:
rotating-sky.css
rotating-sky.js
rotating-sky.php
rsky_sky.php

Then, using BBedit I did a search and replace of every instance of ‘rp_’, ‘posts’, ‘Posts’, and ‘POSTS’ and replaced them with
‘rsky_’, ‘sky’, ‘Sky’, and ‘SKY’ (after checking the Case sensitive option in bbedit).

There are two other bits you need to rename:
function load_scripts()
function load_styles()
change to:
function load_scriptsSky()
function load_stylesSky()

I’m not really php literate, so I’m sure there’s a better way of doing this, but I thought it might be worth posting until somebody posts a better solution.

This plugin does not support having multiple instances on the same page.