Problem with slideshow after updating to 3.0.9

@edanzer

I’m glad you’ve switched to the Slick library, but it has really messed up sites where I use it. One of the settings is “autoplay” with values of true and false. If you add this option to your shortcode and make it default to “true”, I think you will head off a lot more of these support requests.
Here are the settings that would need to be made so that it looks more like what it used to:

slidesToScroll: 1,
autoplay: true,
autoplaySpeed: 3000, <<– set this with your cycle_interval variable times 1000 or slideshow_speed variable

and for fade instead of slide…

infinite: true,
speed: 500, <<– set this with your transition_speed variable times one hundred
fade: true,
cssEase: ‘linear’

Hope this helps!

@frg62 To make my slideshow do what it was doing before the update, I added the following script to footer.php BELOW <?php wp_footer() ?>

<script>
var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(window).on('load', function(){
	if( $j('.ngg-galleryoverview.ngg-slideshow').length > 0 ){
		$j('.ngg-galleryoverview.ngg-slideshow').slick('unslick');
		$j('.ngg-gallery-slideshow-image img').each(function(){
			$j(this).unwrap('a');
		});
		$j('.ngg-galleryoverview.ngg-slideshow').slick({
		  slidesToShow: 1,
		  slidesToScroll: 1,
		  autoplay: true,
		  autoplaySpeed: 3000,
		  fade: true,
		});
	}
});
</script>

You could try it yourself!

Hi @mahmacc!

Does your theme have a “Header” widget area you can use to check if including a “NextGen Slideshow” widget works?

@frg62

Thank you so much for that feedback,
We’ll give it a try!

– Gaby

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Imagely.

@newvibe – Thanks for your post. We do very much intend to expose the various Slick.js options as options for the slideshow. That should be in an upcoming release. At the very least, we’ll be exposing options for autoplay, controls, interval, and transition effect. That will match the old slideshow, although the number of transition effects with slick are less than the older engine we were using.

For those comfortable with code, while I haven’t tested, @newbie’s code snippet above does seem correct for adjusting options to mostly match older slideshow. Again, we’ll be exposing those options again in the interface soon.

For everyone in this thread, I’d like to underscore that because there are enough of you asking and raising the issue, I’ll have our team put a bit of rush on re-introducing autoplay, showing controls, transition effect, and interval to the slideshow. We’ll try to do that within the next few weeks. So just a heads up that’ll be coming soon.

Thanks to all of you for taking the time to post.

Just an update that because of the feedback here, I personally worked on this today and pushed a change to NextGEN Gallery that adds the following options to the new slideshow:

Autoplay (yes/no)
Pause on Hover (yes/no)
Show Arrows? (yes/no)
Transition Style (Fade/Slide)
Interval (in milliseconds)
Transition Speed (in milliseconds).

So there are more options than the old one. The only thing the new engine lacks is the diversity of Transition Style effects.

This will need to get a review and QA/testing before we release. But it should be ready relatively soon.

And if anyone wants a beta with these changes, I can provide one. Just email me (erick at imagely.com) to request it.

–
Note: This won’t solve @mahmacc’s issue with the slideshow embedded in theme header. That’s something different and I’m not sure what the issue is there yet.

My problem was resolved for now by going back to 3.0.8.
I imagine I can recreate it by going to 3.0.9, but I will
check in my private copy (rather than the public site).
As I said in an off-forum email
to Erick, if Gaby’s suggestion of a plugin clash is correct
the other plugin involved must be Social Warfare.

Gaby asked:
Does your theme have a “Header” widget area you can use to check if including a “NextGen Slideshow” widget works?
The header.php code quoted from in a previous post is called from all pages by a get_header(), which I think means the answer is yes.

Hi @mahmacc!

Glad to know that your problem has been resolved.

We are here to help.
Have a nice day!

FYI for all in this thread: We’re currently doing testing/QA for the release that adds options for autoplay, arrows, pause on hover, interval, transition speed, and transition style. It also includes two small css fixes for places where theme css was conflicting and breaking the slideshow.

I hoped to release that today, but we trying to be particular careful since it’s a fast release. It should be released tomorrow morning.