Slider, Carousel, or Grid Block show up off and on

Hi @newance,

Have you enabled the relevant post type from the plugin setting page? Can you please paste your shortcode over here? so we can check it.

Also please provide your webpage link on which you had setup the plugin so we can take a look at that and try to understand what is going on.

Thanks and Regards,

Hi there,

Thank you for the reply.

My site is still on my pc hard drive. In order to let you see what it looks like, i created a temp brand new clean wordpress installation on a live server. The only plugin I installed was this plugin and I recreated the problem on a page.

But let me first give you the codes I used so you can see if there’re any errors.

[wtpsw_carousel limit=”20″ post_type=”post” view_by=”views” order=”DESC” words_limit=”title” dots=”true” arrows=”true” autoplay=”true” autoplayinterval=”3000″ showdate=”false” slides_to_show=”3″ speed=”300″]

Mind you at this time only the carousel has problem. The other two appears to be working properly. But just in case you need their codes,

[wtpsw_gridbox limit=”15″]
[wtpsw_popular_post showdate=”false” showcontent=”false” limit=”20″]

The page I created is

https://testfly.flywheelsites.com/23-2/

It’s a free service so the host lock the server and you’d need the following to log into their server to be able to see the page

username: flywheel
password: nestnest

On the top of the page is the carousel slider. The problem are:

1. The order is not correct. You can find the correct order (based on views) in the other two below it.

2. The crrousel is not autoplaying at all when it’s supposed to.

I have selected “post” “Jobs” (WP Job Manager), and “Events” (Event Manager) on my local site but even if I uncheck Jobs and Events and kept only post, the same 2 problems remained.

On the demo site, I only have Post and the same 2 problems still appear.

Thank you.

Best Regards

• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by newance.

Hello,

I guess its parameter quotes(“”) issue.
Please do not copy and paste from web page write it manually it causes quotes(“”) issue.
Use the proper combination of the parameter in shortcode then compare the order with other two shortcodes.

Thanks.

Hi there,

Thank you for the reply.

I retyped the codes manually and now they’re behaving normally except they’re not in the right order.

The order is supposed to be based on comment count in descending order but as you can see, all 3 of them display posts in a random order that does not seem to make any sense.

I look at all the parameters in the shortcodes and can’t really figure out anything wrong.

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Hi @newance,

Have you tried view_by=”comment” in your shortcode?

I think this parameter will help you to make post order according to comment count.

Please try this and update me for the same.

Thanks,

Hi there,

Yes, it worked. Thank you very nuch. I had another question:

I viewed and commented on various posts when the setting was set on “All Time” then I checked the sliders, they show up and behave properly. But if I immediately changed the setting to “Today”, the sliders disappeared. Then I changed it to “Last Day” and the sliders reappeared.

So the views and comments were made only minutes before I checked the sliders when i switched the setting to “Today”, but the sliders did not reflect those views and comments. So what’s the rule of thumb here?

Thank you.

Best Regards

Hi @newance,

Glad ti know that your problem has been solved.

Actually most of the people have confusion on this setting Post Range. I have added proper description at plugin setting also.

Let me explain,
The Post published (Not Viewed) in this range will be displayed. It means if you choose ‘Today’ then the post published (Added) within today will be displayed as per your shortcode.

The plugin does not store per day individual visits and count. It is a very big process.

I hope you will be cleared.

Please let me know if there is anything.

Thanks,

Hi there,

Thank you for the explanation. I understand how it works now. I experiemnted with it a bit more and found the following:

When it’s set at

Today – only displaying posts published today based on the parameters in the shortcode

Last Day – only displaying posts published yesterday (excluding today) based on the parameters in the shortcode

Last 7 Days – only displaying posts published last 7 days (INCLUDING today) based on the parameters in the shortcode

Last Month – only displaying posts published last month (INCLUDING today) based on the parameters in the shortcode

All Time – displaying posts published any time (INCLUDING today) based on the parameters in the shortcode

If all correct, I’m wondering if there’s a way to display a slider that displays posts published Today and Last Day baesd on parameters in the shortcode? That’s also what I need besides the Today setting.

Thank you.

Hi @newance,

Sorry for the inconvenience, this functionality not available now.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Essential Plugins by WP OnlineSupport.

Hi there,

Thank you again for the reply.

Just one more question: what would you say the max number of slides to include in a slider, tha’s the “limit” parameter, as well as the “slides_to_show” and “slides_to_scroll” parameters so that they won’t slow the site down?

Thank you.

Best Regards

Hello,

Yes, it will slow down if you give more limit( “limit” parameter ).

Thanks.