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Yes, by doing this plugin deactivates and new version is activated.
The errors you’re getting are there because theme information isn’t saved on slider. Can you please try and update the slider that causes the errors, just edit it and hit save, you don’t have to change anything.

When you installed the update to 3.0, did you simply overwrite old version with new version in wp-content/plugins? New version converts sliders and options from version 2.X to current version (options storage is different in 3.X) but only if you activate the plugin.

Shortcodes should work. You mentioned you’re currently woing on localhost. Do you have debug on? Any errors?

Hi,

Can you please tell me by what method you’re displaying sliders into your pages? (shortcode, widget, PHP code)

Again, my pleasure, enjoy.

My pleasure. Here are some pointers:

1. Slide title

To make titles smaller you should edit file /wp-content/plugins/featured-articles-lite/themes/simple/colors/default.css and on line 17 you will find this:
.fa_slider_simple.default .fa_slide_content h2{ … }

Change the font size to 1.5 or whatever size you want and titles will be smaller.

2. The timer (grey line at the top) is part of the theme functionality. You could hide it by CSS if you don’t want it. Into the same file as above, go to line 96:
.fa_slider_simple.default .progress-bar{ … }

Add display:none; to its styling and it won’t be displayed anymore.

You mentioned just these 2 issues bothering you, if there’s anything else, please let me know.

About why your modifications were overwritten now. By default, the slider contains slider theme files inside plugin folder themes. Any modifications you make to these themes, when you update, they will get overwritten because by updating the old version of the plugin gets deleted and the new one is installed.

To avoid this you should create a themes folder inside your wp-content directory and place the theme inside it.

Here are the steps:

1. By FTP, inside your wp-content directory create a folder named, for example, fa_themes;

2. Go to plugin Settings page, tab Themes and from the select box select folder fa_themes that you created at point 1 and save the settings;

3. By FTP, copy folder simple from plugin themes folder ( path in wp-content folder is: wp-content/plugins/featured-articles-lite/themes/simple ) inside folder fa_themes you created at point 1.

4. In WP admin, edit each slider displayed using theme Simple and just hit save, you won’t have to change anything.

From now on, the plugin will use your copy of theme Simple that you placed inside folder fa_themes in wp-content directory. When you update the plugin, your modified theme being outside the plugin folder won’t get overwritten so you won’t lose the modifications anymore.

I totally understand and I’m here to help. Can you please give me a link where I can see this and offer suggestions?
You don’t have to go PRO unless you need the extra functionality.
Please let me know, thank you.

Try and specify a slider with in pixels, not percents. If you checked allow full width, the plugin will take care of resizing the slider to full width.

I managed to duplicate the error and released version 3.0.1 that deals with this error and also displays the PHP code panel in slider edit screen. Thank you for reporting this, if it’s solved, please mark the topic as resolved, thank you.

If you happen to find other errors let me know.

Thank you, give me a few minutes to test this and I’ll get back to you with more questions if neccessary.

Hi David,

Can you please tell me by what method you are trying to display sliders? PHP code, shortcode, wigdet, etc.

Can you please tell me what happened? Lite version is same as it was, there’s nothing forcing you to go pro if you don’t need to. I could help but I need to know what went wrong.

Sorry to hear this, I can assure you that the plugin doesn’t inject any links or any other content other than your own.

This is the text cached content of your page from yesterday: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4eyKihMPWkQJ:www.selecto.ro/&hl=en&gl=se&strip=1

The slider isn’t present into the page but the page contains the link from your print-screen. You might want to investigate that.

A print screen of GooGle cache is available here: https://imgur.com/bTb8LZL

Hi Petra,

From your error seems like the old Lite (2.5) was installed at the same time as current 3.0. This shouldn’t happen, can’t say what could be going on. If you removed both versions (you can check by FTP and see if the folder is still in wp-content/plugins) you can install current 3.0 version without any issues.

Thank you, got it. Just had a look at your website and the link from your print screen is nowhere into the page. Also checked the source code of your page and didn’t find anything.