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Hi @uzikes thanks for those feature requests and great to hear you are enjoying Foyer!

First one is pretty high on my list also, as part of a redesign of the slides-on-channel edit screen.

Second one I think is a bit too specific to implement in Foyer for all users. However, if this helps I could build this for you as a small paid project. Shoot me a line here with your contact details if you’d like: https://foyer.tv/send-info/

Best,
Menno

Thanks for sharing @bigred232 !

Hi @datsyuk, interesting use case! Foyer does not have a feature to refresh a slide every time it appears. I would approach it from the other side: Make sure the widget that displays the train schedules (or any other info that should always be fresh) refreshes its content periodically (e.g. every minute, using AJAX to pull in some info and display it within the widget replacing the old info, so without reloading the page as a whole). You would need a web developer to build a widget like that though, or similar skills of your own.

Hope this helps!

Hi @frankrupp, Foyer doesn’t include any rights management at the moment. I’ve had this request before so it’s on my list, but I have a lot of features I would like to implement first.

WordPress itself has role management built in so maybe you will get what you need when you work with users that have Editor role (can only see/edit its own Displays / Channels / Slides). I have tested this once and found there were several small problems for this to be really practical in the workflow I was looking at at the time. But it might suit your workflow, so check it out and let me know!

Hi @stimsmot,

That line calls some methods that belong to the Theater for WordPress plugin. When working with the Events Manager plugin I’m sure that line (and others in upcoming-events.php) should be totally different. It takes some knowledge of how the PHP code of the Events Manager plugin works. Did you manage to get this working?

If not I could build this for you as a small paid project. Shoot me a line here with your contact details if you want: https://foyer.tv/send-info/

Best,
Menno

Hi @hamadata, hope you are well! Did you find a solution that hides the browser address bar when Chromecasting? Would be great if you could share the solution here for other and future Foyer & Chromecast users!

Hey @azumay, did this work? Or can I help you? Best!

Hi there, sorry for the late reply @poojaadhav. Does this still happen? It seems you are running WordPress 5.3.2 and I’ve just tested the admin edit profile page (wp-admin/profile.php) on a WP 5.3.2 install with Foyer 1.7.4 but I don’t see any errors in the browser console. Generate new password also works.

So my guess is this is a conflict between Foyer and another plugin.

Could you try with all plugins disabled except Foyer? If this makes the error go away, could you activate the plugins one by one and test after each newly activated plugin? If you find the plugin that triggers the error (together with Foyer), could you point me to that plugin? I’ll try and fix the error.

Thanks!

Hi there! That shouldn’t happen. Could you post the URL of your display where this problem is visible to me? Then I will try to find the problem for you. If you don’t want to post the URL here you can send it to me privately using this form:

https://foyer.tv/send-info/

Great! That was quick ??

Hoi Tom!, @stimsmot

At the moment there is no Events Manager slide format that displays each event from the Events Manager plugin as a slide. But as you said Foyer has a Recent Posts slide format built in, that does almost that. And there is even an Upcoming Events slide built in that works with the Theater for WordPress plugin (needs to be installed), even closer to what you need.

Foyer can be extended by coding your own slide formats. It’s not a lot of work to build an Events Manager slide format, because you can copy 80% from the Upcoming Events (Theater for WordPress) slide format. It is a bit complex though, and you’ll have to go over the Foyer plugin code to try and understand how it is done as I have not written a developer guide for Foyer yet.

How comfortable are you with PHP, coding WordPress template loops, and using WordPress filters/actions?

Relevant code is in these files:
https://github.com/mennolui/wp-foyer/blob/master/includes/class-foyer.php#L67
https://github.com/mennolui/wp-foyer/blob/master/includes/class-foyer-slide-formats.php#L252
https://github.com/mennolui/wp-foyer/blob/master/admin/class-foyer-admin-slide-format-upcoming-productions.php
https://github.com/mennolui/wp-foyer/blob/master/public/templates/slides/upcoming-productions.php

Let me know if this is something you’ll be able to build yourself. Otherwise I could build this for you as a small paid project.

Groeten,
Menno

Hey @jamestashford, did you try other devices? How’s that working? Best!

Hi @jasperbier,

Both ad.nl and buienradar.nl websites block being displayed within other pages (such as a Foyer slide). This is probably because they want full control over how their website content is displayed.

The best way forward is to find the officially supported embed option per website.

For Buienradar for example you can find them here:
https://www.buienradar.nl/overbuienradar/gratis-weerdata
Or build a page that you can embed here:
https://gadgets.buienradar.nl/gadget/zoommap

At the moment Foyer has no features to embed parts of a site (except for the External Webpage slide format of course, to embed a full page). And no RSS feed or Facebook specific slide formats.

You could however build a social media wall (a combination of social media and RSS content merged together on a single page) using a service. Eg. https://walls.io/ or search Google for ‘build social media wall’. You will be able to add the page you build with their tools to a Foyer slide using the Extern Webpage slide format!

Hope this helps!

Technical stuff for those interested:
If you run into webpages that won’t work on Foyer slides, you could check your browser’s Developer Tools / Console to see why the page is blocked. Eg. this message is shown in Chrome when viewing mentioned slide, indicating that Buienradar denies being displayed within a slide:

Refused to display 'https://www.buienradar.nl/' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'deny'.

Best,
Menno

Hi @nsitu, closing this for now, but do let me know if you find some time to help reproducing this. Best!

Hey @azumay,

All slides are updated every 5 minutes, so if this is frequently enough for you the updating should already work.

As to why the tweet page is not showing on your slide:
– Is your website hosted at https:// (with ‘s’), or https:// (without ‘s’)? In the last case the browser will block any embeded pages! So External web page slide will stay blank. Make sure your website is on https:// and marked ‘secure’ by your browser.
– Not all web pages out there can be embeded. Owners of some web pages choose not to allow this, also resulting in an External web page slide staying blank. Could you try another web page and see if then it does work? The way forward would then be to use the official embed options that Twitter provides.

Hope this helps!
If not, please send me the URL of your (test) display where I can troubleshoot the problem for you. Use this form if you want to send that URL privately: https://foyer.tv/send-info/