Kenny

Mine wasn’t working, then I read this thread and put in a calendar name.

Cerzky, great plugin, but I think if you make it clear that the calendar name is required you’ll have more success. Also, the default view radio button works, but after I save the settings the radio buttons go blank again. It would be nice if it showed which one was currently selected.

Suggestions:
1. Make it totally responsive (especially the header area)
2. Make the event details pop-up in the page instead of going to the source calendar event. Then include a “more details” link that goes to the full source calendar event. That would keep more people on my site.

Thank you!

Thanks for responding. It turns out that there was a broken link for my first image, which meant it was trying to load that image but showing blank for the duration of the it. It made it seem like it was taking a long time to load what I thought was the first image (but it was actually image 2).

Strangely, I don’t think it continued to include the blank slide as it cycled through.

Here’s the site, regardless. Your plugin works beautifully in it.

reaganhayes.com

Thank you for your plugin!

Anytime. Thanks for making your slider available! ??

Hey Tom, sorry for the late response. I think adding more sliders is a great idea, but I suggest you think of it terms of a non-coder. At the heart of it, someone setting up their site has no clue about the slight differences between the sliders. All they know is that they look different and one’s settings are easier/harder to understand in their opinion. I’d say those are their real deciding factors about which slider to use.

So by adding more sliders, in the eyes of a plugin user, you’re adding more “themes” to their slider on their website. They’re not using your plugin to create the slider you’re giving them, they’re using your plugin to create the slider they’re hoping to see based on what they’ve seen before elsewhere or what they are imagining in their head. If they don’t get that result (or something better), then they’ll move on to a different plugin.

Which thinking conveniently wraps back around to the idea of representational icons or images for each slider. Or a preview area. Then the user picks their “theme” based on their criteria: if it looks right. Because in the end they don’t care at all what tech/name is being used for the slider as long as it works and looks right to them.

To your question “Can there be too many options?”, I’d say as long as the sliders are obviously distinct to the user and the number of options is comfortably presentable in an admin UI, then give as many options as you can.

Whoa, this reply became long quickly. Hope it’s useful!

Tom, I always imagine plugin authors have very few design resources so sometimes I offer to help–just to give back a little where I can. Plugin authors like you make my work possible, and that’s very noble. It looks like if you had the time to make icons, you’d definitely have the talent available in your crew ??

I’d love to hear about the other plugin when it’s ready. I can’t find any open source plugins that do the category-featured-image well at all. Is there a notification I can get on?

Thanks!
Kenny

Thanks Tom! I run a web design agency and I’ve searched and tested slider plugins for a long time and yours is awesome. Really awesome.

One suggestion is to show thumbnails of the slider types instead of just the name in a colored box. People don’t always remember the visual difference between the slider types.

This part:
https://i.imgur.com/5XZnMuu.png

If you need some help with creating those, I’d be willing.

The other feature that would make your plugin totally killer would be the option of using the featured images from a category’s posts.

Well done!

Never got a fix, so we switched plugins!

Copy/paste, yeah. Because the new plugin I’m using doesn’t use custom post types (it doesn’t have its own FAQ menu). So instead the info all goes into one page. I actually like it a lot better because we don’t really have that many FAQs to warrant needing them all separate on different pages in the admin.

Actually, we switched to a different plugin: Easy FAQ with Expanding Text

U37 does answer it, in part, but I have a problem with this:

U37 I don’t want my links grouped on the timeline
Enabling the option Use excerpt as message will prevent grouping of links. If you don’t write an excerpt the site title will be used as message. You can also enable the option Use links API instead of feed API. This option has not yet been tested thoroughly, so if you have problems, please report them. There is one known limitation, see the previous question.

Is there any way to make it default to not include a message? Or to adjust the default message? Putting the site title there is redundant when it’s posting to your facebook page/profile that has the same title as your site.

Thanks!

@julio, you are a genius. Threw it in my header.php and refreshed my site once to make it run. Then deleted the code. I 2nd your 100% guarantee!

bump! Can the easing slider play nice with nextgen installed?

FIrst, thank you for making this!

It seems like I have everything figured out, except my posts don’t show up on my fan page wall. They DO show up in the application’s box on my fan page, which I can move to my wall to show a listing of recent posts, but that doesn’t put the posts in my stream nor allow commenting.

The permalinks on the app page work perfectly and new posts show up right away in the app, just not on my fan page’s stream.

Am I missing something? Help?

It’s live on the left side of my fan page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Street-Smart-Comedy/142325581345

Brilliant! I added that line and it did the trick. Thank you so much for responding!

Perfect answer, thank you!

I had already tweaked my php.ini (the php.ini that comes with hostmonster/bluehost hosting) to up the limits, but it wasn’t working.

Then I copied my php.ini from my root directory and put it in the wp-admin folder. I logged out of the wp admin panel, cleared my browser cache, and logged back in. Now everything works with higher limit uploads.

Brilliant. Thank you!