Van Patten Media

Hi Shashank:

We have deliberately not included the settings you’ve requested, because we want to leave it up to the template designer to make those decisions. I know it seems counter-intuitive compared to other slider plugins, but Total Slider is designed to be used in client/developer situations, where the developer wouldn’t want the client to be able to change the look of the slider or its operation.

However, I do agree that we could build an API to enable developers to selectively create their own fields, and determine which options are necessary in their specific case. This would be much better than mandating those fields globally.

As to your specific needs (points 4 and 6), you can build a custom template that enables navigation buttons. We have a document in our developer wiki that guides you through the process of creating a custom template. As to using HTML in slide descriptions, I believe we filter out HTML as a way of helping to prevent any malicious attacks. It may be possible (in future versions) to disable this filter manually.

I will add your requests issue tracker on Github.

Thanks for your thoughts!

I’m aware of this issue with the ‘Developer’ status and plan to fix it in a release soon.

In the meantime, anyone experiencing this issue can work around it by creating/logging on to an ‘Administrator’ account in their WordPress install, then going to Slider > Settings and ticking the ‘Developer’ role to allow it to manage slides. The plugin will then show up when they use their normal, ‘Developer’, user account.

Thanks prayel for pointing out the workaround!

Michael,

We’re sorry to see you go. If we can help you in the future with Total Slider, do let us know!

Hi studio314,

If you’re running the latest version, you can use the shortcode when editing a post or page by clicking the Total Slider button that appears in the editor toolbar, then picking the slide group to show.

If you don’t want to use that (or don’t use the visual editor), or just prefer the shortcode, it’s:

[totalslider group="group-slug"]

The group-slug you need is visible in the URL when you’re editing your slide group. For more information on the shortcode, see its page on the Developer Documentation.

Hope this helps!

If v1.1 hasn’t fixed the problem, can you open a page where the plugin should be showing in the admin panel and open your browser’s Console in the Developer Tools?

On many browsers, you just need to hit F12 and click on the Console. In Firefox, see the ‘Web Developer’ menu.

Do you get any error messages in the Console?

Hi Michael,

I took a look earlier in the week and it looked like the CSS was broken, but unfortunately at that moment I didn’t have enough time to investigate and reply! Sorry about that.

It now seems to look OK when I visit your link. Can you confirm if you need any more help?

Apologies to all for the delay in getting version 1.1 released, but it is now available. It features a responsive built-in theme, as well as a shortcode capability to add your slider into any post or page, so I think it takes care of all these feature requests!

Hi artychan –

Version 1.1 is just about to be released. Try upgrading to the newest version and seeing what happens. If that doesn’t fix the problem, report back and we’ll do some further examination.

Thanks for your patience!

1.1 is being released today, so I’m going to mark this resolved. That should fix the error message you saw (as noted in the post above).

If you continue to see any issues, do report back and we’ll open this back up!

Hi Michael –

It looks like the code is enqueing properly and working when called directly from the Webkit Inspector.

One thing you may try is to update your JavaScript by replacing this line (the last line) in the JavaScript file:

jQuery('.total-slider').cycle({fx:'fade',speed:1000,timeout:8000});

with these lines:

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
	jQuery('.total-slider').cycle({fx:'fade',speed:1000,timeout:8000});
});

If that doesn’t seem to work, we will have a new version of Total Slider (using an updated version of jQuery Cycle) available very soon—probably later today. The default theme has been updated to use the latest version of jQuery Cycle and rebuilding your theme with the new code may fix the problem.

The uploader is undefined error will be fixed as of version 1.1, which I am working on now! That error itself doesn’t cause a major problem, as far as I’m aware, it’s just unnecessary noise in the Console.

Is there anything about your PHP version or web host that you can tell us? These issues sound a little unusual and combined with the intermittent nature of the other problem, it might be helpful to have some more details about your hosting setup.

Total Slider v1.1 is in the final stages of its development now — it’s just spit and polish, testing and updated translations to come. I’m having to balance time for its development with other responsibilities so I can’t unfortunately be concrete about timing, but my goal is that by the end of next week, it’ll be ready for primetime.

Peter Upfold (Total Slider Developer)

Hi,

This appears to be an elusive bug I’ve been trying to hunt down for someone else, but that I haven’t yet managed to reproduce myself.

When this happens, is there any output in the Console? (F12 in your browser often opens the Developer Tools.)

Do you see any text in the modal window when it refuses the close properly, or is it just completely blank?

What other plugins are activated at the same time as Total Slider? Does disabling other plugins and/or switching to the default theme change this behaviour?

I’m keen to track this down, so thanks for getting in touch.

Peter Upfold
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Hi timned88,

In the next version, Total Slider 1.1, we’ll have a wider selection of templates which should make it really easy to get the look you want. Depending on the timescale of your project, you may want to hang on and wait for the new version, as some things to do with templates will be changing.

If you want to get stuck in now, take a look at our template documentation. If you’re comfortable modifying WordPress templates, it shouldn’t be too much of a stretch to copy the Total Slider template files into your own theme make your own custom Total Slider template. There, you can edit the CSS to change the width and height, and you should be able to make changes to the JavaScript to change the slide duration. (Having said this, there are some code changes coming in v1.1 that might mean you have to go back and change your template later, so you may want to wait.)

If this isn’t something you want to fiddle with, we will have much more built-in flexibility when better template support arrives in version 1.1.

Let us know how you get on with the templates, and if we can help further.

Thanks for using Total Slider!

Peter Upfold
Total Slider Developer

mahe84b –

Thanks for your kind words! Version 1.1 will be available (hopefully!) within the next 7 to 10 days, and we will be bundling one or two themes pre-built for responsive design.

That said, the current plugin (version 1.0.4) already supports everything one would need to develop a responsive theme, so if you have basic HTML/CSS and JavaScript chops, there is no reason you couldn’t put together a responsive theme right now; no waiting required.

Thanks again for your comment!

Hi tonymm-

Currently Total Slider’s default theme is not built responsively, however one could very easily write a Total Slider theme that supported responsive techniques.

Our next release (version 1.1) will support the ability to choose from multiple themes, and we are planning to bundle several with the plugin. I will make sure that at least one or two of those included themes use responsive design techniques to help users out in your situation.

Thanks for your question!