walterrmartin

Do it whichever way you prefer. I never use the file editors within WordPress, especially when editing PHP files, but the result is the same either way. Either method will be overwritten if you upgrade the plugin, which is why I prefer to edit the file on my computer and save a copy. You could also just copy the text from within the plugins editor and save it locally if you are more comfortable doing it that way. I’m more used to using FTP, plus this way I can use the editor of my choice so I get features such as syntax highlighting, error checking, autocomplete, etc. If you make an error in a PHP file, you’ll usually be unable to reach the WordPress Admin screen, anyway, so you should be sure you have a direct file upload method available.

I needed the same thing, so I modified the flexslider-hg.php file to add a selector, until Hal gets time to do it. It is easy to do as long as you have access to your site’s plugins directory:

1. Download the plugin.
2. Extract flexslider-hg.php from the ZIP file and open it in Notepad or another simple text editor. (Do NOT use Word!)
3. Add $rtn .= '<' . p . ' class="slide-excerpt flexslider-hg-excerpt">'; on line 250, right above the line that reads $rtn .= get_the_excerpt();
4. Upload the file to your wp-content/plugins/flexslider-hg folder, overwriting the existing file.

You can then add .slide-data .flexslider-hg-excerpt { display: none; } after the appropriate media query in your CSS file, and the paragraph tag will help if you just want to style the text.

Hal, it would be great if you would include this code as-is in your next update, so that nothing will break in my CSS or that of anyone else who uses it. However, I realize you may already have another plan that would require this to be changed.

Thank you pietpompies! You just gave me the answer to a problem I have been trying to fix all afternoon.

Thank you pietpompies! You just gave me the answer to a problem I have been trying to fix all afternoon.

If you are using the default template, there is no need to copy and paste anything–it is already there. Still, that should not be causing a problem.

Are you by any chance trying to insert the template code into your page, rather than just the single short code?

Sorry, had to make another post to mark this as resolved.

Never mind. I totally forgot that I had added a function to link all Post Thumbnails to the post permalink. I knew something had to be going on when nobody else was reporting this problem. I’m once again loving this slider. Thanks for the great work, Hal.

I just checked the HTML output–not sure why I did not do so sooner. It is actually inserting an href for the URL, followed by one for the permalink. Since the permalink comes last, it is the one that is active.