Smooth Slider: Free WordPress Plugin For Slideshow Of Featured Posts
Smooth Slider is a WordPress Plugin for creating a dynamic slideshow for featured posts on a blog. The slideshow created by Smooth Slider are JavaScript and Text based, that’s why bloggers and site owners will get full benefit of Search Engine Optimization as the texts are readable by Search Engine.
WordPress Version – Requires at least: 2.9
Tested up to WordPress Version: 3.1.3
Author: Tejaswini Deshpande Demo: Internet Techies Home Page Support: Smooth Slider Forum
Find more details about Smooth Slider by clicking appropriate tabs
Overview: A free WordPress Plugin to assign a post as featured posts on a blog and then create a slideshow with them to show at any location on a blog. Some of the important features of this plugin are as below:
Highlighted Features :
1. Search Engine Optimized Slideshow
2. Fully Customizable CSS
3. Choose Posts and Pages as Featured Posts/Pages on Single Click
4. Simple but Decent Slideshow
5. Match Slideshow With WordPress Theme
6. No Need Of Knowledge of PHP, HTML or CSS
7. Widget and Shortcode Ready
8. Create Multiple Sliders and add individually on different posts or pages using ID
9. Easy To Install Plugin
10. Full Support Available
11. Readable by search engine as you can see the screenshot on Lynx browser available on our blog
12. Option for trasparent background, so that rounded corners can be supported
13. Slider Preview in admin panel
14. Can convert to pure image Slider
15. Facility to put Custom Images in place of navigation numbers
16. Images Original Size as well as custom size Option
17. Pick image from content or the custom field
18. New custom field implementation, to allow not to display images on selective posts
19. A new template tag to display Category specific posts on Smooth Slider
20. A new template tag for WPMU, to get slider posts from all over the WPMU site
21. Option to change Read More text and also put it in your language
22. Permission setting option to restrict the users from adding posts to Smooth Slider
23. Remove posts and pages from Smooth Slider selectively or remove all the posts from the slider at one go from the settings page itself
24. Option to retain specific html tags in the slider posts
25. Option to specify custom text or html in place of navigation numbers or buttons
26. Smooth Slider complete uninstall on plugin Delete
27. A new custom field slide_redirect_url can be used for a post/page to redirect that slide to some other custom url other than the permalinkof the post/page
Video Tutorial – Smooth Slider
Usage Details
1. If you want the slideshow on your home page, then open Index.php file from “Dashboard” by clicking on Tab “Appearance / Editor” and paste the following piece of code at the suitable place.
if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider' ) ) {
get_smooth_slider(); }
If you want to put the slider before the list of articles on your WordPress blog homepage, put the above piece of code before the WordPress Loop (the code is a php code, so ensure that it is enclosed within the php tags). WordPress loop code is shown below:
if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post();
Complete example:
<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider' ) ) {
get_smooth_slider(); }
if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post();
....(rest of the loop code)
?>
2. The content in the slider can be picked up from either the post content or the post excerpt or a new custom field slider_content. You can add the custom field on the Edit Post panel for each of the posts.
3. You can also put a thumbnail image for each of the featured post on Smooth slider. All you need to do is create a new custom field slider_thumbnail on the edit post panel for the particular post and put the link or source URL of the image in the value column.
4. Almost all the fields that appear in the Smooth Slider are customizable, you can change the looks of your Slider and make it suitable for your theme. The defaults set are according to the Default WordPress theme. Also, you can change the number of posts appearing in the slider and the pause or interval between the two consecutive posts on the slider. For making these changes, there would be a settings page for Smooth Slider in the wp-admin screen of your blog, once you enable the plugin.
5. On the “Miscellaneous” section of the settings page => put all the html tags that you wish to retain in the “Retain these html tags” input field. Put the tags in the following manner,
<br><a><p>
Don’t separate them using commas, neither use “/” anywhere.
6. If you have selected “First Image from the Content “ (Refer above point), then it may happen that for a certain post you do not wish to display any image though the post has a image in the content. In such case, just populate ‘x’ (without quotes) in the custom field slider_image_control for that particular post or page. Then no image would be displayed at all. This would enable the selective inclusion of images on the slider.
7. In case you wish to redirect a slide to another URI other than the permalink, you can use the custom field slide_redirect_url for the post/page to specify to which URL you wish to redirect that slide when the visitor clicks on it.
Frequently Asked Questions and How To’s
In case you have upgraded from previous versions (<= 2.3.2) using WordPress automatic upgradation, and the plugin is not working, please deactivate and reactivate the plugin.
Also, in case you are still getting list of the entries, please go to the Smooth Slider Settings page and just ‘Save’ the settings. Check if the settings Miscellaneous => Smooth Slider Styles to use on other than Post/Pages is equal to ‘default’. Then save the settings.
1. Is it possible to add advertisement or banners in a normal slider made of posts and pages in Smooth Slider?
Yes, one can insert images with link and description as per his/her choice without writing a separate post for that purpose. Which means it is possible to insert advertisement or banner in the Slider. To do that, you just need to upload the banner of proper size to media library and add that image to the slider. Provide proper description and title and also provide the target URL (may be the affiliate URL). Checkout the screenshots provided below.
Short Code support is available in Smooth Slider thru which you can insert a slider in the content area of a post or page on your WordPress blog. There are 2 ways to embed a slider in post content area.
- Mention the slider ID in short code to embed a specific slider. For example
[ smoothslider id='2' ]
(Note: Remove the space after opening [ and before closing ] tags )
- Second option is where you just need to insert the short code in the content area where you want the slider to appear. And then go to the bottom area of the edit window of that particular post and select the slider which you want to show in that area. Screenshots are attached below.
3. Is it possible to change the target URL of the title or slide or the slider?
Yes, you can change the target URL of the slide or title of the slider. On the edit post window, when you re adding particular post to the slider, you can an option as “URL of the slide” on “Smooth Slider” options panel on edit post window. There you just need to paste the URL where you want to redirect your visitor. For image slider from Media Library, we have explained the target URL change in 1’st Question of FAQ.
4. Can I add multiple sliders on same page or post?
No, currently Smooth Slider doesn’t support multiple sliders on same post or page. For example, you can’t have slider in the sidebar as well as above the post title or within content. We are working on “multiple slider on same page” requirement and will update the plugin as soon as possible. If you want “Multiple Sliders with Different Individual Settings” then you can try “Roster Slider”. Here is the demo page showing multiple sliders embedded on same page using Roster Slider WordPress plugin.
5. How can I create Multiple Sliders on Smooth Slider.
Smooth Slider can create multiple sliders and then you can embed different sliders on different sections like categories/tags/special pages or posts. As said in the above question, it can’t add multiple sliders on single page or provide different settings and effects for different sliders but you can have multiple sliders (with different sliding content) with Smooth Slider. Read more about how to create multiple slider on SS.
6. How To display Smooth Slider on Blog’s homepage only?
If you want the Smooth Slider slideshow on your blog’s homepage only, you can add that in no time. Here is the complete tutorial explaining this simple how-to.
Changelog For Smooth Slider
Version 2.3.5 (06/13/2011)
- Fix: An extra div tag at the end of the slider html was causing the slider break on Safari in a particular case. Thanks to Michael Preisner for pointing out the issue.
- Fix: On new pages, posts, the default slider sltysheet should be the one selected thru Smooth Slider settings and not the actual ‘default’ stylesheet.
- Fix: noscript tags should have the text enclosed in ‘p’ tags to make Smooth Slider validate on XHTML strict. Thanks to Martin Wilcke for pointing this out.
- Fix: The shortcode stripping was not working when there was an immediate anchor tag within the shorcodes. Rectified this bug. Thanks to Oscar of Innovacionweb for pointing this issue.
- Fix: Using the WP Minify 1.1.6 plugin with Smooth Slider 2.3.4.1 caused a 400 Bad Request error and the resulting html page ended up with no composite CSS file since Minify failed. This was in a special case when the slider is embedded on single page or a post and you updated from the older version of Smooth Slider (2.3.2 or less) to new version. Added a fix for this. Thanks to Doug Foster of theideamechanics.com for pointing this out.
- New: Option to enable the ‘Flash of Unstyled content’ while page load, which is disable by default. By default the slider will load once complete DOm elements are loaded (html page is ready to be served). Due to this default setting, some users feel that slider is loading slow.
Version 2.3.3 (04/24/2011)
- Fix: Slider was not working on upgrade from older versions to version 2.3.3
Version 2.3.3 (04/16/2011)
- Randomize the slides in Slider
- Translation ready
- Multiple sliders can have different titles
- No script text option
Version 2.3.2 (10/13/2010)
Minor fix to release of version 2.3 1. Fix: Pages added to Smooth Slider were not displayed. Smooth Slider was turning empty. Fixed this issue 2. Along with posts, pages and media images, Smooth Slider now supports Custom Post Types
Version 2.3.1 (10/13/2010)
Minor upgrade to fix small issues with 2.3
- Plugin compltibility will be now from WordPress 2.9 i.e. you should upgrade to Version 2.3 only if you hav WordPress 2.9 and above.
- Fixed: For those using Smooth Slider previous versions, some were facing issue with the loading of stylesheets and script specific to slider. Fixed it.
- Fixed: For some servers content was not pulled from the posts.
Version 2.3 (10/12/2010)
- New – Smooth Slider Widget
- New – Smooth Slider Shortcode
- New – Slides can now be re-ordered thru the ‘Slider Admin Panel’
- New – Images existing and new images added to WordPress Media Gallery can be added to Smooth Slider along with posts and pages.
- New – Now images in the slider can be extracted in very intelligent manner. Added support for ‘Post Thumbnails (WP 2.9+)’.
- New – Videos can be embedded in the slider. Ad can be added to the slider.
- New – Some slides can be linked to a webpage and others can be without a link as well.
- New – Multiple settings to the sliders on different pages thru CSS files.
- Fixed – Scheduled Posts issue
- Fixed – Image Caption Issue
- Fixed – Retain HTML tags issue
- Fixed – Permissions issue (Who can add post/page and slides to the slider and who cannot)
Version 2.2 (11/24/2009)
1.New – Multiple Sliders can now be created from the settings page. Post/Pages can be selectively put in the slider of your choice. Also, you could decide which post/page should display which slider (from the Edit Post/Page), though the page/single post template file contains regular Smooth Slider tag only.
2.New – Added an option to limit the content on the slider by ‘words’. Previously it was only with number of characters due to which sometimes for some posts the last word on the slider was shown broken. Now you can use any of the two, either limit content by number of characters or number of words
3.Fix – Fixed the issue with get_smooth_slider_cat tag. There was a bug when this tag ws used for home page. Now it is working as per the specifications.
4.Fix – For using the custom images for navigation, there was an issue with ‘getimagesize’ php function for some servers. Removed this fuction and directly put options to specify the custom images height and width.
5.Fix – When the navigation numbers are used, there was some clicking issue, like the numbers needed to be douoble clicked in order to go to that slide number. This issue was observed with some installations of Smooth Slider (like on demo page). Hopefully this would get fixed with this release.
6.Fix – Changed the name of the database table from ‘slider’ to ‘smooth_slider’ in order to avoid probable database conflicts and be more specific.
Version 2.1.2 (11/26/2009) - Check the details about Smooth Slider Version 2.1.2
1. New – Added an option to change the transition speed between two slides. Now you can control the speed with which one slide slides off and another slides in.
2. New – Added an option to enable the autostepping or autosliding or disable it.
3. Fixed – A blank slide appeared on the slider if the post which is in slider is deleted from wp-admin. Fixed the issue, now if the post which is also in slider is deleted, then it will also be removed from the slider, fixing the blank slide issue
4. Fixed – The scheduled or draft post placed into the slider will not appear on the actual slider. It will appear only in case when the post is published.
5. Fixed – WPMU issue with get_smooth_slider_wpmu_all that the post permalinks direct to a wrong url, that represents the current blog only, though the posts are pulled from other blogs. This issue is fixed in this version of Smooth Slider.
Version 2.1.1 (11/19/2009) - Check the details about Smooth Slider Version 2.1.1
1. New – Added an option whether to crop images or not. This was essential after version 2.1 because, some of us use the images from other location than the wordpress installation. In that case timthumb does not operate
Version 2.1 (11/18/2009) – Check the details about Smooth Slider Version 2.1
1. New – Now the images will not be sqashed to fit the size, rather they would be cropped properly. Used timthumb.Caution: Please use the images stored on the same domain on the slider.
2. New – A new custom field slide_redirect_url can now be specified to redirect the slide to another URL than the permalink
3. Fixed – Admin menu dropdown were getting stuck only on Smooth Slider settings page, fixed that issue
Version 2.0 (10/08/2009) - Check the details about Smooth Slider Version 2.0
1. New – Now you can add pages to Smooth Slider along with posts
2. New – Images Original Size Option
3. New – Pick image from content or the custom field
4. New – New custom field implementation, to allow not to display images on selective posts
5. New – A new template tag to display Category specific posts on Smooth Slider
6. New – A new template tag for WPMU, to get slider posts from all over the WPMU site
7. New – Option to change “Read More” text and also put it in your language
8. New – Permission setting option to restrict the users from adding posts to Smooth Slider
9. New – Remove posts and pages from Smooth Slider selectively from the settings page itself
10. New – Option to retain specific html tags in the slider posts
11. New – Option to specify custom text or html in place of navigation numbers or buttons
12. Fix – Fixed issue of Smooth Slider settings page with Internet Explorer
13. New – Optimized Smooth Slider code internally
14. New – Smooth Slider complete uninstall on plugin Delete
Version 1.2 (09/22/2009) – Check the details about Smooth Slider Version 1.2
1. New – Slider Preview in Smooth Slider’s setting page
2. New – Facility to set transparent background to the slider
3. New – Facility to Convert it to pure Image Slider
4. New – Remove all the posts from Smooth Slider in one click
5. New – Custom Images in place of navigation numbers
6. Fixed – CSS id names and class name fixed, to avoid probable conflicts with theme styles and other plugin styles
Version 1.1 (09/14/2009) – Check the details about Smooth Slider Version 1.1
1. New – Active Slide in the slideshow will now be highlighted with bolder and bigger navigation number
2. Fixed – Added No Script tag brosers not supporting JavaScript for showing the slideshow
3. Fixed – Issues with WordPress MU Smooth Slider Options update from setting page
Credits
1. FeatureMe WordPress Plugin – serving as a strong base for our development. Thanks to Oscar Alcalá.
2. Farbtastic Color Picker – for fabulous color picker jQuery plugin, we could include it on our settings page. Thanks to Steven Wittens
3. jQuery JavaScript Library – for invaluable jQuery javascript library which made all our tasks so fast and easy. Thanks to John Resig and team.
We also express our thanks to all the plugin developers whose invaluable plugins and codes helped us learn how to write WordPress plugins. And we are always grateful to WordPress Codex whose detailed and flawless guidelines always served as best resource to learn wordpress core and develop the base.
Installation
This plugin is easy to install like other plug-ins of WordPress as you need to just follow the below mentioned steps:
1. Copy Folder “Smooth Slider” from the downloaded and extracted file.
2. Paste it in “wp-Content/plugins” folder on your WordPress Installation
3. Activate the plugin from Dashboard / Plugins window.
4. Now Plugin is Activated, Go to the Usage section to see how to use Smooth Slider.
Upgrade
You can upgrade the plugin to latest version from Dashboard / Plugins page of your blog. Go to that page, and scroll down to “Smooth Slider”. If you are getting a message that “There is a New version of Smooth Slider is available, View version details or Upgrade Automatically”. Click on “Upgrade Automatically” to get the latest version installed on your WordPress.
You can also download the latest versions from here and then follow the below mentioned method of manual upgrade,
1. Download the latest version of Smooth Slider from this page
2. Extract and Copy the folder “Smooth Slider”
3. Deactivate the Smooth Slider on your blog from Dashboard / Plugins page
4. Replace the Older Folder of Smooth Slider from “wp-content/plugins” folder on your blog installation.
5. Activate the Smooth Slider from Dashboard / Plugins page.
Done! Now you have upgraded the plugin to latest version.
Hi,
Is there a way to have an active state or selected state on the number links, so when you click on a number it would be a different color? That would be awesome. Was trying to do it with some other javascript below:
// handle nav selection
function selectNav() {
$(this)
.find(‘a’)
.removeClass(‘selected’)
.end()
.addClass(‘selected’);
}
$(‘#board_carusel_nav li’).find(‘a’).click(selectNav);
// go find the navigation link that has this target and select the nav
function trigger(data) {
var el = $(‘#board_carusel_nav li’).find(‘a[href$="' + data.id + '"]‘).get(0);
selectNav.call(el);
}
If anyone could help with this that would be really appreciated.
Thank you!
After inserting code i chose to display two posts, they then displayed side by side eachother on my homepage rather than sliding – any tips??
@Jake Got your point. We are updating the plugin as per your suggestion and would be releasing the upgrade in couple of days. Thanks for your patience!
@Jay, you have many jQuery plugins and javascripts in the head section of your webpage.I think that there might be some conflict between the two libraries.Could you please activate Smooth Slider and ping us immediately, we would look into the issue and will try to resolve it at our best so that we could have Smooth Slider working with other effects on your page. We appreciate your patience.
Thanks you for this awsome plugin. It is really useful and easy to use. I hope you will develop the plugin soon. Thanks again. Have a great day.
@Seçkin Thanks a lot for the feedback. I am glad that you lied the plugin and will definitely try to develop some other plugin in future as well.
Hi Sanjeev,
Updating the plugin to have an active state on the numbers would be really awesome! Will look forward to this. Your service is really generous. This is a great plugin, very glad to find it.
Again, thank you!
Hi, Do you know if Smooth Slider conflict with the TDO Mini Forms plug in?
@Jocke You can use TDO Mini Forms and Smooth Slider together, we tested it and found no conflicts. If you were trying to use smooth slider on your website, maybe it could have conflict with your existing featured posts plugin as I think it is using prototype.js and loading too many other scripts also. You could try deactivating it and activating smooth slider and vice versa, and let us know if they are in conflict, we could dig more into that.
@Jake You could now get the latest version of Smooth Slider, with the active slide highlighted. Thanks a lot for your feedback. Hope to see you more on Internet Techies
This is really an excellent plugin ! Congrats Sanjeev and waiting to see more plugins from your side !
Hi, really well put together plug-in. I have my posts displayed amd the slider works flawlessly, only thing is the thumbnail images do not show. Do i have to do anything other than hit the add to smooth slider box? Thanks in advance
I have sorted it thanks, works extremely well thankyou
Ok i have a request for the next update.
Would it be possible to add an option in the css admin to have rounded OR square corners on the slider box? I have rounded corners on my site and that would be a great option if it could be added.
Thankyou Nazaroth
@Nazaroth Thanks for your feedback. Nice to know that the plugin works well for you, as per your needs and definitely we would release a new upgrade to the plugin in couple of days, so that it would have provision to be displayed with rounded corners as well. Hope to see you more on Internet Techies.
Hi.
Great slider and great integration into wordpress which makes using it very easy and fun!!
i got feedback from users asking to display the name of the slider instead of the id (1,2,3…) As it has to be a custom value I guess i have to creat a custom field for it in the post. But I don’t have any idea what to change in the javascript to make it work.
Thanks in advance!! Help is very appreciated.
Thankyou very much Sanjeev, that would be great.
Hi Sanjeev!
plz i need a little help, cause im a beginner in wp. ive already installed the plugin, and set up everything in wp admin, but how can i add a post into this slider? (already tried own custom fields, but it needs a value…dunno what it is :S )
thx
bye
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@tmano It is really easy to add a post on Slider. Open a post for editing on WordPress Dashboard by clicking on “Edit” tab under Posts. You can find a checkbox named as “Add this post to Smooth Slider” at the bottom of the post edit windows below “Post Revisions”. Check the box and that particular post will be added to Slider.
You can add an image for the post using Custom field as “slider_thumbnail” and value as image URL.
Please let me know in case of any issue.
wohohooo
It Works 
DD
thank you Mr. Mishra
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Would it also be possible to enable us to set an actual background for the slider aswell as a colour in the next update?
Hi, i have noticed a slight bug. while revising a post that was set to be in the slider, an autosave was automatically posted to the slider, and i see no way of removing it as of yet. So at the moment i have the saved post, AND the autosave of the same post in the slider.
Visit my site and hopefully it will still be there
Thankyou
Sanjeev, thank you so very much for adding this and for your generosity. It helps a lot. This is a great plugin!
@Nazaroth I am not able to find it out on your website. Still we tried to create the similar scenario here, but there is no issue with Auto Save, and we dug more into that and found out that there is no such code conflicts that could cause the autosaved post to appear in the slider as the autosaved post is saved with different attributes in the database. We can definitely look into the issue, if you could tell us more on that, need a bit clarity. So if you could put the scenario, somewhere on the site or if we could discuss it in the forum, it would be very nice of you. We are looking forward to get the issue resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
Ok i have replaced the slider and as you can see, the first post is displayed fine but the second one in the list shows up with no image and goes to this page when pressed
I hope this helps in the quest to improve the plug-in
@Nazaroth We have sent you the solution for this problem thru email. We would definitely include a way to delete such kind of automatic insertion in Smooth Slider. Thanks for your patience.
Nice plugin and does pretty much what I have been looking to accomplish with a custom jquery implementation but this puts it nicely in plugin form, however I have a question. I am planning on using 3 static posts to rotate through and would like to put images instead of the numbers. I am quite accomplished with css so I can do this no problem, but is there away I can get rid of the numbers without breaking functionality?
So basically I would have different states for a#slidr1, a#slidr2 and a#slidr3 . I am guessing these numbers are generated, so I think that’s why i am having issues. Unfortunately I’m not good at coding, especially javascript.
I have also run into the autosave bug – my solution was just to delete the row related to the autosave from the wp_slider table in the wordpress database. Since the posts are time stamped it wasn’t to hard to figure out the offending post.
@djanes Thanks for the compliments. I got your requirements, and we would be adding this feature to the settings page in the next upgrade of this plugin, in couple of days. There is a way out to tweak the Javascript code in the plugin so as to use images instead of the navigation numbers, for which Tejaswini has created a new thread at Internet Techies forum http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/use-images-instead-navigation-numbers-djanes-t15.html
She would be posting out a temporary way out shortly there. Hope to see you more on Internet Techies.
@Andy Ya, that is perfectly correct how you did it. But what I feel is there should also be a easy way out to delete it directly from the settings page, so that we don’t have to go to the database table, and do the required. It would make the task easy.Hope to see you more on Internet Techies.
Hello
I have trouble getting smoothslider to work properly on the site I am developing. The problems I have is that it only shows one featured posts even though I choose another post to feature. The other is the the featured posts don’t slide to the show the other. It just reloads the page when you click ’2′. The last problem is that the text doesn’t not wrap to the right side rather is is the below the image. Can you please help me out.
@Hendrik Tejaswini have created a forum thread and have posted the reply to your query, please have a look at the forum topic http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/smooth-slider-not-sliding-some-conflict-t17.html
Thanks for your patience!
The update is good, but, still no option for rounded corners?
@Nazaroth Hey, can you check the home page of Internet Techies, we have put the slider in rounded corner box. You have to select transparent background with no border on settings page and embed the template tag in your theme div which has rounded corners. It would look perfect with your blog design, as your blog is having a div container “postwrap fix” with rounded corners
Thankyou very much Tejaswini, it works very well.
I think the next step would be for you to try and make it so that the post image is inserted automatically as setting a default size for every image makes alot of them look squashed. Is this something you could do?
Thanks again
Hi,
I’m using your plugin, its working fine in other themes but not in mine. can you plzz check it and let me know the error. Its working fine in default template.
Kindly check the website link provided and let me know asap….
thanx
@Nitin This problem can be with your theme as your theme may not be having wp_head() in header section, that is most of the times necessary for all wp plugins. To do that just include wp_head() before closing of head section in your header.php. Please let us know if problem still exist.
What do you think the possibility about the change of “#smooth_sldr” div border? I mean the double style with 3px looks like better than solid type.
Joc
@Joc You can definitely use double border for smooth slider, by using a trick. Just create a div with border as you wish and place the smooth slider template tag inside that div. On the smooth slider settings page, give the border width as 0px i.e. no border, you can also make the smooth slider background transparent. Let us know if it works otherwise we can look forward to add an option.
How do you show the entire post including all the HTML tags and SCRIPT tags?
@Nazaroth Ya sure, I got that, hmmm…thanks a lot for this suggestion. Could be the next feature
@burningpress Currently the smooth slider shows only the text for the featured posts. But yes, it is a good point brought forward by you.
Awesome plugin. I love it. Thanks.
Hi!
congratulation for your great plugin, extremely easy to use!
But, do you have a solution to integrate the image without distording it to fit the fix size set in the setting panel? The result can be really unpleasant depending on the original proportions…
Thanks a lot!
… I mean is there any solution to crop the image in order to fit the right size?
Hey Sanjeev,
I’m a beginner = dumb mistakes but with that said…
I’ve instituted the call in the correct place (though I haven’t added any css) and it displays fine until I place a second post. The 1st post then slides down a full block and is replaced by the 2nd post and so on and so forth. Is this just simple styling or a script issue? Thanks ahead of time, your continued support of you all’s plugin is a blessing.
Hi:
How do I put the smooth slider on the sidebar? do I embed codes into a text box?
thanks
Louisa
@Louisa You can definitely put Smooth Slider in the sidebar, in the same way as anywhere else.
You can put the template tag (code) directly, in your sidebar, by customizing the width and height from the settings page. No need to include it in any text box or p tag.
But, yes if you want some background image or any customized box, then you can include it in div tags, which have your desired CSS styling.
@Spenser I can see the Smooth Slider code on your webpage.
But the necessary scripts are not present in the head tag. Can you please check if your theme has wp_head() in the header.php
Also, you need to close the head tag somewhere after wp_head(), as I cannot see the closing tag for head.
@Fabien Thanks for the compliments. Ya, retaining the image original size is now the first feature that we would be adding in our next upgrade, in just couple of days.
Tejaswini, You are a lifesaver. Thank you so much!
@Tejaswini Thanks a lot for your job, I’m looking forward to get the upgrade
Hi!
I’ve now successufuly installed the slider on my website. Do you know how I could change the text of the “read more” link?
Just to say, I had big troubles making the plugin working due to a conflict with the plugin “MMS Form”. The only solution was to find another contact form plugin.
See you .)
@Fabien Currently we have not added language packs in the Plugin, but will definitely do it in coming days. Until then, can you just edit the smooth-slider.php file from your wp-admin plugin editor. You would get “Read more” written in text format on line no 257. Just change it to make in your language.
I want to say “Thanks so much” to you.
I actually have been finding a kind of a plugin like yours.
I used to use D13 Slideshow, S13, Featured Gallery Content but I was not pleased with they three.
I try your one immediately.
Ok thank you very much Tejaswini!
Can you add an option to move all of the styles to an external stylesheet rather than writing it inline?
Also, can you ad the option to not include jQuery if it is already using it for another plugin?
Overall, great plugin!
Thanks!
I love your slider plugin!
I have it installed, no problem there, but when I go into changing the colors of the background, etc., I click on the save button but nothing happens.
What should I do?
thanks!
@Vivi I think you are using Internet Explorer to save the settings. Kindly open the WordPress admin in any other browser like firefox or chrome and try to save changes over there. It will work properly, We are in process of rectifying the issue with IE. Thanks for your patience.
Hi Sanjeev, thank you so much for that tip! I should have thought of that. I had had problems with other things in IE and WP.
Again, thanks for your prompt reply! It works great
@jmoney Thanks a lot for your compliments and suggestions. I am definitely trying to include the styles in external stylesheet, but as most of the styles are dynamically generated, I am just trying to get a way around. But definitely I would take this as a improvement point and try to include it in the upcoming version.Same with jQuery point! Hope to see you more on Internet Techies.
great plugin,
thanks for the great effort
help me lot
@Vikash Thanks a lot
Hi,
Great plugin. I installed it into my blog through the Chrome browser using my office PC. It worked fine until I came home and checked. It does not appear when I view it through Chrome. Appears perfectly in FireFox.
IE reports a problem, in the status bar (a small exclamation mark in a yellow color triangle appears.) Below is the detailed error message.
Line: 552
Char: 5
Error: ‘seriesdropdown’ is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: http://virtualpreacher.org
I know developing plugins cannot be easy. Can you please take a couple of minutes to look into my problem…
@Yohan The issue that you mentioned is not with Smooth Slider, it is, I think, due to some other plugin. I have mentioned the reason for Smooth Slider not appearing properly on your blog and the solution in Smooth Slider forum
http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/smooth-slider-wrapping-right-side-behalf-yohan-t29.html
Please post me back in case of any other issues.
Hi Tejaswini,
First of all thank you for the quick reply.
Secondly thanks again. It worked like a charm.
Thirdly all the best to you, Sanjeev and all the Indian WordPress developers.
Well done…
P:S, To express my gratitude I have posted a link to your plugin page here http://virtualpreacher.org/links/
see under the heading ‘My favourite WordPrss plugins’…
@Yohan Thanks a lot for all your wishes and compliments. It feels really blessed when we get motivation from people like you and that refills our enthusiasm levels to deliver the next best. I really love WordPress and working for this huge open source community and feel very happy that I am able to put some of my efforts to befit bloggers like us, though it is a very tiny contribution. Many thanks again and all the best to you, keep on blogging!
Thanks for your plugin. It has been very useful to me since I created my school’s website. I need to whether I can use pages instead of plugins to show in the slider. If not, can you develop the plugin to use pages as well.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry. In my last post, “instead of plugins” should be corrected as “instead of pages”.
@Anuradha I got your point. Very good suggestion! We will definitely try to include this feature in the next upgrade of Smooth Slider, which I expect in couple of days, not so long to wait! Thanks for your patience.
Hi
I cannot use/set the options page as i am getting an javascript error
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Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
Timestamp: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:51:33 UTC
Message: Invalid argument.
Line: 20
Char: 35190
Code: 0
URI:
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Thx
@Steve We have identified an issue of Smooth Slider options page with Internet Explorer. That fix is definitely going to be in next release. In the meantime you can use Firefox or Chrome or other browser to do the settings as per your requirement. Thanks for your patience.
Hi
I cannot seem to get any content in the slideshow.
How do i actually get content into it?
ta
@Steve On the wp-admin panel of your blog => Go to Edit Post section => When you open any post for editing, scroll down the screen and you would see “Add this Post to Smooth Slider” checkbox. Check the box for all the posts you wish to add to Smooth Slider. Post me back in case of any issues.
Hi, It took me a while, but I finally got the slider to show up where I wanted it to. The only problem is, is now for some reason it cuts off my dropdown menus. Do you know why this may be happening?
Hi,
It’s me again. I am hosting my images in Flicker/Photobucket and insert them into my blog posts. May be that’s why the plugin does not display the thumbnail images. Is there a way to fix it? Never mind if it’s impossible. Just wanted to know,
Thanks in advance
@Yohan You can definitely insert the photos from Flicker photostream. To do that
1. Create a custom field for the respective post with name slider_thumbnail
2. Assign it the value equal to complete url of your required image (put the complete url!)
Please post back if this does not work.
@Christa I can see Slider on your blog, but not able to figure out the issue. Which browser are you using? Maybe we can use z-index property, but first of all I need to get the issue spotted. Thanks for your patience.
Hi Guys,
Excellent plugin. Exactly what I was looking for, except…
… that I need it for pages instead of posts. My blog is covering certain areas of special interest within a broader topic. I have overview pages for each area, containing an elevator summary and links to the best posts/pages for each certain area.
What I would like to do is to rotate these pages to better focus the visitor’s attention. Could you please get that working for me?
Thanks a lot,
Christoph
@Christoph Definitely, that is a very good suggestion and it would be included in our next upgrade, coming in a day or two! So you don’t have to wait longer
. Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestion, hope to see you more on Internet Techies.
@Tejaswini Excellent, thank you very much…
Hi Tejaswani,
Where can i see a demo of the Smooth Slider plugin?
@Arun You can see it on Internet Techies home page (http://www.clickonf5.org/) itself, the Featured Posts section at the top is the Smooth Slider. Thanks for your patience.
So I’m not technical enough to know the answer to even this:
” paste the following piece of code at the suitable place.”
…where is the “suitable” place? I can find the index.php, but have no idea where in there to paste the text to get it to display.
I’m just wanting a front page/home page slider… also, I tried putting it in the html of the content of the home page, but didn’t succeed.
Any suggestions?
Thank you for building, maintaining and supporting this plugin. I will be donating after I write this and I encourage everyone to please DONATE. Very few plugin authors get donations and we should support them in any way we can.
Okay. The DONATE button doesn’t appear to be working. Please let us know when it’s fixed!
@Lifedesigner Thanks a lot for your supportive words. Ya, currently the “Donate” buttons is not working. For the meantime, you can use the donate link “Donate with Paypal” available in “About the Plugin” section on settings page. We would rectify the issue with Donate button in the upcoming upgrade. Thanks a lot for pointing it out. Hope to see you more on Internet Techies.
@Matt I have created a Forum thread for your query, please visit http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/how-get-the-smooth-slider-the-home-page-matt-t31.html for the solution. Thanks a lot for your patience and hope to see you more on Internet Techies.
@Lifedesigner Thanks a lot for your donation towards Smooth Slider. We have received the amount thru PayPal.
Hi, mine doesn’t work… The slider inserts into the page template fine, but it doesn’t pick up any of the image inserted into the post via WP admin panel… am I doing something wrong? It just inserts the HTML code as the body text. I tried inserting a thumbnail as a custom field and this doesn’t work either, even with a URL.
I am just playing around with themes and plugins at the moment.
I’d like to have your plugin- I searched it something like that for long time- in the SIDEBAR I tried to install the code in the sidebar.php but I can’t
Is this the code I should copy?
and exactly where? tried in every part of sidebar.php and it cannot work
Thanks in advance
@Nina I think you are using some other tool or plugin to post your articles on blog. You may try the below option to get images on slider.
Get the URL of the image ==> Enable the image selection from custom field from Smooth Slider Settings ==> Go ahead and use custom field “slider_thumbnail” and value as the URL of the image ==> Update the post.
Now you should have the images in the slider. Please let us know in case you still face the same problem. Thanks a lot for your patience.
@gjiada We have started a new thread for your issue on Internet Techies Forum. here is the link for your problems’s thread: http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/smooth-slider-the-sidebar-t32.html
Thanks for your patience.
Hello,
Great plugin. Thank you!
I’m trying to style the content area of the slider, but the html tags I enter get stripped and I’m left with just the text in a span tag.
Is there a way to use tags like or unordered lists in the content and have them stay? Would like to be able to style the text.
Thank you!
@Laura J. Thanks for your compliments. Ya, definitely you can retain the html tags in your content on the slider posts. Can you please refer point 10 in Smooth Slider 2.0 release note at http://www.clickonf5.org/wordpress/smooth-slider-upgrade-2-0-released/5151
Please let me know if this works out for you. Thanks for your patience. Hope to see you more on Internet Techies.
Thank you Tejaswini
I just downloaded the plugin yesterday and didn’t have the new 2.0 version, so didn’t have those options under miscellaneous.
One more thing…will you be adding a way to select the order that posts appear in the slider? Right now it seems that the first item to appear is the last that you have selected to show in the slider. Would be nice to be able to easily arrange the order items appear if possible.
Thank you again
@Laura J. Great suggestion
, I have noted it down and would definitely try to include it in the next upgrade.Thanks for it!
Dear Tejaswini and Sanjeev,
I upgraded the plugin to the latest version today and I am really imperssed because,
1. You have included an option to grab the image from content straight away. This way I don’t have to bother about custom fields.
2. I can take out the arrows which I did not like much.
3. A list of all posts attributed to the plugin is displayed at the bottom which I thought necessary but could not tell you. Now I don’t have to check hundreds of posts if I want a remove a one from the slider.
Thanks for the hard work and God bless you richly…
Is there a way to put the slider on a page in the HTML or even the visual? Thank you, slider is great!
Congratulation for your amazing job, I’ve just got the upgrade and it’s perfect!
Hi !
(I’m french, sorry for my bad english)
I think that there is a solution for the image proportions. In fact there is a script which crop the image to the exact size you could define in Smooth Slider otpions. But, I don’t really know where it could be include (maybe in the smooth_slider_get_first_image($post) proprity).
The script is a script from Darren Hoyt, Timthumb. It take the image, and the size you define, and, it crop to the excat size.
http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/
For exemple :
Did someone try to use this script with Smooth Slider ? (excellent plugin !)
I really liked your plugin a lot and installed it on my site techzee.com which is based on thesis theme, I am a bit dumb in terms of web designing as its altogether a seperate field for me. I tried to look for code which can be put in Openhook so that your plugin works as it was showing error with code given in usage. Than i tried hit and trial method… I am good at that and finally got the solution, we just need to put
in openhook and it will work.
I tried to remove border at bottom of slider but unable to do so… can you please help?
I hope that will help some more users.
@slym Thanks a lot for your precious words. Smooth Slider featured post is really looking great on your theme. You have customized it perfectly. You can remove the border at bottom of the slider by removing the border CSS located in “/wp-content/themes/thesis/style.css”. Look for the DIV named as “feature_box” and then remove the border css from that div. By doing that, the border at bottom of the slider will get removed.
Please feel free to ask your queries. Thanks for your patience.
@Greg Great suggestion. We will have a look at the script that how it can be implemented in Smooth Slider.
thanks sanjeev, your idea rock! with your suggestion i was able to implement desired change in visual appeal of my featured box.
Thanks for the great plugin.
I want this to show up on my home page. I have to edit page.php since it’s not the blog that’s my home page.
How do I get smooth slider to show up only on my home page and not the other pages. Please help
@Faizal Please have a look at http://www.clickonf5.org/tutorial/smooth-slider-home-page-only/4545 post to put Smooth Slider on home page only. Thanks for your patience.
Love Smooth Slider. It’s the quickest, easiest slider I’ve ever tried. Thank you!!
Had a scare today, though. Turns out that yesterday’s revision of the Tweet Blender plugin interferes with Smooth Slider, making slider links inactive. If anyone else has this problem, you need to go into Tweet Blender settings and check “disable data caching” under Advanced Settings. This solved the problem for me.
Hi! I really like the idea of your plugin. Does it have to be on posts , and link to posts? Is it possible to place it on a page, and make it link to other pages?
Best regards
Steff
@alaJoAnn Great! Thanks for sharing.
@Steff It can be on post pages as well as pages. Just place the template tag on page, and you can also add pages to the Slider, thru the edit page panel (Smooth Slider 2.0). Thus, the Smooth Slider can contain posts as well as pages.
Only you need to take care that your page template file should have wp_head WordPress template tag before the closing html head tag in the header section.
Hi, many thanks for this plugin. I have a request, or maybe just a tip on how to edit the code!
I use the nextGEN gallery plugin on my site, so smoothslider cant pull the image from my posts. This isn’t a problem, as I can use the custom fields to pull an image.
I’m already using a custom filed named “Thumbnail”, but now have to add another called “slider_thumbnail”.
Is it possible to automatically point smoothslider to “thumbnail” custom field which I’m already using anyway? Or maybe even have the option to specify the name of the custom field which is used?
Thanks!
Matt
hi there .i would like to get help ,im new to the wordpress,i woul like to use this plugin but i dont know how to put it on my front page,
i do not know where to find the code
@ibrah No issues, you can check out the post in the forum here http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/problem-with-code-installation-easy-widget-t37.html
May be it would be too basic, but could help you. In case of any issues, post me back in the forum. Thanks for your patience.
Hi Sanjeev,
A great plugin you have here!
I would like a help though. The slider as it is now , jumps back to the first slide.
Can I have it rotate and start from the first, after the last slide.
I hope you got what I meant.
Thank You,
Love the plugin, thx so much!
How can I make the content text end in … without cutting off words?
It currently cuts off at exactly the number of characters selected, which is good, but without it being “pretty”
It would be awesome if it could end in … without any cut off words.
Example:
currently
I love this pl
pretty way
I love this…
Thanks again, looking forward to the long life of this plugins and continued updates!
@TheDude Thanks for the compliments. Good suggestion, would definitely look into it. For the timebeing you can select some big number in the maximum character limit so that all the content entered is selected. But still, I know it will work in the excerpt or in the slider_content field usage and not when the content is directly picked up from the actual post content.
@Lekha Thanks for the compliments. Good suggestion, but let me see if the carousel script handles that.
Hello!
Thanks for such a great plugin.
I’m trying to install v 2.0 on top of wordpress 2.8.4 and
I’m getting the following error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /home/fu000226/public_html/lp1h/wp-content/plugins/smooth-slider/smooth-slider.php on line 1394
Hope you can help me.
Thanks!!
Peter
@Peter Thanks a lot for posting your issue. Your server is using older version of PHP may be PHP 4, that’s why you are getting this error. Please find the solution here: http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/php-older-version-issue-fatal-error-behalf-jude-t34.html
Thanks a lot Sajeev! I’ll look into that.
Regards to you all!
Peter.
Hi again!
Regards and thanks a zillion for such a great plugin!!
It worked. I switched to PHP 5.2 I was using 4.4
All the best.
Peter
@Peter Congratulations, Good that you shifted to PHP 5.2 and thanks for your wishes.
Hello, is it also possible to have more than one smooth slider on the webbsite?
Best regards
Steff
@Steff Thanks for your query. Currently you can not use more than one slider on single page but we will try to implement that in our next version. Thanks for your patience.
All the enthusiasm for SmoothSlider is well deserved. I, too, have a little suggestion to add: When the post title appears below the slider image, move it down about 5 pixels. This will improve appearance and readability.
Meanwhile, I’ve got SmoothSlider installed on my blog and wrote a post about it. I’ve had various kinds of trouble with a number of content sliders in the past. Smoothslider is so simple, easy, and effective. I wanted to let readers know what an excellent tool it is.
I look forward to a revision with great interest.
All the best!
Hi, Thank you on exellent plugin, but I found that Slider is in conflict with Wp-prettyphoto plugin. After a click on some media that use prettyphoto very often it block page and you need to refresh it. Any idea?
Thank you!
Also I noted that problem happened every time if you click prettyphoto powered media in same time when slide changing. How to turn off sliding if there is no other solutions to fix this issue? Thank you
Thanks for a brilliant plug in, it’s absolutely great.
However is it possible to slow down the actual transition speed?
Thanks,
em
Oh and one more thing, how do I remove the padding?
Thanks
Hi again! I did not meen to place more than one slider on current page, I ment more than one slider on the hole website, it that possibly?
Best regards
Steff
Hi,
Is it possible to add custom content to the slider, ideally by widget, but either way.
I dont want to dispaly posts, but I do want to intergrate a slider into my site and fill it out with custom html, im not sure if this is the right plugin to achieve this for me??
So sliding divs or alike would be ideal.
@phil Yes definitely you can put custom content to Smooth Slider 2.0. Put whichever html tags you wish to use in the ‘Retain these html tags’ field on the settings page. Use the slider_content custom field to put the custom content. Please refer the usage section http://www.clickonf5.org/wordpress/smooth-slider-upgrade-2-0-released/5151 point 10 for more details
@Steff Sorry for the late response, was a bit busy in another new WordPress plugin ‘Instant Weekly Roundup’. Yes definitely you can use Smooth Slider on the whole blog. You need to put the Smooth Slider template tag in your other template files like archives.php, single.php, author.php, page.php or home.php, index.php, category.php and so on, what all you use. If you wish to use Category specific Smooth Slider then please refer to point 5 in http://www.clickonf5.org/wordpress/smooth-slider-upgrade-2-0-released/5151. Thanks for your patience. Post me back in the forum in case of any furthur issues.
@emma Ya you can slow down the transition period of sliding, but for that you would need to change the Smooth Slider php file. I would be adding this option in the next release, definitely. It is a good suggestion from your side. Which padding are you talking about?
@alaJoAnn Thanks a lot for all your compliments and you had a very good suggestion here. Also I am glad that you felt it so simple to operate, in fact you have customized it well on your blog, I can see. All the best to you too.
@Filip Sorry for the late response, was a bit busy with another new WordPress Plugin ‘Instant Weekly Roundup’. I am looking into your issue and will post you back shortly.
Thanks the the prompt response. Thats good news indeed, ill give it a try and let you know how I got on.
congratulation for your great plugin, extremely easy to use!may god bless you.how to use spam protection on the comment on wordpress 2.8.4,like the one you use?
@ibrah Thanks a lot for your wishes. You can use Math Spam protection, please refer the article http://www.clickonf5.org/wordpress/spam-protection-math-option/3253
It is really effective, it worked wonders on Internet Techies regarding spam protection.
Hi, Excellent plugin. I’m planning on making a static home page for my blog so that I’m making a new “Page” in my blog so that I can set this page as home page via Settings > Reading option.
In this new “Page”, when I insert this code, it does not show the smooth slider correctly. I have PHP code executor installed on my blog so that it can execute any PHP code within my post or page.
But this shows the slider frame but nothing really works and no links within it work. What is the problem here?
Can I have this slider on “Post” or “Page” pages?
thanks.
Hi, thank you very much for this plugin, it’s excellent!
I have a small issue. I created a ‘page’ and selected the option to include into smooth slider. Before i finished i then decided to delete the page and use a post instead.
The problem is that now there’s a blank slide in the slider and i cannot seem to see how to get rid of it!
Any help appreciated
Hello all !!!
You rocked my new web designer life with your Smooth Slider Plugin
Thank you for your great works Sanjev and Tejaswini !!!
Big Up from France
This plugin is awesome – it’s easy to use and simple to Modify. Thanks for developing!!
I’ve been playing with this plug-in for the last few days and I must say it’s been a lot of fun. Congratulations on a beautiful peace of work!!!
A lot of questions came up while using it but I decided to take the time to figure it out and I managed to do a lot of customization, in the wp admin panel (which is obvious) but also editing the js and css files.
Thanks again for a wonderful plug-in, I’m just beginning to use wordpress to play around and I must say I’ve learned a lot thanks to “Smooth Slider”.
Cheers from Argentina!
Is it possible to put the slider in a post? I want the slider in the middle of a post.
Hi all,
Great plugin…was wondering if it possible to have post specific images in the nav part. So instead of 1, 2, 3 or custom images of 1, 2, 3 it would make a little thumbnail of an image from each post.
Does my description make sense?
@Peer Yes definitely, but for that I think you have to use ‘Exec PHP’ plugin, that allows you to put executable PHP code in your posts.
@Mark Got what you meant and it is perfect
. I would try to add some kind of feature representing your suggestion in one of the forthcoming release. This is a great suggestion.
@Mark Griffin Sorry for the late response, I was just busy with another WordPress plugin. You could definitely get rid of the blank post on slider, please refer the forum post http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/deleted-post-number-still-there-blank-image-t53.html.
Thanks a lot for your patience and post me back in the forum in case of any issues.
@JK Sorry for the late response, I was a bit busy with another WordPress plugin. Can you please post your issue with the test website, where it is happening in the Internet Techies forum http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/
I would try my best to get it resolved. Thanks a lot for your patience.
Hi, i have instaled this plugin but doesn’t apear in the website. I using WordPress 2.8.5. and i do everything like one the video-tutorial but doesn’t work. Can you help me? I put 2 post on the Smooth Slider and i have activet it. Here is how it look my index.php
<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider' ) ) {
get_smooth_slider(); }
Is this happen because i use my own design template(theme) or what?
@Tia Filmovi Can you please refer the forum post http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/how-get-the-smooth-slider-the-home-page-matt-t31.html
In case it does not solve issue you are facing with the slider, post me back in the same forum post. Thanks a lot for your patience.
@ Mark Griffin: You must deactive the plugin and then activate it again.
That’s how I dealt with your problem when it presented to me a few days back.
Hope it helps.
Hi,
Love the plugin – great work!
One small question, I am using the plugin with numeric navigation and I wanted to know if there was a way I could add a class of “current” to the current slide? At the moment, it adds an inline style of bolder and bigger font to the number but I’d like to also add some background colour styling and different borders.
Thanks!
Thank you for creating a truly useful and easy slider plugin in a pond of lesser options.
One question about category restriction: I tried adding the category code to my custom home page template. However, I notice that I’m still required to also select the checkbox in individual posts.
Is there a way to NOT manually choose posts to appear in the slider in favor of the plugin automatically using the latest 1 (or more) posts in a selected category (or categories)?
It seems a tiny bit redundant to have a method of restricting the slider to a certain category and then also having to select the posts from that category to show.
Thanks for any help.
@James I got what you are saying. Currently not, but yes I would add this feature in the next upgrade, perfectly great one. Thanks for posting.
@cliff Definitely, it is a great point you have put forth. I would take care to handle it in a more friendly manner in the next upgrade.
Thanks for the positive response! I look forward to an update. C/:-}
I noticed what seems to be a minor bug: the left sidebar WordPress admin navigation buttons won’t slide open or closed when modifying Smooth Slider settings.
In other words, once I click on the WordPress Admin -> Settings -> Smooth Slider button, all of the other left sidebar admin buttons close up and won’t slide up or down.
If I click another sidebar heading link to go to a different admin area, they resume proper functioning.
Oops, sorry, I forgot the tech details:
WP 2.8.5 and PHP 5 using both a local testing version in MAMP and on a typical remote Apache server.
@cliff Ya, some days before I too have noticed that issue, and it would be the first fix for the next upgrade.Thanks a lot for pointing that out.
Hi,
i’m testing the plugin on WPMU 2.8.4, so i’m using get_smooth_slider_wpmu_all function. The slider looks great, works great, there is just one thing – links of all titles and the read more link show all the same url – the first post on home blog.
Any ideas how to solve the problem?
@Roman You are perfectly correct, I am working on this issue and you would see it resolved with lot more new features in smooth Slider for WPMU in the next upgrade, which I expect to happen by the end of this month. I hope you will wait and thanks for all your patience.
Hi Tejaswini,
Thanks very much for your quick reply and sorry for my very late one!
Also, I would like to randomise the slider so I figured I would insert a shuffle(); tag, but can’t really figure out where to place this either…
Never mind my question about the padding, I got confused with my own coding (ashamed). Could you please direct me to where in the code I can change the transition speed? I know basic php and was hoping I could sort this myself
Hope this makes sense. Thanks once again for this beautiful plugin!
All the best.
Excellent plugin, excellent video, thank you.
I’ve tried many other plugins for featured posts etc. I’ve found this by far the best coupled with the clear and simple explanations. At last I’ve found someone who can explain the ‘loop’ and how to insert the code.
Now I’m going to tweek the plugin to suit my blog, may be with images etc.
A little more learning is needed for that. Watch this space!!!
Regards
Paul
@emma Thanks for your compliments, I am adding an option to the slider to change the transition speed in the coming upgrade, in 7-8 days. So, no need for you to make the changes, because, if you make the changes, and when you would upgrade to the latest version, your changes would be lost. Better that I put it is the master copy, so that it would be an universal solution and option for everybody. Also, your suggestion to randomize the slider is perfect, I am looking into how to implement it in the next version. Do post all your suggestions, those are very helpful.
Brilliant! I’m looking forward to the upgrade
Thanks for the nice plugin.
Is it possible to include automatically the new posts from a particular category rather than going and manually selecting them.
I plan to make a featured post gallery and all the relevant posts will go to this category. Is the a way that I can accomplish this by using a custom field?
Hello from Marco (Rome, Italy)
First of all thanks for your plug-in!
I’ve installed just today and I find it fantastic.
I know that you’re busy with other plugin, otherwise I’ll really appreciate if you could help me.
I need that your slider – that I’ve put in a page – points to a url link and not to the original post.
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Marco
In five words: awesome plugin.
Hello and first let me say a big thank you for this great plugin. Right now i am testing it out and i have one small problem. The order of the post. The newest post is show as last post in the slideshow. why? this doesn’t make sense, or ? the user who is coming to the site wants to see what is new right then.
so is there any way to invert the order of the post so that the new post is the first post in the slider ?
Or am i missing something ?
greetings and keep up the great work !
thomas
Hi both !
It works fine now @ my blog. I just need to write the If function with PHP tag <?php like that. else all things are fine. Really looks nice and smooth as the name suggest. Thx guys for the same.
@thomas Thanks for the compliments. Okay, regarding the posts on the slider, whichever posts you add latest to the slider, that will show up first, the sequence currently depends on the order in which posts/pages are added to the slider (latest is the first), in the future release I am planning to add an option that would allow to manually change the order in which the posts would appear on the slider thru the settings panel.
Hi Techies… TanQ so much for this fantastic plugin.
Is there a way to insert the slider inbetween two posts on my home page?
Also I am using the slider only for images, i am having a small problem with trying to keep the images in the center??? Any Xtra tips would be very much appreciated. Once again huge tanx to you guys
Neateye
@Neateye Thanks for your compliments, I have created the a new forum topic for the Smooth Slider issue on your website at http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/image-slider-images-center-behalf-neateye-t66.html
I have posted solution in the same forum thread. Thanks a lot for your patience.
Nice work!!
This is the most excellent plugin ever! Thanks!
Hello, I just installed the plugin, but this is the result:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /web/htdocs/www.alter01.it/home/wp-content/plugins/smooth-slider/smooth-slider.php on line 1394
how can I repear it?
@manlio Can you please refer the forum thread http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/php-older-version-issue-fatal-error-behalf-jude-t34.html
I hope this will solve your problem, if not can you post back to me in the forum? Thanks for your patience.
Hi!
I’ve got a strange bug in my smooth-slider, there is an empty article (that doesn’t exist) in the slider, and I can’t remove it…
Has it ever happened to anybody else?
Thanks!
@Fabien Yes, it is some autosave conflict, that sometimes rarely happens. Can you please refer the forum post http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/deleted-post-number-still-there-blank-image-t53.html
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Please let me know if it is of some use, or we would dig into the issue deeper. In the next version I am trying to include some option so that such type of entries could also be directly deleted from the settings panel itself, no need to wait longer and definitely, thanks for your patience and posting the issue
First, thanks for this great plugins, and for the great support you give, that is priceless.
I just have a suggestion. I think It will be very nice to have the option to put a caption when the slider is just showing images. Maybe a title and some text (perhaps using the custom fields), but not beside the image, but inside, like http://www.queness.com/resources/html/slideshow/jquery-slideshow.html .
That kind of slides look very good, and I think it will be a very cool feature to have.
In any case, keep the good work and thanks!
Hello, I had a problem working with categories. No matter what I selected, in the slide appear all the post that were marked as featured, not only the ones of the selected category.
After a while, I found this in the line 288:
if (in_array($slider_cat,$post_cats) or is_home() or (is_paged() and !is_category()) or is_tag() or is_author() or (is_archive() and !is_category()))
after delete “or is_home() “, the slide start to work properly.
In my case, Im running a wordpress MU for a multilanguage site using the qtranslate plugin, and using the categories to show different content in the slide, according to the selected language.
But i´m not sure if with a more standard configuration, the above line works ok.
In any case, if you need to do some test, just let me know.
Hi guys. Its me again
I am trying to centralise the slider title. In the smooth-slider.php I have inserted in the place of just ??? I do have much knowledge in programming, so i do not find it surprising that this additional does not work. Would it be possible for you to advise me if and how i can centralise the slider title?
Thank you once again for your help.
Neatyee … http://www.neateye-photoart.com
Hey, i think i have managed to centralise the slider title. In the smooth-slider.css i inserted text-align:center; in the line for the title.
Thank you Techies
@Guillermo Sorry for the late response, was a bit busy with a new freebie release, sorry again. Okay, I got what you are saying. Can you please post me which Smooth Slider template tag you are using and how? Also, thanks for helping me out, great to hear those kind words from you. I have created a forum thread for this suggestion and query http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/problem-working-with-categories-behalf-guillermo-t79.html.
Can you please post your reply in it? I am planning to release the next upgrade of Smooth Slider this 18th, so it would be nice hearing suggestions from you, to make Smooth Slider more useful.
hi,
Thank you for creating such a great plugin…. i jusst facing 1 problem…..
problem is slider is not displaying to guest and other then home page like does not display in other pages….
Please solve this problem
Junaid
Hi, thanks for the great plugin. I have a suggestion for a future release. After looking at the original Step Carousel Viewer code I noticed that there is an option autostep: enable:true, or enable false which would allow me to define if I want the slides to move automatically or only when the user clicks the arrows/numbers. I was able to set autostep to false by chaning some code in the smooth-slider.php but it would be nice to be able to set this option from the Smooth Slider admin panel in the future.
Yes, what you suggested is perfect. I am including that feature in the upcoming release. Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestion.
Suggestion: After the maximum content size, you should append “…” so that it looks like there is more text to read and entice the user to “read more”. Also, the plugin should automatically find a good cut off spot after the maximum content size. I have words that get cut off in the middle because it has reached the maximum size such as this:
“configured to display a wide ra”.
I have been building a new, WP based, site in a sub directory and used successfully your plugin. Today, I removed the old site from the domain root and moved the WP index.php to the root directory’s URL; access to the new site is now through the domain root URL while the WP core files are in a sub directory. Before I got this to work, I had to remove your plugin as it gave an error message. Now the site is running fine but when I try to re-install your slider plugin, I get this error message:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /nfs/c03/h04/mnt/57345/domains/adrift.ug/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/smooth-slider/smooth-slider.php on line 1394
What can I do ?
Thanks a lot! Worked like a charm, just a reminder for others, I fumbled for a sec in my head, but the line of code for category stands alone, you don’t need both. That function (‘get_smooth_slider_cat’ ) does the trick. See mine live at: http://www.philday.tv. Peace
It may happen due to older version of PHP. Can you please refer the forum post http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/php-older-version-issue-fatal-error-behalf-jude-t34.html and post me back in either case – it works or not. Thanks a lot for your patience.
Hi!
How could I use a @font-face CSS property for the font used in the amazing Smooth Slider? For the title for instance?
The change suggested in the forum post you referred to, did not work. I really thought that I had changed from PHP 4 to 5 for this domain, only to discover this morning that it was still using PHP4. I have upgraded to PHP 5 and now I can reinstall your plugin without any problems.
Unfortunately, I had removed everything over the weekend and found out that the plugin did not uninstall completely on Delete as indicated. The custom fields were still there.
I removed them one by one by hand.
Now I think this probably also has something to do with running on PHP 4 instead of 5
Lesson learned: don’t get frustrated and be patient in finding a solution.
Thanks for your effort.
Hello! Your plugin is wonderful!
I was looking for a plugin using the first image from the post and yours does it, perfect!
I have 2 questions:
1/ Would it be possible to show thumbnails instead of the number in the navigation menu of the Slider, using the first image from content (resize them using CSS) and not from the custom field?
2/ Is it possible to select more than one category in get_smooth_slider_cat(‘category-name or category slug’)?
Thanks a lot!
So how do I reorder them, I tried changed the post date but the order stays the same?
Hi Jason,
Smooth Slider shows the recently added post to slider as the first slide. If you need to show an older post as a first slider then first of all remove that from slider, add your latest post and then add your older post to slider. It has nothing to do with publish date.
Love the plugin and will donate in our next donation cycle. Only issue we have :: right now we have a single post on the slider (we’re using it for featured reviews). In this instance, the slider still tries to slide. It kind of slides 3/4 of the way and jerks back. When there’s only 1 post, it should be static. It doesnt seem to care what I set the slide interval to (999 or -999). The sliding appears(?) to be random on mouse movements/clicks. Go to http://www.chewru.com to see what I’m talking about. Otherwise, this has been a godsend for us. Thank you for making such a terrific plugin. I encourage everyone that is financially able to send the developers a few bucks!
I have upgraded to 2.1, however the post image no longer shows in the slider. Can you help?
Regards
Paul
Hi Paul, Actually in version 2.1 we added timthumb for image optimization so that your page will not be so bulky and thumbnails will not appear as compressed. But in that case, you will have to use images from the same domain on which smooth slider is installed. If you were using images from some other domain or sub-domain, it will stop appearing. Save those images on your own server under your wordpress domain and then use them in slider. They will definitely start appearing.
Please let us know if you still need an option to use the images from another server. In that case they will not get cropped.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused. We have released an announcement on Smooth Slider forum as well – http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/http-www-clickonf5-org-smooth-slider-t93.html
Hi, I have the same issue, big red X-s instead of images. If you are quick you can see it on my url (homepage only), before I downgrade to the previous version.
I use domain mapping, not sure where the images must be, as the domain mapping is virtual, the current (2.1) solution will likely never work.
Hope you can fix this, thanks, Harry
Hi Sanjeev,
Looking forward to using the slider to show Specials on my new home page at outlet.org.
i set up a category called specials. put the call in like this:
but no posts show up in the slider. also on my slider function page it doesn’t show that i’ve added any posts to the slider.
if i check the “add to slider” check box at the bottom of the post, the box doesn’t remain checked the next time if edit the post.
what have i done stupid?
Hi,
First of all – great plugin!
I was just wondering whether it is possible to add custom images for the prev/next navigation arrows? I experimented by replacing the default images – but the styling threw me off-course – especially using different sizes of images other than the default 20×20
Is it possible to disable the automatized slide show effect leaving only the prev/next arrows for navigation?
Custom styling generally seems to be a bit of an issue – eg. the ‘align to’ option in the thumbnail image section doesn’t seem to do the trick!
Nevertheless – great work!
Best regards
Rune
Hi,
I have 2 issues with plugin at this stage.
1. I would recommend is giving the option of the Slider Title to be left or right aligned.
2. I also had a problem where I had selected a future post that had not been published yet, but it was showing.
I will be publishing a review next week Tuesday.
Hi,
When I try to activate the plugin, a fatal error happens:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /mnt/162/sda/4/0/inextenza/wp-content/plugins/smooth-slider/smooth-slider.php on line 1440
WP 2.8.6 french
smooth slider 2.1 or 2.1.1 (same problem)
Hi inextenza,
It may happen due to older version of PHP. Can you please refer the forum post http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/php-older-version-issue-fatal-error-behalf-jude-t34.html and post me back in either case – it works or not. Thanks a lot for your patience.
Hi, i’m receiving the error
substr() expects parameter 3 to be long, string given in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\smooth-
I’m sure it’s something i’m doing wrong, anyone know how to resolve this
Hi,
I am using this plugin on a site I am building. It’s fantastic! I do have two small questions:
1. I have tried to reposition the prev/next arrows, including checking your forum and using the code you posted there, but I can’t seem to get it. My site is here if that helps: http://theoldstonehouse.org/history/
2. I am using multiple instances of the plugin on the site. However, I want to style one of the instances a bit differently. Is there any way to do that without doing a second installation of the plugin?
Thank you!
Jeff
I have succesfully installed your plugin on page.php because my home page is not the blog, but it appears on each page of my site (contact, etc)
How can i change it to appear only in the main page?
Thank you very much
I guess i can call it a bug. This plugin dont work well with scheduled posts. If we make a post and schedule it for a future date(check the box for “Add this post/page to Smooth Slider”) then it wont wait till the post is published. It starts showing the post in the slider as soon as its scheduled.
Is there a way to fix this?
Please refer the forum post http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/post428.html
I cannot post code here, thanks a lot for all your patience and I hope it works for you.
Thanks Jayant for posting, I have just released Smooth Slider 2.1.2, it has this fix.
How to activate @ the sis. I am not able to do it. It might be as this theme is bit complected.
Hello,
Can you send your plugin or talk with this people to have your plugin translated by the wpml system.
http://wpml.org/
http://forum.wpml.org/
I already talk with them, and they said that are glad to help you to make your plugin translated.
Thank´s in advance
Hi,
I’m using a static page for my home page. I used the instructions that wordpress gave for achieving this.
When I paste the smooth slider code into the page, the slider appears where I place the code. It can see that there two posts that I have designated to go into the slider, because there is a “1″ and a “2″ where they are supposed to be.
The problem is that when I click on the numbers, nothing happens, and the slider does not slide. It’s almost as if the slider is just an image. No interactivity. Please help!
Thanks,
Greg
Wow! Best WP featured posts slider so far. Running it on Prylkoll.se now.
A few wishes:
- Please make it compatible with Fluency Admin (just minor glitches)
- add the ability to turn posts on/off via the Admin Management Xtended plugin.
Or have them add support for Smooth Slider
Also, the height of the box is not really changeable now. The border yes, the content no.
Hello,
First of all thanks for this great plugin. I seen this slidebar on http://www.serradinho.com/Blog and immediately applied on my blog. However i am facing 1 small problem. After doing everything. I want to add this featured box on my Homepage above all posts like http://www.serradinho.com/Blog
What codes sud i place in index.php or custom_funtion.php to do so. I am waiting eagerly to use this plugin on my all blogs as i have about 10 + blogs at the moment.
Will be expecting quick help form you guys.
Thanks
Ankit
Wisden Writers Pvt. Ltd
I just activated the plugin and can see the preview on my admin panel but couldn’t see it on my home page. Below is the placement of the smooth slider php code in between -
Solution please, thanks.
hi, i am a big fan of your plugin. is it possible to view featured post category wise? suppose when we are on any category page then featured posts of that category should display, and when we are on homepage then featured posts of homepage should display. please add this type of feature if possible.
thanks for a nice contribution
Is there anyway to change the transition? fade? vertical scroll? etc.?
Thank you for this snippet of information Sanjeev, it’s just what I was looking for. Your slider is pretty much the perfect solution for me, having tried 2 or 3 others, yours was the easiest to implement without any problems. Excellent work, thank you! I even donated a few $$$$$
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Great plugin. Very easy to setup.
One question though –
Is their anyway I can align the content vertically?
Hello!
I have used your plugin on a previous website: http://www.communio-us.org, works great and I thank you for all your work on this and support.
I am adding this to another website now, was wondering if in the future there would be support for having small thumbnails of the actual larger image instead of the numbers. So the numbers would be the small version of the same large image when clicking it.
Hope all is well.
Thank you!
Actually I think you may have done this, I just need to read the upgrades as I should. Will take a look, thanks!
Actually it was referring to the custom images as numbers versus actually mini thumbnails of the full image above it in the slider, that would be ideal to have the numbers replaced with min thumbnails. Would that be fairly easy to do?
Thank you!
Sorry for all of the extra posts. I actually got it figured out, thank you for making easy. Just have to replace the custom image with the thumbnails. Works!
Best regards.
Thanks
Work Great….!
Hello. I use your wonderful plug-in, but have a trouble with crossbrowsing. It appears perfectly in all browsers exept Google Chrome and Safari (for windows). You can see it here: http://web2.0blog.ru
Can you help me to remove the problem?
Thanks.
Hi,
Does anyone know how to make the thumbnail smaller images to have rollover states with js? Below is what I have but it isn’t working, I was adding a rollover state (a 3rd image) in the .png thumbail and move the positioning on mouseover. Any thoughts please would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot.
var nav_width = ;
jQuery(“#smooth_sliderc_nav a”).css(“backgroundPosition”, “0 0″);
jQuery(“#sldr”+curr_slide).css(“backgroundPosition”, “-”+nav_width+”px 0″);
jQuery(‘#smooth_sliderc_nav a’).mouseover(function(){“border”, “1px solid #ffffff”});
jQuery(‘#smooth_sliderc_nav a’).mouseout(function(){“backgroundPosition”, “0 0″});
nice work and thanx for making it free
Hi Jacob,
Greetings. Can you please come and post the issue to Smooth Slider Forum. Would be glad to help you in all the ways, also postthe site on which u r implementing the slider.
I can’t see any issue with plugin on Google Chrome. Can you post the issue with the screenshot in Smooth Slide forum? Would definitely try to resolve the issue.
Thanks for the compliments. Currently there is no option to align content vertically. But definitely I will note this suggestion, and would try to implement in one of the upcoming releases.
Hi Paulo,
Thanks a lot for your kind donation to support Smooth Slider plugin and all the kind words.
Very good point. I was too thinking to include such kind of option in Smooth Slider, may be in one of the upcoming releases.
Great suggestion. This feature is available on Smooth Slider currently, you can refer the get_smooth_slider_cat template tag in the usage section. You can come to Smooth Slider forum and post in case of any implementation issue. Thanks for writing.
Can you please come to the Smooth Slider forum and post the issue. Would be glad to help you.
Very very thanks for the support. Was thinking to to get some help to translate the plugin in various languages, so that other blogger friends with non-english setup would also get benefited due to it. I will contact on the forum as well.
Sorry for the late response. Is the problem still existing?
Sorry for the late response. Does the issue still exist? Can you please come to Smooth Slider forum, so I could help you in some way?
Thanks for writing and sorry for the late response. I think, the second point of your comment is covered in this release. Regarding the first point i.e. prev – next arrow styling, can you please come to Smooth Slider forum? I would be glad to help you.
Sorry for the late response… does the issue still persist? Can you come to the Smooth Slider forum and post your issue, or if you have created a thred there, please post the link to that thread. I would be glad to help you.
Thanks for a great plugin! I’ve offered a meager donation and I hope that more folks do the same. BTW, Wouldn’t it be great to add the ability to reorder the images/posts through your plugin’s interface. Maybe along with the “Remove Selected” option at the bottom?
Here is my application of your plugin: http://www.partitionstreetproject.com/
Thanks David for your generous donation to support Smooth Slider. The reordering feature would be really very good addition to Smooth Slider. Will definitely try to include it in one of the upcoming release of Smooth Slider.
Make sure in some of HTML that you have ?> at the end. For that reason the copy and paste gave me an error.
Lpfuniversal.com
Check out smooth slider.
T
hanks buddy.
Thanks Sanjeev, I will post on the forum now.
Hi there.
Im a newbe and found this plugin very nice.
unfortunatly Ive tried the above and the plugin wont show up on my pages.
where do I paste the code at inorder to see this slider on all pages?
where exactly on the code would I need to paste it to?
best regards.
TOBI
heres bits of the page.php where I placed the code:get_header();
?>
if ( function_exists( ‘get_smooth_slider’ ) ) {
get_smooth_slider(); }
<div class="post fix" id="post-”>
and on index php:
get_header();
?>
if ( function_exists( ‘get_smooth_slider’ ) ) {
get_smooth_slider(); }
which for my understanding should work, yet I dont see any resluts.
thanks again
Tobi
Please put the code before the closing ?>, just after get_header(). This is because it is a PHP code and needs to be in opening and closing PHP tag. You can also refer to one of the forum posts http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/how-get-the-smooth-slider-the-home-page-matt-t31.html#p129
Thanks for your patience.
Hey Tej, San,
Just wanted to say great plugin. In the next release, could you please checkout the issues with displaying in Chrome and Safari. Here’s the deal… if you setup Smooth Slider on your site using Firefox, adjust styles and everything… Smooth Slider will show up different if you go to your site with Chrome or Safari.
Also, any way to add two different sliders with separate styles and content? That would be awesome.
Again, great plugin… look forward to using it when it become compatible with all browsers and older versions of IE. Thanks.
Hi…
Just wondering if there is a possibility of running this fantastic plugin in the sidebar. I really want to do it that way in my upcoming blogg…I reckon it does make a great sense to have it reduced and run in top position of the right sidebar as presumably an Editors Choice kind of thing….I am sure a great deal of people will like the idea…I am a newbie and I do not have the technical skills to code this BUT please if you – anyone out there – have an idea of how this can be realised, please help….
thanx
RON
I would add index does not work, but
<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider' ) ) {
get_smooth_slider(); }
I love this plugin and got it working on an old site by editing the main index php file. But on another site using the Thesis theme, I am having trouble getting the plugin to display a category. I have the following in my custom functions file:
/*Insert Smooth Slider into Feature Box*/
function custom_smooth_slider(){
get_smooth_slider_cat(‘smooth-slider’);
}
add_action(‘thesis_hook_feature_box’, ‘custom_smooth_slider’);
The smooth slider box shows as it should, but it is not picking up the posts from the “smooth-slider” category.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
Great plugin! The only request I have is to have the plug in block displaying a link to the current page (when it’s used on a page or a post).
Thanks so much for all the hard work that went into this!
Hi Guys,
First off, thanks a bunch for such a great plugin. It’s exactly what I was looking for and I really like how everything is set up. One problem I’ve had is that the slider tends to break (the animation and navagation arrows disappear) when another plugin loads a script. Is there any good way around this?
Hi Ron,
You can definitely run this slider in sidebar. You just need to paste the code from Usage section of this page to your template’s sidebar.php file.
If you are using lot many plugins related to gallery, slider etc, you may see conflicts. Please let us now the URl and details query in Smooth Slider forum, We wil try toresolve that on ASAP. Here is the link. http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/
I worked on this but could not get the category function to work so I am just going with the individual post method. I set it up on my test site and it worked perfectly. Then I transferred it to a live site with all the same WordPress settings, theme, etc. All the Smooth Slider settings are the same also. But on the live site, although it displays and rotates through the posts perfectly in the Smooth Slider admin page, on the site itself, just the box is displayed without the posts??? I am going crazy trying to figure out why. I tripled checked all the settings and the posts only display in the admin not on the site.
Please ping us on Skype ID “clickonf5″, we will try to resolve your issues on ASAP. Thanks.
Thank you for your help getting this resolved. For everyone reading this – The developers of this plugin provide some of the best support I have encountered with WordPress plugins. And real nice folks too!
One more question:
The slider is currently showing image tags like:”[caption id="attachment_700" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Download as a PDF"][/caption]” that are attached to images but don’t show in the actual post text. Is there any way to get around this?
Thanks again
Martin
Thanks Sanjeev — I moved it over to the forum.
Best,
Martin
got this when inserting the code:
Warning: Missing argument 1 for get_smooth_slider_cat(), called in MY_URL/index.php on line 24 and defined in WP_PLUGIN_URL/smooth-slider.php on line 872
don’t really know what it means. the slider show up but there’s this error above it
”there s an error with your set up of carousel viewer smooth sliderc”
What problems might I get warning
currently i am using the smooth slider. my problem is the text does not show as the format as what i write in post…
May i know the solution of it?
the problem i met is that the text format does not show the same as what i write in the post.
should i amend the plugin? what solutions do you recommend?
my website is http://diamond-o.com
Hi! Above all thanks to Tejaswini & Sanjeev who developed the wonderful Smooth Slider, however when I view my website using IE7, the images are missing (only the alt text is there). Is there anyway I can overcome this problem? Thank you very much in advance.
Please try using the Smooth Slider setting Miscellaneous->Retain these html tags (You can read more about this setting at http://www.clickonf5.org/wordpress/smooth-slider-upgrade-2-0-released/5151 –> point no 10) In case of any further issues, please write on Smooth Slider forum http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/
Hello,
I installed the pluggins in my wordpress 2.9.1 in french but when i tried to slied I receive that message
“There’s an error with your set up of Carousel Viewer “smooth_sliderc”! ”
I chekked on yoyr forum …I désactivated all my plugins …nothings i get allways thes same message
There’s an error with your set up of Carousel Viewer “smooth_sliderc”!
PLEASE HELP ME smooth slider is the better one but won’t work on my machine ….
Thks a lot
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I have no Idea please help
Postby jean » Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:38 am
Hi there,
I am a complete newbie to anything php related or any sort of code. I cant get your plug in to work. I have pasted the code on a number of places with no luck. Could you please have a look at my websites code and tell me where I should place it. I want the slider to appear just below my nav bar and feed section.
Please help.
Thank you!
I have a solution for you, but can you please create a forum post in Smooth Slider Help forum (http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/) because I cannot put html and PHP code here in comments.Thank you.
Can you please post it in the forum, or send me a mail along with the url where you are trying to implement? Thank you.
After upgrading, to the latest version, the autostepping no longer works when the user manually start to play with the slider, i.e the user clicks on the arrow or the navigation numbers… this used to work before. Anyone else with this issue?
Hi there,
Really nd ur help ASAP. I have multiple slider on my website…
Is there any way i can customize the CSS for each. Pls help.
TQ
very good plugin, I will use it for my blog thank you very much;)
Great plugin! The only request I have is to have the plug in block displaying a link to the current page (when it’s used on a page or a post).
I just realized that after doing a lot of customization to this that I cannot disable the link functionality to the original post. I would prefer to just be able to insert a link on the image and that would take the user to the applicable page.
Thanks so much for all the hard work that went into this.
Previous post- last line. Was trying to show the link as html tags:
Sample blog post: Want to learn more? Click <a href=”some link”>here</a>
Another question: How do I specify the order in which the posts are displayed? The most recent post is always displayed in the slider first with the older ones following. No way of changing the order is apparent in the instructions.
You did not help me in this regard. I could not solve this problem. I constantly receive this warning.What is the solution.
There s error with your set up of carousel viewer smooth sliderc
Is it possible to implement a button image instead of the Read more text ?
Thanks
I would like to implement your plugin in my site. I want to put it on my home.
My home is a static page, but from my template I cannot get index.php. So, should I have to download from server index.php and modify it and upload again? My template is Arclite
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/arclite
where should I put the piece of code? Which piece of code I should put?
Sorry, but I am new on WordPress and I do not know about php. The configuration bar is great and easy.
Waiting for your prompt reply, I send you my best regards
Ezequiel Lavaca
i also used this plugin
it is working well
well done
png transperancy of navigation image??
is possible to show multiple images on smooth slider?
Great work. Thanks for the plugin. Maybe a future new feature, an option to have random and/or recent posts in the slider. Thanks again!
First of all well done , the plugn is very comprehensive – this is how all plugins should be made – with focus and the blogger in mind. Not all plugins are this excellent – well done I willl be putting mine on my site tmr – all the settings seem to be working fine …thankyou so much Tejaswini & Sanjeev -your an inspiration to web designers
Hi! thanks for this amazing plugin! is there any way to show also the date of each post displayed? thanks!
Hey , I put it on my site like I said yesterdat – works great check it out – http://digitalartempire.com/
thanks again : )
Wonderful plugin! It has set me thinking… is it possible that -
a) the navigation links (text/images/numbers) can be set above the slides instead of usual bottom?
b) can they be styled through the css? to match the theme – positioning, colors, font etc?
If that is so, this plugin can come close next to doing what Coda-slider does! wow! Infact, im very interested in making it work like coda on my site. So i’ll wait for your comments on this.
Hi,
Smooth Slider is fully customizable plugin and there are options for CSS customization as well. You can have a slider exactly filling your theme’s requirement thru Smooth Slider. We provide customization for Smooth Slider as per your need. You can contact us thru the “Contact form” available on our contact us page. We will be happy to help you out in this regards and provide a custom slider.
Regards,
Saneev & Tejaswini
Thanks a lot Benjamin for using Smooth Slider on your site. Please let us know in case of any issue or concern.
Regards.
You can change the PHP file of the plugin to do that. If you want us to do the same for you then you can contact us thru “Contact Form” available on our contact us page or thru Skye. Our Skype ID is “clickonf5″.
Regards
Thanks a lot Ben for these wonderful words. Comments like this always boost our daily development and blogging cycle. We are glad that you liked our plugin and the way of coding. Thanks again and hope to see you more on Internet Techies.
Regards
Check the time span on setting page, if that is blank then you need can set that to “0″ or some value. It will work perfectly.
We are planning to provide a custom order in next upgrade of this plugin. Please wait for the upgrade to release. Thanks
Hi Cem,
Sorry for the late response. As you are having some specific issue something related to your hosting server. Please contact us thru Skype (clickonf5), we will definitely try to help you in this issue.
Hi,
Excellent plugin.
I was just wondering if it is possible to use the new WordPress Thumbnail 2.9 feature?
I wouldnt have thought it would be too hard.
Thanks
Giles
Is there anyway to display images on smooth slider without having to show them anywhere else on the blog? Thanks!
Fantastic work! I installed it on my blog yesterday and it works phenomenal!! I’ve been looking for slide shows for blogs for a long long time but never could find one that suits my needs. A+++++ work and excellent coding! Thanks for putting this out for free, although I think you should charge for it.. If I had any money left I’d certainly donate some, and certainly will if my finances are are bit better in the future!!
Thanks again! I really appreciate it.
A happy user!
)
How do I have the posts that I’ve assigned to be part of the Smooth Slider not also appear as a regular post?
See my page at
As you can see the two items that are in the slide show are also showing up as regular posts, which I don’t want to happen.
Please advise.
hank you for this wonderful plugin. Work like a charm!
I’m testing this plugin at this site: holyredeemerwv.org. It has a little error in it. The slide post at the bottom begins to show the next post.
Any ideas why?
JOE
This seems like a lovely plugin but I just do not do plugins that involve going into my editor. I have messed up way to many wp themes and had to start from scratch. I tried with this one and got those frightening error codes and a blank blog.
Feeling like a bit of an idiot but I can’t seem to get this to work at all? I added to a page, and I can see the box and arrows, but there is no content…..I used the following code:
if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider_cat' ) ) {get_smooth_slider_cat(‘services’); }
Ahh…nevermind
I put it a couple of lines too early in my page. Works beautifully!
One more comment – how does one change the order of the posts within the slider? Right now it appears that the order default is by the last publish date. Is there any other way to control that?
Very slick plug-in, so a big thank you.
How do I control what url the images in the slide show link to? RIght now if I simply go into the post that contains an image for use in the Smooth Slider, and try to assign a specific link to that image, it doesn’t override whatever the default “link” setting is. It wants to take you to dynamically generated response page for the that image. But I want to go to a specific URL.
Please advise.
I integrate this plugin in on home page of Downloadhindisongsmp3.com but its not working I think its jquery issue can u please solve it …
Regards
Thanks for the this fantastic plugin was very easy to install and adjust to the style of my site.
Kind Regards
Micheal
Hi,
I’m trying to use the retain html option, I have set as the tag to be retained, when I view source, there is no h3 tag
sorry put tags in teh coment, it was lessthan h3 morethan – hope that makes sense
Hello,
I have your plugin installed on my website, and it works perfectly in firefox and IE, but a friend who has a MAC with Safari, the plugin doesn’t line up properly. Its completely off the page and overlapping some of my widgets. Is there a way to make the plug in universal, so that what I see in firefox and IE is what I see on every browser? What can I do to change this?
Is there a method to automatically add all posts to the slider, without having to add them manually.
Wonderful plugin, I have tried a few similar ones and I really like your simple and clean design and functionalities. I haven’t quite figured out how to make it function on one of my static pages though
I’m using the latest version of WP, of the Atahualpa theme and of your plugin.
I just pasted the code (you recommend posting in index.php before the loop) directly in a static page (using PHP Execution plugin).
http://www.thebilingualpsychologist.com/smooth-slider-test-page.html
The Smooth Slider slider now seems to be “static” : no arrows, no “Read more”, no link.
I don’t know how to code and try to avoid going into .php files of my theme to paste code. Is there a way to paste the code directly in a static page (using PHP Execution plugin) ?
I’d love to be able to use this slider on my tag-archives. Is it possible to implement a get_smooth_slider_tag()? or something similar?
Also it would be marvelous if the thumbnail function of WP itself could be used.
When I try to install the plugin it says it can’t be activated because of a fatal error… any idea what could be causing this? I have no other plugins activated
Wonderful plugin, I love it. Top to botton. Only question is… how do I sort the posts? I want the newest added post to be the first to show (no. 1). Can you help me?
How can we improve the quality of sliding images?
I’m really liking the flexibility of this slider.
One question: Is there are way to remove the “smooth slider” branding (with your link) from the bottom right-hand corner?
Is this some sort of paid option?
Thanks!
Hi
I am having a few problems with the plugin.
I am using the Suffusion theme and have added a custom field with Slider_Thumbnail and the URL of the image but i cannot get the image to appear. I can click the actual place where the URL should be and read the source and it says the link is correct but no image appears.
Also i would love to know how to create the bar you have across the bottom of your site where you can click to get recent posts and videos popping up. What plugin is this ?
The “Retain these html tags” Section dosn’t seem to work. Is there certian settings that need to in place for the funcition to work. Im trying to add a break in the middle of some content in the Smooth Slider.
I’m trying to increase the padding between the text, which is floated left and the image which is floated right. The text wraps alongside the image with very little padding. I just can’t seem to find the way to style just this in the css. Any suggestions?
I am having trouble uninstalling this plugin, once I deactivate the plugin I get the following error:
on my blog ( top of the blog )
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘get_smooth_slider’ was given in /var/www/web15/html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 339
I also tried to uninstall it – same result. How do I uninstall the plugin and getting rid of that error message?!?
cool!!!!!
Your quotation looks familiar to me.
I am having the exactly same problem. I set it up to retain the html tags I want, but they still don’t show up when the posts are in smooth slider. I need this to use it on my website. Help please? Otherwise, it’s great, but this is a problem.
Hello,
I’ve try to embed your wonderful plugin to my website, but i can’t see its appear on my site, i try to paste the code on header.php, succes, but when i try to paste on index.php,it won’t appear. please help me in using this plugin, i really like the powerful customization. I use latest WP, and Producer themes. then, can your plugin used as a widget? Thanks
slider is excellent, but it doesn’t seem to show width and height. Web Page Speed Report tells me the width and height attributes are missing. how do I get them to show up?
Any word on if reordering the slides after adding them to smooth slider is going to happen soon? I am using this plugin on a church website. This would just be the icing on the cake.
I am using wordpress 2.9.2 release, and lost my pages (twice) completely after attempting a plug-in upload. No, it wasn’t yours!
But the plug in completely destabilized my primary page. I had to remove the original WP software and reload it. Just a bit shy to try again.
I am just concerned, I don’t want to have to start over for a 4th time, just wanting to know if you are aware of any compatiblity issues with the most current stable WP software or with Google Chrome as opposed to IE? I prefer Chrome, much more stable and quick but spacing errors occur on postings oftentimes. :/
Thanks for your response!
Wonderful plugin. However, I need to restrict it to one page, but not the home page. Right now it’s showing on all of my pages, and also showing multiple times for entries in one category. How can I fix this? I don’t know php, so if you could provide me with the code I’d appreciate it.
Hello I had a quick question. I would like to put a PNG overlay on top of the pictures in the slider? Where in the code would l need to add this?
Here is my overlay CSS:
.pan_wrap
{
background: url(img/pan_checks.gif) repeat;
margin: 0 auto 15px;
position: relative;
width: 650px;
height: 210px;
}
.pan_frame
{
background: url(img/pan_frame.png) no-repeat right;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 650px;
height: 210px;
}
Hi, I just installed this plugin but was not able to see any results on my page. Can anyone please help? I’ve added few posts to smoothslider but did find any results
This plug in has been great to work with. However, I can’t get the html tags to retain in my posts. I added as instructed in the usage requirements Thoughts? Thanks!
Hi there, I love this plugin..but I’d need to show the post category in the slider tab, is there a way to do that?! thanks
i’d like to use the smooth-slider to show featured comments, instead of posts. is that possible?
Hi, great plugin! one questions tho… Is it possible to add multiple sliders to a single page? Im attempting to use it as a case study section on my site so that I can have a group of images related to each case study. Thanks in advance
I’ve installed this plugin on several sites – actually we are going to make this a ‘must have’ plugin for our sites. The only issue I’ve having is being able to retain MY text formatting within the Slider. I’ve added the tags as shown above, but they are still being stripped.
This is a great plugin but I need to be able to format the text content!
Give me a clue how to work around this please…
Can you please refer http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/post767.html#p767 and let me know if it works? Thanks.
Yes that fixed it! However, I guess there isn’t any CSS that applies to the slider – from the theme I mean – it doesn’t look right. But I can work with it since I’m not taking the content from the post/page. Thank you…
I did go to your forums, however there was so much spam there that after a couple of minutes of trying to weed through it I just gave up.
Again great Plugin – I hope that there is enough interest out there to keep you working on this.
Here are the things that I see that would need to be added…
–> Page order implemented
–> Animated GIFs working in the slider
–> Image cropping rather than scaling – some weird effects happening without customizing images I’m using.
–> An easy way to maintain CSS when retaining post/page HTML tags in the slider
Thanks again and I have manually adjusted things to work for now because I like this plugin so much…
Hello and thanks for your fantastic plugin. I’m using it on two website, but in one the Smoot slider logo is hidden. I don’t know why this happen. If you wont I send you a screenshot.
I am also wondering the same thing as Michael. I referred to your link above (post767) that didn’t solve my issue.
I too want control over the CSS for my slider content. I’m using the slider for Posts and have all the desired formatting specified using inline CSS within each post. I tried using HTML tag override to retain original formatting with no success.
For example, how can I control the margin-right of each thumbnail? I also wish to format the text within the slider.
Is there any way to call the slider inside a page or post?
I’ve tried by installing the php-exec plugin and calling the slider from within a post – however I only get the first featured post in the slider, no arrows, and no sliding.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your feedback
Is it possible to get Smooth Slider to run in a sidebar? If so, how would I achieve that?
Thanks so much.
Thank you guys! I’ve been searching for a good plugin for this kind of work for weeks now… But now I got the best!
A few more adjustements to meet my website template and it`s done!
Nice slider! I just added it to the above blog.
I was wondering if this can be done (it’s a thesis theme and using Openhook plugin and adding the code ‘before content’)
I would like to have the slider show up on the “front” page with all the featured posts. But, say in the “cancer” category only the cancer category featured posts show up. Is this possible? I tried with the get_smooth_slider_cat but then only cancer posts showed up on all non-cancer categories as well.
Thanks in advance // HART
Hi,
I have a support request regarding Smooth Slider. I have registered at your forum to submit but still after logging in Iam unable to post a topic in smooth slider forum.
I was happily using smooth slider on one of my sites. I used the template tag get_smooth_slider_cat() to show smooth slider on each category page , it’s respective featured posts.
Now i got a problem that the posts are not showing in smooth slider, even they are showing in the smooth slider admin page and also if i edit a post smooth slider option is checked. If i update the post, it will show up again but disappears after sometime. I know, this seems weird but it’s happening.
Thanks
Can anyone help me to customize the colours of the slider. I am using the default custom images for navigation and have changed the background and the text. However, the title of the article doesn’t change its default colour of green. I want the title to be more prominent just like the white text against the dark blue background. I like this plugin and would like to use it effectively. Help.
Hi, I’ve added smooth slider as a plugin and am stuck with how to access and configure it as per the video on youtube and here. The only place I see it anywhere is when I add photo’s there’s a small tag on the bottom of the page to add to smoothslider. All help is appreciated. Thanks, Dale.
This is fabulous. Great work! My posts shows up perfectly, but the [caption] [/caption] shortcode from the image caption in the post shows up, too, which makes the description really ugly. Any way to strip that out?
Thanks!
I think it is possible , by using template tag in you theme i.e. in your theme there will be file named as sidebar.php, you can put the smooth slider template tag of your choice there and it will be displayed. Haven’t tried that, but i think it’s possible.
Thanks
Would have been great if you didn’t put a link to this on this plugin. I removed the plugin from my blog due to this link.
Dear all
I can not activate this plugin v.2.2
Error:
Cannot redeclare get_string_limit() smooth-slider.php on line 361
How to solve this plobem?
Thank you.
Usefull plugin.Thank’s
hank you for this wonderful plugin. Work like a charm!
I am also interested in finding out how to call the slider in a particular page… or even a sidebar… I’m not seeing answers to the questions here (does one need to login to see your answers?) and I’ve found quite a few of the questions relevant but no answers quite frustrating. Please help!
Installed your plugin and it has been working great on WP 2.9.2. I made a donation– thanks for the work you are putting into this.
Also, wondering is there a way to change the order of the slides presented?
hi
installed your plugin via wordpress automatic but get ‘plugin has no valid header message’
what did i do wrong
best wishes
kev
Got the same “plugin has no valid header message” hasn’t been able to work correctly for me at all. images are missing on the smooth slider page. and parts are missing in the post. using WordPress 2.9.2 works solid on my other wordpress site 2.9.1
Great looking slider. But it conflicts with lightbox. If I have smooth-slider running lightbox doesn’t work. Do you know how to fix the conflict?
Hello,
I have a small problem with the script: it slides the featured content over my main menus, or actually the menus open under the slider… Any advice on how to improve the situation?! I wouldn’t give up on this slider script, nor change the script for those menus, I guess it would take me forever… Thanks.
Hello,
Thanks for the great plugin! It’s easy to work with and now I can combine a slider with posts and galleries. My only question I have is how to insert the custom images for the navigation. Do I do that through custom fields? I don’t see where I can select a separate thumbnail for the nav. Please advise. Thanks again for the great plugin!
If anyone is having issues with their images being converted to a larger file size, you may need to update the TimThumb.php script. I just finished a tutorial showing how to use TimThumb if you are interested. Hope this helps.
http://www.heinencreative.com/archives/tutorials/cropping-images-using-timthumb/
I love smooth slider. Can you insert a you tube for example like this:
Article:
http://www.websiteni.com/blog/easy-slider-and-youtube-embeds/
Demo:
http://www.websiteni.com/tbps/easyslider/02.html
How how you do it
Thank you very much for this cool WordPress Plugin!
I wanted to have a “presentation area” on my homepage to promote some contents of my website – and Smooth Slider does exactly this PLUS: the content is dynamic. And easy to integrate. Just great!
Best regards,
Doris
This is a great plugin, but can I put it on a specific page instead of my home page with wordpress?
It’s a great slider. But it’s not working after I have upgraded to WordPress 3.
I am looking forward to upgrade of this great plugin.
Great plugin, I’m using on my 2 sites. Thanks!
How can I remove or customize the sideboxes (About this plugin, etc.) in the Smooth Slider admin page? My slider is wider than most and it is being overlapped by these boxes.
Thanks,
Tony
How can i edit the style codes for the ‘smooth_slideri’ div? It looks like its hard coded but cant find the place…
Hi Tejaswini,
I have added the plugin on wordpress.
It is showing fine in Admin side configuration page.
While on the index.php where I have impelmented, no CSS is being loaded and same is the case with plugin javascript; ‘stepcarousel.js’
what would be the problem?
Please help.
Thanks!
Hi, i found bug. If I want to allow any tags in the listing, then do not appear. Problem is in the function smooth_slider_word_limiter() – strip_tags()
Can this be achieved with a javascript library other than jquery? I have a mootools-filled WP site which would benefit from this.
Just a quick question, love the plugin, makes life so much simpler
but is it possible to only have the slider on the home page and not every page?
I have added the plugin on my wife’s site getmorepublicity.com but she wants to know if we can lock the slider to only the home page.
I know I can create multiple sliders but she only wants it on the home page and not every other one.
We are using WP 2.9.2 and Thesis theme.
Is it possible?
Bruce
I’m using the latest version of WP, of the Atahualpa theme and of your plugin.
I just pasted the code (you recommend posting in index.php before the loop) directly in a static
It ‘s really an awesome & great plugin, i love it so much, it works on my site without any problems.
D
I have been looking for slider like this few days. and i found yours , thank you of your great work!!
So this plugin doesn’t require the use of custom fields? It’ll just pull in a picture that the user placed within the post’s body?
I’m feeling really green and lost with getting the plugin to work. The how-to video was great but didn’t show exactly how to put the code in the wordpress. The instructions say, “(the code is a php code, so ensure that it is enclosed within the php tags)” but I have no idea how to enclose the code with php tags.
Please help, Thanks
I got it working!!!
I’m curious if there is anyway to pick what page(s) the slider goes on??? I currently have it on the page.php but there are some pages I don’t want the slider on like my about page. Is there any work around for this?
Thanks for the wonderful slider!
Anyone knows how to place Smooth Slider as a widget in the side bar?
Hey man, do you know how this plugin works with WP 3.0? I have some issues with it
The Smooth Slider is showing the “caption id” text in the slide show.
Every new post starts with the caption id like:”[caption id="attachment_500"...etc][/caption]”
It does not look good. Is there any way to get around this?
anybody get this error?…. when I try clicking on the settings page?
An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.
Hi,
This plugin is great. I want to use this plugin as purely image slider. I have images in /wp-content/themes/themename/images/headers/1.jpg . I created pages and made them private. These pvt pages have ‘slider_thumbnail’ field and its url value. But images are not coming in slider. Any idea how to do it ?
Umm? Trying to get a picture slider going. The video Directions are not “clear/Complete? Have tried serval things… I can’t get it to work. Is there another video help menu out on the net?
A great plugin. I did implement it on my website. I made some changes as can be seen in the capture. To be exactly as in my topic I would like to add the publication date and author. Can you help? In any case, could you include in a future update?
http://i34.tinypic.com/wsr2f7.jpg
Thanks
Sure, I will try to add this feature in the upcoming release. Thanks Camelot
I can’t get smooth-slider.2.3.2 to work with wordpress 3.0.1. it goes to the upgrade plugin page and just says
“Upgrade Plugin Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/smooth-slider.2.3.2.zip…”
It never downloads the file…anyone else having problems with this? Tejaswini, Is there any way for me to install it?
Thanks.
can you pause option for this slider…..
So if I want a slider to show up on a single “page” how would i implement this?
For example i want to have an events ‘page’
And have that show a slider of all the “posts” that have the events category
its for wordpress..can it be used in blogspot?
This plugin seems awesome. Not sure how I missed it on all those ‘top 10 image’ reviews. I’ve used Cimy Header Image Rotator on a bunch of sites.. but I’m thinking this one will replace it!
Thanks for the great plugin
Excellent Plug-in, thankyou so much!
This plug-in is very intuitive and useful.
Is it possible to create multiple sliders?
Example create slider 1 with specific posts/pages and images
slider 2 with specific posts/pages and images
slider 3 etc.?
Dear Tejaswini,
Everything was working for the smooth slider until i upgraded. Now it doesn’t show. What do i do? Could you suggest? here’s my website: www[dot]xclusiveidentity[dot]com
Thanks.
I think Tejaswini helped you on this, it seems to be working now. There was an issue with thumbnail options on Smooth Slider settings. Now it is fixed and hope it works fine for you.