Featured Articles Lite for Wordpress is a powerful plugin that enables a very easy and intuitive setup for a JavaScript slider that will display and rotate posts or pages.
Having plenty of options that can be set directly from Wordpress admin, it allows an imaginative use to suit the style of the blog displaying it.
Except the admin parameters and default themes that come with it by default, it can be customized even more by creating new themes to suit the general look requiring only some medium knowledge of HTML and CSS.
Starting with version 2.3 (compatible with Wordpress 3.1+), all JavaScript for the slider is written in jQuery; this prevents any conflicts between various JavaScript frameworks you might be running on your Wordpress blog. Other improvements are multiple sliders creation and management, widget support to easily display any slider into your widget areas, clear manual implementation code that you can put into the theme files to display any slider anywhere you want it to.
Bottom line, from start to finish, it will take only minutes to display articles into the slider and to choose where to have it shown in your blog.
Features
- SEO friendly
- Autoslide – Set the slider to animate at any interval when your visitors come to your website.
- Animation direction – Make it yours! Choose between slides coming from top or from left to mimic a vertical or horizontal slider.
- Themes – Default themes available; easy implementation for new themes, guide below (see How to create a theme)
- Options – various options available, from thumbnail display to categories to gather articles from and JavaScript settings, all available from Wordpress admin (see Settings below).
- Navigation – Make a choice between forward-backwards navigation and individual navigation or use both with only 2 clicks. Also, mouse wheel navigation available.
Installation
This part is pretty straight forward and it has only 3 simple steps:
1. Download the plugin
2. Copy/upload the wp_featured_articles folder into your Wordpress plugin directory
3. Go to WP admin and enable the plugin. If you set the plugin to display from wp-admin, it will display above the loop set in settings. To manually place the plugin, see next step.
4. To manually place the slider into your theme files, use following code <?php FA_display_slider() ;?>
This is it. Now you need to make it yours. Check settings below.
Upgrade
In case you’re upgrading the plugin, after performing the upgrade, go to wp-admin->Settings->Featured Articles and check the settings. Most probably you will need to specify a text for the read more link but just to make sure, check the other settings too.
Settings
To set up your Featured Articles plugin, go to WP admin->Settings->Featured articles. There are 4 main areas that can be set:
1. Featured articles Settings: this is where general display for articles is set. Available options are:
- Section title setup and display (under Section title). Title will be displayed above the slider; once a title is chosen, there’s the possibility to make it visible or not.
- Display on loop setting allows for automatic displayed slider to choose on top of what loop to display the slider. This is useful if for example, you want to display the slider above main content (center page) but on the left sidebar you have another loop displaying for example your latest posts. In this case, the slider will display inside the sidebar, above the latest posts. Since you need it center, increase the value ( +1 ) for Display on loop until the slider displays above the correct loop.
- Descriptions setup offers the possibility to truncate post/page description to a certain number of characters. This option is available for both posts/pages that have an image and for those that don’t ( set descriptions for posts without image a little longer to cover the whole area )
- Number of articles to be displayed. This is pretty clear, enter a number and the slider will display as many articles as you entered here
- Display order has 3 options: newest posts/pages, most commented and featured content. For featured content to be displayed, navigate to post/page editing page in WP admin and set under Custom Fields a field named FA_featured having value 1. Starting with the latest update, to set up custom featured articles simply navigate to post edit page in wp-admin and into the right sidebar look for “Featured Articles Lite” panel and check the “Set this post as featured…” option. The slider will then display only the content that has this field set; this will enable more control over the content displayed.
- Thumbnail size can also be set as maximum values. If an image is bigger than the values entered here it will be automatically and proportionally resized to fit the width/height entered here
- Thumbnail display can also be controlled.
- Unload Mootools framework; this option is for troubleshooting purposes. Since MooTools cannot be loaded from within Wordpress, this plugin comes with the latest version (1.2.4). Given the possibility that your blog may run other MooTools based plugins you might need to stop this plugin from loading MooTools since this will cause errors.
2. Content Settings: under this section you can choose what to load into the slider and where. Available options are:
- Display pages OR posts. Make a choice between displaying pages or posts into the slider. Once that done, according to what your preference, a list of categories (for posts display) or pages will appear so you can choose from what categories to display posts or what pages you want to display into the slider.
- Read more link text allows you to specify your own text. Useful if you don’t want it to say read more.
- Article title is clickable, when enabled, will make the article title inside the slider to act as a link to full post ( like read more ).
- Display slider only on certain categories, pages or home page. This will control where the slider will be visible.
- Navigation control can be set from the last 2 options of this section. You can choose to either display bottom navigation or left-right navigation or use both. It all depends on what you need to achieve.
3. JavaScript Settings: this section groups all available options for the slider.
- Effect duration: under this option you must specify (in seconds) the transition effect duration between slides.
- Fade distance: slides can enter from left or from right (see parameter below) or you can use a simple fade-out fade-in effect without any sliding by simply entering 0 under this option.
- As mentioned above, slides can enter from either left or top when navigating the slider. This is pretty straight forward; choose between either left or top. If previous option (fade distance) is 0, this setting will have no effect.
- Navigation click stops auto sliding: when autoslide is set on and user clicks to go to a certain slide, if this option is on autoslide will permanently stop and all navigation will become manually triggered.
- By default the slider allows mouse wheel navigation between slides. To disable this feature, uncheck the option for Enable mouse wheel navigation.
- Autoslide: under this option you can set autoslide on at a given interval (in seconds).
4. Theme Settings: this is where you choose your slider theme. By default the plugin comes with 3 themes: Dark, Light and Title navigation. Other themes can be easily developed by following the steps under How to create your own theme.
Available themes
There are 3 themes available by default: Light, Dark and Titles navigation. Themes can be changed at any time; all themes are located inside the plugin’s folder under themes.
As mentioned before, custom themes can be created to display any other information necessary. See below a quick start guide.
How to create your own theme
More detailed instructions about creating new themes can be found here: How to create themes for Featured Articles Lite
Additional themes
This plugin started with a default set of 3 themes: Light, Dark and Title Navigation. Below you will find a list of additional themes developed for this plugin and what special settings you need to set for them.
1. Theme “Smoke”
This theme displays the slider having the thumbnail image set as a full background. In order for everything to display correctly the Featured Posts ( under Display order in slider administration panel ) is preferred to be set. Next, take a look at thumbnail and slider size settings and set both to have the same size.
Once the steps above are completed, to select the posts or pages that will display into the slider, go to page/post editing and look into right sidebar for the plugin panel ( named Featured Articles Lite ). Set the checkbox for featured post, choose a large enough image by clicking “Set custom image for this post” and hit save. Do this for all featured posts/pages you want to display into the slider, place the slider into your pages by either manual setting or automatic and that’s it. By setting the custom image you allow the plugin to ask Wordpress for the right sized image depending on what size you have for the slider thumbnail.
Updates
May 25th 2011 – version 2.3 is available
Make sure first that you run at least Wordpress 3.1. Also, first backup the whole plugin folder and after that, disable the plugin and delete it from your blog.
- The slider script developed with jQuery now (no more MooTools). This solves all conflicts with other JavaScript frameworks running on your blog.
- Multiple sliders can be defined and placed automatically or manually.
- Widget support provided allowing to choose the slider you want displayed as widget.
- Easy manual placement by providing the code needed to be inserted in your theme files.
- Themes got modified a little to suit the new functionality. Changes needed to be made to any custom themes you have are:
1. Open your display.php file from your custom slider theme and look for the first div in page (class=”FA_overall_container”). Add one more class to it: FA_slider (will look something like this: class=”FA_overall_container_dark FA_slider”). After you done this, change class FA_overall_container to FA_overall_container_YOUR_UNIQUE_PHRASE (this can be the folder name of your theme).
2. Same div element, add id to it. Ids come from the plugin core so you need to add as ID a variable like this: id=””
3. Open your theme stylesheet and make all CSS rules descend from the main parent (the class name you set on step 1 for FA_overall_container). For example, let’s say you have a theme called my_theme. The overall container class would be FA_overall_container_my_theme. In stylesheet, make .FA_article {css here} into .FA_overall_container_my_theme .FA_article {css here}.
If you have trouble updating your custom themes, ask questions in comments (provide demo links for your themes also).
February 11th 2011 – version 2.2 is out
Please remember to backup your theme folder if you made any custom themes for the slider.
- Option to always load stylesheets in header. This is especially useful is you plan on using manually placed sliders. The basic way the plugin works with manually placed sliders is that it loads all theme styles in footer. Due to page loading time, this may cause the slider display to appear broken for a few seconds until the stylesheet in footer loads. To prevent that, in wp Admin->Fa Lite->FA Settings check the option Always load styles in header. This will cause the theme stylesheet to load all time in header and the slider will display correctly. For automatic placement there’s no need to set this option, just leave it unchecked..
- User specified HTML tags allowed into slider description
- Meta box to ease the way custom images and custom content is added to the slider ( see in post/page editing into the right sidebar )
- Possibility to display posts/pages in random order into the slider
- Featured articles slider resizable from administration area ( default values get specified into stylesheet )
- Author link ( if you want to support the plugin ) that can be disabled from administration
- Slider settings access is restricted to administrators only with the possibility to give access to any other group of users available in Wordpress. Group access other than admin is managed in Permissions page.
- Menu no longer available under Settings->Featured articles but directly in Wordpress admin sidebar ( look for FA Lite in left sidebar )
- Themes modified to support featured slider resizing ( both CSS files and display files have changed a little ). If you update the plugin and you made custom themes, back-up first your themes folder.
- Custom post/pages images improved usage and interface
- Easy setting for featured posts and pages to be displayed into the slider ( see right sidebar when editing post/page )
- Image detection improved even more. Currently there are 2 ways to set an image for a certain post: by setting the image as a custom field and second by detecting the image from post content. For images detected in post content, the plugin tries to identify the exact attachment from the database and if found, it automatically sets the image into the custom field. The only thing it needs is for the image to have the width and height attributes set in HTML.
December 8th 2010
- date format in article description displayed according to blog settings
- editable read mode link
- article title has the option to act as a link
- image detection put into a function ( less code in theme display file )
- manual placement in theme files ( to manually place the slider into your theme: <?php FA_display_slider(); ?> )
- mouse wheel slider navigation can be disabled
- article text description allows links
- for automatic display, option to choose loop to display in ( be default is 0 ). This is useful if you have multiple loops in your page and you want to move around the slider. For example, if you have sidebar on left and inside it you display latest articles, the slider will display in sidebar. If you want it to display above main content, increase loop number until you see it displaying above the right loop.
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I love this plugin! I need to do this: make Option to always load stylesheets in header. To prevent that, in wp Admin->Fa Lite->FA Settings check the option Always load styles in header. I installed the plugin through the wp panel . I do not have an option called FA Settings. I have Sliders, Edit/Add, and Permissions. Where can I find this setting?
You’ll find the option in slider editing mode. Just select a slider to edit.
oh dear… It’s not there.
What exactly are you trying to do? There may be a different way of solving your problem.
Hello
I am trying to load styles in header for a manually placed slider on my home page. From your site – “The basic way the plugin works with manually placed sliders is that it loads all theme styles in footer. Due to page loading time, this may cause the slider display to appear broken for a few seconds until the stylesheet in footer loads. To prevent that, in wp Admin->Fa Lite->FA Settings check the option Always load styles in header. This will cause the theme stylesheet to load all time in header and the slider will display correctly. For automatic placement there’s no need to set this option, just leave it unchecked.” I cannot find the option. I can move the stylesheet and make it work, but I figured if the option was available, I could simply check it off. Thanks
Hi, I just installed plugin and I can’t seem to get it to work. I got a slider set up and put the code in the template files, and it renders fine.
I made some configurations.. set it to autoslide every 3 seconds.. chose a few categories to pull from.. etc etc.. went into a couple of posts and chose the slider in the options box…. saved.. and still nothing works.
It renders lets say the newest (or actually second to newest) post (image, title, excerpt). And that’s it. It doesn’t auto slide, when you click the next or prev arrows the page kinda blinks but nothing happens.
What might be causing this? Any ideas.. thanks for any thoughts and assistance.
Most likely a JavaScript error in your pages. A link to your installation would help me debug faster.
Hello Constantin,
The plugin works the way it should, I’m really happy about it.
Got a question on embedding Youtube via Iframe in your slider. When I use it, the embedded video stays on every slide. What do I have to do to make it work?
Here’s what happens:
http://www.stroinkmedia.nl/interscout/wp-content/themes/desire/images/a.JPG
http://www.stroinkmedia.nl/interscout/wp-content/themes/desire/images/b.JPG
Cheers!
Joan
Also a short follow up to my previous question:
Whenever I have longer tables, two tables of seperate pages seem to stick together on the slider.
At the top left I see dots, followed by a table that has been merged with another one that should be on a different slider.
Here´s what happens:
http://www.stroinkmedia.nl/interscout/wp-content/themes/desire/images/tablestick.JPG
On the page were the other part of the table should stand it’s empty:
http://www.stroinkmedia.nl/interscout/wp-content/themes/desire/images/tablestick2.JPG
I hope you can help me.
Cheers,
Joan
You need to write some CSS for those. Try and put a bottom margin to tables nested within the slider.
Constantin,
The bottom margin did the trick for me :)
I’m looking forward to the next update!
Cheers,
Joan
Hi Constantin,
Sorry for bothering you again and again :P
I tried the bottom-margin within the css of the slider theme. Still I get the dots and another page is blank.
I tried bottom-margin with 2px as well as 90px, 180px and 400px. None of them seem to work.
Do you have any suggestions?
Cheers,
Joan
It seems that half way the slider the table is cut and the rest of the other page is placed below.
original page
http://www.stroinkmedia.nl/interscout/wp-content/themes/desire/images/blaat2.JPG
one in the slider
http://www.stroinkmedia.nl/interscout/wp-content/themes/desire/images/blaat3.JPG
This is what I did in the css
http://www.stroinkmedia.nl/interscout/wp-content/themes/desire/images/blaat.JPG
This is what I put in the Wordpress as allowed HTML tags
http://www.stroinkmedia.nl/interscout/wp-content/themes/desire/images/blaat4.JPG
I hope it makes sense and this is clearer than my other explanation.
Cheers,
Joan
Sorry to hear this. Don’t have a solution for it at the moment, next update will be youtube/vimeo enabled.
I was really happy to find such a good plugin for one of my sites. Everything worked perfectly… until I use IE. With IE 7,8 and 9, I always have the same issue: the featured articles overlayed my page.
As I mentionned: no problems with Firefox, Chrome, Safari.
I use the latest WP (3.2.1) and BP (1.2.9…)
It looks like there’s a CSS/HTML markup problem but I can’t really tell what it is. Try to wrap the slider into another container and write some CSS for this container to solve the problem.
Thanks! I’ll try something with your suggestions.
Thanks for such a wonderfull slider!
Could you advise where to find a code to change from wp_content to wp_wxcerpt()
The idea is to show the_excerpt(); of the post instead of the_content()
Thanks in advance!
You will have to edit the display.php file of the theme you’re currently using. Inside it, replace function FA_truncate_text(…) with the excerpt.
Thanks a lot! i’ll try!
Works great, but for some reason the function new_excerpt_length($length) doesn’t work in slider, but In single page it works.
Anyway th plugin is great!
Thanks for this great plugin!
When I edit an existing slider, I get errors like this: ‘Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in D:\wamp\www\…\wp-content\plugins\featured-articles-lite\edit.php on line 276′ and this ‘Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in D:\wamp\www\…\wp-content\plugins\featured-articles-lite\edit.php on line 288′
Is there a solution for this? Thank you!
I need a little help here. Can you please tell me the actions you did in order to trigger this error?
First of all, thanks for the great plugin! I was looking for a slider plugin FOREVER and yours finally met all my parameters!
I am having the same problem as Nanda above. When I am on the Edit Slider page in my WP dashboard everything looks like it’s working fine but between the “Display slider on:” and “Display bottom navigation:” settings I see a bunch of error codes all that say “Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in C:\wamp\www\nioceans\wp-content\plugins\featured-articles-lite\edit.php on line 276″ or line 288. The slider is still appearing on my blog home page so I’m not sure what affect these errors are having but I might be missing out on some features because of it. I’m running this off my local server so I can’t share the site with you but I’m running WP version 3.2.1
Thanks for your help!
An additional note: After reviewing this article again, I realized that I don’t have access to any of the JavaScript Settings for the slider, that must be the portion of my dashboard page where all the error messages are showing up. Any thoughts?
Hi Michelle,
Can you please describe a bit the steps that lead to those errors? What exactly have you done and when did the errors appear? Thank you for your understanding.
First of all, I was wrong, I do have access to the javascript settings, I just didn’t see them before! Sorry if that caused confusion.
I initially installed the plugin through the wordpress dashboard. What happens is when I go to create a new slider, the “Edit Slider” page looks fine. If I make changes and click the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page, the page refreshes and the error messages do not appear. However, if I click “Save” or “Update” in the “Save Slider” box in the upper right of the screen the error messages appear and don’t go away no matter what I do. Like I said, this does not appear to be affecting the functionality of the slider and I’ve discovered that it also is not removing any of the choices from the slider editing page but I’m still curious about why it’s happening and if it indicates a problem I’m not aware of?
Thanks for your help!
Thanks for this plugin. It is so far the best of its kind I’ve tryed.
I set it to display featured content on top of the page. But for the rest of the posts, I need to exclude the posts on the slider so they don’t show up twice in the page.
I’ve realised that the posts selected to be slider-featured have a meta_key/meta_value like: _fa_featured/a:1:{i:0;s:2:”50″;} in wp_postmeta table. Is this the correct approach to exlude posts or maybe you can suggest a better one ? Thanks again
That meta key is for including posts in slider. SO yes, I think changing the loop to accept only posts not having that meta key should do the trick.
Hi!
I tried a lot of “Feature Posts” plugins and yours is the beeest! (for my project at least :P)
I had no trouble setting it up, but something weird happened. The slider shows up on my homepage, where I used the “Manual Placement” code provided by the plugin, and that works fine.
BUT… on my homepage I also have a “Recent Posts” widget. And right there appears another slider and even with another theme/skin.
So I’m guessing that I created two sliders, deleted one of them, but somehow it’s still appears. I think that they have different slider ID (83 and 84, being 83 the one I deleted but still shows as a widget ¿?).
I’ve tried deleting and re-installing the plugin but ID 83, still shows. Is there any way I could TOTALLY erase the information of the plugin? Like resetting it?
Thanks in advance, sorry if my english is confusing :)
Wordpress: 3.2.1
Website with “bug” (not sure if its a bug though): http://www.kaeru.com.ar/wordpress/
Final note: I’ve erased ALL sliders, and the one with the ID 83, still shows, only on my homepage !! (at the footer)
I really can’t tell what’s happening. When you delete a slider, it should delete everything related to it. Sliders are saved in wp_posts table having type fa_slider. When deleting a slider I used wp_delete_post that deletes the post and all associated info (comments, meta, etc).
I love the styling on this plugin and i’m just wondering if there is any way to display custom post types. I am using the built-in wordpress categories, but the custom post types associated with those categories do not display in the plugin.
Thanks!
Not at the moment but we’re working at an update and this feature will become available. Still trying to figure out few things and it will take a bit more than we thought before it’s out so please, have patience. We’re implementing a lot of new stuff and all that takes time.
I have the slideer for FA Lite and it also appears on the Mobile Theme I have. How can I get it to removed it from the Mobile theme, but keep it on the main theme?
How did you placed the slider into your theme? If you placed the code into your theme, you could make a check to see if your main theme is displayed and display the slider. The plugin itself doesn’t have a mechanism to detect mobile themes but it’s a good point what you mention here and we’ll try to include a way to hide the slider for mobiles. Thank you for suggesting this.
Hey there, I’d like to be able to exclude the post-type from my blog template. The featured articles seem to showing up in it and has created some issues with my CSS. My link is below if you’d like to take a look. Thanks.
http://thegonzofoundation.org/gonzo/contact/blog/
The problem is that for some reason the slider stylesheet doesn’t load. My guess is that your theme doesn’t call wp_footer in footer.php so the stylesheets don’t get loaded.
Hi, It seems really wonderful plugin, but I can’t make it work: / Maybe because I have also another script in Java and it can cause a problem?
I can see a first slide, but navigation does not work: (
Do you know what I can change / fix in the code that will move it? Many thanks for every suggestion and sorry for my english:)
If you need a link: http://www.accademiaformazione.it/wp/
Still under construction
I think you wanted to say you have another script in JavaScript, Java is a totally different thing than JavaScript. And yes, that seems to be the problem. Your page outputs an error related to jQuery easing, you might want to take a look into that.
Now, what you could try to do to debug this is to disable FA Lite and check if the error is still there and after that disable that other script and check if FA Lite starts working. Let me know.
Hello, I really appreciate your plugin, and it works great. One feature is missing. When I set a custom image for a post in the Article, the Imagebox tries to show ALL images. Since I have more than 5000 images in Media the system crashes. Would it be possible to display only 20 or 30 per page?
This will get solved with the next update, sorry about the inconvenience.
Hello Constantin,
Thank you for your wonderful plugin. A simple question: How do I remove the dates? I just want to show the thumbnail and the title. Thanks in advance!
You’ll have to edit the display.php file located inside the theme you’re currently using. In there, look for span class=”FA_date” and delete it or do whatever you need to do with it.
“using shortcodes to display the featured posts directly inside the content of any post or page”
Sorry to bug you but I can’t find what the short code would be anywhere. With other plug-ins there has always been a listed short code to use, so I’ve never made one before.
The only code I am getting seems to be the php:
If I need to make my own do you have any quick suggestions for where to look for some help on how to do that?
Thanks for your time and this great looking plug-in, and good luck on new revisions!
Der. I found it.
Thanks for such a great tool! Really helps make my website look pro, thanks!
OK, having an issue now…I want the smoke theme, but even though I have custom made an image to be the featured image and it is the exact size of the slider it is still taking only a small portion of the center of the pic.
Also it displays multiple posts in a list, not as a slider at all.
http://www.stage1stars.com/test/
I’m just trying to put the short code in this post here, nothing fancy. If you have any advice I’d appreciate it, thanks!
From what I see none of the stylesheets/javascripts are loaded into your page. You say you inserted the slider using shortcodes into a post content right? Will look into it and get back to you.
LE: Please check your theme footer ( file is footer.php ) and look into in it for function wp_footer(). If it’s not in there, just before </body> put this:
<?php wp_footer();?>
For more info on it, check the WP Codex here.
You don’t need to manually insert the shortcode, the plugin will do it for you. When you edit a post or a page, look into the right sidebar for FA Lite panel. Inside it you have the option to choose a custom image, set the post/page featured into a certain plugin or insert the plugin into your post content. Just choose a slider an do the insert.
jQuery(“.FA_slider”).FeaturedArticles is not a function
The slider shows up but is not working and I am getting this error. I have only installed the plugin and made no modifications.
How can I fix this?
This usually means jQuery is either not loading or there are js problems in your pages. If you used manual placement, check that your theme footer file has in it wp_footer(). A link to your blog would be helpful.
thanks for a great plugin. i’ve tried about a dozen sliders and this is the only one with the right combination of features for my needs.
is it possible to make the image clickable linking to the post page? (same function as read more or article title link). my coding skills are very bad and i couldn’t find the correct file to customize.
gof it! finally found it myself. in display.php i just copied the href from a few lines below into the image container line, thus giving me the following:
<a href="” title=”"><img src="” alt=”" class=”FA_image” />
now the image is clickable to the post page.
I´ve installed the plugin on WP 3.2.1.
I´m using the WP “showcase”-theme.
As long as i choose the option “display on hompage” everything works fine.
But when i use it as a widget or place the code manual it´s displayed but the autosliding and navigation doesn´t work …
Sorry for the delay Josh, your comment ended up in Spam. About your problem, I’m 90% sure that this happens because your theme doesn’t have wp_footer() in footer.php. When you place the slider automatically (the hope page display for example), all scripts and stylesheets go in header. When you do it manually, widget or shortcode, unfortunately, by the time the script finds out there’s a slider that needs to be displayed, stylesheets and scripts cannot be put in header so they are placed in footer. If your page doesn’t have wp_footer(), they won’t get loaded and you end up with this problem.
The solution is pretty simple. Find your theme, open footer.php and check if wp_footer is in there. If it isn’t, right before </body> put
<?php wp_footer();?>save, upload and all should be OK.I am working hard to try to get this to work — admittedly, I have very little CSS background.
I have a page set up (Industry News) to pull individual posts about industry news and put them into the slider. However, I don’t see the “Read More” option in my slider — the article just goes off the bottom of the frame. And although I have checked to make the article clickable, it doesn’t appear to be. Surely I am missing something very easy here. Any ideas? Thank you so very much for your hard work and efforts to bring us a wonderful plugin :)
http://www.duncaninspectionservices.com/industry-news/
Sorry for the late reply Sara, your comment ended up in Spam. About your problem, yes, it’s CSS related, your theme CSS is messing up with the slider stylesheet. I suggest you ask someone with more CSS knowledge to help you up with this.
Hi, when i use one widget with one slider, after that i cant add another?
So can i add two widgets width different sliders?
PLS Help
Not for the moment, will try to solve this into the next update. Thank you for reporting the issue.
Hi, Thanks for this GREAT plug-in .. it was very helpful for me
but i have just 2 errors ( w3 validator ) in whole website because the plugin
here the picture ( http://i55.tinypic.com/vd2z36.png )
now i should remove the “/” from id, and move the “” from footer to the header
thank you very much
Aha, my bad, sorry for this. There’s a small change you need to do in featured-articles-lite.php on line 113. Line looks like this:
wp_enqueue_style('FA_Lite_'.$theme, FA_path('themes/'.$theme_option['active_theme'].'/stylesheet.css'));
Change first parameter on enqueue function from
'FA_Lite_'.$theme
to
'FA_Lite_'.$theme_option['active_theme']
You should end up with something like this:
wp_enqueue_style('FA_Lite_'.$theme_option['active_theme'], FA_path('themes/'.$theme_option['active_theme'].'/stylesheet.css'));
Next update will have this solved, thank you for reporting this.
hello congratulations for the plug-in!
I have a “problem” the content remains attached to the menu bar.
how do I move a little low?
You need to edit the CSS of the theme you’re using. Put a margin on the container element and it should all be OK.
Hello, congratulations for the plugin. I write because I could not make it work properly. The plugin is static and not spend their posts as a slider. Do not know if there is any problem with my blog, I’ll leave the address to which you can help me http://www.comusoft.com
Sorry if my English is very bad. Thanks and hope your answer
Thank you, happy to hear you like it. Don’t worry about your English, mine isn’t perfect either. Anyway, from what I see, the jQuery version of your Wordpress install is 1.6. This is the one that my plugin uses ( asks wordpress for it with wp_enqueue_script ). Your theme uses jQuery version 1.3.2 and for sure isn’t asking for the file using wp_enqueue_script. I suggest you contact your theme author and ask him to use the file that Wordpress provides by using the function I mentioned above. Other than that, I don’t see anything else wrong. If you solve this issue and still have problems, let me know.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now is perfect!! congratulations, i’ll write about this plugin in my blog :) Take Care!
Greetings!
I’m not sure why the top of the FA content box is aligning itself to the bottom edge of my side bar widget. Any ideas? It appears to be an issue with the FAL CSS. Pointers on which portion of the CSS i should look at?
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Hi,
I recently installed your plugin (which is think is the best out there) on my website. I have created 3 sliders; 1 for the home page and 1 each for the “News” and “Stories” categories. It seems to be working well on the home page, however on the “News” and “Stories” pages it seems to be showing twice, one at the top and another in the footer where I have recent posts. I’ve tried looking into it but I cant figure out what the problems is. Any thoughts?
The website is http://www.gistus.com
Thanks for you response in advance
Sorry for the delay, I have some family problems that need taking care of and haven’t had the time for much else lately. About your problem, check that you only have selected the areas you want to display the slider on. By the way, I assume you use the automatic placement. That one works by hooking to the first loop it finds into your page so the problem might be on how you set it. Please give more details about how you implemented it into your pages and I’ll gladly help you solve the problem.
Thanks for the great plugin, but I have 1 issue.
I followed all of the instructions and have my thumbnail & slider size set the same.
The size I’m using is 960×400.
The width is fine, however, no matter what I change, the height of the image is only 300px.
Is there anything I can do to make it show the full height?
Well, from what I can guess, your cropped image for 960 width is smaller than 400. The script works by asking wordpress for the closest image to your size set in plugin settings. Depending on how your images are, resizing them to 960 width might end up with those images being less than 400 in height. What you could do is create the images having exactly 960×400 and set them as custom images for FA Lite. This way you won’t have any size problems.
is there a way to disable it only on smartphones?
No, sorry.
Hi Constantin,
Thanks for this great Plugin! I have a question regarding putting it as a widget in the sidebar. It works perfectly when putting the php code in actual php file.
Unfortunately the moment I put in the sidebar as widget it doesn’t work anymore. The slides are ordered one below the other and with every next/back click the screen jumps back to the top of the page.
I would like to send you a screenshot so you can see what I mean.
Can you help me?
regards
Patrick
A screenshot won’t help much, something live would. From what you say, the script for the slider doesn’t start for some reason. Can’t figure out why, if you can point me to an online address where you try to do this, I can probably help you more.
Hi Contstantin,
sorry for the delay. I tried to reproduce the problem on a “single” page. There it seems to work. I guess it has something to do with the loop.
Please let me know when you have time to check it. I will put on the loop then.
I don’t get a reminder when you reply to my comment. If you could send me an email, then I will put on it right away.
regards
Patrick
I’ve got the plugin all installed and working great. I do however have a question. I don’t use the built in gallery for wordpress and use nextgen gallery instead. Is there a way to specify the image to be used as the featured image through custom fields? I really don’t want to have to split my galleries to use this plugin.
The plugin doesn’t support nextgen. Yes, there is a way to specify the image ID by using custom fields, it already does that but it asks WP built in funciton for the image, not nextgen. Sorry about this.