I actually think I might have an issue with the way it’s installed, or maybe the “responsive” theme being used.
I did install meteor excerpts plugin, after being unsuccessful with funtions.php and “custom slideshow template” edit method (all mentioned here: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/plugin-meteor-slides-possible-to-have-text-as-well?replies=52 )
The admin field to enter excerpts is showing, but when text or html is entered, it doesn’t show in slider (with or without a featured image). I wasn’t able to see any of text using firebug. Here is the test site:
http://www.lifeleap.us
Thank you for any suggestions.
I’ve never tried to use slides without images in a project, when a slideshow gets this far from the default setup, I usually build something custom with jQuery Cycle, the script that powers Meteor Slides.
If you publish a slide post without an image it will show up in the slideshow, so it is possible to do. You have excerpts added to the slide post editor and you added content to them?
Did you add the excerpt function the slideshow template file?
<?php // Get the slide post's excerpt
the_excerpt();?>
Make sure that code is not inside the conditional check for the slide link, it should be right above the closing slide tag:
</div><!-- .mslide -->
Thanks for the reply. I think i put the excerpt function in the correct place, in meteor-slideshow.php, located in the directory /wp-content/themes/responsive-child-theme/
I discovered the plugin will show the excerpt in the slides, as long as there is a featured image in every single slide. If there is not a featured image in even one of the slides (as there is now in the site), it seems to break the plugin and all that can be seen are the navigation bullets: http://www.lifeleap.us
Any suggestions on how to get the plugin where is can display just text in some of the slides? Or, is it just not able to do this? Thank you for any advice
Yeah, the slides are there, but they have no slide images so they collapse. With the responsive slideshows, they are scaled based on the size of the first slide image. Without slide images the slideshow won’t really work. You could get it to work with enough customization, but at that point you might be better off building the whole thing custom with Custom Post Types UI, Advanced Custom Fields, and jQuery Cycle.
That’s way over my head. I guess for now, the plan is to get images in every slide. Thanks again for creating a great plugin.
