expomas

Sorry about the late response: yes, it was a conflict with the “Featured Image From URL” plugin, but it was resolved on a new version of that plugin

Thank you for your response. I was unable to set up a slider, even though I had a page with an associated Featured Image. I’m not asking for any support

No answer on this but, if anyone wants to do this, here’s how I did it hacking the plugin:

I used the Nivo silder shortcode with link=y

[nivo link=y]

Then, to only create a link in the slideshow for slides with an associated URL, I hacked nivo.inc in plugins/oik-nivo-slider/ as follows:

at line 337 I replaced these lines:

$permalink = bw_get_image_link( $post->ID );
      alink( null, $permalink , $thumbnail, null );

with:

$permalink = bw_get_image_link( $post->ID );
      if (strlen($permalink) > 0 ) {

      	alink( null, $permalink , $thumbnail, null );  

      } else {

      	e( $thumbnail );
      }

To prevent the cursor appearing for slides with no URL, I commented out almost all of plugins/oik-nivo-slider/jquery.oik-nc-click.js:

jQuery.fn.oikNCClick = function(){
    var slider = $(this);
    var nc = $('.nivo-caption', slider);
    //nc.hover( function() { $(this).addClass( 'nivo-caption-hovered' ); }
      //      , function() { $(this).removeClass( 'nivo-caption-hovered' ); } );
    //nc.css( 'cursor', 'pointer' );
    //nc.live('click', function(){
      //var visible = $('a.nivo-imageLink:visible', slider);
      //window.location.href = visible.attr('href');
    //});
  };

Then, to allow external links to open in a new window, I hacked bobbfunc.inc in plugins/oik as follows:

at line 181, I replaced this line

$link .= ">";

with

// if URL contains domain.com, don't open in new window: must replace with your own site's domain
  if (stripos($url, "domain.com")) {

  	$link .= " >";

  } else { // it IS external...

  	$link .= " target='_blank'>";
  }

No, I don’t wish to argue accuracy further. You’ve really put me in my place.

I now realize: the fact that the plugin was worthless to me is because I wasn’t willing to read through all the issues in the support forum and find out that it only works properly if you install the plugin BEFORE you add a WP image gallery. I’m sure no one else will EVER have this issue again. It’s so completely intuitive!

Five stars!

So, I’m the idiot for not “dealing with my thumbnails” before giving negative feedback on your plugin? Hmm, I thought

The purpose of this plugin was to be “plug and play” no options, just turn it on and have a nicer gallery.

I suppose that’s “out of context” as well.

Your plugin shouldn’t work properly out of the box… because it’s free? And, people shouldn’t leave negative feedback in the support forum by the same logic? How about you doing at least some rudimentary QA on your plugin before wasting people’s time with it?

PS You apparently weren’t using a vanilla install, as we clearly showcase on the demo a “vanilla install with the plugin working”.

Yes, completely Vanilla install of WP 3.5. Added image gallery to “Sample Page”, activated your plugin, the result was what you see in the screenshot. I think you’ll agree this is NOT what the gallery looks like in your demo so, I’m not sure why you’d expect more than one star. Or, maybe it only works with “Featured Image”, in which case you should specify that.