I have the similar problem with the lastest version of the plugin(1.2.3.2). The slideshow that I was trying to create on my post, just gave a loading circle.
I’m using default configuration.
Thank you for your help.
any luck with the “spinning circle” bug?
I had this happen on 2 of my sites.
Hopefully, the creator will come along and help.
I looked at your davinabusted and it seems that the actual plug in is loading. From what I can see the Java script is crashing due to a conflict between plug-ins somewhere.
If you notice your light box is also not working the way it should try using jQuery no conflict
Soooo… I’ve found a solution, this will fix the problem, but really this should be done on the part of the plug-in developer, I’m just some guy….
The backstory…
I was not receiving a single JS error until I added the short code to my page to embed the slideshow, all of my other scripts were working without issue.
I added the short code to my page (in my case I added the PHP hardcode to my front-page template), and the spinning logo showed up but no images. Upon further inspection I found that after adding the short code to my template I was getting JS errors, the scripts in my custom scripts file (the only JS that wasn’t name-spaced) were throwing errors b/c if wasn’t recognizing jQuery’s $ dollar sign.
The source of the problem—
I see that when the slideshow is added to the page, a JS script is inserted with it (written directly into the DOM) and that script is written with a “jQuery.noConflict();” included, this declaration is happening for the whole page and is screwing up all scripts that execute on that page that use jQuery. Whoever wrote this script wasn’t keeping in mind that people might be using jQuery for other things in their site.
The solution that should works for me….
To make this plug-in play well with the rest of your page (if you are running jQuery scripts) is to remove the noConflict portion from the script that gets inserted on the page, it’s breaking the rest of your scripts. Keep in mind, this fix will be overwritten next time you upgrade the plug-in (but hopefully its fixed by the next release). The steps:
- Log into your FTP server where your site lives, navigate to /wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/views/default/
- select the file called ‘gallery.php’
- save this file to your desktop or somewhere where you will be able to find it
- make a backup copy of it, just in case the following steps don’t work for you
- open the gallery.php file with a text editor(notepad, notepad++, etc, NOT MS Word)
- go to line 112, remove that line, it should read ‘jQuery.noConflict();’, delete it
- In the next 30 lines after that, change the word ‘jQuery’ to ‘$’, I counted 3 places it needed changed
- upload the file to your server in place of the original
- load your page to test!
If this doesn’t work for you, I’m not sure what to tell you, but it worked for me!
Best of luck.
