Posted 4 months ago #
Hi,
At the moment I understand that default is to have the slides/images change automatically after a certain (configurable) length of time (or to use navigation). I want the slides to change only when my visitor moves from one page to another.
(Basically I want to have 3 to 5 header images and have a random one of these images displayed every time someone moves from one page to another on the site and I'm wondering if meteor slides would allow me to do that.)
thanks!
Hi, you can do that with Meteor Slides. To disable the auto advance transitions, just set the Slide Duration to "0" in the settings.
You can use metadata to set the slideshow to random:
<?php if ( function_exists( 'meteor_slideshow' ) ) { meteor_slideshow( "", "random: 1" ); } ?>
Posted 4 months ago #
Fab - thanks for the fast response - I shall go and try that.
Posted 4 months ago #
OK so I think I'm getting there but it's not quite right yet. I started by just getting the slideshow to work as standard and that is fine. Then I've added the metadata you gave in the shortcode and it looks like this:
[meteor_slideshow slideshow="branding" metadata="random: 1"]
I've defined a slideshow called branding and I've added my 3 images to it. In the Slidehow->Settings I've got the following values set:
Slideshow Quantity 3 slides
Slide Height 234px
Slide Width 940px
Transition Style none
Transition Speed 0 seconds
Slide Duration 0 seconds
Slideshow Navigation none
The problem I've got is that when I click to each page, I see the first slide for about 1/2 second and then a random slide is shown (and stays put). I've tried playing with the settings, changing the transition speed to a longer time, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Further advice would be appreciated.
This is a conflict between the random setting and the slideshow stylesheet. Try using this solution, but I'll see if I can update the stylesheet in the next version of Meteor Slides so that that works better out of the box.
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