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csonnek
(@csonnek)
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Hi there:
It looks like you’re using a lot of CSS to hide navigational and functional items in your theme. For example:
img#wpstats{display:none}
…looks to be hiding the WordPress.com stats smiley. We have an option in the Stats module config screen where you check a box to hide that item.
Now for your widget slideshow gallery, the same CSS issues are being applied. You have set this custom CSS:
#widget-gallery-3-slideshow .slideshow-controls { display: none }
This is preventing the slideshow controls (more on that below) from being displayed, and in turn, there is no way to start the slideshow.
It turns out, when we launched 3.6, we added the ability to control the autoplay aspect of the slideshow via a shortcode. However, that change also changed the default behavior of the slideshow widget – it used to autoplay by default, and now in 3.6 it doesn’t. We’ve opened a request to correct this error and it should be fixed in our next release.
https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/2379
I don’t have an ETA as to when our next release will be out, but in the meantime, you could delete the CSS that’s hiding the navigation of the slideshow in order for people to play the slideshow or browse all the photos you’ve added.
Thanks to your issue, we were able to find this bug. 🙂
Let me know if you have any questions.
I’m going to mark this as resolved as the fix should be in our next update.
Hi,
Thank you for getting back to me. I’m now in the process of trying to work around the lack of autoplay functionality in the widget area. I am aware of the CSS I created to hide the controls on the Jetpack slideshow. I created them deliberately as I didn’t want them showing. I’m currently using Meta Slider to try and recreate the slideshow, but am having some trouble figuring out how to achieve the same width I had on the slideshow before. I was able to figure it out using Firefox to look at the code and turn some of the CSS off, but so far, I’ve been unable to write the correct CSS to try and remove some of the CSS that’s limiting the width. Hoping I can figure it out soon. If I can’t, I may email you and/or Meta Slider to ask how.
Again, thanks for getting back to me. Glad you’re working on a fix to reinstate autoplay.
: )
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csonnek
(@csonnek)
Happiness Rocketeer 🚀
Again, thanks for getting back to me. Glad you’re working on a fix to reinstate autoplay.
You’re welcome – it’s not a complex fix, but it needs to wait for our next release cycle. I’m sorry for the inconvenience that it’s causing, but keep an eye out for the next update!
