Unfortunately I have the same problem. What does your post look like?
I have, on http://www.4za.nl, [showtime][gallery]. This shows [gallery] but neither the gallery nor the slideshow.
hello Ovidiu,
hello royahuis,
I am aware of the problem. Renaming the folder “showtime-slideshow” into “showtime” should solve it.
This bug will be changed in the next version along with some other things. I will also extend the transitions and display options. Please let me know what you would like to see in future versions…
This is my first plugin, so please excuse this glitch. I was not aware that the directory would change in the wordpress repository.
Thanks for trying this early version of the plugin.
Paul
This issue is solved in the current version of the plugin. (0.6)
If you have manually changed the directory name, I recommend that you delete the old plugin prior to update.
I am going add more transition effects and try to improve those already implemented. Perhaps a random transition option will follow…
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Ovidiu
(@ovidiu)
unfortunately neither updating nor deleting the plugin and reinstalling this new version helped š
Hi I am having problems with this plugin too
I uninstalled it and downloaded manually, then renamed the folder to showtime.
I uploaded my images, to the post. Added [showtime] to the html code
and I get nothing
I am using the latest version of this plugin and wordpress
any ideas?
I am so excited for this plugin and it works initially (after installation through my WordPress admin), but doesn’t appear at all when I try to change the settings. When I tried installing manually and changing the folder name as you’ve mentioned, it doesn’t appear either.
I hope you can figure out what’s happening! I have been searching for an elegant and clean slide show like this for several months, once it’s functional it will be perfect.
P.S. One feature I’d like to see in a future update would be the ability to define a background color that fills in when the image does not completely fill the flash area.
ovidiu: I have looked at your source, and it appears to me that you have different slideshow engines installed. try to deactivate other slideshow plugins and let me know if it helped
kissedvixen, kwilde1: the folder name suggestion was only for the first release. It should not be changed in any version after 0.5. Folder name should be “showtime-slideshow”.
I have been notified that the slideshow does not appear on windows/firefox. I’ll have a look into that this weekend.
thanks for the suggestion kwilde. currently, the flash movie clip is set to transparent, you may want to change the background with css.
As far as the background-color is concerned, I think
.showtime { background-color: #ff0000; } in your CSS would give it a red background-color.
@youtag: I think this is a really promising plugin. I happen to use FF3/windows, and indeed: the flash is loaded but stays transparant > no images loaded. If I can help in any way by testing, please let me know.
Thread Starter
Ovidiu
(@ovidiu)
ok, I have deactivated the other plugin. your plugin is now the only active slideshow plugin. still no luck, and obviously I use FF on windows š
royahuis, thank you very much for offering your help. i have spent most of last night trying to figure out why it did not work in FF on windows. it is especially frustrating because in my virtual Windows, it works fine on local server and about 1 times out of 3 on the remote. Now i have disabled background transparency, and it seems to work consistently. If you guys can check out version 0.9 and post back here about your experience on windows, I’ll appreciate!
(of course FF is essential, however I preferred Chrome on Windows for day-to-day browsing – so fast š
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Ovidiu
(@ovidiu)
unfortunately, on my test it still doesn’t work.
this is the code I inserted into the test-post:
[gallery link="file"]
[showtime]
and all that shows up on the result is the normal wp gallery š
check it here: http://adi.zice.ro/2009/09/22/test-pentru-slideshow/
Great job! It works perfectly now š
I am just using it as the slideshow, with no gallery and it works just right.
One thing that it would be nice, if your still working on new versions.
Is a thumbnail scroller, that could be used or not used at will.
One of those nice ones, that could just appear on the bottom, and auto hide when not used.
But for now š We are really happy with your work
Thanks š
Ovidiu, I tried to reproduce the bug you are experiencing, I have even installed all the plugins you seem to use, but on my localhost it still works fine.
By the way the xml is generated all right and everything in the source looks good.
a standalone test also worked: http://adi.zice.ro/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/showtime.swf?xml=getxml.php?id=52&showcontrols=on&transition=kenburns&autoplay=on&showtext=on
If you happen to find what caused this bug I would be very thankful.
Thread Starter
Ovidiu
(@ovidiu)
can’t figure out what is happening. the sourcecode looks like this:
<script type='text/javascript'>
var flashvars = {};
flashvars.xml = 'http://adi.zice.ro/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/getxml.php?id=52';
flashvars.width = '480';
flashvars.height = '320';
flashvars.rotationtime = '5';
flashvars.transitiontime = '1.5';
flashvars.transition = 'KenBurns';
flashvars.transitionease = 'CubicEaseOut';
flashvars.autoplay = 'on';
flashvars.showcontrols = 'on';
flashvars.showtext = 'on';
flashvars.shuffle = 'on';
flashvars.scale = 'noBorder';
var params = {};
params.allowFullScreen = 'true';
//params.wmode = 'transparent';
swfobject.embedSWF ('http://adi.zice.ro/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/showtime.swf', 'st_2', '480', '320', '9.0.0', false, flashvars, params);
</script>
<div class='showtime' id='st_2'>
</div>
I guess something is being stripped š
