Andrew Boyd
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In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] No images found!Same here! Following this topic, thanks!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blank@itsflanno a server 500 error has a ton of potential possibilities. If you cannot deactivate the plugin and restore your site functionality, you’ll want to contact your web host and see if they can tell you what the error logs on your server say.
They should also be able to access your database directly and clear out the active plugins field, disabling all plugins and allowing you to access your site again.
If you happen to find out what the error log from your host states, please share it here. If it’s an easy problem to avoid in the future then I’d be happy to adjust the plugin code.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blank@itsflanno did you disable the old plugin before activating the new one?
I have provided a patched copy (changelog available on github) that has been working for a number of people. Worth a shot if you’re running into issues:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slider-went-blank?replies=27#post-8051489
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blank@blaifm Thanks for the follow up. Since I cannot replicate the issue I’m inclined to agree. Best of luck getting things sorted!
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In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blank@blaifm I’m able to get the plugin to work with a hashtag and both the grid and slider layouts provided by the original author.
Did you apply the patch manually or did you install the copy from the git repo as a new plugin?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blank@blaifm, would you mind providing a link to your site? Also, what are you using the Instagram Widget to display? A user? A hashtag?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blankMade a git repo with the patch applied. You can install as a new plugin (after disabling, not uninstalling) the original. Instructions provided in the readme.
https://github.com/andrew-boyd/wp-instagram-slider-widget
Pull requests are welcome if anyone sees a flaw in the applied patch.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blankI have a temporary working solution until the author is able to investigate further.
it looks as if instagram has added a cache param to the end of their image URLs which is causing the
save_wp_attachment()function to returnfalsewhen checking if the provided URL matches the expected image types. This also explains why there was no chatter from Instagram about API changes or the like. A new URL caching param isn’t really a noteworthy feature for most users.Add these lines to the beginning of the function
save_wp_attachment()which it looks like starts on line 1038 in the fileinstagram_slider.phpin the plugin’s directory.// temp fix, strip cache param off of url $parsed_image_data = parse_url($image_data['url']); $image_data['url'] = $parsed_image_data['scheme'] . '://' . $parsed_image_data['host'] . $parsed_image_data['path']; // end temp fix;As you can see, it’s back in working on the site I provided as a broken example in my original post: http://dbbrewingcompany.com/
Mine was set to query for a user, not a hashtag, so not sure how universal this fix will prove to be.
disclaimer: if you are not confident editing files directly then you’ll need to wait for the author. I cannot assist you if you manage to bork your site attempting this edit.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blank@alessiafio, I imagine that the author is notified of new form topics and posts so that may not be necessary.
If anyone does reach out directly to the author of the plugin, please be very courteous. It’s a completely free plugin so there is no obligation to provide support. Not to mention that the change that broke the plugin may be entirely out of the author’s control.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blank@forkmedia, in my searching I’m unable to find any notice online from Instagram about a cutoff happening on February 9th. Do you have anything definitive or is it also just a hunch for you?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Social Slider Feed – Social Media Feed & Gallery Widgets] Slider went blankSame problem on a site I contribute to. Blank spot where the slider used to be. No recent changes to the website.
Website: http://dbbrewingcompany.com/
WordPress Version: 4.4.2
Instagram Slider Version: 1.3.0
Theme Name: Genesis child themePossible that Instagram has updated their API and this approach for a feed is no longer valid?