Phil Ewels

Hi Dylan,

I’m not quite sure what you mean by “having to create additional entries for each shortcode”? What are / were you trying to achieve?

I wrote the plugin to make it easy to generate markup for the bootstrap carousel. The separation from featured images in regular blog posts was intentional, I (and most other users of the plugin) use it simply for rotating images and banners within a page, rather than for presenting blog post content of the website. As far as I’m aware, WordPress doesn’t do this by default.

Anyway, if you could elaborate on what you were trying to do with the plugin I’d be happy to try and help out.

Phil

Hi Emwat,

This plugin is only designed to create the markup for the Bootstrap carousel, and not create a fully functional carousel on it’s own – it was designed for sites already running a theme based on Bootstrap. As such, you’ll need the bootstrap CSS and javascript loaded for it to work. As you say, this may conflict with other themes not based on Bootstrap.

Other than including the javascript and styling it yourself with some custom CSS (see the docs for reference), I’m afraid that there’s not much else you can do. There are other plugins which run different image carousels which should work independently though.

If there are any specific problems, drop a link and I can have a look.

Phil

Given the lack of response and the fact that I’m unable to replicate this problem I’m going to mark this topic as resolved. Happy to reopen it again if needed.

Phil

I’d start by removing the include in your theme (if editing it is possible) and loading in the full bootstrap JS file, rather than trying to add two together.. That way lies pain.

Beyond that it’s difficult to say really – do any javascript errors pop up when you look in the chrome inspector? Can you supply a link where the error is happening?

Phil

Ah it’s a pain when you can’t get to the PHP errors. Maybe try getting the debug log to work? See https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

Anyway, it seems pretty likely that it’s a compatibility issue as I can’t get the same bug on my testing site. I’ll mark this as resolved for now but if you pull out any error messages to find the offending lines of code, that would be interesting 🙂

Phil

Hi Christine,

When you say that the website content goes blank – do you mean that the no html is produced at all? Or the slider is blank? Or the normal page content is blank?

If you want to include the carousel on the front page only, I’d recommend creating a template called front-page.php (see the codex) instead of putting it into the header.

Also, the <?php else : ?> is not doing anything. So you can simplify the code to:

<!-- /.slider -->
<?php include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' );
if (is_plugin_active('cpt-bootstrap-carousel/cpt-bootstrap-carousel.php')) {
	echo do_shortcode('[image-carousel]');
} ?>
<div class="clear"></div>

Does that make sense? Try that, and if you’re still having trouble then let me know about what exactly it is that you see. If your site is publicly visible a link would help too..

Cheers,

Phil

Ok, as you say – this error usually comes up because a user doesn’t have permission to access the page.

Do you have any other plugins installed? Especially any that modify which pages are shown in the administrator interface or modify user permissions in any way? It’s often worth disabling all plugins and switching to a default wordpress theme to see if it’s a clash between different plugins / themes.

Can you try creating another administrator user, and logging in as them?

Phil