Phil Ewels

Hi ncsumarit,

Thanks for the report – I had a quick look at your code and I think that this is happening because you have a link set for the images.

The code responsible for this decision is here. It’s a bit of a horrible line as it stands, it’s easier to understand with some extra spacing:

if
  (
    (
      $atts['showtitle'] === 'true' && strlen($image['title']) > 0
    ) || (
      $atts['showcaption'] === 'true' && strlen($image['content']) > 0
    ) || (
      $image['url'] && $atts['link_button'] == 1
    )
  )
{

In other words, the caption area is shown if there is a title (and ‘show title’ is turned on), or if there is a caption (and ‘show caption’ is turned on), or if there is an image (and ‘link button’ is switched on).

Your second link has no title or caption, but it does have a link. So I suspect that if you disable the “Link Buttons” option in the settings, you will go back to having the same behaviour as before. Let me know if this isn’t the case, and I’ll look into it again.

Cheers,

Phil

Hi Andy,

I’m a bit confused – do you mean the “HTML before title” etc. fields? I just had a go and copied your code into these fields and they seemed to show in the resulting page html. I then tried again with the bootstrap glyphicons (<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-search" aria-hidden="true"></span>) and that also worked fine and showed up.

Is this what you mean?

Phil

Hi Andy,

No, you’re right – that’s exactly what I did. Not so much preventing the title from displaying on the front end, but rather decoupling the title from the excerpt, so that if either are filled in then they show on the carousel. I did this because I had assumed that this was already the behaviour.

Toggles would be fine but would be extra code and complexity, and as you can see the thumbnails in the wordpress admin anyway I usually think that the titles are a little redundant (this of course depends on how different your images are). I guess I could split the toggle that is in the settings page to work for titles and excerpts separately. For me this is less urgent though, as it’s to aid ease of administration rather than a blocker in what is possible to achieve on the front end with the carousel. I’ll see if I can write it in to the dev version on GitHub for you though.

Phil

Hi John,

I’ve just pushed the latest version of the plugin to wordpress.org with your suggested changes: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cpt-bootstrap-carousel/

Thanks again!

Hi studio4,

I think that the current behaviour is just to leave either blank – off the top of my head I thought that both show independently if they’re filled in. Is this not the case?

Phil

Hi uliman,

The error message doesn’t come from this plugin. After a bit of googling, it looks like it comes from your theme, Dazzling (see code).

Looking at the code I would guess that there is a checkbox somewhere in the theme settings (“dazzling_slider_checkbox“) where you can turn off a slider. I bet if you untick this box the message will disappear.

Good luck!

Phil

Hi there,

Ok – I just had a look. The reason that only the caption headings are showing, and not the captions themselves is the following CSS that you have in your style.css file:

.carousel-caption p {
    display: none;
}

The Australia image doesn’t have any caption in the markup, which would usually only be the case when there is no title and body text caption for that item in the carousel post. There were 9 slides when I looked at the carousel, and all looked fine apart from the Australia slide. Maybe you could try deleting this post from the plugin and adding it again?

If you can get the same thing to happen with a different carousel item, let me know.

I hope this helps!

Phil