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  • WARNING. REQUIRES EDITING THE DB, BACK EVERYTHING UP TWICE. THIS HAS ALSO NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED, IT JUST WORKED FOR ME ONCE.

    To export the settings, I was able to do it through phpmy admin. First go to the DB and open the options table then query for and export all fields whose name stats with em_ or dbem_. Next go to the new site, install the plugin and remove all the em_ and dbem_ fields. Next drop the previously exported fields into the new sites options table, and finally go to the settings pages and click the udpate button on all settings pages.

    That seems to have pulled all the options over for me.

    Also, exporting the wp_em_* tables will pull them over some of the information as far as actual events, but I think you nned the entries in post meta table as well or things won’t link up. I decided to not mess with it and just re-entered all the actual events.

    I love this plugin and use it on all my sites, but I agree that the transition is a bit of a pain. When I couldn’t find any info on fixing it, I jumped in and tried myself. For this to work you have to edit two files in the plugin itself. WARNING This has only been tested as an image slider, I don’t know how titles, descriptions and nav buttons will react to this change.

    1. Update promo_slider.js Lines 169 and 170 to this:

    newItem.show();
    currentItem.fadeOut('slow');

    Explanation: Change the behavior so that the new item gets its display block, then the old item fades out.

    2. Update slide.css line 4 to be the following (we are also adding a line here for the .current style):

    .promo_slider .panel { background: transparent; display:none; float:left; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; z-index: 2; top: 0; left: 0; }
    .promo_slider div.current { z-index: 1 !important; }

    Explanation: Change the panels to be absolute positioned so they stack on top of each other and z-index the all the slides to 2 then the .current slide (which is the slide we want to appear) to 1 so it will be behind to slide we are looking at and it can fade out.

    This is the first time I’ve made any edits to a plugin so feel free to comment and change if anyone has better ideas.

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