Finally! After a long, long wait, I managed to finish the new version of vSlider.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… vSlider 2.0! (5 stars for originality on the name :))
This new version is ready for the very latest versions of WordPress and Gallery2, so it should solve the problems of everybody who is having problems since they decided to upgrade. It also has a lot of new features, including an administration page for the theme.
In fact, this is a triple announcement, since there are in fact three new entries for my cool stuff page:
KBurnalizer is a fun project that I started a few months back when I was tinkering with the idea of making a slideshow in a web page using the Ken Burns effect, with nothing but JavaScript and CSS. Well, I proved it’s possible. I was rather pleased with the results, so I ended up making a Gallery2 module for it and using it on vSlider itself (see the new fading header on top? That’s not Flash ;))
Anyway, check out all the new toys (there’s quite a lot of them at one time), and let me know what you think. As usual, feedback is welcome on any problems you might find.
By the way, did you know I have a donation page (hint 8))?
16 Responses to “Big Announcement x3”
Rui,
I have been using your theme for sometime now and it is truly awesome, so I thought I would try out your donation page. Just a little something for all the hard work you have done on that theme.
Well done and keep up the good work.
Mike
Thanks Mike! This keeps the motivation high
GREAT WORK!
Thx for vSlider 2.0 - now I have to costumize this new version for my needs.
BUT I LOVE this theme.
Hello Rui,
fan of your theme right from the start! However, here’s a link to the ouput of it rendering in Safari 2.0.3 (latest).
http://i2.tinypic.com/ve14t1.jpg
Ironically, Apple was really the first to make extensive use of the Ken Burns effect in the photo/video editing software iPhoto and Final Cut Pro…I would LOVE to see this work in the Mac browser…and needless to say I can’t use the new theme as is, it renders my site unusable to almost 100% of my Mac-using viewers.
Perhaps a key to understanding what is happening: the same thing happens to the header when I click any of the nav links EXCEPT the Gallery page…it shows the header the old way, with random images.
Thank you for all your hard work, I still love the theme!
Mike, why are things always different on the Mac?…
As a quick fix, you can disable the KBurnalizer option in the vSlider theme options page. That way, all pages will show the old style header.
Next, I would like to try to improve the KBurnalizer library to work on Safari also. Would you mind helping me out with debugging? I don’t have a Mac to test it…
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I hope your next version will support widgets (http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/) for ease of sidebar customization.
Your theme, as always, is top notch. Thanks for the time and effort.
I do have one question. My blog install is not in the webserver root directory. It is in ./blog/ with the index.html file at the server root directory. WPG2 works properly when I manually navigate to ./blog/wp-gallery2.html. The vSlider automatic photos heading, however, links to the root directory, /wp-gallery2.html. How do i fix that? Thanks!
Great work, love the theme!
I just installed it and for some reason in my gallery page the whole thing is smashed together. Its as if it is trying to render a sidebar thats not there. Care to take a look? : http://www.pb-upload.com/wp-gallery2.html
I was starting a new blog for our team and after upgrading my own and all the issues I was syched to find something that worked with WP2 and G2.1. The only issue I have is that the photo link goes to the base URL and not the embedded gallery page. I searched for settings but couldn’t find anything.
Any hints??
Also a side note is that it would be to adjust the width and height in one area for content boxes, headers, and footers.
Beautiful!!
hi,
great work. but i am having the same problem as aaron and if i am in the settings of my gallery, content of the admin page is just cut of on the right.
any ideas ?
cu
martin
hi,
if you want your vSlider theme with widgets just do the following.
add the lines:
if ( function_exists(’register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar(array(
‘before_widget’ => ”,
‘after_widget’ => ”,
‘before_title’ => ”,
‘after_title’ => ”,
));
to the functions.html and add:
after the tag in the sidebar.html. Furthermore you need to add before the very last .
Now it should work.
Cu
Martin
Martin,
Great contribution in you comment above, but it looks as if some info didn’t come through.
Add the lines of code to functions.html and ?
Jeremy
THANKS! your work is great…I appreacite it
Where can one find more images for the kburnalizer? Great theme?
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