In case you are wondering, RFI is Request For Improvements. I just made it up 
Well, maybe it exists, who knows.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about whether or not I should make a new version of vSlider. Quite a few people ask me “when the next release will be”, but to be honest, the main reason why there hasn’t been one (apart from time, of course) is that for my own needs the last version is enough.
So, I’m asking you, the users of vSlider, what features or improvements would you like to have? What is it that you are missing or that would make your life easier while using vSlider?
If I don’t get any comments, then, well, then I’m going to assume that the current version is still good enough 
So if you want a new version, drop a comment with your suggestion for improvements.
BTW, I’ve added a CAPTCHA for entering comments. I know it’s a little more pain for you, the good people out there, but I just can’t get rid of all the evil spammers, even using Akismet. So I’m going to try this for a while to see if I have more success.
21 Responses to “vSlider RFI”
Olá Rui!
Congratulations on one of the best Wordpress themes around!
I think one way of making it better would be to make the “random header” thingy usable in other themes - I certainly would love to use some kind of KBurnalize-based fading headers in a theme like the wonderful Hemingway!
Many thanks for all the development efforts and your constant generosity to the community!
Sorry, hit Submit too soon…
Maybe this could be achieved by separating the header’s code into some kind of plugin?
Joao, technically speaking, that isn’t really a vSlider theme enhancement, is it?
I mean, it’s good idea, but for a new WP plugin. I can certainly try to do that, but as a different, new project.
What I’m looking for is for ways to improve vSlider itself. But thanks for the suggestion!
Hi Rui,
Love your theme!
But I have one comment: when inserting a smaller picture in the post and moving it left or right it gets too close to the text and it looks messed up. Maybe you could try to fix that? Also, I´ll be inserting ads soon, maybe also in the post so this could help there too.
Thanks,
Dejan
Dejan, do you have an example where that happens, so that I can see exactly what you mean?
Not really
I changed it after it looked like that in the preview screen 
I´ll get it for you tomorrow.
While we´re at it: I haven´t tried this yet, but will this work with your skin? If not, you should put it on your to-do list
http://automattic.com/code/widgets/
Yes, I’ve already integrated Widgets with vSlider a long time ago. You can enable them for the sidebar.
I’ll wait for the example
vSlider is one of my fav themes, but I want “vSlider 2 for Gallery2″ for my photos and I wanted to have the option of up to 3 photo sizes, plus the full size option. I would also like an easy method to rescale the default Theme width while keeping all the tables in proportion to the rescaled size. Even a proportional to widow size option would be good? Lastly I had to disable Kburnlizer2 as it was swamping my memory, when accessing very large photo directories. Either Kburnlizer2 or PHP is not smart enough to know how much memory to use or how to manage its access.
Thanks for the input. You have a couple of different points there… let me see if I got it right:
- do you mean having an independent, non-embedded vSlider theme for Gallery2
- having different sizes (plus full size) is already possible. That’s a standard feature of Gallery2 and the theme supports it.
- I’m not sure I got what you meant by the rescaling part… what tables are you referring to?
- yes, KBurnalizer2 can take quite a bit of memory, because it tries to get all the images from the server as fast as it can. So Gallery2 serves a lot of images, rather quickly. Depending on the specs of the server, the number of images, their size and the tunning of PHP, the memory can grow. I personally don’t have that many problems, but I can imagine that in some situations it can be a problem. I don’t think that there’s much I could do to improve it, but if somebody has a good idea for tweaking my code in some way, I’ll be glad to hear it!
Hello again
This is the example:
http://www.dejanmurko.com/moj-blog
As you see, the picture is way too close to the text. There may be a similar problem if I started to display small text ads (as googleads) but I haven´t tried it yet.
Oh, did you see, WP 2.1 was just released
Dejan, now I get it! I took a look at the source HTML of your post, and I see the problem - you are using align=”left” to position the image. There’s nothing wrong with that, but then you’ll have little to no control on the spacing.
In vSlider there are CSS styles specifically for aligned images, which include a nice margin around it. These are “centered”, “alignright” and “alignleft” (you can find them in style.css on the vSlider folder).
So, try removing the align attribute, and add class=”alignleft”.
That should fix it!
Hey! This just popped up to mind - nested comments! This would come in handy for discussions like these. What do you guys think? Maybe there are already good plugins out there for this… Some research is in order…
Rui: You lost me
Where do I change what? In the post in html code or in the style.css?
No, no need to touch the style.css. In the HTML code of your post, where you have your img element, replace align=”left” by class=”alignleft”.
Works like a charm
So it should work also with text ads, right? Cool, when I´ll have any other suggestions, I´ll let you know 
Great theme! I love the kburnalized headers. My first request would be for a wide version (or scalable). There’s too much wasted white space to the left and right, and everyone I know uses higher resolutions on their monitors.
- do you mean having an independent, non-embedded vSlider theme for Gallery2
No.
- having different sizes (plus full size) is already possible. That’s a standard feature of Gallery2 and the theme supports it.
True, but if I use your theme and a image larger than the width of you them then the image sticks out or over the theme (not sure if that is the right discription) Vslider theme. So the biggest image with Vslider that I see that can be used effectively is 480×640? Am I wrong?
- I’m not sure I got what you meant by the rescaling part… what tables are you referring to?
Well look at this page for instance. There is the outside border and inside border for each comment. On the Wordpress theme also have the left and right columns. I was thinking won’t it be nice to has a simple way to resize the whole theme and keep everything in proportion at the same time. Say the told width of the theme is 100 and you wanted to make it 188 doing so would automatically scale all components as well (or tables if Vslider is based on that.)
- yes, KBurnalizer2 can take quite a bit of memory, because it tries to get all the images from the server as fast as it can. So Gallery2 serves a lot of images, rather quickly. Depending on the specs of the server, the number of images, their size and the tunning of PHP, the memory can grow. I personally don’t have that many problems, but I can imagine that in some situations it can be a problem. I don’t think that there’s much I could do to improve it, but if somebody has a good idea for tweaking my code in some way, I’ll be glad to hear it!
I just thought there might be a way for KBurnalizer2 to control its own memory usage? I’ve got gallerys of 75 or more images. KBurnalizer2 can not be active on my site because of this. If I leave it on and someone attempts to use it… my system will be dead in less than 10 minutes. The other options is to add a comment to the setup to warn users of this potential problem. Also, I read somewhere else that this can be addresses in the PHP set. I ran into it will trying to figure out what my problem was. Don’t remember the fix, though it had to do with setting limits in the php.config file.
That covers my issues. I’m sorry if I’m not clear, I have issues with writing that make communicating my ideas effectively; problematic and difficult at times.
first, love your theme and thank you again for all your hard work. my main request would be for the vslider2 for gallery2 theme. i would love to see the comments look a lot more like the wordpress comments look on this page. basically, having a bubble look like that that makes it look like someone said something. right now, when people comment on my pics, it looks too much like the camera info area and it kinda just gets amongst all that info.
other than that, i would love it if you were able to move the add comment, view as slideshow links to under the pic when you view a picture. this way it’s not as hidden behind the dropdown menu. i moved the add comment on my site to under the pic but i have never gotten it working quite correctly.
either way, thanks again for your efforts, i dont have an suggestions for the wordpress version of vslider2. it does everything i need!
Thanks for the feedback guys!… I’m starting to see some very interesting areas for improvement.
I’m going to start planning for a new release
Keep them coming.
hehe, just commented on a post of yours from 2005… http://irui.ac/archives/2005/11/26/vslider-slides-across-the-world/#comment-32318
I’m again asking for width adjustments and am proposing 2 options:
- User selectable using a little drop down or something (no JS required?)
- Grab inside screen width for usable pixels and use JS to set or alter css values
My solution to having a single fixed size header image would be changing or append the path where the header images can be found. Generating 3 header images instead of just one is trivial. Such a shame I can’t code to save my life, hacking I do all the better though…
Djerk, flexible width is definitely the high priority feature. It’s also one of the toughest to implement. Not so much because the way the width is chosen, but because off all kinds of elements which have graphical backgrounds (and the header image, as you correctly point out).
But many thanks for the suggestions! I was also thinking of something along those lines
Care to comment?