It’s been a long time coming, but finally new versions of the “cool stuff” are available and ready for download. This means vSlider 3.2 for WordPress, vSlider 3.2 for Gallery2 and KBurnalizer 3.1. There are new features and several bug fixes:

• Added Gravatar support for “post authors” (enabled through the regular Posts panel on the vSlider Theme Options). Only available for WP 2.5 and above.
• Also added Gravator support for “comment authors” (enabled through a new Comments panel in the vSlider Theme Options). Also only available for WP 2.5 and above.
• Now it’s possible to select the location of the top menu (right, center or left). Until now, the menu was always on the right.
• Added a new option to center the header image (useful for non-repeating images when using Fluid width).
• Added support for PNG and GIF files for headers (only supported JPG before). Also fixed a small bug where files with extensions in upper case were not correctly identified.
• Added support for the “nextpage” quicktag, which allows breaking a big post into multiple pages.
• Adjusted a bit the layout of the vSlider Theme Options in line with the new WP administration look and feel.
• Fixed an issue in the KBurnalizer library which resulted in some weird looking fading effects.
• Fixed a bug in the header that resulted in the inner corners being hidden when using KBurnalizer.
• Removed the 200 return code on the 404 page.
• Fixed a small display bug on the bottom of the 404 page.
• Fixed a bug on the RSS feed of Comments.
• Fixed a bug in the comments sections where in some situations the author’s comments weren’t properly colored.
• Fixed a bug that prevent Dynamic albums from working in Gallery2.

Hope you enjoy the new features and that with this update most of those pesky little problems that have been around for some time are finally fixed. However, there are still some known issues that some users have found when using vSlider that I can’t really solve since they are related to other scripts. These are the ones I am aware of:

• Enabling the internal the Lightbox script of WPG2 breaks the slide up/down feature on the posts. The workaround is to keep this option disabled and use the WP Lightbox plugin instead.
• Using any Lightbox script (either from WPG2 or the standalone plugin) prevents editing some theme options in Gallery2. This problem affects ANY embedded theme, not just vSlider. I’ve informed one the authors of WPG2 about this issue.
• When using vSlider in Gallery2 with the Lightscript plugin activated, the “title” of the pictures that pops out when hovering the mouse doesn’t look “nice”, because it includes some HTML markup code. Unfortunately, there is no way to avoid this, since Lightbox uses this field for the description text below the photo, and in the case of vSlider, this text has the link to the original photo page.

I’m also making some minor layout changes around this site.

Tags: Gallery2,KBurnalizer,vSlider3,WordPress
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In case you are wondering, Gallery 3 seems to works fine with the new WP 2.5. I just upgraded myself - and I like it! By far, my favorite new feature is the one-click update on some of the plugins. It’s a real time saver
If anybody spots a bug or some strange behavior in the theme due the upgrade, let me know.

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WP 2.3 is out, and the question the whole world is asking: does vSlider 3 work properly on it? (ok, ok, maybe not the whole world - but the most important part of it anyway, the vSlider users )
I quickly tested it and in short the answer is “yes, it does”.

The only thing that is missing is the support for the new tags feature. Since WP didn’t have native support for tags, vSlider3 was built to use the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, if this was installed. So, if you upgrade to 2.3 and start adding tags to your posts, you only be able to actually see them.
In a few days I will publish a hot fix for this as well (it’s rather easy, but I want to make it works ok first).

Everything else seems to be working fine.

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Finally… this took a LOT longer than I thought. When I decided to make a new theme for Gallery2 to make it seamless integrated with WordPress, I knew that it would take some time, but this baby took ages! Ok, it’s my fault, because I kept changing the layout and wanting to add more “cool” things - “I just add a great idea!! What if I added a transparent side menu that slides over the contents? These way, I don’t use up any space of the pictures… Uh, uh, and, what if…”. Yep, the hours just pilled up doing crazy stuff.
Anyway, it’s finally working now as I wanted – I still have a few issues to solve/improve, but these will be fixed in time. Check it out on the link of the top bar.
Now the process of uploading photos begins…

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Ok, progress on the site is going a bit slow, but steady. I officially named my theme vSlider! It’s practically finished, but it has been put on hold, mainly because I’m now working on setting up Gallery2. Of course, I want to have everything customized and integrated, so I’m also making a theme for G2 that matches the vSlider look and feel, and blend them together with the fantastic WPG2. If I’m successful (and I will be!), I’ll have a full WordPress + Gallery2 custom theme.

Tags: Gallery2,Updates,WordPress
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