Slider menu does not show current slide

December 3, 2015 10:15 AM

Hello Wordpress peoples of Metafilter. Please help me make this slider menu plugin work better. The problem: The slider menu does not display the current slide - it always reverts to the beginning.

I am using the Pro Version of Wordpress Responsive Thumbnail Slider.

When you click on a thumbnail in the slider you go to that slide page but the slider on the new page reverts back to the first thumbnail in the order instead of staying on the thumbnail relevant to the slide you are viewing. One has to scroll through to get back to where one just was in the thumbnail order.

I have posted a link to an example of the slider menu in the About section of my profile.

How do I get the slider to display the thumbnail for the current slide - preferably centered/highlighted? It is really not useful at all to have the slider revert to the beginning of the slide order every time one views an image. It is counter-intuitive and does not make for clear navigation.

Or, just as nice: do you know of another plugin that does what I'm looking to do? I like how simple this one is.

Note: I did post this question to the Wordpress forums, and the plugin author responded. Unfortunately, they did not provide a clear solution.

posted by jammy to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Not super sure how you're slider plugin's code works but what you want to do could be accomplished with javascript and css. One way of getting something to work would be to use the url name and match that to the image that was clicked on. Say if url = mixed-leaf then add the class active to your mixed-leaf image and maybe a border or something to make the image stand out.
posted by andendau at 8:40 PM on December 5, 2015

Response by poster: Say if url = mixed-leaf then add the class active to your mixed-leaf image and maybe a border or something to make the image stand out.

Thank you for answering!

I am not proficient in javascript - does the above notion utilize it somehow?

I tried several variations of editing the CSS with an active class for the selected image to no avail.


The original programmer responded with this:

Ok then it need additional coding. I have to pass Id with image and then start slider with the image I get.

So, a bit of a language barrier in play, but I'm still not sure what they're referring to.
posted by jammy at 6:04 AM on December 6, 2015

Response by poster: For anyone following up here (i.e., no one) I ended up ditching this plugin and going with another, completely different, plugin - not at all what I wanted but what can you do?
posted by jammy at 3:45 PM on December 12, 2015