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Post edited 1:32 am – January 1, 2010 by benorbeen

Hi there!

Love this plugin and am featuring it on the homepage of my website I'm redesigning.  I'm using WP 2.9.

I've discovered a couple of things with the new v3.1 that I thought I'd share.  I think these are current limitations but if you have a fix, I'd be intersted to hear.

- Dynamic Content Gallery appears to partially conflict with the Cufon plugin (font replacement plugin).  For me, the problem manifests in the Heading sections.  In IE7 my Cufon font replaces as intended.  However, in Firefox 3.0, no Heading is visible (just black space).  I deactivated my Cufon plugin and sure enough, the Heading reappeared in Firefox in the default font Cufon was replacing.  I believe I had this same issue with v3.0 or whatever version I upgraded to today.

- Separately, I noticed a (new?) limitation to the Carousel Label.  Earlier today before upgrading, I configured the Featured Content tab to say:

I made this configuration in the Settings page for the plugin.

But after I upgraded, I noticed that the field was truncated and I couldn't get that long of a Carousel Label to stick.  I was unsuccessful in finding out how to expand the textstring limit after digging in the jd-mootools > jd.gallery.js script.

I hope you find this information helpful!

Cheers,

Ben

Hi Ade!

I much appreciate the reply.  Sure enough, pointing me to …-ui-sanitise.php did the trick.  I bumped it up to 50 and it worked well.

Also, I tried changing from mootools to jQuery.  Sure enough, Cufon worked when I used jQuery!  Thanks for letting me know that.  I actually don't think I need the Carousell ("Featured Content" tab) as I didn't know it actually existed until quite some time after I installed the plugin (a note about making it a bit more obvious?).  So I may start working with the jQuery version.  The appearance is a little different (notably, smaller left/right arrows) but I may be able to fudge that.

I'm going to post in another thread about a saving problem on the backend when using IE7.  I noticed someone else had that issue ("can't save").  I have found that if I open the backend in Firefox, I can save like a charm.  A small hassle, though, esp. in light of how incredible your wonderful, free plugin is.

Again, I much appreciate your reply.

Cheers,

Ben

Glad you're planning to make the jQuery look a little more like mootools.  I tried the jQuery out and tried styling it.  I abandoned it and went back to mootools when I found that the navigation was displaying funky.  When I would hover over the center of the image, in IE7 I got some strange black line with a white line or image in the center.  In Firebox, a huge black overlay appeared with what looked like large images of the arrows facing each other.  I'm fine in my design lacking the headings in Firefox et other browsers.  Don't seem to lose much info.

Cheers, and Happy New Year!

Ben

I sent you a PM with my URL.  I'll leave my site configured to jQuery for about an hour for you to take a look at.  Cheers!

Actually, I can't find how to top center the photos, so if you have any insights into how to do this, it would be great.

The reason is that I have some landscape shots and some portrait.  In the jQuery version, landscape shots display pretty well.  However, portrait shots are aligned in the top left corner.

When I was using mootools (which I think I'll switch back to until I can figure this out), this is what I did to get the display of photos as I wanted it:

In the plugin's folder on the server under js-mootools > scripts > jd.gallery.js I scrolled down to around Line 387 and found:

and specifically:

I changed this from "center center" to "top center" … That aligned the images in the gallery along the top edge, which displayed the photos a little bit better.

Can't figure out how to do something equivalent in the plugin's jQuery codes.

Cheers for now!

Ben