[Helene Finidori]

Sam, actually, between comments and buddypress invitations I have site features, not featured slider. That’s because I have cbox 1.0.5 update not 1.0.6 although I made the update and that’s what shows in my plugins…

So what should I do now?

[Ray]

@helenef – When you upgrade the CBOX plugin, you still have to go to the CBOX dashboard to apply any upgrades to plugins and the CBOX theme.

What happens when you login to the WP admin dashboard and click on the “Commons In A Box” tab:

Do you see any prompts to upgrade anything?

[Ray]

Sam – As Matt stated you should try to use properly-licensed pictures.

Flickr is a popular choice (click on the “Creative Commons” checkbox).

Also check out this great article by the Harvard Law School, which lists other image sources that you can use:
http://guides.library.harvard.edu/finding_images

[Scott Voth]

Hi Sam – here is a link to CC-licensed images on flickr –

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/

if you are interested.

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[Helene Finidori]

Thanks @r-a-y

So I didn’t know I had to go to the Cbox dashboard! Now I just see that the version mentioned on the Cbox dashboard is 1.0.6, though the theme page says 1.0.5.

So the Cbox dashboard tells me there is an update available for the  default theme.  Cross fingers, I will now do that. And I expect some surprises… Will let you know.

[sam brown]

Thank you every one for the help, I really appreciate the above and beyond response especially at the weekend. Now I have a whole load of links I will try with the right format and correct licencing. Thanks again.

 

[Helene Finidori]

Okay so…

Not so much a catastrophy as I expected (from what I saw so far).

Same issue as Sam, need to resize all pics. The solution we had before was quite convenient: it expanded the width of the pic to the max width of the slider space, and aligned the caption banner to the bottom of the pic with the largest height, so the difference in height of pics (the ‘gap in height of some pics) was ‘hidden’ under the caption banner… see the effect here: http://commonsabundance.net/ height for all is aligned on pic 4. It was not perfect, but at least hid quite well the pic size discrepancy issue, because having to resize pics systematically is a bit of a pain… So it would be great to solve this issue in a next version.

The other issue is the read later, download as pdf text from the read offline plugin meant to be displayed after posts, docs, pages etc, now appears under the slide title. I’ll try and see at the plugin dev level.

Thanks for your assistance in this.

[Helene Finidori]

The other things that are not optimal in terms of productivity are that:

you can’t resize a pic in a non proportional way…

you can’t rescale up…

and you can’t replace an image by another one. Meaning you can’t ‘update’ the image itself with a new uploaded image (resized, etc etc…)…

So you need to upload a new pic and then change the featured image in the posts etc etc… Looooots of time lost!!

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[Scott Voth]

Hi Helene – I just tried to replace a slider image – I removed the featured image, then I added a new featured image, and that worked fine.  Maybe you can try that method.

[Helene Finidori]

Thanks Everyone, I now got something that works on the actual site.

There is a problem with image rescaling though. The current height and width of the slider setting in theme options are not set as actual fixed sizes but maximum sizes, so images are not rescaled as they used to be in version 1.04, with a slider that actually looks like a fixed frame, and an optimum amount of image ‘filling’ it.

What would be preferable to achieve this would be for images to be scaled on the basis of slider width, with excess rescaled height equally cropped top and bottom if larger than slider height or blanc added at the bottom (usually hidden by caption banner) to fit slide height… what seemed to be the case in version 1.0.4

Also having a minumum size below which an image is not rescaled is not optimal, because it disrupts the view more than a picture with a low definition. A pic with a low definition is an issue anyone can figure out. Resizing an image to fit a slider is more problematic as Sam’s experience shows…

 

[Scott Voth]

Hi Helene – I think this is a question for @bowe who did all the work on the slider enhancements.  I have opened up an issue on github, and you can track it at:

https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/issues/174

I think he is on vacation – but will probably be back soon.

 

[Helene Finidori]

Thanks @scottvoth

[Bowe Frankema]

Hi @helenef,

Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation 🙂 In this case I’m afraid I don’t have the answer you’re looking for. Upscaling and/or stretching an image that is less then the height/width you’ve set is not currently possible. I understand that you might have used this in the old version of the slider, but upscaling images is something that is considered bad practice.

That being said there is a “hack” you could use which might solve your issue. Although I can not guarantee that this works across all browsers. Add the following snippet to style.css of your CBOX Child Theme:

.bx-wrapper img {
   width: 100%;
}

Hope this solves your issue 🙂

[Helene Finidori]

Thanks @bowe. I will try.

I know upscaling images is bad practice (worked in advertisment). But slider that changes shape is not so good either. A dilema for non designer people maintaining systems. Which ‘evil’ to chose 😀

I’m having issues on mobile with the slider and menu though. I’ll open a new topic.

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