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Hi Paolo,
Thanks for the reply.
I would have thought that an improvement that helps pages and posts to validate and also made the visitor experience better would be popular as its just fundamental good practice.I can see as I am stated before, that the management of image uploads by self help customers left to utilize just the WP system, over time will create an administrative nightmare for a website that allows 10 images per package. The lack of an image description just exacerbates the issue.
The work involved to add the code would not have been huge in man hours so I am disappointed that you consider it a customization.
I like the Supreme Directory but its not going to work for use with this image system.
Regards
JoeHi,
That’s more than 24 hours without a response on this topic. Can someone give me an update please.I have attached the zipped php file
Hi Paolo,
Sorry about delay replying.The use of the image name is a problem as our customers will use all sorts of names for an image and we don’t want that used as an Alt, Title or a Caption in either the slider or the lightbox gallery.
For SEO purposes, validation and for image sorting a description of the image content is what is required. You say customers would not know what an Alt Tag is but they would know how to type a short description of what the image is about which could then be used for the mouse over title, the alt for SEO and the Caption for Flexslider and Slimbox, both of which will use the title tag for the Caption.
We have nearly 300 customers to import initially and the image name we have bear no relevance to the image. They are totally unsuitable as captions or tites.
We currently allow our customers and admin to add an alt tag by calling it description, from which we create a title tag which we use in a lightbox as a caption for visitors benefit so they know what the image is about.
I have attached the php scripts we use to achieve that which has been in place on the site since 2008 so its a bit dated but works fine.
I appreciate you don’t want to use the WP media manager as it the bain of most users in the way it handles images but it would be a big advantage if GD could add this small improvement to the add listing page for both admin and customers use.Regards
JoeThanks Paolo,
You have answered most of the queries I had except for:2. Can you recommend a media manager plug in that’s not going to break GD?
5. From a SEO point of view not having an alt tag is a bit of a pain as the image name is probably not going to be very descriptive.
8. Not sure what you are referring to here?
New questions still on images
1. I have read in the forum that flexslider is built into GD but cant find any options to configure. Have I read that wrong?
If flexslider is built in then it has options for captions and description which would help in describing images for users and SEO.
2. Have you any development plans to build in a media folder manager into GD in the future?
3. What gallery plugin is used for displaying listing lightbox images and are there any configuration options as some are supported with a text file for captions and alt tags?Thanks for your help,
JoeHi Paolo,
I am not suggesting that you and all the team are not working hard enough as its plain to everyone that you are. I just think that there is not enough of you on board to get the tasks done timeously.
The majority of the the suggestions are not whistles and bells requests but in fact are improvements on functionality which are lacking as compared to other products available.
The members want their websites to be functional, have an easy to follow sign up process, and to make money from their sites. That’s what most of us want and no more. GD is sadly lacking in some of these areas and many links I have followed to members websites seem to be a work in progress with few as finished and profit making ventures.
I have been on board paying my dues for well over a year now and I am still not able to launch a live website using firstly GT and now GD (which I thought was launched too early, hence the extensive change log) because it lacks some of the fundamentals for an GEO accommodation website especially in the search functions and the front end customer/client experience. How many times do these points have to be raised on the forum before they are actioned?
I have some experience in this market for the last 14 years with 2 successful sites up and running and have developed our own accommodation mobile app so I am not being critical just for the sake of it. We know what problems we will be faced with if we launch a Country wide site without all the tools we need in place especially in the customer/client front end self help and visitor search experience.
We had great expectations firstly with GT and then GD but my frustration is getting the better of me.As Manilaboy says in the nicest possible way, tell us what the time frame is for some of these basic enhancements so that we can make an informed decision to stick with the project or move on.
Regards and good luck.
Hi paolo,
Thanks for your help. I had already tried that without success and have now ditched the slider I was using, HG Slider, and installed Meta slider which works better.
However, unless I want my site to be 100% wide which I don’t, any changes to the width are not working with widgets on a static front page. I have therefore made GD my homepage again and installed the slider into the header.php file. I managed to display the slider on the homepage only using this code in header.php
?php
if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
echo do_shortcode(“[metaslider
id=123]”); ; // replace 123 with your slideshow ID
}
?I still cant get the navigation main menu bar to be any less than 100% wide no matter what I do to resize it. Any idea how to change the width of the menu?
Thanks
Joe
Hi Simone,
Thanks for your reply. I have tried HG slider and whilst its ok you cannot change the width of the images in the plugin.
If I change the width of my site in GDF to say 960px, the header top section is not resized?
There are only options to vary the content and sidebar widths but not the header section. The result is that my images are being stretched.Any ideas how to resize the top header section?
Thanks
Joe
Thanks Guust,
You are a star! I spent about 3 hours today trying to achieve that.
I just could find the controlling CSS code anywhere?
Thanks again
Joe
Hi John,
Thanks for that, does the job.
Regards
Joe
Hi John,
Thanks,
That fixed the search box in the RHS.
Did you also see the problem with the thumbnails in list view?
Joe
Hi John,
Thanks for your reply and sorry about the delay getting back.Here is the url where you can see what I am talking about
http://greatscot.co.uk/Regards
JoeHi
Thanks to Paolo and Stiofan for your help with this and the time you spent working on it, problem solved 🙂Its down to Scotland not being a country but a Nation, and hopefully it stays that way so that you guys don’t have rewrite the code when a simple tweak will do!
Thanks
Joe
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