Featured Articles PRO – v.2.4.9

Featured Articles PRO comes with new options, 2 new themes that are video enabled and responsive and an overall improvement regarding user interaction. Below is the complete change log for this version.

  1. Multibyte characters support;
  2. Image preloaders in slideshows (available as option in slideshow administration);
  3. Support for Font Awesome library (if slideshow theme asks for it from theme functions page);
  4. Themes can now manipulate video size to cover the whole slide area if needed;
  5. New options under theme editing to customize the preview;
  6. Compatibility with WPTouch PRO;
  7. Images can now be resized to exact dimensions instead of only using WordPress’s registered sizes;
  8. New template function to display author name in slideshows with or without link to its posts page (includes display option in slideshow editing page);
  9. Touch swipe left/right navigation in slideshows;
  10. 2 new slideshow themes: Accordion and Carousel that are video enabled and responsive;
  11. Subpages in slides (must be allowed by setting a constant inside the plugin internal code).
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Featured Articles PRO 2.4.8

Most important in this update is the HTML5 video players compatibility for Vimeo and YouTube. First, the plugin will try to use the Flash players and in case Flash is not available, it will go for the HTML5 players.

There are some notes though: in Firefox, Vimeo won’t load any videos when using HTML5 player because they use H264 and Firefox doesn’t support it. YouTube also has some limitations that can be found here: YouTube HTML5 Video Player.

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Featured Articles PRO 2.4.7 is available

Minutes ago, Featured Articles PRO 2.4.7 was released. It comes with a few bugs solved (many thanks to our users for announcing us and allowing us to solve them on their test servers) and also, an enhancement in slideshow themes to allow hiding of different content in slides, namely title, date, description and read more link.

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