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.
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.
One of the best features that Featured Articles has is the ability to easily switch between themes to obtain a totally different look of any slideshow published in your WordPress website. While creating new themes can be quite challenging in some cases, modifying the look of any existing theme can be done pretty easy, it only requires some CSS knowledge. All themes delivered by default with the plugin have external CSS stylesheets for color customization purposes.
If you are one of the existing users of FeaturedArticles Lite you know what we are talking about. If you’re not, read on.
Over the past months we’ve been working on updating FeaturedArticles to a better, easier to use WordPress plugin for creating slideshows on your blog. Things are pretty straight forward; all you need to do is choose the content to be displayed into a certain slideshow, be it posts, pages or mixed content. Since we got to mixed content, now you can create slideshows that have both posts and pages and on top of that, custom slides for your slideshow created from within the plugin. Main advantage for custom slides is that they will display exactly as they are written into WordPress’s editor without any changes, tag stripping or anything.
Starting with version 2.4 of FeaturedArticles we’ll release both Lite and PRO versions for the plugin. Lite version will pretty much do all one needs with regard to displaying slideshows. PRO comes with some extra features and most important, priority support.
This is all about how support will be provided to all users for both free and paid version. Support will be offered on forums and support tickets available here on CodeFlavors.com. Any questions being asked on wordpress.org or any other website may either never get answered by our support team or get an answer too late. We won’t answer e-mail requests so please use our forums or the support ticket for asking help.