Sliders Change Log

New: Font arrows added with options to control size colour and hover colour.
New: Updated image management options when editing a listing.
New: Arranged all settings screen and now displaying options conditionally.
New: Replaced light box with more modern version.
New: Image creation process allowing you to create your own WordPress registered image sizes and use them in the slider.
New: Plugin install, upgrade and deactivate functions improved.
New: Option to show hide floor plan images in card slider.
New: Feature to select WordPress registered images for the main images, thumbnails and mobile version.
New: Slider target option added so that the slider can be displayed to the featured image or the gallery section in the template.
Tweak: Improvements and bug fixes in the CSS.
Tweak: Settings instructions improved to better explain each setting.
Fix: Floor plan images showing in slider when disabled.
Fix: PHP 8.2 compatibility issues.
Fix: Updated JS library for slider sizing issue.

New: Feature: Ability to use WordPress registered image sizes for main and thumbnails. Handy when using off site storage solutions like Amazon S3.
New: Feature: Thumbnail image offset. Allowing you to add or remove spacing on the thumbnail row.
New: Feature: Tools to purge cropped images from sliders.
New: Feature: Select the image size in the admin area when arranging image order.
New: Feature: Deleting images from listings for the image management screen when editing a listing.
New: Feature: Option to include floor plans in the slider.
New: Feature: Enable slider in shortcodes.
New: Feature: Apply alt tags to the images using the property address for enhanced SEO.
New: Added epl_sliders_image_list filter.
New: Fallback for images in case image library is not present.
New: Optional resizing of images & option to use available image.
Tweak: Improvements to display on mobile devices.
Tweak: Improvements to image ordering and reversing the image order.
Fix: Refactor fancy box classes to reduce conflicts with WordPress themes.

New: Lazy Loading added to slider to improve default page loading speed. You can configure the number of images to pre-load, the default is 3.
New: Settings for image cropping where you can choose to crop images for the top, bottom of middle. Great if your images have a watermark.
New: Image quality setting added to improve server storage space, default quality is 70.
New: Translations po file added.

New: Implemented versioning in CSS and JS files.
New: 40 additional slider transition effects added.
New: Ability to disable images from displaying in sliders when editing a listing.
New: Added image upload button to slider management window on listings.
New: Ability to set single images for mobile devices with separate image size settings.
New: Previews for arrow styles.
New: Better structure to slider settings.
New: Improvements to image cropping and resize.
Fix: Adding additional images to a listing correctly works.
Fix: Prevent slideshow from starting with slideshow disabled and image pop-out enabled.
Tweak: Improved settings descriptions.
Tweak: Moved mobile settings to own.
Tweak: Only remove slider settings during deactivation if selected from core.

New: Upgraded to support other extensions like Location Profiles.
New: Ability to adjust slider image order from edit listings screen.
New: Improvements to slider sizing and auto height.
New: Install function to set default values.
New: Integration with Advanced Map extension to set the slider as the first map tab. Great for full screen sliders with tabbed map.
New: Integration with Advanced Map extension to display the video as a second tab.
Fix: For missing second image that occurred in some cases.
Fix: For reverse order of slider images.
Fix: JS and jQuery tweaks.