Upgrade and Functionality Issues – Gallery, Filters, Widgets, android browser

[Juannah]

Juannah

March 11, 2014 at 6:24 pm

Hi Ben,

Thanks in advance for extensive developments and theme support. Since updating offline and online test sites, seem to be experiencing some functionality issues that had been previously fixed (e.g. in v2.1.2 Carousel Galleries navigation in Android browsers was fixed in February).

1. Carousel Gallery in Android Browsers.
The current upgrades seem to have re-introduced functionality problems on android smartphone browsers (android standard and chrome browsers). The touch functionality is not working properly – instead of opening the image in a lightbox, to allow arrow/swipe navigation of the whole gallery; it opens a new window to view a single image instead of the lightbox. Some images do not display after touch in neither the lightbox nor the (faulty) new window. The only way to open the carousel gallery lightbox (on samsung galaxy note 2 mobile android & chrome browsers) is to find the edge of the image that may randomly open the lightbox. (This functionality was working in v2.1.2 and the problem was initially limited to android chrome browser). I have tested on the demo site carousel gallery – it has the same problem 🙁

2. Filter Products/ Categories lost functionality
Filter Products/ Categories in the back-end seems to have lost functionality since the upgrade. selecting a filter to sort e.g. by product category seems to have been disabled. Applying the selected filter choice does not work – the list stays the same. Please can you provide a temporary solution before the next update if this has not been already fixed.

3.Virtue: Image widget – widget code classes seem to have been added, modified or removed
Please confirm if the Virtue image widget has been updated with additional class functionality – as this impacts the custom css box codes by ignoring the custom code or making modifications unpredictable. The custom css added to the css box to left align the text in footer 1 was avoided since updating. It seems that .virtue_image_widget_caption has either been added or varied the applicability of .about_image_widget.

4. Video Functionality
Since the update – video functionality for some video plugins (being viewed in smartphone/ android browsers) has been lost/ erratic. This restricted functionality used to be limited to the android chrome browser, now the standard android browser on samsung galaxy note 2 (has stopped or) is erratic in playing some videos (shockwave/ flash?). This might be a cache issue on the handset or low broadband bandwidth if it is not coincidentally attributed to the theme update.

5. Page Builder
After test updating offline to v2.2.3 there were some suggested compatible plugins. Is the Page Builder plugin already built into the Virtue theme or is it an additional plugin to create responsive column layouts using widgets and shortcodes?

I hope you can help 🙂

Thanks

Juannah