When it comes to linking slides, it seems you can choose to display links for all slides, or not.

But what if you want links on some slides but not others? In such a case, if the user did not supply a URL, the link will say "www.yoursite.com/URL". You could enter "#" or "javascript:;" as the URL, but one cannot expect non web developers to remember to do this. The user should not be required to take additional action just to NOT link a slide.

We wrote a quick fix for this. Open up the default.php template file for the FPSS layout you're using. We used JJ-Oobs so we opened up /modules/mod_fpss/tmpl/JJ-Obs/default.php. Right after "foreach($slides as $slide):" insert the following:

We used a "javascript:;" URL rather than "#" because this way if you slideshow is far down the page, clicking it will not take you back to the top of the page ... using "#" can conflict with named anchors but "javascript:;" does not.

We put this modification in this file rather than in /templates/yourtemplate/html/mod_fpss/JJ-Obs/default.php because when we tried putting it in there the layout got messed up and the slides actually animated diagonally when we just had wanted them fading in and out .. normally we would want to use an MVC override in the template folder but in this case that seemed buggy too.

Hi. This is a matter of logic. We will take a look at the issue. Thanks for your recommendations.

Well, I have also noticed that I cannot seem to link a menu item.
I can only get it working using a normal URL, and instead of my JavaScript hack I am now just linking to # if I don't want the slide linking anywhere.

I have also noticed the slide title gets cleared on me when I select Menu as my link option .. so that I have to re-type the slide title. This was in Chrome; have not tested other browsers.

Hi,

I have tried this, but seem to be having problems implementing it - however I wish to ask is there any way you can link the read more and title in the text, but NOT the images? Is there someone who could send me a bit of code to get this to work?

My reasons are because I want to use the image as a large background which scrolls behind the container html with the intro text floated at the top, but with the image being so large, visitors will click the image by accident - so I want to remove the links.

Any help is gratefully received!

Martin

Double post I know, but to help with others who may have downloaded the newer version and cant get the bug fix to work, you have to disable the stats option in the config menu of fpss.

Took me a while to figure that out.

But I would still like the option to link using text and not the images if at all possible...

Thanks

Hello, I know this is an old topic, but apparently it is still relevant as the latest FPSS still does not correct this issue.  Will FPSS 3.x ever allow us to link certain slides and not others without needing to incorporate this bug fix?  Seeing as it apparently cannot be fixed from the template HTML folder without issues, this is a very annoying.  You guys do a great job with this extension! I just wish this feature carried over from the 2.x series.  Any update info would be welcomed! Thanks!

Which FPSS version do you use?

Thanks for this bug-fix, cvoogt - and for acknowledging it, Lefteris.

It is the same bug described in forum.joomlaworks.net/frontpage-slideshow-%28for-joomla!%29/fpss-3-2-0-slide-with-no-link-goes-to-page-not-found/ .

It would be very nice to see this (or a similar fix) implemented in the next FPSS version. Any idea when the next version will be released?

Katia, incidentally, this bug exists in all versions of FPSS 3.*

Hi Katia, I'm using 3.2.0 on J!2.5