Homepage Slider Speeding up Slide Transitions

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1. 

   OptiLocal
   Member

   Hello everyone,
   I hope that no one has asked this question before because I tried looking it up and it doesn't seem anyone has had that happen yet. So here is the issue: my homepage's slideshow is set with a transition speed of 3500 miliseconds but sometimes (quite often, unfortunately) the slides change way faster, almost instantaneously. I still cannot figure out when that anonaly happens so I am not sure how you will observe it but i am sure that if you click around through the slides it will happen. The website is optilocal.org. Please anyone who knows how to fix that - let me know! Thanks!

   Posted 4 months ago #
2. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello OptiLocal,

   Do you mean when you get to the end and it animates all the way back to the first slide?

   Posted 4 months ago #
3. 

   OptiLocal
   Member

   Hi Elliott,
   No, that's not the problem - it does that, but isn't that the expected behavior anyway? Even if it is not the expected behavior, I like it animating back to the first slide, so that's not a problem.

   Here is the problem again, I am quoting myself "my homepage's slideshow is set with a transition speed of 3500 miliseconds but sometimes (quite often, unfortunately) the slides change way faster, almost instantaneously."

   That means that sometimes the transition speed between the slides is 3500 miliseconds, sometimes it is way faster, so fast that you cannot read anything on a slide before it changes - maybe about 200 miliseconds - I would say that all 5 slides change before your eyes in a second. As I said in my first post, I don't know what triggers that behavior, because sometimes the slides change at the regular 3500 miliseconds interval. The problem is very bothering though because me and my colleagues have seen it happen many times accross different computers and browsers and one of our clients notified us about it too.

   Please just let me know if you have had that reported before, if you have any idea how we can fix it or why it is happening.Thanks in advance!

   Posted 4 months ago #
4. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Does it happen when you open up a new tab in the browser and wait a few seconds and then switch back? If so then you need to update the theme to the latest version.

   EDIT - Okay I just noticed your link. The problem is most likely that your loading a copy of jQuery from Google. Go ahead and deactivate all of your plugins.

   Posted 4 months ago #
5. 

   OptiLocal
   Member

   Yes, i load jquery from google. In header.php i have <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js"></script>

   Where do you suggest that I load it from - a local file? What version will not interfere with the slider? Why does loading jquery from Google interfere with the slider? Why did you suggest to deactivate all my plugins - to see which one loads jquery from Google? Thanks.

   Posted 4 months ago #
6. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Wordpress already ships with jQuery. If your using Wordpress 3.3 then the copy of jQuery should be 1.7.1.

   If you load multiple copies of jQuery then it's going to cause issues so take your copy out of the header.

   Posted 4 months ago #

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