Things I use or am trying out in WordPress – plugins, widgets, themes and so on. Some work, some don’t, some I will keep, some I will delete.
It looks like this when previewed in the WP Editor.
Using a Cube image in iPanorama. Seems several issues may come in. While not intuitive, there are 2 “cube” types in the iPanorama drop down. Try them both, but this one use the
Started with this image.
Use the ‘Type cue (1 texture) option.
Adding a “Banner” to an iPanorama 360° may be useful for adding static information. It does not move when the actual image is panned.
Adding this code will create a banner. The settings can be tweaked to suit specific types of information, colors, etc.
Add the following to the “Custom CSS” field.
/* Start of Banner Custom CSS Code */
.ipnrm-scene-banner {
transition: all 0.5s;
transform: translate(0,-100%);
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
padding: 15px 20px;
background: #808080;
}
.ipnrm-scene-banner.active {
transform: translate(0,0);
}
.ipnrm-scene-banner .title {
color: #FFFFFF;
line-height: 20px;
font-size: 18px;
font-family: arial;
font-weight: 600;
margin: 5px 0;
}
.ipnrm-scene-banner .altitude {
color: #FFFFFF;
/*text-align: right;*/
line-height: 20px;
font-size: 17px;
font-family: arial;
font-weight: 400;
margin: 5px 0;
}
.ipnrm-scene-banner .description {
color: #FFFFFF;
/*text-align: center;*/
line-height: 20px;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial;
font-weight: 200;
margin: 5px 0;
}
/* End of CSS banner code*/
Add the following into the “Custom JS” field.
/* Start of Banner Custom JS Code */
var instance = this,
$ = jQuery;
var $banner = $(‘<div>’).addClass(‘ipnrm-scene-banner’);
instance.$container.append($banner);
instance.$container.on(‘ipanorama:scene-before-load’, function(e, data) {
$banner.removeClass(‘active’);
});
instance.$container.on(‘ipanorama:scene-after-load’, function(e, data) {
var scene = data.scene;
if(!scene) return;
$banner.empty();
if(scene.cfg.userData) {
try {
var data = JSON.parse(scene.cfg.userData);
data.title && $(‘<div>’).append(data.title).addClass(‘title’).appendTo($banner);
data.altitude && $(‘<div>’).append(data.altitude).addClass(‘altitude’).appendTo($banner);
data.description && $(‘<div>’).append(data.description).addClass(‘description’).appendTo($banner);
$banner.addClass(‘active’);
} catch(ex) {}
}
});
/* End of JS banner code*/
I have been wanting to change the way I display the nature preserves where I volunteer. I was using an image with “hot spots” added. It works, but I sorta wanted to do more.
I found a plugin that helps to easily construct and customize Google Maps.
The basic, free, WP Go Maps plugin produced the following map.
You can see it’s pretty limited. The pop up justs shows the coordinates of a location. Actually when you enter an address it will show the address in the popup. BUT, many of the pins need moved to actually sit on the parking lot, trail head, etc. and when you move the pin. . . it no longer knows the address so it puts the GPS coordinates in the pop up, Not so useful since you cannot tell which of the preserves you are looking at, or any information about them.
I am thinking about “going Pro” with the plugin so I can do a lot of other fancy customization’s. One PRO feature is also being able to provide directions to the preserve to the user. Will also sort a list by distance away, and other fun things! It’s not expensive, but need to think if it is something that I am really going to spend time on, and why.
I shall go and ponder this for awhile and come to a decision.
The above window uses “Shortcode” to put on post.
The following window uses iframe settings to display. Both use the exact same iPanorama tour.
<iframe width="780" height="555" src="https://www.kasdorf.name/wordpress/ipanorama/virtualtour/23" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>For fun, I saw the code to add a movie “Splash Screen” at the beginning of the tour. I need a better video to use though, I just grabbed the first one I came to!
Either way works, but using iframe allows you to easily adjust the size of your window.
In a prior post I went through changing the size the 360 is displayed using the “Embed code with ID” settings. Some people may find it easier to use the “General” settings in iPanorama to set the desired size of the displayed image. Just insert the “Standard shortcode” and you are done.
Leaving all settings at their defaults, and using the “Standard Shortcode” I get the following for my #9 iPanorama tour.
So, it appears that the “default” ends ups 543×269… why, I have no clue.
Note: You MUST add the units, in this case it is pixels, so make sure you put “px” after the number!! Or you will get really frustrated trying to figure out why it isn’t working!
Now, to experiment, in “General” settings, “Container”, Turn off Container “Auto width” and “Auto height”, then set them to another value. I used 300px by 100px here.
Not so useful at this size! Unless you just wanted people to see the controls!
The actual image comes out at 269×89, maybe to preserve aspect ratios? Allow room for borders? Maybe padding? Again, I don’t know, but it does change the displayed image size. You can tweak the sizes to get closer to the actual display size you want.
Changing the Container size, but only using the Width setting while leaving the height set to “Auto”.
Again, we can see it has changed size, to match the width entered into the Container settings. Not sure where the height comes from!
This is mostly to show that in fact these settings work, and how to make basic changes to them.
I see questions on the WordPress support size about changing the size of the window a tour is displayed in. Thought I would demo it, just for fun.
To do this I normally just use the “Short Code” section “Embed code with ID”.
I’m not sure, but you may want to leave the settings in “General” checked for “Auto height” and “Auto Width”, but this may over ride them anyway.
You can see this defaults to a window width of 560 pixels by 315 pixels. That makes the window look like this:
Inspecting the page shows that indeed it is a 560×315 size.
Changing the Embed shortcode to now be 760×215 we can see the effect on the display size.
Again, we can confirm the actual display size in comparison to the first window.
So, I think it is about that easy to set the initial display size.