text rotator
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I’m developing a site for a client at the Premium tier. It’s fairly simple, but the one thing he needs is a plug-in for a text slideshow or text rotator. Is such a thing available at the WordPress.com Premium level?
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Hi @periillustration, the Premium plan doesn’t allow outside plugins, but it does allow CSS and HTML. I’m not sure what you mean by text rotator though…
Do you mean a post slider like the ones in these themes?
https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/post-slider?s=post -
Your link isn’t working for me (I get a “you don’t have a WordPress site yet” page), but yes, like a post slider. It’s a testimonial section that rotates client recommendations. All it is it text that rotates between short paragraphs. We’ve mocked his entire site up in WordPress on our server, but that’s the only feature we’re having trouble replicating on WordPress.com.
Thanks!
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You get that error because you’re logged into an account that doesn’t own any sites. Ask your client to invite you as an admin on their site, and you’ll be able to do what you need to do on their site without having to be logged into their account:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
We don’t have any theme that has a pure text slider on WordPress.com. That type of thing can only be added via a plugin on our Business Plan.
The closest you’ll get on Premium is a post slider, i.e. you’ll publish an actual post on the site, and mark it as sticky or tag it with a special featured tag, which will have it appear in the slider.
You should also be aware that with most themes this slider won’t rotate automatically, but only when you click a button to advanced it. I think there are a few themes that rotate them automatically, but I can’t name one off the top of my head.
We’ve mocked his entire site up in WordPress on our server
As a general rule that’s not the best way to develop a site on WordPress.com. On your server you’re using the open source WordPress software, which doesn’t work exactly the same as WordPress.com, and which misses several features that come standard on WordPress.com. There’s also no way to transfer such a site directly to WordPress.com, as we don’t offer FTP access.
To make things simpler for you, rather set the WordPress.com site to private so it’s not publicly accessible yet, and work on it here directly.
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Many thanks. We’re used to developing using the open source WordPress software, so that was a rookie error for working on WordPress.com.
In this case, the client is actually looking to gradually reduce customer load in the near future, looking for a cost effective way of doing maintaining a WordPress website without a large outlay. We thought a WordPress.com Premium would work well for his requirements.
Although the site design is staightforward—using the Twenty Seventeen theme, with just an automatic text slider and an extra section or two—we are using a bit of custom code in functions.php. I don’t believe that is allowed at the Premium level.
I suspect the need of just a few key elements requires the account needs to jump from Premium up to Business. In that case, given the increase in monthly expediture, the client may well opt for using open-source WordPress on a private server.
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