Several customers have asked us how to make a link that opens a particular hotspot when the page loads. This is pretty easy to do. Here’s an example: 1) Check out our Maps demo page: http://wpdrawattention.com/maps/ 2) Right click on a hotspot and select “copy link address” (or similar). Paste that into a new window and the page […]
If you are migrating your website to a new host, your Draw Attention images should transfer smoothly if using a tool that copies everything properly (including the database and all files). Some common tools people use are the Duplicator plugin, Backupbuddy, WP Migrate DB Pro, etc. However, if you’ve already moved your site another way, […]
Draw Attention offers some basic style presets that you can adjust within the plugin edit screen. However, people often want custom styles that wouldn’t make sense to include for everyone. Other times, your theme’s stylesheet or another plugin could be affecting how your DA images appear. For these cases, you will need to write custom […]
We test Draw Attention with every WordPress release, and with many of the most popular themes and plugins. However, conflicts with other themes and plugins still happen, and this is usually the root cause if any part of Draw Attention is not working on your website. Here are steps you can take to figure out […]
Draw Attention relies on Javascript to work properly. Unfortunately any JS errors generated by your website can potentially cause JS to crash and Draw Attention to malfunction. Often these errors are caused by another plugin, or your theme. In time those plugin or theme authors may fix the issue, but in the meantime here is […]
Sometimes your hosting company’s server settings can limit the number of Hotspots that work properly with Draw Attention. You’ll know if this is an issue if your DA image works fine up until you add X number of hotspots. After a certain amount hotspots may disappear, or show up in the wrong spot. This is a […]
Setting up a custom ACF field for TablePress is very simple with the ACF: TablePress add-on. The plugin can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin repo, or installed directly from your site’s dashboard under Plugins>Add New. This add-on for Advanced Custom Fields creates a custom field type to select a TablePress table, providing a dropdown […]
If you see this error message: “You need to define some clickable areas for your image.” then you’ve probably uploaded an image without drawing on it. To make your first clickable area: Expand the first item in “Hotspot Areas” section Click to draw your shape (you can move points after you’ve clicked them or control-click […]
Draw Attention makes it very easy to export your settings and layouts to another server/install.
