It's my first post, so please be forgiving for my english.
I have an issue with Image Carousel VC component. I need to set up something like logotypes slider (5 logos in a row) and when i set it up to display 5 from 6 images there is a gap on the end (like 4 empty spaces).
My seting:
6 images added, Slides per view: 5, Slider loop: yes
Goal is to set up carouse to be looped, without any empty spaces between images.
There is also a responsive issue. When i resize browser window images losing their ratio (width is scaling percentage and height is fixed).
Can anyone help me deal with that?
Porting Humberto Silva's post into a Stack Overflow answer, it seems there's no built-in way to do this, but there's a workaround in JavaScript.
First, add an extra class vc_custominfiniteloop
to the carousel element.
Then, add this JavaScript code after jQuery and Visual Composer javascript has been loaded:
/*
Turn Visual Composer Image Carousel into Visual Composer Infinite Image Carousel
Include before the </head> tag on yout theme's header.php
Read the detailed step-by-step at https://humbertosilva.com/visual-composer-infinite-image-carousel/
*/
// auxiliary code to create triggers for the add and remove class for later use
(function($){
$.each(["addClass","removeClass"],function(i,methodname){
var oldmethod = $.fn[methodname];
$.fn[methodname] = function(){
oldmethod.apply( this, arguments );
this.trigger(methodname+"change");
return this;
}
});
})(jQuery);
// main function for the infinite loop
function vc_custominfiniteloop_init(vc_cil_element_id){
var vc_element = '#' + vc_cil_element_id; // because we're using this more than once let's create a variable for it
window.maxItens = jQuery(vc_element).data('per-view'); // max visible items defined
window.addedItens = 0; // auxiliary counter for added itens to the end
// go to slides and duplicate them to the end to fill space
jQuery(vc_element).find('.vc_carousel-slideline-inner').find('.vc_item').each(function(){
// we only need to duplicate the first visible images
if (window.addedItens < window.maxItens) {
if (window.addedItens == 0 ) {
// the fisrt added slide will need a trigger so we know it ended and make it "restart" without animation
jQuery(this).clone().addClass('vc_custominfiniteloop_restart').removeClass('vc_active').appendTo(jQuery(this).parent());
} else {
jQuery(this).clone().removeClass('vc_active').appendTo(jQuery(this).parent());
}
window.addedItens++;
}
});
// add the trigger so we know when to "restart" the animation without the user knowing about it
jQuery('.vc_custominfiniteloop_restart').bind('addClasschange', null, function(){
// navigate to the carousel element , I know, its ugly ...
var vc_carousel = jQuery(this).parent().parent().parent().parent();
// first we temporarily change the animation speed to zero
jQuery(vc_carousel).data('vc.carousel').transition_speed = 0;
// make the slider go to the first slide without animation and because the fist set of images shown
// are the same that are being shown now the slider is now "restarted" without that being visible
jQuery(vc_carousel).data('vc.carousel').to(0);
// allow the carousel to go to the first image and restore the original speed
setTimeout("vc_cil_restore_transition_speed('"+jQuery(vc_carousel).prop('id')+"')",100);
});
}
// restore original speed setting of vc_carousel
function vc_cil_restore_transition_speed(element_id){
// after inspecting the original source code the value of 600 is defined there so we put back the original here
jQuery('#' + element_id).data('vc.carousel').transition_speed = 600;
}
// init
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
// find all vc_carousel with the defined class and turn them into infine loop
jQuery('.vc_custominfiniteloop').find('div[data-ride="vc_carousel"]').each(function(){
// allow time for the slider to be built on the page
// because the slider is "long" we can wait a bit before adding images and events needed
var vc_cil_element = jQuery(this).prop("id");
setTimeout("vc_custominfiniteloop_init('"+vc_cil_element+"')",2000);
});
});
If you're having trouble, try enqueuing it with PHP_INT_MAX and depending on jQuery, example:
function enqueue_my_scripts()
{
// This example expects you to create a file with the JavaScript above in wp-content/themes/yourtheme/assets/js/infinite_visualcomposer_carousel.js
wp_enqueue_script('infinite-vs-carousel', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . 'assets/js/infinite_visualcomposer_carousel.js', array('jquery'), filemtime(get_stylesheet_directory() . '/assets/js/infinite_visualcomposer_carousel.js'), true);
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'enqueue_my_scripts', PHP_INT_MAX);
All credits to Humberto Silva, I'm just porting this answer here to save the solution in case the blog goes offline.