Sparkling Slider customizations

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I will leave this code here to avoid encoding issues you might face when copying from Gmail



You can create flexslider customizations by creating a new file in child theme and enqueue it like this:

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'sparkling_child_script' );
function sparkling_child_script() {
    wp_enqueue_script( 'sparkling_child_slider', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/js/newflex.js', array( 'jquery' ), '2.2.2', true );
}

Newflex.js file itself should look like this: 

jQuery(function($){

    // Flexslider init
    if( $('.flexslider').length ) {
        $('.flexslider').flexslider({
            slideshow: true,
            animation: "slide",
            directionNav: true,
            smoothHeight: true
        });
    }

});


You can tweak this as you want with more flexslider functions.

I will release Sparkling 1.4.1 update with fix for slider to make it easier to overwrite via Child Theme. Version 1.4 is already approved and should go live any minute. I will wrap original function with if functions_exists, so you can copy/paste and midify it via Child Theme. I hope you don't mind about that. 

It will look like this 

if ( ! function_exists( 'sparkling_featured_slider' ) ) {
  // Featured image slider
  function sparkling_featured_slider() {
      if ( is_front_page() && of_get_option('sparkling_slider_checkbox') == 1 ) {
        echo '<div class="flexslider">';
          echo '<ul class="slides">';

            $count = of_get_option('sparkling_slide_number');
            $slidecat =of_get_option('sparkling_slide_categories');

            $query = new WP_Query( array( 'cat' =>$slidecat,'posts_per_page' =>$count ) );
            if ($query->have_posts()) :
              while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post();

              echo '<li>';
                if ( (function_exists('has_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail()) ) :
                  echo get_the_post_thumbnail();
                endif;

                  echo '<div class="flex-caption">';
                    echo '<a href="'. get_permalink() .'">';
                      if ( get_the_title() != '' ) echo '<h2 class="entry-title">'. get_the_title().'</h2>';
                      if ( get_the_excerpt() != '' ) echo '<div class="excerpt">' . get_the_excerpt() .'</div>';
                    echo '</a>';
                  echo '</div>';

                  endwhile;
                endif;

              echo '</li>';
          echo '</ul>';
        echo ' </div>';
      }
  }
}


More Child Theme friendly theme version is already on Github: https://github.com/puikinsh/Sparkling

From there you can use regular function: 
function sparkling_featured_slider()

And it will overwrite existing function from extras.php. 

This version will go live withing few days on WordPress.org as well.