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CSS animation needs to load at different times depending on what slide is currently in Flexslider used in WP query loop

Okay here's my scenario.

I'm building a site that works very much like a slidedeck, except it's broken up into pages and each page has a slider. The client has created some custom images and has several transitions.

I'm using Flexslider, Advanced Custom Fields. And everything is happening in a custom Post Type query loop.

As mentioned above, some slides have a transition effect before the next slide fades in. I've gotten this to work with CSS animations and keyframes and additional image. My issue is that one slider has two slides with unique transitions. I notice that the animation on the second slide happens at the same time as the first, so that by the time the second slide fades in the second image in the transition is all that you see. (I would love to have a live demo, but site is being developed locally. If this info and the following code isn't enough info to solve it, I can move my progress to a remote server.)

I'm new to CSS animations, so I may be missing something very basic.

Here's my template code:

<div class="entry-content">
		<div class="flexslider">
		
		<?php 
		$args = array( 'post_type' => 'slide', 'posts_per_page' => 10 );
		$the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); 
		?>
		<?php if( have_rows('slider') ): ?>
			<ul id="slideshow" class="slides"> 
				<?php while( have_rows('slider') ): the_row(); ?>
				
				<li>
					
			  	<img src="<?php the_sub_field('slide'); ?>">
			  	<?php if( have_rows('transition_slides') ): ?>
					<?php while( have_rows('transition_slides') ): the_row(); ?>
			  	<img class="top" src="<?php the_sub_field('transition_slide'); ?>">
			  	<?php endwhile; ?>
			  	<?php endif; ?>
				</li>
		
				<?php endwhile; ?>	
			</ul><!-- slideshow -->	
			<?php endif; ?>
		</div><!-- .flexslider -->
	</div><!-- .entry-content -->

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My CSS:

.flexslider .slides img.top {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	animation-name: fade;
	animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
	animation-iteration-count: 1;
	animation-duration: 4s;
	animation-direction: alternate;
}
@keyframes fade {
	0% {
		opacity: 0;
	}
	25% {
		opacity: 0;
	}
	50% {
		opacity: 1;
	}
	100% {
		opacity: 1;
	}
}

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David S.

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Alicia St Rose

ASKER

David S., Let me see if I understand this:

In order for me to delay the transition until the second slide appears, I'd have to give the slide it's own class, "slide-2" for example and then give it's transition image an animation-play-state property?

.flexslider .slides .slide-2 img.top {
  animation-play-state: paused;
}

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I'm just not sure how I get it to play when second slide is visible...

Alicia St Rose

ASKER

I Got it!
It was all about the ".flex-active-slide" class!
But, I wouldn't have discovered it without your help and the resources you shared!

.flexslider .slides .flex-active-slide img.top {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	animation-name: fade;
	animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
	animation-iteration-count: 1;
	animation-duration: 4s;
	animation-direction: alternate;
}
@keyframes fade {
	0% {
		opacity: 0;
	}
	100% {
		opacity: 1;
	}
}

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Alicia St Rose

ASKER

It was all about the ".flex-active-slide" class! Once I narrowed that down, then the animation only started when slide was active!