Does this content slider exist?

  • stevelaclair

    (@stevelaclair)


    16 years, 4 months ago

    I’m looking for the typical content slider that integrates with wordpress (non flash version). There are plenty out there however I’m having a hard time trying to find the one that meets my needs.

    For all intents and purposes I’d like to define all of my categories…. everything but “news” will be featured content which would cover 5 different categories but the 6th category would be news. News would be the only category I don’t want to be displayed in the content slider.

    So far all of the ones I have found is all categories or none, I’m still very new to wordpress so any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Steve

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  • Alvaro Degives-Mas

    (@nv1962)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    If you don’t mind manually indicating / marking a post (or page) for inclusion in the content highlighter / slider, you might want to give Smooth Slider a spin.

    Essentially, at the time of creating / editing the post, you define the slider’s illustration (if at all you use a slider image) in a custom field, create (if you want a separate slider text) the text that appears in the slider (else, use the default excerpt or the first X words/characters), then mark the post for inclusion (it’s just ticking a checkbox) and voilà – you’re done.

    The manual method is a bit less intuitive if you have a bunch of authors if you want their work to automatically appear, but in a single author environment it’s very simple, effective and visually neat. Uses Javascript, not Flash.

    Thread Starter stevelaclair

    (@stevelaclair)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Actually manually selecting which posts would end up in the slider would be ideal to be honest. I will definitely look into smooth slider, I probably spent the first 2 hours of my morning searching for a decent WP solution to this and so far you gave the best one yet.

    Thanks!

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