Plugin Description
* Added Post / Pages Order and Sort Support! *
WP Featured Content Slider is a very powerful WordPress Slideshow. You can feature as many Posts and Pages as you want. You can define a picture for every single post/page which will then be automatically cropped to the right resolution. WP-Featured Content Slider comes with a great option set. You can even define sliding effects such as „fade“ or „slideRight“ and many more. Furthermore you can adjust timeout and many Layout and Design Options. Inserting Posts/Pages to WP-Featured Content Slider is as easy as you can imagine. Simply choose „Feature in WP-Featured Content Slider“ when editing a post/page.
Installation:
Install the Plugin automatically via WordPress Plugin Installation Area or download the newest version of the Plugin right below, extract the files and upload them to your wp-content/plugins folder.
- Download newest version from below
- Extract and upload to your wp-content/plugins folder
- Activate the plugin in WP-Admin
- Insert following PHP Snippet in your template file
<?php include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/wp-featured-content-slider/content-slider.php');?>
- Or you can use [featslider] as a placeholder in your Post/Page to insert the Slideshow
- Now Edit a Post or a Page and scroll down to „WP-Featured Content Slider Options“ which should be right below your Editor
- Choose „Feature in WP-Featured Content Slider“ and set an Featured Image („Feature Image“ when Editing Post/Page)
- Now save the post/page and have a look at your Slideshow!
- The image will be automatically cutted so that it fits the Slideshow (No need for timthumb anymore – Version 2.1)
- You can adjust Settings, Layout under Settings – WP-Featured Content Slideshow
Demo:
Download:
Troubleshooting:
Thumbnails are being generated automatically via wordpress built-in functionality. There is no need to support timthumb anymore. If you are already using the plugin with images, you will need to regenerate thumbnails (regenerate thumbnails plugin). If you are customizing image-size you will need to regenerate as well!
Enjoy this new Slideshow WordPress Plugin
Dieses Plugin wird zusätzlich gesponsert von Schönheitsoperation Hannover und Appartment und Ferienhaus am Diani Beach Kenia.
Hi,
Using „jquery.cycle.all.min.js“ instead of „jquery.cycle.all.2.72.js“ saves 10kb of download and appears to perform the same required functions:
http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/download.html
Matt
Hey, I love your plugin! I was just wondering if it’s possible to sort the slider by date? So that the latest post is put at the start of the slider? Thanks, I look forward to your reply 🙂
Ok, I figured out how to order them by date. Go to Plugins > Editor. Select WP Featured Content Slider. Under Plugin Files select „wp-featured-content-slider/content-slider.php“. Scroll down the file content until you come to the custom database query. When you see this line „AND (wposts.post_type = ‚post‘ OR wposts.post_type = ‚page‘);“ highlight the whole line and paste this over it:
AND (wposts.post_type = ‚post‘ OR wposts.post_type = ‚page‘)
ORDER BY wposts.post_date DESC
„;
It worked for me 🙂
Hello everyone,
I’m trying to use the WP Featured Content Slider on this blog but can’t get it to appear. I use Coraline for a theme. Matthew Joss, I used your edit to the php but still no change. I installed it through WP plugin directory. Any suggestions? I really think that I could customize this plugin nicely for my blog.
Hi again, I finally figured out how to get the slider going on my Home page just above content area. For basic instructions for any novice like me, send me a message on my contact page. The slider works well and is relatively simple to set.
I just switched to full screen view but I am getting this enormous white space between slides. Anyway I can get a smaller, better looking spacing between slides? Also, there is an unslightly space between my header and my slider; how can I eliminate that?
Reihenfolge / Order
Ich bekomme das mit der Reihenfolge der Anzeige nicht geändert … ich denke mir das sind die Zeilen in der PHP die geändert werden müssen … aber was muss ich ändern ?
I get this with the order of display is not changed … I think to myself these are the lines in the PHP must be changed… but what I have to change?
if($post->post_type == „post“ || $post->post_type == „page“) {
update_post_meta($post->ID, „feat_slider“, $_POST[„feat_slider“]);
}
First off… wicked plugin. It’s working great. I’m not sure if this is the correct behavior. When I click on a featured article the banner for the article page becomes the image that was inserted in the post. If it is normal, can I disable something so my sites banner is shown?
The slider is showing the code for links in the content of the posts. Can it be tweaked to render the codes as true links?
Is it possible to limit the amount of posts that the slider shows?
Hi,
your plugin works fine but is it possible to make it compatible with Custom Post Types.
I’d like to create „Slides“ item in the WordPress administration instead of using Pages.
Thanks
Hallo Zusammen
First of all: I’ve tested quite a few content slider before your plugin has been the most convincing one!
After update WP to 3.2 the plugin’s not working anymore. No more sliding but one item below the other. Is there a hack or will there be soon an update?
The insertion is made through the php include, by the way.
Cheers from Switzerland!
If you’d like to further limit the plugin to show only a set number of posts, add this:
AND wposts.post_date < NOW()
ORDER BY wposts.post_date DESC
LIMIT 0,5";
That will put your posts in order by most recent first, and limit the display to the most recent 5. If you want more posts, just change the number five to whatever number you would like to show.
If you want the oldest posts (not sure why you would, but hey…) then change the DESC to ASC and it will grab the five oldest posts.
just a minor change so that posts that are added at the current date will show on the slider.
AND wposts.post_date <= NOW()
ORDER BY wposts.post_date DESC
LIMIT 0,5";
@Aurélien i needed to do the same with custom post types, you need to change you need to do the following,
1) featured-content-slider.php – add the following line to the feat_init() functions below the other 2
add_meta_box(„feat_slider“, „Featured Content Slider Options“, „feat_meta“, „NAME-OF-CUSTOM-POST-TYPE“, „normal“, „high“);
2) featured-content-slider.php – add the following OR statement to save_feat() function
if($post->post_type == „post“ || $post->post_type == „page“ || $post->post_type == „NAME-OF-CUSTOM-POST-TYPE“)
3)content-slider.php – add to the sql satement on line 124
AND (wposts.post_type = ‚post‘ OR wposts.post_type = ‚page‘ OR wposts.post_type = ‚NAME-OF-CUSTOM-POST-TYPE‘)“;
How do I control the speed of the slider? Items changes too quickly. I really like this slider. Very easy to use.
Ein richtig tolles Plugin. Respekt!
Gruß Mika
Hello,
this is a great plugin. Thank you so much!!
Just a little question. Is it possible zu have different sliding effects for the „previous“ and „next“ event?
I think the user experience would be increased strongly if there would be a „slide to left“ effect if the user clicks on the „next“ button and a „slide to right“ effect when clicked on prev. Is that possible?
Thank you.
Hi, and tnx for your nice plug in. Got some headache about it thou… 🙂
Installed it, and measured it just fine. Fits perfect on my front page. But when I try and add more post to it, (more than 1), it won’t act as a slider, but instead it puts everything on a „pile“, above the content on the front page.
I’ve re-intalled the plug-in, and tried it on a „post“ using [featslider], but it acts the same way.
Any ideas?
http://dmqvert.se/
//MW
Ps. It’s only one on the page now, since the page is public, and I don’t want to mess with it too much. But I can send you screen dump if you want to.
Wunderschönes und einfaches Plugin!
Hab nur ein Problem und zwar das die Inhalte verschiedener Custom Fields (erstellt mit Advanced Custom Fields) nicht angezeigt werden.
In meinem Template ist kein Loop drin. Es gibt 5 Custom Fields, eins für den Content Slider und 4 für Boxen unterhalb vom Slider. Diese 4 Boxen werden nicht angezeigt.
Leg ich den Slider allerdings unter die 4 Boxen, werden sowohl die Boxen als auch der Slider angezeigt.
Hier mal die grobe Struktur:
Hat vielleicht jemand eine Idee?
I just installed the 2.2 version of the WP Featured Content Plugin and it broke on my site. The 2.1 version worked fine but the Javascript seems not to be working. You can view it on my test site http://teknoziz.com/clients/ci/blog. Thanks for your help.
There seems to be some issue regarding the jquery.cycle plugin. Have a look at the plugin-folder (/scripts) and see wether the file exists.
Cheers
You were right! The images and scripts directories were missing, so I added them manually. It’s odd since I installed it from the dashboard. Thanks.
i just updated the the latest version and it broke my site :/
i used to have a changing featured image with background and now it’s just a block of white, any idea as per how happened ?
ttp://what.ws/nekuda/
Looking at the source code of the plugin, it seems it points to a script in the plugin folder in /scripts/ which doesn’t exist. I uploaded a jQuery file from github at https://github.com/malsup/cycle/tree/100b4008489cd5e0122251bb2bbec728e8d20a60 and changed the URL to match, slider works again. Your automatic updater did not seem to include the file „/wp-content/plugins/wp-featured-content-slider/scripts/jquery.cycle.all.2.72.js“ at all, so hope this helps anyone else needing a fix.
There seem to be some problems regarding SVN Commit. The /scripts/ folder wasn’t included in the newest version. We’ve now updated the Slider to version 2.3. Please Update!
Hi,
I’ve just solved a bug where the js does not load if the site address is different from the wordpress url. I’ve fixed it by changing the bloginfo() to siteurl on line 24
wp_register_script(‚jquery.cycle‘, site_url() . ‚/wp-content/plugins/wp-featured-content-slider/scripts/jquery.cycle.all.2.72.js‘, array(‚jquery‘), ‚1.3‘ );
Hope you fix it in the plugin.
Hi. Great plugin. Does anyone know of a way to have the slide pause when you mouse over it?
Nevermind, confict and found it!
Awesome plugin, is there a way to include multiple instant of this plugin on your site with each instant displaying post from a different category? Thanks in advance!!!
I like this plugin and i have installed it. One problem: it includes all the text of the post and just one line. What can I do? Can anybody help?
Slider…
Dem aufmerksamen Leser des Bloghauses ist es nicht entgangen: seit heute gibt es (wieder) einen Slider, der die letzten fünf wichtigsten Artikel1 durchlaufen läßt. Was sagt Ihr dazu? Nic also die, die mir wichtig erscheinen ↩……
In the new version it only loads 5 posts into the slider, how can you change this? Can i f.e load 15 posts? thanks
Hi! A fellow that I have tweak my sites installed your plugin and it is awesome! However, when you first load the home page, the slider jitters and shifts during the loading process. You can see it on my site. But, if you were to go to another page on the site and then go back to the home page from there, it loads perfectly.
Do you have any suggestions, please, to correct this odd behavior? Thanks in advance!