Description
This plugin creates picture sliders (slideshows) from a folder.
The pictures folder must be uploaded (using FTP) somewhere on the server (e.g. wp-content/upload).
To include a slider in a post or a page, you have to use the following shortcode :
[folderslider folder="local_path_to_folder"]
An Options page allow to set the default paramaters of the sliders :
- Transition Mode (mode): horizontal, vertical, fade
- Caption Format (captions): none, filename, filenamewithoutextension, smartfilename (filename with underscores, extension and front numbers removed)
- CSS (css): change the frame around slider: ‘noborder’, ‘shadow’, ‘shadownoborder’, ‘black-border’, ‘white-border’, ‘gray-border’
- Width and Height of the slider (width and height)
- Speed (speed): time between slides in seconds
- Previous/Next Buttons (controls): true or false
- Play/Pause Button (playcontrol): true or false
- Start Slider Automatically (autostart): true or false
- Pager (pager): true or false
Default slider width is the width of the first picture unless the attribute width is set to a non-zero value. The height is calculate for each picture (to keep ratio) unless the attribute height is set to a non-zero value.
Most of theses settings can be overridden using the corresponding shortcode attribute:
[folderslider folder="wp-content/upload/MyPictures" width=500
mode=fade speed=2.5 captions=smartfilename controls=false css="gray-border"]
This plugin uses bxSlider 4.2.5 by Steven Wanderski – https://bxslider.com
Sample, contact available at https://jalby.org/wordpress/
Screenshots
Folder Slider Settings 
Folder Slider in a post
Installation
- Unzip the archive folder-slider.zip
- Upload the directory ‘folder-slider’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Upload a folder of pictures to ‘wp-content/upload/MyPictures’
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Insert the following short code in post or page :
[folderslider folder=”wp-content/upload/MyPictures”]
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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- Unzip the archive folder-slider.zip
- Upload the directory ‘folder-slider’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Upload a folder of pictures to ‘wp-content/upload/MyPictures’
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Insert the following short code in post or page :
[folderslider folder=”wp-content/upload/MyPictures”]
Contributors & Developers
“Folder Slider” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.1.3 [2017-11-18]
- WPML fix option
- Misc bugs fixed
1.1.2 [2017-08-12]
- PHP7 compatibility
- Update bxSlider to 4.2.12
1.1.1 [2015-10-12]
- Update bxSlider to 4.2.5
- New CSS setting/option replacing CSS/Show box with shadow.
- Shadow option can be set per slider.
- When width option is set to 0, slider’s width is set to the width of first picture (instead of 100 %)
- Speed (in seconds) may be decimal (e.g., 1.5)
- Fix a bug with ML Plugin
1.0 [2014-02-02]
- Support for several sliders (with different settings) on the same page
0.94 [2013-08-22]
- Safari bug fixed
0.92 [2013-08-20]
- HTML tag bug fixed
0.91 [2013-08-19]
- CSS bug fixed
0.9 [2013-08-19]
- First released version