[Plugin: Promotion Slider] Categories as navigation

I haven’t implemented multiple taxonomy queries in my plugin yet, so pulling two or more slider categories into a slider won’t work… yet.

Right now, the opposite is possible: Add individual slider items to multiple categories. It may be a bit more work, but this will have the same end result.

Can you explain more what you mean by “Add individual slider items to multiple categories. “?
I’m sort of new to this..

Appreciate it!

Sure. When you create a new promotion, you can assign it to multiple categories. Essentially, you just treat categories as sliders and assign the promotions to one or more sliders (categories).

Once you have created your categories, they are all available in a checklist on the right hand side when you are creating a promotion.

So my best bet would be embed a slider for each category on my page and when the user clicks that category in the sliders navigation, I’d make the current slider get replaced with the slider that corresponds. Correct?

If so, you think using jquery for the animation is a the best way to go? (I mean for when each slider gets replaced when user selects category.)

The sites on my local server as it is a work in progress but heres what it looks like. This should give you a good idea of what I’m trying to accomplish.
https://everfoundmusic.com/BIGTALKDESIGNS/Picture%206.png

Again, thanks for your time!

Ah… makes more sense now. I would probably just load up two sliders and then use jQuery fade in / fade out to switch between the sliders when the user clicks your category nav buttons. This would be congruent with the existing transitions and would seem pretty seamless to the user.

Ok, thanks for the help!
Also in the navigation div, I have the controls “next” and “prev”. What would be the easiest way to assign the slider’s controls to my custom ones… Again, if I’m not making much sense, check out the image.

I’m guessing it’ll be a little more difficult since my custom controls will have to control both sliders.

Indeed. The way the sliders work right now, the navigation buttons / links have to be inside of the slider’s wrapper div to work.

It may be easier to use the before and after hooks I have provided and use those to include your category navigation links on each slider, instead of trying to get the nav buttons working outside the sliders.

Yeah, I’m still gonna need to figure out a way to put the navigation buttons out of the slider box. I’ll be trying things…
-If your interested in what I did with your plug, you can check out bigtalkdesigns.com

Thanks for your help. Really appreciate it!