Slider Questions

  • Sorry, this is a double post because I couldn’t figure out how to delete or move my other post. I never seem to get reply’s when I post to the plugin area so I’m thinking it might not have been the appropriate spot to post and this area is better?

    We currently have such a system in place but it seems sloppy and has issues. We need a slider for our users profiles. We have an auto play banner slideshow at the top of their profile that they upload banner images too. Then a gallery slideshow at the bottom that needs to have image thumbnail & arrow navigation. Both simple slideshows just with a fade. We use Front End Pro so our users can customize their profiles and upload images to the custom fields for the slideshows.

    Then in the author template we are able to call the slideshow and then load the custom image fields via html in the template.

    Problem is that alot of the good wordpress sliders are using shortcodes for templates instead of html so I can’t add the images custom fields. They want you to create the slides in the wp-admin etc rather then letting me load the images from custom fields in a template. I know there is some non-wordpress ones out there but my concern with those is the potential pain in the butt updating and staying up to date as well as putting random scripts in my header that I don’t have good control over.

    Thanks

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  • Have you tried using widgets ?
    Many themes have widget areas around their theme, in headers, footers, sidebars etc. In Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets, you can place a text widget into a widget area. Into the text widget you will place your shortcodes.

    Thread Starter johnsimoneau

    (@johnsimoneau)

    Thanks for the response but that’s not exactly the issue.

    Currently we use the BX Slider which is not a wordpress plugin:

    https://bxslider.com

    This allows us to:

    Step 1: Link required scripts and css files in the header.

    Step 2: Create the HTML Markup in the Author Template like this:

    <ul class="bxslider">
  <li><img src="/images/pic1.jpg" /></li>
  <li><img src="/images/pic2.jpg" /></li>
  <li><img src="/images/pic3.jpg" /></li>
  <li><img src="/images/pic4.jpg" /></li>
</ul>

    (but I can actually call my custom user profile image fields for the associated user to populate the images above)

    Step 3: Call the bxSlider via the jquery/function.

    What I was hoping to do was find another slider that allows me to do that same thing but is a wordpress plugin. With wordpress plugins I can:

    – Keep it up to date auto or via simple 1 button updates in my admin panel
    – WordPress plugins seem to be better at not conflicting with each-others scripts whereas it seems like manually putting scripts in the header myself always ends up conflicting with other things and gets sloppy.
    – I can easily determine if the slideshow is ever the instigator with other parts of the site because I can just disable the plugin
    – Sometimes the plugins have an option to only use scripts on the pages the slideshow is placed on
    – I can use the ‘plugin organizer’ with it

    Does that make sense? Thanks

    You could wrap your current slider into a plugin, access it via shortcodes, have it enqueue scripts into the header which may lessen the conflicts you have previously experienced.

    Otherwise you are looking for a new slider plugin, you will find many options between the free plugin resources here or commercial offerings.

    Thread Starter johnsimoneau

    (@johnsimoneau)

    I’ll look up what enqueue scripts means and research that. I don’t mind using a new slider and I’ve searched but my problem was that none of the ones I find on www.remarpro.com allow for me to put the direct html markup in the template like I mention above so that I can call the custom image upload fields for that user in their profile. All of them want you to create the slides insider the wp-admin interface etc which won’t work.

    Thanks

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