Post Slides

November 18, 2014

Post Slides Plugin

Display posts as slides in a responsive Owl Carousel. Admin settings and shortcode control allow for advanced configuration.

Post Slides allows you to use the shortcode [post-slides] on any page or post and displays a grid of posts in a slides format. (Live Preview)

Post Slides offers additional shortcode attributes which override global attributes and allow for in page control. Here are some example shortcode attributes.

Example: [post-slides excerpt_length=’18’ posts=”5″ skin=”single”]

Here are a list of the available shortcode attributes and example values.

Post Slide Attributes

  • categories=”1,2,5″
  • posts=”6″
  • excerpt_length=”16″
  • excerpt_tail=”…”
  • skin=”default”
  • thumbnails=”true/false”
  • icons=”true/false”

Owl Carousel Attributes

  • loop=”true/false”
  • center=”true/false”
  • margin=”15″
  • stage_padding=”15″
  • nav=”true/false”
  • dots=”true/false”
  • autoplay=”true/false”
  • stage_padding=”15″
  • autoplay_timeout=”5000″
  • autoplay_hover_pause=”true/false”

Skins

Post Slides currently ships with two available skins. Default shows multiple smaller slides and Single displays one large slider.

Shortcodes in Themes

You can also use the WordPress do_shortcode function directly in your theme rather than puting it in the page copy. (do_shortcode Documentation)

Version 1.0.1

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Enjoy it 😀

Installation

  1. Upload the post-slides folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Under Settings – Post Slides configure colors, sizes and excerpt lengths
  4. Place [post-slides] into your pages

Screenshots

  1. <p>Full Width slides</p>

    Full Width slides

  2. <p>Medium Width slides</p>

    Medium Width slides

  3. <p>Mobile Width Titles</p>

    Mobile Width Titles

  4. <p>Color and layout customization</p>

    Color and layout customization

FAQ

Owl Carousel 2.0

Post Slides is a powerful plugin that generates a carousel built on (Owl Carousel 2.0). Check their website for indepth details on the functionality and dependencies in the Owl Carousel.

Changelog

1.0

  • Created the plugin

Details

  • Version: 1.0.1
  • Active installations: 100
  • WordPress Version: 3.0
  • Tested up to: 4.0.0

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