Post Slides Plugin

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 😀

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

1. 

   Full Width slides

2. 

   Medium Width slides

3. 

   Mobile Width Titles

4. 

   Color and layout customization

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.

1.0

• Created the plugin