WP Parallax Content Slider Plugin

WP Parallax Content Slider is a plugin which adds automatically a content slider of your last posts where you want on your WordPress blog or website.

This plugin is written upon the code of Manoella Ilic, you can see the simple JQuery and CSS version here.

Transitions between slides are made using a powerfull combination of CSS3 and JQuery to display a beautiful parallax effect.

It is very easy to configure the plugin as it adds automatically an admin page in WordPress administration section. You will be able to configure :

• New in v0.9.4 : Filter by post category directly with a shortcode parameter (eg. [parallaxcontentslider categ=”2″] or [parallaxcontentslider categ=”2,5″]);
• The type of content to display (posts, pages, both);
• The number of slides to display;
• The auto-switch mode;
• The time between each slide;
• The sort order of the content to display;
• The graphic theme;
• and many more…

It’s also possible to choose to display a static HTML content instead of displaying last posts in the slider.

WARNING: This last feature is dangerous since all plugins files will are deleted by WordPress during an automatic update! Be careful if you use it and backup your files.

Roadmap:

• Static slides in a new dedicated custom_post_type;
• Better shortcodes;
• Add a parameter to use an external CSS file to customize CSS styles;
• Add extra parameters to the admin panel (Sizes, colors,…);
• Better touch support;
• and many more…

Available translations:

• English: Julien Le Thuaut
• French (fr_FR): Julien Le Thuaut
• Russian (ru_RU): Temur Danelia
• Georgian (ka_GE): Temur Danelia
• Polish (pl_PL): snecz
• Turkish (tr_TR): Batuhan Büyükgüzel (Partial translation: 65%)
• Dutch (nl_NL): Marieke_Louise
• German (de_DE): Jan Holthuis
• Spanish (es_ES): Germán Díaz de Rada
• Arabic (ar): Mohamed Kawsara
• Arabic Syria (ar_SY): Mohamed Kawsara
• Portuguese (pt_BR): Thiago Passamnai (Partial translation: 60%)
• Serbo-Croatian (sr_RS): Borisa Djuraskovic
• Czech (cz_CZ): boobinna
• other languages (xx_XX): Translators needed 😉 See the FAQ

Plugin’s Official Site

You’ll find more informations on the WP Parallax Content Slider plugin page here.

To install the plugin you must follow these 4 simple steps:

1. Upload the wp-parallax-content-slider folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Place the following code in your templates :<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_wp_parallax_content_slider' ) ) { get_wp_parallax_content_slider(); } ?>
4. Customize your slider with the option panel in WordPress

If you want to insert the slider in a page (or a post), you will just have to place the following shortcode into the page text: [parallaxcontentslider]

1. 

   The slider displayed after the header

2. 

   The admin panel

How may I contribute to this awesome project?

You can fork this project on GitHub and I’ll consider all interesting pull requests 🙂

If you want to contribute by adding your language to the plugin, you can send me your .po files

Feel free to contact me via twitter (Only for contributions, I won’t reply to support requests in 140 chars)

What is the difference between static and dynamic mode?

In static display mode, the plugin use the slides which are in the file static-slides-sample.php.

In dynamic display mode, the plugin generate slides based on your wordpress posts.

How do I add/edit slides in static mode?

In static display mode, the plugin simply use the 4 slides which are in the file static-slides-sample.php. So if you want to add/edit slides, you’ll have to edit manually this file! (I recommand to copy the sample file and rename it, then change the inclusion in wp-parallax-content-slider.php:
include(‘static-slides-sample.php’);
to
include(‘static-slides-customized.php’);

The slider appears but it is empty, what can I do?

Many users have reported this problem and almost everytime, that’s due to a javascript conflict with other custom themes or plugins which don’t respect development best-practices.

Your browser development console will help you to see if there is an error, and most of the time, this error will be:
Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method ‘cslider’

Go to the support section, you should find something interesting among the existing threads.

I can’t see the parallax effect in Internet Explorer (IE7, IE8, IE9), is that a bug?

Unfortunately for IE users, this slider use CSS3 transitions & animations which are not yet supported by these IE versions 🙁

http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-transitions

http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-animation

So the slider will works, but without the parallax effect!

Is this slider “Responsive”?

Yes, it is! I have tried to improve display for at least 3 kind of resolutions (Desktop, Tablet, phones).

You can see the how the slider will be displayed on different devices on the responsinator web site: here

To see the current development version, come and have a look to the project GitHub repository

0.9.8

• Added new translation files: Czech
• Tweak: Replaced silver.gif background file with a lighter file (Thanks pydubreucq)

0.9.7

• Bug fix: Blank page when user wanted to delete the plugin
• Added several new translation files: Arabic, Syrian, Portuguese, Serbo-croatian…

0.9.6

• Serious PHP code refactoring
• Added some filter hooks: prlx_slide_title, prlx_slide_content, prlx_pre_get_posts
• New swipe JS plugin touchswipe.js
• Use first image in content if there is no thumbnail image
• Fixed notice from wordpress with register_uninstall_hook
• Added several new translation files

0.9.5

• Fixed a bug : Some debug code forgotten in the main PHP file

0.9.4

• Support for a new shortcode parameter to filter on one or more categories

0.9.3

• New translations (Georgian and Russian) thanks to Temur Danelia
• New parameter: Choose to display content or excerpt (Warning: displaying full content will certainly cause CSS bugs you’ll have to fix yourself)
• Database optimization: Settings are added in the DB into an array instead of many fields (Old settings will be retrieved before deletion)
• WPML support: Fixed post queries to improve WPML support

0.9.2

• Fix a minor bug about Japanese chars support (Thks miki)
• New parameter: Now you can choose to display posts, pages or both

0.9.1

• Fix a PHP regression : Featured images were not displayed in dynamic mode in v0.9 (Thks xclamation)

0.9

• Shortcode support: [parallaxcontentslider]
• Responsive design improvements
• Fix some CSS rules to prevent bugs in responsives themes (Thks Stefan)
• Fix a PHP bug due to the misuse of the global variable $post

0.8

• Fix Custom Modernizr script bug on IE8 and IE7 due to old version of html5shiv (Thks Shawn)
• Fix some admin panel bugs in dynamic mode (Thks Brett)

0.7

• User can now choose between 4 CSS Themes
• Add swipe support for touch screens

0.6

• User can now apply a filter on post categories
• New parameters for the dynamic mode: Post ordering and sorting
• Add a bit of responsive design

0.5.1

• Fix the slider Opera bug

0.5

• Thumbnails are now displayed in the dynamic mode (medium size) for posts which have one
• Add a new parameter to choose the default image to display for posts without thumbnail in the dynamic mode
• French translation files have been completed and corrected

0.4

• Add parameters for better configuration and clearly separate the admin panel between dynamic mode and static mode parameters
• French translation files have been completed and corrected

0.3

• Add selection of last articles to display in a dynamic slider instead of static content

0.2

• Use admin parameters to customize the CSS Style and JQuery script
• Add french translation (.po files)

0.1

• Slider content and number of slides are static
• admin page is developped but parameters are not used