bionmulti.blogg.se - Bootstrap image carousel

Take it and play with it, or just take it apart. With a basic bit of WordPress knowledge you can take this and use it as it is, or you could extend it by adding the post excerpt or a custom field in the slides too. There’s a demonstration of the WordPress carousel on this page.Ĭlick on ‘Featured’ to promote a post/page to the carousel Featured Image and title are over-riden by custom fields in this instance It’s all wrapped up in a shortcode – so you can place the carousel in your content or a widget using.It’s not a hard job to change the wrapper html so it uses another slider framework like Flexslider instead. This uses the Bootstrap v3 slider as I usually have the Bootstrap library loaded in my themes anyway.If you want to choose a different image or a different title for the slide then there’s an easy way of overriding the defaults from within the Edit Page screen.It also uses the Title of the page as the title of the slide. If there’s no image set then it will ignore that page rather than show a blank slide in the carousel. By default it uses the Featured Image of the page.Some content types (like Pages) don’t automatically have Categories enabled so we’ll switch that on. Just create a ‘Featured’ category and select/deselect that for any page you like in order to feature the slide in the carousel. From now on I’ll just refer to ‘pages’ but in this case that means any WordPress content type.

You can choose the slides to clickthrough to a combination of Posts, Pages or whatever other custom post types you like.

For ease of use I keep it in my theme folder so I can add/edit the content-types easily according to what that site is using, and because I know my themes already have the Bootstrap library loaded. It’s not hard to convert all this into a plugin if you wanted to. Note: this would probably be better suited as plugin rather than part of the theme as its functionality should be theme agnostic. So let’s roll our own functions file that does only what we want it to do and that we can easily customise and deploy on client themes.

Most have some limitations though – noticeably that they’re often setup to choose from Posts, sometimes Pages, even occasionally both, but often not custom post types that you have created or that have been created by other plugins (e.g. There are some plugins that are designed to work with Option 2 – Genesis Featured slider for example. You’ll have no problem finding them on Google but many WordPress developers prefer Soliloquy so make sure you give that one a look. Option 2 lets you ‘promote’ posts/pages to the carousel at the touch of a button, but if the Featured Image is a different size to the carousel images, or if you don’t want always want to use the post/page title as the title of the carousel slide – then it’s not a great solution.įor Option 1 there’s some great plugins out there. Option 1 works best if you want to create custom graphics for each slider item and you don’t want to chop and change the slides too often. Using the Featured Image functionality to automatically connect the images to Posts/Pages.Having the images/carousel items as a separate content type.Most can be broken down into two different functionalities though, and the choice really depends on what suits your site’s editors the best. When it comes to carousels/image sliders for your WordPress site there’s a bewildering choice out there. These days I recommend using the Genesis Framework for WordPress and in the sites I build I incorporate the new Bootstrap v4 grid system into that. Note: This tutorial is more than four years old and is now out-of-date.