vBulletin CMS Widgets - vFCoders - Featured Content Slider Widget

.::vFCoders - Featured Content Slider Widget::.

Content Slider Source: http://webdeveloperplus.com/jquery/f...ing-jquery-ui/

What is it?
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Featured Content Slider Widget for VBulletin CMS to feature latest (or popular) articles in a block that displays as a slideshow.

Features
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1. Fully Integrated With VBulletin CMS.
2. Option To Select Sections.
3. Option To Select Categories.
4. Option to Sort Articles by date or views.
5. No Template or File Edits.
6. Can Add Seperate Widget for Different Sections.
7. Can Add more than 1 Featured Content Slider Widget in a page.
8. Option To Set Width For Each Content Slider Widget New!

New Installation Instructions
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1. Upload all the files in "Upload" Folder to forumroot.
2. In the Product Manager in AdminCP, import the product XML file.
3. Then Go To -> Admincp -> vBulletin CMS -> Widgets

Widget Type: CMS featured Content slider
and enter other details and save it..

5. Then Rest of the things are as it is which you do for other widgets.

a): Configure The Widget in VBulletin CMS -> widgets
b): Add the widget in page through layout manager.


Upgrade Instructions
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1. Unzip the attachment and upload all files in upload folder to forumroot.
2. Upload the xml through product manager. (Overwrite)
3. Delete all the old content slider widgets and make new ones.


Uninstallation Instructions
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1. Delete all the Content Slider Widgets in vBulletin CMS -> Widgets
2. Uninstall the product through product manager.


Mod History:

v1.0 : 20 Aug 2011 : First Release.
v2.0 : 21 Aug 2011 : Width Feature Added.
v2.1 : 21 Aug 2011 : Fixed Uninstall Bug.
v2.2 : 26 Aug 2011 : Improved mouseover effect of content slider.
v2.3: 28 Aug 2011 : Fixed Package ID issue.
v2.4: 18 Apr 2011 : Fix typo in install code and Updated for vBulletin 4.1.x.


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[Bram H]

Originally Posted by complexs

Great mod Sherif!!! I was curious how we could get the slider to be disabled when viewing articles. Perhaps have an option to select disable slider when creating an article, maybe that wouldn't be the right way to do it but just throwing out an idea of how to do it.

Great work keep it up!!! I voted mod of the month for this mod Everyone should 2

If you want the slider to only appear on the frontpage try the following:
- add a grid / layout exclusively to your main news section
- add a different grid / layout to your sub-news sections

Add the CMS Slider to the layout for the news and do not add it to the subsections.

Demo here if you don't understand what I mean

[Scalemotorcars]

Anyone figure out navigation arrows yet?

[deverill2010]

Originally Posted by Bram H

If you want the slider to only appear on the frontpage try the following:
- add a grid / layout exclusively to your main news section
- add a different grid / layout to your sub-news sections

Add the CMS Slider to the layout for the news and do not add it to the subsections.

Demo here if you don't understand what I mean

Hi Bram, how did you remove the boxes down the left hand side?

[tomshawk]

Originally Posted by Bram H

If you want the slider to only appear on the frontpage try the following:
- add a grid / layout exclusively to your main news section
- add a different grid / layout to your sub-news sections

Add the CMS Slider to the layout for the news and do not add it to the subsections.

Demo here if you don't understand what I mean

I made the second grid and the second layout

But where do you tell it which one to use?

[tomshawk]

Any thoughts on my 2 questions, post 216,216, and the last.
Any help you be greatly appriciated

[steveinid]

Very nice work.

I got it working just great. I had a few problems but found some of the answers already.

I don't recall seeing the answers for my latest problem. I have some articles scheduled to post this Monday. I added them to the category that the slider works off of. I see that the slider is displaying them even though they haven't been published yet.

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks

[Scalemotorcars]

Anyone figure out navigational buttons? Anything even a next button....

[wobbly]

Now I might have missed something but how do I post to the slider? I haven't got a clue!

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by wobbly

Now I might have missed something but how do I post to the slider? I haven't got a clue!

You don't post to the slider. It grabs article content from CMS. In otherwords if you promote a post to an article to, lets say, your home page or your news page and you select this in your widget that is the contect it will show. Be sure to configure your widget properly.

[thejohnnybrown]

Hey, thanks for the mod.

Unfortunately I can't get it to work. I'm not seeing anything useful in my error logs, but it seems the $output variable is not getting defined before the template runs.

any help would be appreciated.