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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[SRobbins1977]

Originally Posted by Action-N

SRobbins1977, Looks like you found away to make it work. Whether the panoramic images are on purpose or not to be corrected size at that width it be your whole front page. I think if people wanted to use a fixed forum width of 1024 I can share the template with the sizes I made. Have two, one was the default layout (540) an other was (60,40) .

A point I wanted to make I noticed most didn't make a separate layout for their front page from the rest of the cms articles. If you make a new layout named "Front Page" an copy the format over to it an ad the slider on that layout so you can take it off the "Home" layout your using as the article default.

The template is the widget one you made in the CMS templates. The (60,40) width is configured to 735. The (540) widget size is 525, but the width is hard coded to 540. Didn't dare making it the variable as it's make a mess an need all resized. These are both for use an designed for a fixed width forum size of 1024 with the default template. Oh an guess it won't be an easy swap, there is also hard coded colors in these, dual grays (#dadada, #e1e1e1) used from the default theme. Both located near the top of the template. My forum is closed atm, but for a demo I modeled the look used at http://www.superchevy.com/ only difference is gonna be the colors. Added note I made a layout to match their site also I wanna release soon

The size is intended. As you can see we have a 1350 wide page, so having a "HD"(not true HD size) style image seemed like a unique interpretation of the modern web page. But we have a long way to go with the design.

Love what you've done with the layout for the widget. Fits right in with the rest of the page. Some inspiration. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for the tip on not changing the height. Luckly we were happy with is or we would have tried.

[Konstanta]

<a href="http://www.vfcoders.com" target="_blank">http://www.vfcoders.com</a> no longer work?

[jorge_kai]

it's possible to make run this mod in vbulletin 3.8? thanks

[b0wlninja]

ummm so in trying to use your slider i am receving an error message in the admin CP

Fatal error: Class 'vBCms_Item_Widget_cmsfcs' not found in /home/reaper/public_html/packages/vbcms/collection/widget.php on line 234

could you help me in what i did wrong?

[Martyn1983]

Love the idea of this mod, but sadly not working on my forum. The overall box, and previews, displays but there is no transition between the images and selecting the thumbnails just refreshes the homepage.

www.fiat-scotland.com

Appreciate any help.

[svaghari]

1) get rid of the blue borders around thumbnails
2) get red of blue border around entire widget
3) transparent gap between thumbnails?

[Christos Teriakis]

Hello,

I'm trying to remove the description from slider and let only the title there. I did what you said at:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=45

1. File packages\vbcms\widget\cmsfcs.php

2. After:

$getarticles['preview'] = strip_quotes($getarticles['preview']);
$getarticles['preview'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_censored_text(
fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbcode($getarticles['preview'], false, true, true, true),
100)));

I added:

$getarticles['title'] = fetch_trimmed_title($getarticles['title'], 30);

but this only trims the title to 30 characters and show again the description below. What I want is to show the full title and nothing from description. Where on heck the title is stored? Is it part of pagetext in table cms_article?

Thank you Chris

[jshallo]

Amazing! A Slider that actually WORKS!!!! Thank you.

[svaghari]

Re: post #376

Anyone? Please help

[kirbz]

EDIT nm