polvodigital

Alan Hidalgo Pagoto

A plugin which allows you to put posts of a specific category (you can use even all the categories) in a widget. You can use more that one widget at the same time and configure different time transictions between two posts. You’re able to change the quantity of posts in each widget as well. When there are too many posts to be loaded, the plugin loads the first ten and, when the first transiction is triggered (between the first and the second posts) the 11th is loaded and put in the queue. When the second transiction is triggered, the 12th post is loaded and the plugin keeps doing it until all posts are loaded. When it happens, the plugin stops making ajax requests to the server and the page runs normally.
You can find a demo on http://www.polvo.com.br/plugins/post-content-slider. There are two widgets configured on the right. The first one is set to change the post every 4 seconds and the second one every 10 seconds.
<h3>Files structure</h3>
plugins/
postcontentslider.php => The main file of plugin. It calls some necessary hooks.
plugins/css
main.css => Has only one class, which turns absolute and hidden all the posts before starts to slide them
plugins/includes
pcs_post_templace.php => This plugin works with ajax requests and creates new li elements dinamically. This file is the structure of the posts on the widget.
pcs_widget_showdata.php => This is the widget class, which allows the plugin to show the information.
plugins/js
pcs_general.js => This javascript file changes the posts on the widget and make ajax requests
<h3>How it works</h3>
After installing and activating the plugin, you must use it as a widget. At the widgets area, you may configure:
1) Widget title
The title that appears above the widget content
2) Box height
This is the size of the box which contains the post slider. You can change this value through css as well.
3) Category
You can choose a category to show the posts. For example: on this widget, I want to show a slide of posts about football. Anyway, you can choose “Any” and your widget will show the last posts of all categories.
4) Posts Quantity
You can choose the quantity of posts of your slideshow. You have the option of choosing “All the posts” as well, and the page will show every single post of your blog (or of a chosen category).
4.1) Ajax
If you choose more than 10 posts (or All posts), they will not be loaded when the page is loaded. Only the first 10 posts are loaded. When the first transition is triggered, the 11th post is loaded and added to the list with ajax. When the second transition is triggered, the 12th post is loaded, etc. When all the posts are already loaded and added to the list, the plugin stops making requests to the server through ajax.
5) Exhibition time
You can choose the time (in seconds) between the transitions.
<h3>Information</h3>
Remember that you can use more than one widget with this plugin and change the properties for each one.

Post Content Slider

Post content slider - Rotate your favorite posts in a widget - Developed by Alan Hidalgo Pagoto under Polvo Digital

CryoutCreations

<h4>Overview</h4>
Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress.
Create beautiful, responsive slideshows within seconds. Use minimum styling and JavaScript with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions to create a really fluid experience.
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Serious Slider uses the very familiar WordPress dashboard interface for creating slides and sliders so there’s absolutely no learning curve. You just select the media image and press “Create Slider”. After that it’s like adding or editing WordPress posts, using featured images and other meta information like buttons and URLs.
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<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited sliders with unlimited slides. The only limit is your imagination on how to use them.</li>
<li>Add titles, texts, buttons and links to each slide. All slide texts support HTML tags and even other shortcodes.</li>
<li>Easy to use media button. Effortlessly add slideshows in posts, pages or custom post types via the “Add Slider” media button in the WordPress text editor. Then just select your desired image slider from a dropdown list, no need to remember or copy slider IDs</li>
<li>Auto-generated Shortcodes and PHP integration. Use the auto generated shortcode to include slideshows with themes or other plugins. Copy-paste the auto generated PHP code to integrate with custom code.</li>
<li>Serious Slider Widget. Display slideshows in sidebars via the provided Serious Slider widget</li>
<li>Use multiple sliders in the same page.</li>
<li>Familiar admin user interface. Create sliders and slides with the familiarity of managing posts and categories, without having to learn another user interface</li>
<li>Lightweight and powerful. Only minimum JavaScript and CSS3 are being loaded on your site</li>
<li>Fast slider creation. Create awesome, responsive WordPress slideshows in a matter of seconds</li>
<li>Browser compatibility. The image slider looks and behaves great on various devices and browsers</li>
<li>7+ Appearance Styles. Choose from different appearance styles to make the navigation arrows, bullets, buttons and colors match your site.</li>
<li>7+ Transition Effects. Fade, Slide, Overslide, Underslide, Parallax, Horizontal flip and Vertical Flip.</li>
<li>5+ Caption Text Animations. Choose how caption text appears on the slide: Fade, Slide, Blur and Zoom In/Out.</li>
<li>Highly customizable. Customize image sizes, timings, text size and alignment, text shadow, background color and accent color.</li>
<li>Individual options for each slider. All the customization options and set individually for every slider.</li>
<li>Translation ready. Every single line of text in the slider is translatable both in the front-end as well in the back-end. Compatible with multi-language plugins (WPML, qTranslate, PolyLang).</li>
<li>SEO friendly. Built with search engines in mind, the slider uses correct HTML semantics.</li>
<li>Accessibility ready.</li>
<li>Once click demo content. It’s that easy, you’re one click away from a working image slider to get you started.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Customization Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add individual URLs to target specific pages</li>
<li>Add slide buttons with customizable link, link text and “open in new window” option</li>
<li>Choose how to make text over images more visible: either add text shadow, multiline text background or full caption background</li>
<li>Choose from 7 slider styles, 7 transition effects and 5 caption text animations</li>
<li>Customize your slider’s transition duration and delay</li>
<li>Choose between auto-height and fixed size for your images</li>
<li>Customize your slider’s font size, text alignment, caption size and accent color</li>
</ul>
<h4>Functionality Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Our image slider uses WordPress core functionality only, providing you with the familiar WordPress interface for creating both slides and slides.</li>
<li>Easily transfer existing slides from one slider to another</li>
<li>Schedule slides to automatically become visible at any time in the future.</li>
<li>Quickly restore deleted slides from the Trash</li>
<li>Use WordPress’ text editor to add HTML content and even shortcodes to your slides</li>
<li>Bulk edit slides and slides</li>
</ul>

Serious Slider

Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress. Seriously!

Post Content Slider vs Serious Slider