Taxonomy Addon

1. Tag Specific posts : You can pull Posts added to specific tag or multiple tags into the Slider
2. Posts from multiple categories : You can pull posts from multiple WordPress categories into the Slider
3. Custom Post types from Custom Category/Taxonomy : Custom Post types can have their own Categories ( Custom Taxonomies). You can pull Custom posts from any custom taxonomy or group of taxonomies. … Any combination!!
4. Exclude posts from certain Categories or Tags and show all other posts i.e. do not show the posts of particular categories or tags or taxonomy (Introduced in version 1.0.2)
5. You can use all the ‘Settings’ / ‘Options’ of the Slider for which you are using this add-on i.e. the add-on will work as a perfectly  integrated module to the parent slider
6. Works on all compatible SliderVilla sliders simultaneously i.e. once you get this add-on, you can use it with all of the SliderVilla slider plugins, no need to buy this for each slider plugin separately.

1. Uzip the slidervilla-taxonomy-addon.zip folder.
2. Upload the slidervilla-taxonomy-addon folder to your /wp-content/plugins directory.
3. In your WordPress dashboard, head over to the Plugins section.
4. Activate SliderVilla – Taxonomy addon.

Template tag

<?php
if ( function_exists( 'get_slidervilla_slider_taxonomy' ) ) {
    $args=array('slider'=>'thumbel','post_type'=>'post', 'taxonomy'=>'category','term'=>'uncategorized', 'set'=>'', 'offset'=>0 );
    get_slidervilla_slider_taxonomy($args);
}
?>

OR

You can also use the template tag as

<?php
if ( function_exists( 'get_slidervilla_slider_taxonomy' ) ){
     get_slidervilla_slider_taxonomy('slider=thumbel&taxonomy=category&term=uncategorized&set=2');
}
?>

Parameters:

slider

This is name of the parent Slider plugin which should be installed on your site. For example, its value can be thumbel or pointelle

post_type

Retrieves posts by Post Types, default value is ‘post’.

• ‘post’ – a post.
• ‘page’ – a page.
• Custom Post Type (e.g. movies)

taxonomy

Taxonomy is a grouping mechanism for some posts (or links or custom post types). Values for this parameter can be

• ‘category’
• ‘post_tag’
• Any Custom Taxonomy

This is the slug (short url) of the Taxonomy value i.e. name of the ‘category’ or name of the ‘tag’. eg. social-media

You can specify multiple values by specifying this field as an array i.e.

'term' => array( 'social-media', 'news' )

set

The Settings Set ID ( You can keep this field as blank if you are using the default settings set. If you are using Settings set ID 3, then the value of this field would be 3 )

Shortcode

You can use the Shortcode as

[svtaxonomy slider='thumbel' post_type='post' taxonomy='post_tag' term='social-media' set='2']

You can change the value of the ‘slider’ parameter to ‘pointelle’ , if you are using this add-on for Pointelle Slider.

We will upload the help video for this add-on shortly under this section!

1.0.2

1. A new attribute for the shortcode named  ’operator’. You can specify the value as ‘NOT IN’ to exclude certain terms (categories/tags/taxonomy posts) from the slider.

1.0.1

1. You can add multiple terms as comma separated values in the shortcode. As well, in the template tag you can add multiple terms by specifying the value as an array of terms.

1.0

Very first version of the plugin, no changelog yet.

This add-on is currently compatible with

1. Thumbel Slider
2. Pointelle Slider
3. Roster Slider
4. Placid Slider
5. Listic Slider
6. Pinwheel Slider
7. Verticalis Slider

The FAQs will be uploaded once we get some queries.