Creating a slider with the content including articles, images from the same site is very easy. There are plenty of free and premium plugins available to create beautiful sliders in no time. But if you like to showcase content from third-part websites in a slider format, is it possible? For example, if you like to showcase the latest articles from CNN on your website in a slider form, how will you do that. At this point, many webmasters take the help of companies like SpamZilla and create a new website, overall. In this tutorial, I will explain how you can create and embed a slider with content from a website that you don’t own. Or you can take it as how you can showcase the content of Site A on Site B in a slider format.
In this example, I am going to use the RSS or Atom Feed of Site A to fetch the recently published articles. Using the feed data, I am going to build a slider or carousel.
SliderVilla WordPress Sliders come with in-built RSS Feed Slider feature. You only need to enter the RSS Feed URL to create a beautiful slider. No coding required.
Where to Find the RSS Feed URL?
All you need is the RSS Feed URL to create an amazing slider with responsive design. In this example, I am using Featured Slider plugin that I installed on Site B. To get the RSS feed URL of a website, you can following either of these 2 steps:
Check the HTML source of the page by right-click on the browser => View Source. Search for RSS on that page and you can find the URL
If using Firefox browser, you can see the RSS feed icon on right side of the address bar. Click on that icon and it will take you to the fee URL.
Steps to Create RSS Feed Slider
NOTE:This example is in reference to the Featured Slider, steps are same for other slider plugin of SliderVilla
Step 1] In order to use a Featured Slider to add the content from third-party site (WordPress and Non-WordPress) one needs to download the .zip file for Featured Slider and add it to the plugin folders.
Admin Panel >> Installed Plugins >> Featured Slider >> Activate
Ones the Plugin is activated, you will find the Featured Slider option on the admin panel and also the related settings can be done from here.
Step 2] To create a new slider,
Admin Panel >> Featured Slider >> Create New >> Miscellaneous Section >> RSS feed Slider
Fill in the details for the RSS Feed Slider which is user defined.
Step 3] Select the Skin and the Layout for the Slider. An Easy Builder will get appear for it where one will find all the settings of the slider and changes can be done accordingly.
One can also change the settings related to RSS feed Slider from the bottom of the Easy Builder section.
Well, with this simple 3 Step process, you can have a responsive RSS feed slider made of content from different website. Such slider is useful to showcase blog articles from other websites owned by you or from some popular sites of your choice.
Are you planning to showcase client logos or partner logo slider on your website? With no knowledge of HTML, CSS or PHP, one can add such slider on a WordPress powered website in very easy steps. Such type of logo slider is helpful in getting more authority and conversion as visitors will show more trust and faith on the website by knowing your sponsors and client’s details.
What to Expect in a Partner Logo Slider?
Expectations may vary for the requirement but here are few common things which normally people ask in a partner logo slider or sponsor carousel.
Smooth and Continuous Scroll in Loop
Link Slide or Logo to External URL (mostly to the client’s webpage URL)
Option to change the loop speed and time delay
Auto resizing of the logo images
Responsive Design to work on all devices
Option to Set an Expiry Date for each slide
Highlight or Gray-scale Logo Images using CSS
Option to Embed the Slider in my current WordPress Theme
Apart from these, you may have one or two extra requirements but these are the common ones.
How to Add Partners Logo Slider in WordPress?
Slider is just a one part of the website and is not everything. That’s why you should focus on the design of your website and pick a WordPress theme according to your website. Now, whatever theme you have picked, the following steps will enable you to embed a beautiful and feature rich Logo Slider in no time.
Step 1 -:
Download Placid Slider which comes loaded with all the features mentioned above as well as it is having lot many other features too. Placid is a the most powerful and flexible logo slider for WordPress. Upload and Activate the plugin in your WordPress dashboard.
Step 2 -:
Upload the logos of your clients or partners or sponsors and create a logo slider on Placid Slider setting panel under dashboard. You can live preview the slider on setting panel and make changes using the drag and drop feature or the available options for formatting.
Step 3 -:
Embed the slider using a piece of PHP embed code mentioned on the slider creation page. You only need to paste the code wherever you want the slider to appear. If it is inside a page content area, Placid also shows the shortcode to embed the slider.
Now the slider will start appearing the page. You can customize of change the values on admin panel and those changes will automatically reflect on the front-end. Each slide is having an edit panel to enter the external URL for the slide. Using that option, you can point each slide to the client’s website or sponsor’s website.
Why Placid Slider as Logo Image Slider?
There are more than 500 sliders available on Internet but Placid is specially designed to work as Logo Slider. After looking at all the requirements which come under discussion before implementing a partners logo slider or client logo slider on homepage or other landing pages, we developed Placid Slider. It fits the requirement by proving the most flexible and feature rich carousel to showcase brand logos.
Note – With Placid Slider, you can also put the logos static (no sliding effect) and create a grid type layout.
Flickr, a popular image hosting platform is used by many people to archive their photography work on cloud. If you are having Flickr account with lot many images and also have a blog or site on WordPress, you can easily showcase your Flickr images on blog using a nice, modern, stylish and responsive Flickr Image WordPress Slider.
In this example, I will show you how to add Flickr Image gallery in WordPress using Foto Slider WordPress plugin from SliderVilla. There are 19+ WordPress Sliders available on SliderVilla and you can add Flickr Image Gallery using any of these slider designs. All the sliders are having integration with Flickr API and can be used very easily.
How to Create Flickr Image Slider with Auto Fetched Images
Install and Activate Foto Slider WordPress plugin.
Get Flickr API Key and Enter the key in “Global Settings” page under Foto Slider Menu. API Key is required to auto fetch the data from your Flickr Account.
Click on the “Create New Slider” and select “Flickr Slider” from the list of slider options
In Foto Slider, you have option to auto fetch the recent Flickr images by following options
Recent from an Album
Recently uploaded by User
For example, to create a Flickr Album Slider, enter the Album ID of the Album from where you want to fetch the image. e.g. To create a slider of “50 Most Popular” by Nicholas Hendrickx, here is the step to follow
Out of the Album URL “https://www.flickr.com/photos/ukaaa/sets/72157600233851176/”, copy the last numeric part i.e. “72157600233851176“. This is the Album ID that you need to use to create an Album Slider. You can get Album ID of any Flickr Album using this method.
Paste the Album ID on the Next Screen of the “Create Flickr Slider” panel
Now select the skin from “Light” and “Dark” as per your choice
Select the layout of the Foto Slider
Now you will see the preview of Foto Slider with Images from Flickr Album “50 Most Popular“. On this Easy Builder page, you can copy the shortcode or template tag to paste and ad the Flickr Slider anywhere on your WordPress site.
On Easy Builder page of Foto Slider, you can change the typography, animation, transition speed, title text etc. without writing any piece of code.
Similarly, if you want Foto Slider with Flickr Images uploaded by a particular “User”, select “User” option on the 2’nd screen of the “Create New Slider” panel. Enter the User ID and the slider will auto fetch the images uploaded by a particular user.
Is Foto Slider only option for Flickr Image Slider?
These options are available in All 19+ WordPress Sliders on SliderVilla. Same Easy Builder modified with the options related to each slider will allow you to make changes in the slider using easy to use panel.
Create and embed Flickr Image Album Slider or User Gallery in WordPress using any of our Responsive WordPress Sliders.
Sliders are very effective on eCommerce websites in terms of improving visitor’s engagement and for providing more information. One can easily create product slider with SliderVilla WordPress Slider plugins using WooCommerce data. The slider plugins are having deep integration with WooCommerce and that’s why in just few clicks and less than 3 minutes, following type of product sliders can be created.
Featured Products Slider
Recent Products Slider
Up-sell Products Slider
Cross-sell Products Slider
External Products Slider
Group Products Slider
Up-sell and Cross-sell products slider placement is helpful either on single product page or cart page. It is obvious that if you embed these sliders properly, you will see more conversion, sale and revenue.
Embed Product Slider on WooCommerce Cart Page
To embed a slider on existing WordPress theme, there are few ways e.g. Widget, Shortcode and Template Tag. Widget allows you to place the slider in widget ready areas. Some themes have sidebar or special widget for cart pages. If you are using a page builder like Visual Composer or Divi Builder or Beaver Builder, you can embed widgets inside pages too. With widget, you can not place the slider at non-widget ready areas without coding skills. Shortcodes are for the placement of sliders inside post or page content. Even if you are having any custom post types, you can place the slider inside the content area of those posts.
With Template Tag, you can embed the product slider anywhere on your site. Once you create a product slider with any SliderVilla WordPress Slider plugin, you get all embed options i.e. Template Tag, Widget and Shortcode. Copy the template tag and paste it in theme file where you want the slider.
To place the slider on cart page, you can use shortcode method. When you activate WooCommerce plugin, it auto creates a page for Cart or you can create a page and put the WooCommerce Cart Shortcode [woocommerce_cart] in the content. Now you need to locate that page on WooCommerce ==> Settings ==> Checkout Options panel. Now below the Cart shortcode, you can place the product slider shortcode to make it appear below the cart. Here is a demo showing product slider below the cart page.
In this example, I embedded a product slider created with Roster Slider WordPress Plugin of SliderVilla and pasted the shortcode [rosterslider id=’6′] to embed the same. You can choose from all responsive slider designs of SliderVilla and get a product slider on Cart page using same method.
Embed SliderVilla Product Slider on Single Product Page
WooCommerce comes with its own layout for the single product pages. You need to call action hooks and filters to place the product slider at specific location. You can use Template Tag method to embed the slider. For example, to place the slider below description, use the following piece of code in your active theme’s functions.php:
//@hooked mycode_add_roster_slider - 10
add_action('woocommerce_after_single_product', 'mycode_add_roster_slider', 10);
//Function to display Roster Slider below the single WooCommerce product
function mycode_add_roster_slider(){
if ( function_exists( "get_roster_slider" ) )
{ get_roster_slider($slider_id="3"); }
}
Put the slider ID generated by SliderVilla Slider installed on your dashboard.
You can hook the ‘mycode_add_roster_slider’ function to other hooks depending upon where to show the slider as follows:
1. To show slider before product details on single product page:
All SliderVilla WordPress Slider Plugins are compatible with WooCommerce and capable of creating all kind of product sliders. Browse the sliders and pick as per your choice or get the complete package.
You can place any of our SliderVilla Sliders with any kind of data i.e. either product slider or featured slider or category slider or video slider anywhere on your store. It is as easy as a piece of cake! Write us in case you have any queries on what options are available or if you need a particular kind of slider embedded at a particular location.
The Events Calendar is a popular WordPress Plugin to create, manage and showcase events on WordPress sites. With more than 400,000 activate installs, it is being used by many WordPress site owners. Showing upcoming events on homepage or above the fold helps in getting noticed. Carousels are one of the most prefered way to increase user engagement on the homepage and if it can be done with these events, that will be very effective. Many people are still having a thought that carousels slow down a website or may have negative SEO impact, if you think so, please readthis well written articleon Why you should use a carousel.
Most of the e-commerce websites or Events Websites use carousels on their homepage or even in sidebars to make the page more engaging. Also the motive is to provide more information about the events happening in near future. Now if you want to show The Events Calendar data in the form of a carousel, it is very easy to do with SliderVilla WordPress Sliders. If you are planning an event you will need a preparation, you need to get table and chair covers, decoration suppliers, catering and other details involved in an event.
Showcase Events in Carousels using SliderVilla Sliders
All SliderVilla Sliders are 100% compatible with The Events Calendar and Events Manager WordPress Plugin.
SliderVilla Sliders use The Events Calendar API to auto fetch following types of data,
Future Events
Past Events
Recent Events
So based on these auto fetched data, you can embed these 3 types of slider by just pasting a shortcode. And apart from these, if you want to create an event slider with few selected events, that is also possible by manually adding those events to the slider.
How to Create Events Slider? Any Example.
One can add events slider using any SliderVilla Slider, but here I am taking an example of Roster Slider to showcase what options you get and how to create events slider using the data from The Events Calendar plugin. Here is the demo of Events Slider created with Roster.
Step 1 – Create New Slider
Once you install and activate Roster Slider, you get a dedicated panel on dashboard with Roster Slider options. Click on Create New to get started. First screen will show all the possible sliders using Roster Slider plugin. Here you have to select “Event Calendar” from the Events option. Note that, Event Calendar option only appear if The Events Calendar plugin is active on your dashboard.
Step 2 – Choose Events Calendar Type
Roster Slider auto fetches data from The Events Calendar as well as Events Manager WordPress Plugins. Here you get an option to choose whether you want Future Events Slider, Past Events SLider or Recent Events Slider. Once selected and slider name entered, Roster will ask to choose from the preset designs or skins. Once you select these, the slider will start appearing under “Preview” panel on the Easy Builder page of Roster.
Step 3 – Embed Events Slider
Like other SliderVilla Sliders, Roster Slider comes with following embed options,
Shortcode – To embed inside posts, pages using editor
Template Tag – Embed anywhere on website by putting the PHP template tag inside the theme files
Widget – Drag and Drop Roster Slider Simple widget and select the slider name to embed inside the widget ready areas such as sidebar, footer etc.
Conclusion
Popular events websites are utilising the positive sides of carousels such as boost user engagement, save space, showcase more content, grab attention etc. Go ahead and embed Events Slider on your existing website and start showcasing the events inside a slider in no time. SliderVilla Slider plugins works great on almost all WordPress themes – free and premium.
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Gone are the days you will rely on such Plugins that do not offer you full width auto adjusted images. Good content and images will help the visitors to understand your product in the better way. Representation of the content on your website is the best way to boast the features that you offer. You cannot provide only the desktop view for your website. Allow the customers to explore your website any where any time with all the devices. The only way to achieve this is to provide with the best Full Width Auto Adjusted Slider.
Reasons Why People avoided Full width slider earlier:
There were various misconceptions and Carousels myths that people followed. Some of the main reasons that refrain them from having a full width slider is as stated below:
Not Responsive: The main reason that pulled people back to have such full width WordPress Plugin is that they were in a believe that such plugins are not responsive with all the devices.
Images without effects: They were unsure if it will provide with good effects for the images and text, that will look good for their website.
High Bandwidth: One of the important reason people avoided such full width WordPress Plugins for their website is due to bandwidth. Bandwidth is nothing but the data speed supported by network connection.
Difficulty in Implementation: They were not sure of the ways in which it could be easily implemented on the front end with the control over all the settings.
Time has changed now and there are so many Sliders available that will guarantee you with great features. Bandwidth will hardly be an issue with any of the Sliders now. Among so many Sliders available one of the best Full Screen Elegant Slider WordPress Plugin is Cosmo Slider.
Is Cosmo Slider for me?
Whenever you need an image or video at the background with a full screen slider and a call to action button, the best choice you can make for your website is to go with the Cosmo Slider.
Key Features offered by Cosmo Slider:
Integration with WordPress CMS:
Cosmo Slider offers a deep integration with WordPress CMS to fetch and to add custom post type, category specific slides, latest posts, images from media library and videos.
Easy to display on the Front end:
It is very easy to implement it on the front end through shortcodes, template tags and widgets. Even a person with non technical knowledge will find it very easy to implement.
Parallax Scroll Effect:
It provides with the Parallax Scroll effect for the images so that the text and the large size images look good on the website. Due to this, the content of the website will be displayed in the better way to attract more visitors.
Highly Responsive:
It is easily accessible from all the devices thus providing with a highly responsive design. It has the capability to adjusts with the width of the devices and thus making it mobile friendly.
Call to Action Button:
All the words and imagery can be combined into a centralized location using the call to action button. One can also add internal and external link for call button and convert the traffic into action.
Command over all the Settings:
There are about 50 settings options that are available in order to customize the look of the sliders on the front end. One can easily make changes for the desired settings.
SEO optimized:
All the slides are easily indexed by Google and the other search engines and thus making the slider as SEO optimized.
Easy CSS customization:
If there are certain changes or the customization that are to be done for the CSS then there is no need to edit the theme’s CSS files, it provides with a special CSS box in order to add extra lines for the CSS. So a person without the knowledge of CSS can also make the changes easily.
Considering with the best Full Screen Auto adjusted Cosmo slider with these additional feature is like a bonus! Getting all these features under a single roof with a reasonable price that will fit your pockets is really commendable.
