Homepage Slider

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#1

I’ve forked the latest build from foundation-5 branch as I’m developing a theme to integrate with WooCommerce.

I want to add slider to homepage. I prefer to use the inbuilt feature. What I want to do is to have only the images in slider which I can put in a specific category and show it only on the homepage.

Any thoughts on this?

#2

Hello Arjun,

First of all let me know if you are using rtPanel Child Theme for the development.

#3

Yeah, exactly! I have the child theme which is from the foundation-5 branch.

#4

In rtPanel Child theme, you can use following function to show slider,

if ( function_exists( 'rtp_get_cycle_slider' ) ) {  
	rtp_get_cycle_slider( 5, 200, false, false, true, true );  
}

Slider code present in /lib/rtp-slideshow.php file, where you will need to add one extra parameter ‘category_name’ => ‘slider’ to fetch images from the specific category, this name will be the category slug.

Your code will look like,
$slider_q = new WP_Query( array( ‘category_name’ => ‘slider’, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1, ‘posts_per_page’ => $slide_number, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’ ) );

Let me know if its works for you.

#5

This will show images from the recent posts from the cat with slug “slider” right?
I’m trying to put all my slider images in a directory on my server, and those images are to be shown instead of selecting images from a specific category.

#6

Fetching the images from directory to slider would be a cumbersome process, hence I will suggest you to fetch all the attached images of the home page to the slider.

#7

Yeah! I use a static page for the home. Does the rtp_get_cycle_slider function provide possibilities to fetch all the images of that particular page?

#8

rtp_get_cycle_slider function will work in rtPanel Child Theme only. In this function we fetch images using WP_Query, which will not work on a static page.

I will suggest you to create custom home template in your theme, copy your static HTML code to this template, add rtp_get_cycle_slider function with its parameters and assign this template to Home page. Using Reading settings (/wp-admin/options-reading.php) you can set Front Page as Home Page.

Let me know if it works for you.

#9