Smooth Slider – Multiple Sliders Usage
Smooth Slider 2.2 has a new feature so that you can create multiple sliders and selectively include a necessary slider on the required page or post.
How To Create Multiple Sliders
On the Smooth Slider settings panel, at the near bottom there is a new option added ‘Enable Multiple Slider Function on Edit Post/Page’ checkbox. Tick this checkbox if you want the ‘Multiple’ slider feature enabled for your blog/website.
After you save changes, at the very bottom you can now see the ‘Create Slider’ tab.
Enter the new ‘Slider name’ and click Create New. The new slider would be successfully created and you can see a separate tab for that slider at the bottom of the settings panel.
You can create ‘n’ number of sliders and delete them at any time.
How to add Post/Page to different sliders and display different slider on different post/page
Once you enable the multiple slider feature from the Smooth Slider settings panel as shown in the above illustrations, your new post/edit post/page screen will have the the Smooth Slider options as follows:-
The above screenshot is for the Edit Post/Page panel or Add New Post/Page panel. You may find these options at the bottom of that panel.
Most Important : Do not forget to
If you wish to display Smooth Slider on any post or page using the above option, please do not forget to include the Smooth Slider template tag on that page template or single.php (post template) as follows:-
<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider' )) { get_smooth_slider(); } ?>
How to display specific slider on Category archive or tag archive or blog home page(having index.php or home.php as template)
Obtain the Slider ID of that specific slider from the Smooth Slider settings panel. And then you can use the below template tag
<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider' )) { get_smooth_slider('4'); } ?>
where ’4′ is the Slider ID as per on the Smooth Slider settings panel.
Hi,
after creating a new slider, it doesn’t show up at the bottom of setting page.
I still have only on tab: “create new slider”.
How could I do, because since I upgrade to this new version, my main slider became empty.
Yours sincerely
Hi,
Please post the screenshots on the forum or you can send me on my email ID sanjeev [dot] sanjeev [at] gmail.com. Please join the forum where we can discuss the issues on your blog’s smooth slider. Here is the link for the same. http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/smooth-slider-f12/
We will definitely help you out in resolving the issues related with Smooth Slider.
Thanks.
Hello sanjeev,
I solved this specific and personnal problem by downgrading my wordpress version to 2.7!
Now everything is working fine
Hi Sanjeev, great plugin, iv been testing it for a client, however I had it working perfect, decided to upgrade today, and now its completely vanished, cant seem to get it back.
gutted. Have a look on http://one3rdnerd.com it was in that big empty space on the left side of the header, now nothing seems to be there. Did you change the get_smooth_slider call? or anything else I should be aware of. If you could drop me an email it would be greatly appreciated. My only other solution is to use a different plugin, but havent found one I liked as much as yours.
Cheers
and have a happy new year.
Thanks for using Smooth Slider. If you are using a static page as home page in your blog/site, then you will have to edit that page and check the box, display smooth slider on this page. Update the page and then your Smooth Slider will start appearing over there by using the same get_smooth_slider call. I have sent you a separate mail with these details as well. We added this option in latest version so that one can use multiple sliders on different pages/posts etc. Let me know in case of any issue/concern.
Thanks for your info, what would be the method for displaying it on a homepage if it ISNT static, and therefore there is no way for me to edit such a tickbox, as its just a blog homepage.
Thanks, Iv emailed you back.
Hi.
Is there a way to use multiple sliders to feature different posts from different blogs for WordPress MU installations using the get_smooth_slider_wpmu_all() function?
For example, a one slider will feature posts about food from any of the blogs and another will feature drinks.
It seems that get_smooth_slider(‘(some number)’) is used for the same blog only.
Thanks in advance
How do I get the Smooth Slider to show up on every page in the Thesis theme? I have it in an Openhook within the right sidebar but I want it on every page.
Thanks,
CK
Can you please post this query in the forum, so that we can go thru the code (it is would be a bit clutter if I post code here or if I ask how are you using the Smooth Slider template tag on your theme) Thanks in advance. Looking forward to hear from you in forum.
This plugin have made my day! Thank you great work!
Question?
I want two diffrent slides,
slide1 that have size : 960×110 that is for head
and slide2 in the content that is size : 560×110.
Can this be done?
When i try and change the size both slides changes =(
This is amazing, was just wondering if the smooth slider could do this and I look it up and whalaaa, yes it does!
Thanks for doing great work and sharing it. These tools are really helpful to me.
Hi Matte,
If you need a custom slider for your site, you can contact us thru contact form or Skype. We will be happy to provide you custom slider as per your theme’s requirement. Our Skype ID is “clickonf5″
Hi, it´s a great plugin, how does this plugin also allow multiple sizes
thanks for this amazing plugin!
Hello, need a little help, I’m a newbie to coding.The plug-in looks great, but I am having issues getting the slider to show up on my home page and other individual pages. I pasted the code into the templates as explained on the site, first into the index.php and the slider showed up on my blog page and when I put in the page.php it showed on all the pages. Can you guide me where to put the code in the right php editor show it will show on the home page, and other individual pages with the multiple slider option.
Thanks in advance
Very nice. One small observation which could be smaller: the “next slide” and “previous slide” buttons (the arrow images, button_next.png and button_prev.png) are much larger than necessary. On a busy frontpage, that adds up quickly in server load. So, I’ve compressed those two, zipped them, and uploaded them here for you – I don’t think it’s really noticeable in image quality.
Hi,
i need a little help. i installed all worked fine. then i enabled mutiple slider and it’s now appearing anymore. I chanegd the code to:
but it’s not showing anything although i have 2 sliders active with content.
any idea?
sorry for commenting again but it didn’t show the code. i basically just copy pasted the above code for multy sliders and replaced the 4 with a 2 since i have 2 sliders and i want to show the second one. please help!
Sanjeev, thank you for this great piece of Software! When I use multiple sliders, is it possible to add to each slider a different smooth-slider.css?
Wolf
Can’t I have two or more of my multiple sliders on one page?
Hi I installed smooth slider in my website, i have this in front page but the problem is it wont show on my PAGES like About Us. I placed the code in my page.php and it doesn’t show still.
Please help me.
I used your plugin on one client’s site. Just one word for your plugin, “Awesome”
My slider shows on my page (page.php) but I get no arrows and when I click the number boxes on the bottom to go to the next slider I get this error popup: “There’s an error with your set up of Carousel Viewer “smooth_sliderc”!
What am I doing wrong?
Hi! I’m currently using WP 2.7 ans Smooth Slider 2.1.2 and have a, probably rather simple question. I have integrated the slider on all pages, as well as on the home page. Now thew problem is that I’d like to have two different widths for the slider: 700px on the home page and 900px on all other pages. Is there a chance to
Hi! I’m currently using WP 2.7 ans Smooth Slider 2.1.2 – simply the best looking slider out there! Still, I have a probably rather simple question.
I have integrated the slider on all pages, as well as on the home page with the template tag. Now thew problem is that I’d like to have two different widths for the slider: 700px on the home page and 900px on all other pages. Is there a chance to get that thing working? (maybe with the WP fuction is_home()?)
thanks and cheers!
Hello, greetings from Colombia.
Definitely the best slider plugin for sure.
The question is: how to change the sizes of the second slider created and that these changes in size do not alter the first slider? Thank you.
Hi, i’ve a problem with the smooth-slider plugin.
i want to show up 3 different sliders on my page.
but the problem is, that only the first one works.
the other two shows only the content of one post, and it doesn’t change.
here’s the html code of my index.html:
Two questions of a million dollars …
1 – Place two slider on the same page but with characteristics different size and color
2 – Set slider out of the wordpress folder, ie an index outside the wp installation.
Grcias gentlemen.
Suggestions noted, will try to put in the next upgrade. Thanks a lot for posting.
Thanks for the compliments, currently we cannot do that. There is only one settings for the slider. But I am planning to put this feature in one of my upcoming releases. Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
I used your plugin on one client’s site. Just one word for your plugin, “Awesome”
Thanks
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