FAQ

Installation Instructions

1. Upload the entire slide-anything folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu within the WordPress Dashboard.

You will now see the Sliders menu in your WordPress admin panel.

How do I insert `Slide Anything` sliders into my WordPress pages or posts?

There are two ways to do this. If you are using the visual editor to edit a page or post, you will see a Slide Anything Sliders button/icon in the toolbar of the editor. Click this button and a popup will be displayed containing a list of sliders that you have created. Select the title of a slider within this list and click OK to insert the shortcode for the selected slider into your page or post content.

The other method: When you are editing your slider within the WordPress Dashboard, you will see a box with the heading Shortcode / Preview on the right-hand side. Click the Copy to Clipboard button within this box to copy the slider shortcode to your clipboard. Paste this copied shortcode into the page or post where you would like your slider to appear. This is also the method to use if you want to insert your slider into a text widget or another custom content type, such as a portfolio post.

The difference between a Slider and a Carousel, and how to create either

By definition a slider has a single slide displayed on-page at a time, whilst a carousel has multiple slides displayed ‘on-page’ at a time. The Items Displayed box, on the right-hand side of the slider edit page in the WordPress dashboard controls how many slides are displayed on-page at a time.

To define a slider, all the settings within this box must be set to 1. When these are set to values greater than 1, a carousel will be displayed, for example you may want to display a carousel with 4 slides visible on desktop devices, 3 slides visible on tablets and only 2 slides visible on mobile phones.

How do I define slide background images?

The Slide Background box for each slide in your slider allows you to define a background image or a background color for each slide. Note that the content you add to each slide within the slide editor box for each slide is foreground content and sits on top of the slide background – this content can be other images and textual content.

To set a slide background image, click the Set Image button. The Background Size setting determines if, and how the background image is stretched/shrunk to cover the slide content area and the Background Repeat setting determines if the backgroung image should be repeated, like tiles. The Background Color setting allows you set a color for the slide background – note that you can have both a slide background color AND a slide background image. The small background preview window to the left of these settings give you an indication on how the settings you choose will look.

The Min Height setting (within the Slider Style box), is often used in conjunction with defining slide backgrounds, as this setting controls how much of the slide background is visible if the slide contains no (foreground) content.

How do I use the `Slider Style` settings?

At the top of this box, which appears on the right-hand side when editing a slider, you can set and copy the CSS ID for the slider. This is useful for developers who are familiar with CSS coding, and this CSS ID can be used to create custom styles for your slider within your theme or child-theme’s style/CSS file.

The Padding (pixels) settings are used to define the amount of padding space around the entire slider – top, right, bottom and left. The Background/Border settings define the background colour for the entire slider (Note: each slide’s background image/color will appear on top of this slider background), and also if a border should appear around the entire slider – the width, color and border radius of this border.

The SLIDE STYLE settings are the style settings for each individual slide with the slider/carousel. Here you can define the minimum height each slide and also the padding space around each slide.