AnythingSlider
Version
1.2.1 (last update on Jun 22, 2010)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
39
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
100068
Date Added
21 March 2010
Just assign the module to the desired position and select which category you want to be shown in the slideshow.
The following settings can be done:
- Category
- Max. no of items to show
- Delay time
- Slide time
- Button texts
- Whether to pause the slidershow when hovered
- Auto start the slideshow
- Order of articles
- Whether to load jquery to avoid conflicts with other modules
New in version 1.2.1
- Fixed Opera bug
New in v1.2.0
- Option to show Article title
New in v1.1.1
- Fixed: Slideshow did not start if Start/Stop button was set to invisible
- Fixed: Undefined variable: number_items error
Full version history is available here: http://www.dnote.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40&Itemid=33
If you like and use this module, please rate it!!!
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While I do agree this does module does require some CSS knowledge to implement. Also please be aware that documentation is limited on the joomla module developer's site. As an example I ran into issues with running videos. However this is totally fixable and documented but you need to go the Jquery anything slider GITHUB development page.
However with that said this has to be hands down the most powerful article slider available in Joomla. You can put anything in here. If you find a better one please let me know! I have been able to do some very cool stuff with this (which I would love to show but I don't want to violate JED rules).
I would really love to see a version for 1.7 or a road map for 2.5
The only other thing that comes close is Joslider for slidedeck. It is also is very good, however slidedeck doesn't have a good documented way to directly link to slides (at least for joomla installations). Anthingslider does allow for this. Also beware Joslider is essentially a commercial app if you want to remove the slidedeck link.
However with that said this has to be hands down the most powerful article slider available in Joomla. You can put anything in here. If you find a better one please let me know! I have been able to do some very cool stuff with this (which I would love to show but I don't want to violate JED rules).
I would really love to see a version for 1.7 or a road map for 2.5
The only other thing that comes close is Joslider for slidedeck. It is also is very good, however slidedeck doesn't have a good documented way to directly link to slides (at least for joomla installations). Anthingslider does allow for this. Also beware Joslider is essentially a commercial app if you want to remove the slidedeck link.
Overall this is a good implementation of the standalone jQuery Anything Slider, but I feel that the module could do with a few more parameters to allow it to more easily fit into a variety of templates.
The default setting means that unless your template accommodates a slider of exactly the width they have hard-coded into the module, you'll need to determine exactly what css attributes to override - and there's quite a few of them that affect the overall look.
Given that width and height are built into the standalone version as configurable settings, it's a shame they're not available in the module as parameters.
I do, however, love that the developers allow us to turn off jQuery in their module so we can load it on our own. All plugins should do this.
The default setting means that unless your template accommodates a slider of exactly the width they have hard-coded into the module, you'll need to determine exactly what css attributes to override - and there's quite a few of them that affect the overall look.
Given that width and height are built into the standalone version as configurable settings, it's a shame they're not available in the module as parameters.
I do, however, love that the developers allow us to turn off jQuery in their module so we can load it on our own. All plugins should do this.
