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Hi Sam,

There are so many slider plugins available for WordPress using which you can easily make such a slider. Smooth Slider is one of them and it can auto fetch the recent posts from your blog and show in the slider. The featured image of image from post content will appear.

You can also checkout the premium slider on SliderVilla.

Hi,

Check if the code is inside any IF condition. And paste the smooth slider template tag before the <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

See if you site is using index.php for the front page (verify that by seeing the WordPress dashboard ==> Settings ==> Reading ) page.

Hi,

Write the slider id inside a single quote. Here is the example,

<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider' ) ) { get_smooth_slider('1'); } ?>

Let me know if it helps.

– SliderVilla.com Team

You can easily add featured posts in the Smooth Slider. There are two ways to do so.

1. Add individual posts to Smooth Slider from the edit window of the post. On edit window, you will see ‘Smooth Slider’ meta box with an option to “Add the post to Smooth Slider”.

2. Create a category named ‘Featured’ and add the featured to posts to that category. Now use the category shortcode or template tag of Smooth Slider to embed the slider.
[smoothcategory catg_slug='social-media']
where ‘social-media’ (don’t forget the quotes) is the slug of the category from which you wish to pull the posts in reverse chronological order (latest is shown first).

Checkout the Smooth Slider guide to know more about the same.
https://guides.slidervilla.com/smooth-slider/

– SliderVilla Team

I think you should take a look at the Pointelle Slider available on SliderVilla. Or may be Verticalis Slider.

Go to the slidervilla.com and checkout these slider designs.

Thanks

Hi,

Tested the slider installed on ‘https://slidervilla.com/smooth-slider/&#8217; with zoom level 110% on Google Chrome, but didn’t find any issue. If the issue is still there on your site, please email a screenshot to our email ID support [at] slidervilla [dot] com

Thanks for your patience

– SliderVilla Team

Hi,

Step by Step process to embed Smooth Slider,

1. Upload and Activate the ‘Smooth Slider’ plugin from WordPress plugins dashboard
2. Add the posts,pages and/or media library images to the slider. You would get ‘Add to Smooth Slider’ checkbox on the edit panel (of post/page/image) after plugin activation.
3. Go to slider settings -> Change the height and width of the slides section, depending on your theme width. You can change other parameters like colors, borders, image size and image location etc.
4. Now you can insert the Smooth Slider on your WordPress site using either the template tag or the shortcode or the widget.

If you want to add the slider inside a page/post content, use the shortcode.
[smoothslider]

Template tag is to embed the slider by editing PHP file. You can learn more about the implementation and usage of Smooth Slider on this guide page.
https://guides.slidervilla.com/smooth-slider/

Let me know if it helps.

– SliderVilla Team

Hi,

If you want the Smooth Slider only on homepage of your site, then you need to have the smooth slider template tag inside the is_home() condition, as mentioned below,

<?php
$count = 1;
if (is_home()) {
if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider' ) ) { get_smooth_slider(); }
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts(array(
'post__not_in' => $do_not_duplicate,
'paged' => $paged
)); }
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Now the Smooth Slider will appear only on homepage. Let us know if it helps.

SliderVilla.com Team
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Hi Robert,

I am glad that the CSS worked perfectly fine on your site.

It would be very nice of you if you rate the Smooth Slider plugin on the plugin page https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/smooth-slider/.

Thanks for your time.

Best regards,
SliderVilla Team

Hi,

Smooth Slider works fine on Google Chrome and other browsers. I would request you to provide the webpage URL where the slider is installed and embedded. That would help us in investigation.

Regards,
SliderVilla.com Team

Hi,

The multiple settings feature is not available in Smooth Slider, but you can try our premium sliders like Roster, Pointelle, Listic, Thumbel and many more. They are having the “Multiple Settings” feature to let you create multiple settings and apply different settings to the different sliders (Yes, multiple sliders feature is also there in these plugins).

Checkout premium version of Smooth Slider at SliderVilla.com.

Best regards,
SliderVilla.com Team

Hi,

In case you find that the slider is not working after the update, please go to the Smooth Slider settings page and click on “Save Changes” button once (available at the bottom of the page).

Let me know if it works.

Thanks @swishstar for providing the steps above.

Regards,
SliderVilla.com Team

Hi,

As the PHP tag is already open before the Smooth Slider template tag, there is no need to put the PHP open/close tag again while adding the template tag. As I can see, you have resolved the problem on your website and slider is running fine now, but this solution would help others.

Best regards,
SliderVilla Team

Hi derek,

Thanks for posting your story here, I am sure this would help other Smooth Slider users as well.

Best regards,
SliderVilla.com Team

Hi,

In the current version, this feature is not available to let you open the link in new window or tab. We have added this feature in our development cycle and the next update of Smooth Slider may have this feature on settings panel.

Thanks for your patience.

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