NextGen NivoSlider

NextGen NivoSlider allows you to create a NivoSlider as a widget or with a shortcode. This plugin uses the ‘NextGen Gallery’ plugin to obtain the images using tags or gallery IDs.

NivoSlider is a great responsive image slideshow that is highly customizable. With a large array of effects and many additional options you are sure to find a combination that will suit your website.

Requirements:

• NextGen Gallery Plugin

Features:

NextGen NivoSlider has been completely overhauled and is continually being added to. It currently supports all the of NivoSlider’s original functions and even has some extra’s!

• Responsive!
• Fully integrated with NextGen gallery
• Theme support
• Automatic URL linking (put a mailto:, http://, ftp:// or local / into your alt text)
• Extra effect(s)
• Shortcode and Widget support
• Touchscreen support (experimental)

Parameters:

You can use the following parameters in the [ngg-nivoslider] shortcode. Defaults, where applicable, are shown between parentheses (), available options between brackets [].

• title: Title for slider. Leave blank for no title. (ex: title= »My Slider »)
• gallery: Leave blank to use all galleries or choose a gallery to use. (ex: gallery= »galleryid »)
• order [random »| »asc »| »desc »| »sortorder »]: Order to display results in. You can choose; Random, Latest First, Oldest First, or NextGen Sortorder. Random will still work when a page is cached. (ex: order= »random »)
• tags: comma separated list of tags to filter results by. (ex: tags= »tag1, tag2″)
• shuffle [boolean]: If order is random and this is true will shuffle images with javascript. Useful if your are caching your pages. (ex: shuffle= »true »)
• max_pictures: The maximum amount of pictures to load. (ex: max_pictures= »6″)
• html_id (« slider »): HTML id to use. Defaults to ‘slider’. Needs to be different for multiple sliders on same page. (ex: html_id= »custom-slider »)
• width: Width to use on slider. (ex: width= »200″)
• height: Height to use on slider. (ex: height= »150″)
• center: Centers content in container. Requires width to be set. (ex: center= »1″)
• resize: Resizes the images using TimThumb(v2). Available options are: (ex: resize= »3″) 1 – Resize to Fit specified dimensions (no cropping) 2 – Crop and resize to best fit the dimensions (default) 3 – Resize proportionally to fit entire image into specified dimensions, and add borders if required 4 – Resize proportionally adjusting size of scaled image so there are no borders gaps
• resizewidth: The width TimThumb will use to resize the image (sc: resizewidth= »800″)
• resizeheight: The height TimThumb will use to resize the image (sc: resizeheight= »600″)
• resizebg (« ffffff »): The color (denoted in hex) to use for the borders that are generated when using resizing option 3 (ex: resizebg= »a0fb69″)
• caption [« alttext »| »description »| »both »]: Show a caption with the slide, showing either the alttext or description as set up in NextGen gallery or both as « Bolded AltText – Description »
• htmlcaption: HTML formatted caption to show on all images (ex: htmlcaption= »Title Welcome to this website« )
• showgallerytitle [boolean]: Display the gallery title (ex: showgallerytitle= »true »)
• showgallerydesc [boolean]: Display the gallery description (ex: showgallerydesc= »true »)

Nivo slider settings:

Please check the NivoSlider website for more details.

• effect: What effect to use as transition. You can specify sets like: ‘fold,fade,sliceDown’. See list below for available effects.(ex: effect= »sliceDown,sliceUp »)
• slices: The amount of slices to divide the image to for the slice effects(ex: slices= »3″)
• boxCols: Amount of columns to split the image into for the box effects (ex: boxcols= »10″)
• boxRows: Amount of row to split the image into for the box effects (ex: boxrows= »8″)
• animSpeed: Slide transition speed in milliseconds (1000ms = 1 second). (ex: animspeed= »300″)
• pauseTime: Time to pause in milliseconds (1000ms = 1 second) before continueing to the next image (ex: pausetime= »5000″)
• startSlide: Set starting Slide. It’s 0-index so use 0 for the first slide. (ex: startslide= »3″)
• directionNav [« true »| »false »]: Whether to display the Next & Prev controls or not. (ex: directionnav= »true »)
• controlNav [« true »| »false »]: 1,2,3… (ex: controlnav= »setting »)
• controlNavThumbs [« true »| »false »]: Use thumbnails for Control Nav if set to true. (ex: controlnavthumbs= »true »)
• thumbsWidth: Resize thumbnail to this width. Recommended to set if using thumbnails. (ex: thumbswidth= »20″)
• thumbsHeight: Resize thumbnail to this height. Recommended to set if using thumbnails. (ex: thumbsheight= »20″)
• thumbsContainerHeight: Height for thumbnails container. Calculation should be ‘number of thumbnail image rows’ x ‘thumbsheight’. (ex: thumbscontainerheight= »20″)
• thumbsGap: Gap between thumbnails. (ex: thumbsgap= »5″)
• controlNavThumbsFromRel: Use image rel for thumbs. (ex: controlnavthumbsfromrel= »setting »)
• controlNavThumbsSearch: Replace this with… (ex: controlnavthumbssearch= »setting »)
• controlNavThumbsReplace: …this in thumb Image src. (ex: controlnavthumbsreplace= »setting »)
• keyboardNav: Use left & right arrows. (ex: keyboardnav= »setting »)
• pauseOnHover: Stop animation while hovering. (ex: pauseonhover= »setting »)
• manualAdvance: Force manual transitions. (ex: manualadvance= »setting »)
• prexText: Text to display for previous (ex: prevtext= »prev »)
• nextText: Text to display for next (ex: prevtext= »next »)
• randomStart [« true »| »false »]: Start with a random slide (ex: randomstart= »true »)
• captionOpacity: Universal caption opacity. (ex: captionopacity= »setting »)
• disableCaptions: (ex: disablecaptions= »1″)
• beforeChange: (ex: beforechange= »setting »)
• afterChange: (ex: afterchange= »setting »)
• slideshowEnd: Triggers after all slides have been shown. (ex: slideshowend= »setting »)
• lastSlide: Triggers when last slide is shown. (ex: lastslide= »setting »)
• afterLoad: Triggers when slider has loaded. (ex: afterload= »setting »)

Nivo Effects:

• random
• sliceDown
• sliceDownLeft
• sliceUp
• sliceUpLeft
• sliceUpDown
• sliceUpDownLeft
• fold
• foldReverse
• fade
• slideInRight
• slideInLeft
• boxRandom
• boxRain
• boxRainReverse
• boxRainGrow
• boxRainGrowReverse

Shortcode examples:

• [ngg-nivoslider html_id= »about-slider »]
• [ngg-nivoslider title= »Hello » gallery= »1″ html_id= »about-slider » width= »200″ height= »150″ center= »1″]
• [ngg-nivoslider html_id= »about-slider » directionnav= »false » controlnav= »false »]
• [ngg-nivoslider tags=slideshow order= »random » effect= »fade » shuffle= »true » max_pictures= »12″ html_id= »slider » resizebg= »fdfdfd » resizewidth= »900″ resizeheight= »620″ resize= »3″ center= »1″ directionNav= »false » controlNav= »false » pauseTime= »10000″ animSpeed= »1000″ pauseOnHover= »false »]

To do

Feel free to suggest new features or things you’d like to see in this plugin!

• Create some extra themes.
• Scrollable thumbnails?