X-Slider

Preguntas frecuentes

How to install this plugin and getting it working on my theme?

First of all you’ll need yo install this plugin. Go to your plugins page on your WordPress dashboard and search for X-slider.
After installing you just need to set it in your theme.
Open your favorite Text editor wherever you want to display it, for example, if you want to display on the top of every page,
open your header.php theme and inside the tag, insert the following code:

<?php x_slider(); ?>

How to filter posts showing on slider?

You can use WP_Query syntax on X-slider, so let’s say you want to only show slides for the «Featured» category,
you should write:

<?php x_slider(array('category_name' => 'featured')); ?>

I want to change the order, how to do that?

As already mentioned before, you can use WP_Query syntax for customizing your slider.
Ex: Show only posts from «Featured» category ordered by date limiting to 5 slides max

<?php x_slider(array('category_name' => 'featured', 'orderby' => 'date', 'order' => 'DESC', posts_per_page => 5)); ?>

How to change the slider image dimensions?

Accessing X_slider settings page right on the sidebar, click in «X-Slider Settings», on the «Slider Upload Options»
section you’ll be able to change the width and height settings.

How to change the slider timeout?

On settings page 🙂

This slider is too ugly, how to customize it?

You can write your own CSS if you want to. The slider structure is very simple. Basically it’s a div with the x-slider class «.x-slider»
with a UL and the slides are LI’s with a container wrapping a title, description and a button.

Can i have multiple sliders on the same page?

Sure, just call <?php x_slider(); ?> as many times you want to.