I’d like to have you guys to try out a new plugin I’ve been working on for the past few months. It’s a shortcode plugin for the Swiffy Slider library.
I wanted to contribute something more to Grav, and decided to do something similar to the OWL Carousel Shortcode plugin, but with a more up-to-date slider library, and with support today.
So, before I can propose it to the Grav team, I wanted to have some beta testers, so you can give me your opinions and suggestions.
“Can run in CSS only mode - no js for even better performance” - and double great
I understand that the optional classes are defined by the library, but… would it be complicated to customize the markdown code to set when the slider starts and ends? Although Grav is a CMS aimed at developers, many times the editing is left to people without such knowledge. Customizing that helps a lot to avoid mistakes.
I can assure you that this coming week I will download the plugin and take a look at it.
@sdesergi, It would be a huge job, since the swify-slider library has many CSS classes for each behavior it has, although it could be done with some kind of array, I suppose.
It would be something to study.
However, in the administration part of the plugin I think I remember that there is a link to the library documentation from which to copy each class that you want to use.
The plugin is only displayed in the GRAV admin environment (menu “Plugins”) if the folder in the plugin directory is labelled as follows:
shortcode-swiffy-slider
@idna, I don’t know if you mean when you clone the plugin from GitHub. If so, all grav plugins are named on GitHub as grav-plugin-<>, and when cloning them you have to delete ‘grav-plugin’ to leave only the plugin name.
First of all, thank you for your work.
Yes, I downloaded the plugin from github as a zip, unzipped it, then deleted too much of the folder name (swiffy-slider instead of shortcode-swiffy-slider) and uploaded it to my web server in the plugin directory. I thought that this could also happen to others by mistake.
Do a simple search on GitHub and type ‘grav plugin’, you will see that all plugins have those two words in front, however when they are installed, only the name of the plugin should be left, deleting the words ‘grav-plugin’.
