adding sliders to posts

[chrisski]

How can we add individual sliders to posts? the only option currently allows for 1 slider for ALL posts… but we would like to define slider and add them to a post individually… when we add to the page – it will only be shown in the “content” area – but we want it to display like a featured slider – similar to what we can setup for pages…

the goal is to have a slider that we build for each post and to have it show full width / featured – then below left is article / right is widget column.

Can we achieve this w/ a custom field? other option? thank you.

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[Jason Bobich]

There’s no feature in the theme for this.

You’d have to rig up something custom, like possibly hooking to the feature area from your Child theme’s functions.php. There’s a function themeblvd_slider('your_slider_id') you can use to display sliders.

// Enable featured area for single posts w/ID's 1, 2, 3
function my_frontend_config( $config ){
    if( is_single( array( 1, 2, 3 ) ) )
        $config['featured'][] = 'my_featured_content';
    return $config;
}
add_filter( 'themeblvd_frontend_config', 'my_frontend_config' );
 
// Your content to display
function my_featured(){
    if( is_single( '1' ) )
        themeblvd_slider('slider_1');
	else if( is_single( '2' ) )
		themeblvd_slider('slider_2');
	else if( is_single( '3' ) )
		themeblvd_slider('slider_3');
	// etc ...
}
add_action('themeblvd_featured_single', 'my_featured');

… You could possibly setup that by pulling a custom field, as well, to make it more dynamic, opposed to manually checking for each post.

// Enable featured area for single posts when custom field "whatever" is not empty
function my_frontend_config( $config ){
    if( is_single() && get_post_meta( get_the_id(), 'whatever', true ) )
        $config['featured'][] = 'my_featured_content';
    return $config;
}
add_filter( 'themeblvd_frontend_config', 'my_frontend_config' );

// Your content to display
function my_featured(){
    $slider_id = get_post_meta( get_the_id(), 'whatever', true );
    if( is_single() && $slider_id )
        themeblvd_slider($slider_id);
}
add_action('themeblvd_featured_single', 'my_featured');

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http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/hooking-to-the-featured-area/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_Single_Post_Page

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta

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