Legacy CMS Categories

[mwyrsch]

Hi,

We're interested in the pro version of vbslider. But there is a feature missing for us: We need to simply add CMS Articles to the slider. We can do this for example with a categorie and then showing the latest 5 articles from this category. But categories are only supported with Blogs. Can you also add support for the CMS Categories?

Thanks and regards
Marco

 

[bszopi]

In my research when initially developing this mod, it appearred to me that most people were not using categories for the CMS, but sections instead. So I coded it for sections. I will look into trying to implement categories as well, but not sure when it will be done.

Brad via Tapatalk

 

[mwyrsch]

Yes that's absolutly true. But we have a lot of sections and an article can only be in one section. So we can use the categories to "mark an articel as important" to show up in the slider.

 

[bszopi]

That is actually an excellent way of doing it that I had never thought of. Perhaps I could just make an option for a defined category (vbslider), and pull from articles with that specific category. Maybe even give a default category, with the option to change the name.

Would that work for you, or do you still think a full category selector is needed? A single, specified category, and a Yes/No option to use it I think would be much easier to add to the existing structure.

Brad via Tapatalk

 

[mwyrsch]

Cool no a full category selector is not necessary. The way you describe with one category (vbslider) would be perfect for us.

 

[mwyrsch]

Hi

Any updates?

Cheeers

Marco

 

[Cosmic]

Hi

Any updates?

Cheeers

Marco

There hasn't been a feature update for vBSlider yet - best to make sure you're signed up for the admin emails, we send out a weekly newsletter letting you know what's been released/updated - or check the dev blog each week to see what's out and what's being worked out & when it should be arriving

Cosmic