vBSlider is a professional slider mod, allowing administrators to show the latest threads, articles, and custom-defined content in a jQuery based slider.
This is now compatible with vB4.x Suite and Forum-Only, as well as vB3.x.
Complete Feature List (Lite)
General Settings
Multiple Slider Instances
CMS Options (as a Widget on CMS pages) [vB4.x only]
Forum Options (as a Widget on Forum Home, vB3 & vB4)
Customisation
Additional Feature List (Pro)
General Settings
CMS [vB4.x only] and Forum Options (as a Widget on CMS/Forum pages, CMS is vB4 Only)
Custom Content Options
This is now compatible with vB4.x Suite and Forum-Only, as well as vB3.x.
Complete Feature List (Lite)
General Settings
- Option to display version number in widget footer
- Option to remove the DBT branding, if you purchased a branding free key for the product
- Option to not load jQuery, if it is already being called by another modification
- Option to select which version of jQuery to load
- Default image for CMS content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided) [vB4.x only]
- Default image for Forum content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)
- Default image for Blog content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)
- Default image for DragonByte Gallery content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)
Multiple Slider Instances
- Ability to create and insert virtually unlimited sliders across your forum
- All settings below are customised on a per-instance basis
CMS Options (as a Widget on CMS pages) [vB4.x only]
- Option to select how many articles from the CMS you want to display
- Option to select which CMS sections you want to include/exclude from the slider
- Option to select how many threads from the forum you want to display
- Option to select which forums you want to include/exclude from the slider
- Option to select how many blog entries from the blogs you want to display
- Option to select which blog categories you want to include/exclude from the slider
- Option to select how many [DBTech] Gallery images you want to display
- Option to select which [DBTech] Gallery instances you want to include/exclude from the slider
- Option to select how many custom content items you want to display
- Option to select how many characters of the content item you want to display
Forum Options (as a Widget on Forum Home, vB3 & vB4)
- Option to enable or disable the widget on Forum Home
- Option to select location for the widget on Forum Home (above or below forums)
- All of the other options listed for the CMS [vB4.x only]
Customisation
- Stylevars available for both the CMS and Forum versions, so that you can match each one to your specific design [vB4.x only]
- External CSS file available so you can match the slider to your forum [vB3.x only]
- Ability to define a maximum width and height for the slider (in StyleVars for vB4, in CSS for vB3)
- Fully phrased to allow for customization for different languages
Additional Feature List (Pro)
General Settings
- Option to move Copyright location from below slider to site footer
- Option to change the default image for CMS content items that do not have an associated image (vB4 Only)
- Option to change the default image for Forum content items that do not have an associated image
- Option to change the default image for Blog content items that do not have an associated image
- Option to use IMG tags inside the content types to allow for external images to be used inside of the slider
CMS [vB4.x only] and Forum Options (as a Widget on CMS/Forum pages, CMS is vB4 Only)
- Option to select how long each content item displays before transitioning to the next slide
- Option to pick the location inside the slider for the content
- Option to pick the text alignment of the content
Custom Content Options
- This gives you the ability to create your own content items to display to your users
- Ability to define a title for the content
- Ability to define a message for the content. Message can include HTML formatting
- Ability to define a link if you want to provide additional information in a separate location
- Ability to define a link to an image for the content item
- Option to pick the location inside the slider for the content
- Option to pick the text alignment of the content
- Option to enable/disable on the CMS [vB4.x only]
- Option to enable/disable on Forum Home
- Option to enable/disable site wide
- Option to select the target location for the link to open in
- Option for 'banner-only', so if no text is in the message area, the content slider doesn't show
- All of the above options are definable for each custom content item