The look and design of a website is the very first thing that we get attracted towards. While surfing internet, if we get around a website having very beautiful and elegant design, then surely we’ll have a look into that website, no matter whether the content of the website is of our use or not, but certainly we’ll have an initial look into that. So, considering the importance of beauty, we’ve designed the Ultimate Banner Slideshow Plugin to make your SocialEngine community an attractive one.
You can create beautiful and elegant slideshows using this plugin with multiple banners within a single slideshow and each banner can be a combination of text, background image, front image, coloured background and CTA (Call to Action) buttons. All these mixed types of content shown within a single banner make it look even more beautiful and attractive.
You can create beautiful and elegant slideshows using this plugin with multiple banners within a single slideshow and each banner can be a combination of text, background image, front image, coloured background and CTA (Call to Action) buttons. All these mixed types of content shown within a single banner make it look even more beautiful and attractive.
You can think of the banner as an outer canvas having a front image and some descriptive text along with CTA buttons existing on that outer canvas. The outer canvas can have a background image or a background color. You can provide a single shade color or gradient color as the background color. The descriptive text can contain a heading and a tagline. The tagline can be shown fixed or in typing style. The front image can be shown as fixed or floating vertically or horizontally in a predefined size within any of the eight predefined frames or without any frame also. You can choose the position of the front image with respect to the descriptive text i.e. whether you want to show the front image to the left, right or top of the text. Also, you can choose to display the front image rotated by some defined angle.
All these elements are fully customizable and configurable, so, you can define each and every part of your slideshow i.e. which color combinations, images, buttons are to be used, what transition delay time to be used for the slides, and in what order the slides should be shown i.e. in a random order or in admin defined order, whether header is to be shown inside or outside the banner etc. all these are configurable. So, amazing slideshows can be created using the plugin to capture people’s eyes.
Highlights of this Plugin
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Slides with Overlay Effects
Overlay effect can be added to the banners to emphasize their beauty. The opacity of the overlay can be decided by you. You just need to enter a value in between 0 to 0.10 to choose the opacity of the overlay color.
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8 Predefined Frames for Displaying Front Image
8 predefined frames (Light Desktop, Dark Desktop, Light Laptop, Dark Laptop, Light Ipad, Dark Ipad, Light Mobile & Dark Mobile) are available for showing front image which will add to the enhanced the look of the banners.
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3 Customizable CTA Buttons
Upto three Call To Action buttons can be defined in a banner which can redirect users to their linked URLs. The layout of a button is fully customizable including the background color, font color, border color, border radius, mouseover colors, etc. You can also apply a font awesome icon to the button label to emphasize its look.
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Lightbox Viewer for Showing Videos
You can link CTA buttons to videos. The videos linked can be selected to be viewed in the Lightbox Viewer for providing better user-experience to your users.
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Mixed Type Content in Slides
Each slideshow can contain unlimited number of slides and each slide can be combination of text, front and background images and CTA buttons.
Key Features Of this Plugin
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Unlimited Slideshows
Unlimited number of slideshows can be created with this plugin that can be placed on any widgetized pages of your SocialEngine site.
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Multiple Mixed Content Slides within a slideshow
Each slideshows can contain unlimited number of slides and each slide can be combination of text, front and background images and CTA buttons.
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Fully Responsive Slideshows
Slideshows created are fully responsive. So, no matter on what device your website is being accessed, the slideshows will always look fine.
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Transition Delay Time
You can set the required delay time for the slides of a slideshow.
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Ordering of Slides
The order of the slides in a slideshow can either be defined by the admin or slides can be set to be shown in a random order.
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Slide Heading & Description
You can define a heading and some descriptive text for each slide. The font size and font color can also be set for the heading and the description.
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Typing style for Slide Tagline
You can define a tagline of each slide which can be shown in desired font color, font size and in typing style or as fixed text. The typing effect applied to text make the tagline quite appealing to users.
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8 Predefined Frames
8 predefined frames (Light Desktop, Dark Desktop, Light Laptop, Dark Laptop, Light Ipad, Dark Ipad, Light Mobile & Dark Mobile) are available for showing front image which will add to the enhanced look of the banners.
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CTA Buttons
Three Call To Action buttons can be defined in a banner which can be linked to specified URLs. The buttons will redirect users to linked URLs.
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Privacy Settings
You can set the privacy of each slide based on Member Levels and Networks of your site. Using this the slides can be set to be shown to the required set of members only and hide from others.
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Custom Slide Styles
The settings provided in the plugin will be very effective in creating desired layouts, but if still something is left out, then you can enter required CSS for creating the desired layout of a slide.
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Overlay Effect
Overlay effect can be added to the banners to emphasize their beauty. The opacity of the overlay can be decided by you. You just need to enter a value in between 0 to 0.10 to choose the opacity of the overlay color.
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Preview Available
Preview of the slideshow can be seen in any height and width using the height & width modifiers, so, it can be checked from the preview exactly what height will best suit your slideshow.
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Header Inside Banner
Site Header (either Website Header or Built-in header) can be shown inside a banner to have a wonderful look. Note: When Website Header is chosen to be shown inside a banner, then it may need to do minor changes in site theme to make the header compatible inside the banner.
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Lightbox Viewer for Videos
You can link CTA buttons to videos. The videos linked can be shown in the Lightbox Viewer.
Fully Responsive Widget: Ultimate Banners Slideshow
This widget can be placed on any widgetized page of your SocialEngine website where you want to display the slideshow. The widget is fully responsive, so the banners shown using this widgets will adjust their size according to the device screen size.
Administration
The plugin provides an Easy To Use & Robust admin panel. You can perform below tasks using the Admin Panel:
- You can manage the existing slideshows and can create new slideshows.
- You can edit, manage and delete slideshows.
- Under FAQ section, there are answers to some general queries which you may have regarding the functioning of this plugin.
- This plugin allows you to display the header of your website inside the banner and you can decide how the header of your website should look like when you choose to display it within a banner.
- You can select the logo to be shown inside the header.
- You can choose which header elements should be shown to the logged-in members of your site and which elements should be shown to non logged-in users.
- You can view the preview of the slideshows to check it in different sizes with the help of height & width modifiers. Using this, you can set required height for your slideshow in the widget settings.
- You can choose whether to show the header inside the banner as fixed or not fixed.
- You can choose to show some of the menus within 3 dots section to make the header look clean.
What will my plugin download contain?
The plugin download will be a zipped file, which upon extraction will give the plugin package tar file, the license file, and the installation instructions file.
Is this a stand-alone plugin?
No, SocialEngineAddOns core plugin is required to run this plugin smoothly.
Is this easy to install?
Yes, absolutely! This plugin will install seamlessly on your SocialEngine with the one click Package installation feature
Does this plugin requires any changes in source code of SocialEngine PHP?
No, this plugin does not require any changes in source code of SocialEngine PHP.
I want to customize this plugin according to the offerings and design of my site. Can you help me?
Yes, please contact us with your customization requirements.
