ForumSlider Manual:

Installation Instructions:

1. Download the zip folder for ForumSlider.

2. Extract with Winzip, or 7zip

3. Once extracted, place files in your ftp server accordingly.

4. Upload Forumslider.xml to Admincp > Plugins and Products > Manage Plugins

5. Go to Settings > Options > ForumSlider to configure.

6. Once configuration is done, if you want to set it up on the CMS, or Home page of vBulletin Suite, you can. Create a widget, vBCMS > Widgets > Create New Widget > Widget Type > PHP Direct Execution. Title it “Latest features”, or whatever you want to call ForumSlider.

7. Now go to vBCMS > Widgets. You should see a list with your widget “Latest Features” Far to the right, click configure and add our PHP Widget code.

8. Done. You can arrange ForumSlider however you want in your layouts by moving the widget around in vBCMS > Layout Manager.

9. If you want ForumSlider just on the Forums, you can skip steps 6-8 and just use the display on forum feature > Yes, which is inside the options panel in admincp.

5. Make sure RSS Feeds are turned on. Admincp > Options  > External Data Provider

Enable (Yes to):

• Enable External Javascript
• Enable RSS Syndication
• Enable XML Syndication

• Thread Cutoff
• Thread Cache Lifespan
• Maximum External Records

ForumSlider Product Options In Detail:

Under Style settings, the stretch or scale function will determine how ForumSlider will process your your images.

Stretching your images will force the image to take the complete size of whatever you set the height and width of ForumSlider Ultimate to be.

Scaling the image will not ruin the aspect ratio. The image may fit the entire forumslider, or scale smaller but fit nicely in ForumSlider.

 The background color is the color you will see when an image does not fit the entire size of the ForumSlider. 

The default image will appear when ForumSlider cannot extract an image from your RSS feed.

Questions:
Lite version vs. Ultimate Version?
-Copyright must remain (its’ small)
-Locked to 3 slides
-Background color and characters locked
-Locked to size/dimensions
-Customization features

Question:
Does it work on Forums too?
Yes.

Question:
How do I get images to show up in the slider?
Images must be near the top of the thread so that they also appear in the RSS. Images automatically go to the RSS feed, in turn go to the forumslider

Question:
Is it connected to another server?
No

I don’t see any items in the slider. Why?
Make sure RSS feeds are turned on is Admincp > Options. Then check the rss feed if there is any items being displayed.

Question:
My images are too stretched when appearing, why?
Typically you should only use images that are the same size as your slider. However, thats’ just ideal and unrealistic unless you have lots of time on your hands. If you can’t use pre-scaled images, forumslider is built with a resizer, just switch it to scaled mode instead of stretched mode.

What if there is no image in the thread and it shows up on the forumslider?
A default image is included with the slider. Replace it with an image of your own. This will show up when no images do.

Question:
I Want to buy ultimate version but lite mod doesn”t pull images on my cms.
Only default image and thread title showing.

Your images must be in the thread before its published. RSS feeds don’t update. Once your thread is submitted it goes immediately to the rss feed without any updates following. Also check your rss feed to see if images are appearing.
For example : http://buypoe.com/external.php?do=rs…s=120&count=10
See the images? Yours should look similar

Question:
Where can I learn more about it?
Forum-Skins.com

Question:
So exactly how much is it for forum slider ultimate? With my site I am going to want to have more than slides appear and adjust the size and all that. So if you could just tell let me know what the cost is It would be appreciated.

ForumSlider costs 59/month and comes with other premium mods and premium themes. You can cancel your membership at any time and still use them all as long as you want. So technically you can sign up for a month and get everything. I’m not allowed to say much about it here.

Question:
I want shows only photos from X forums: example….i can select forum with ID 3, ID 5, ID 7 ……etc etc….?
Antonio

You can combine RSS feeds from each of those forums using Feedburner.com or any of those sites that combine multiple RSS feeds into one. Then take that one rss feed and input it into forumslider.