Documentation: FlexSlider for Articles


Download and install FlexSlider for Articles

  • Download FlexSlider for Articles
  • Decompress the file to reach two zip files, vglibrary-x.x.x.zip and mod_flexslider_articles-x.x.x.zip.

Install both through:

  • Extensions
  • Manage
  • Upload package file
  • Browse the zip file
  • Click “Upload and install” button

Create a FlexSlider for Articles module

Create a FlexSlider for Articles module through:

  • Extensions
  • Modules
  • New

Choose “FlexSlider for Articles”

Article settings

  • Category. Choose some articles categories
  • Filter Articles. Choose between any, no featured, just featured.
  • Ordering type. By creation date, modified date or order.
  • Ordering. Ascendant or descendant.
  • Number of articles to show.  Maximum number of articles.

In the Advanced tab you will find a param to disable jQuery in case your template is already loading it.

Extra article settings (PRO only)

Read more. Show/Hide Read more.

Show article’s title. Enable/Disable article’s title.

Link article’s title. Enable/Disable link article’s title.

Show article’s intro image. Show/Hide article’s intro image (if any).

Link article’s intro image. Link article’s intro image.

Slideshow settings (PRO only)

In the Slideshow settings tab you can customize several features:

The end result

Depending on the settings, FlexSlider for Articles module will display the intro text, intro image (if any), titles, readmore links, etc. as slides: