I’m not going to release another plugin with additional display settings because, I’m too busy… But if anyone else wants to jump on the project, I’m more then happy to add you as a contributor.

If you are unfamiliar with the plugin, you can read about here, and I’ve already answered one question about how to display images only in the anythingslider

I think there are 3 possible ways to do this effectively.

1. use the WordPress function get_pages();
   This is probably all you need. It’s just like get_posts, but if I’m not mistaken it grabs pages instead of posts. I would recommend using this function if you are making a lot of pages that change constantly.This should do the trick. Just change get_posts to get_pages on line 155 in content-slider.php

   $posts = get_pages('numberposts='.$number_of_posts);
       foreach($posts as $post)
       {
       	anything_get_li($post);
       }
   

2. Since the plugin already uses get_posts you can make very minor changes to the arguments passed to the plugin. Currently I only pass the number of posts to return. Get_posts can also take a post_type argument, or include argument. Of course the default post_type is post, but it can be post, page, or attachment… I think with WP 3.0 you can even make you own types, but I haven’t work with any custom types yet.If you use include, you just pass all the page ids. Include will override all other arguments. Since pages shouldn’t change often, this might be a good solution for youMake changes to the arguments as follows

   $posts = get_posts('post_type=page&numberposts='.$number_of_posts);
   //or
   $posts = get_posts('include=2,5,67,45');
   //this will only add 4 pages with the specified IDs
   

3. Lastly, you can try to use wp_query… But IMO is overkill for this.

The anythingslider, is simply a list (li) with the content of each post as a list item. You can also go in an create custom, hardcoded list items.

The slider will work on all WordPress websites, but the there is no way to make sure the slider looks good in all websites. This is due to the different widths and heights of websites. Therefore, I’ll try to outline the easiest way to get the content slider and the images in the slider to look their best.

After you activate the content slider plugin, first thing you will need to do it adjust the width to fit into your content sections.

• The stylesheet for the content slider is located in a folder called css in the plugin folder.
• I have added “border:0px solid #cc0000″ so you can set that to 1 to show a border around the elements if you just can’t seem to get it to look right. When everything looks correct. You should set the border to 0.
• The content slider will display in a div with a class called .anythingslider. I think you can set this to 100%, but if that doesn’t work, set it to the fixed full width of the area in pixels.
• the slides are in a class called .wrapper. This cannot be a percent, it has to be a fixed width.
• .anythingslider ul li has to be the same width as the .wrapper class.
• #thumbnav and #start-stop need the “top” attribute equal the .wrapper height.

That’s about it for CSS style. but you also need to make sure that your images are big enough to fit in the image section. I use two div’s in each slider. The left div shows an image from the post and the right div shoes the post title and excerpt. You can add images to the slider without having to add them to the post. I use the fullsize image, centered in the left div. You can use the built in wordpress image editor (2.9+) to make sure the image fits properly.

to display the content slider, you need to call this

<?
$number_of_posts = 10 //optional, default is 5
anything_content_slider($number_of_posts);
?>

I’m assuming that you are using a magazine style theme with this plugin. You can also download my theme be subscribing to my newsletter. It has the Anything Slider plugin included.

Confused, watch this video to see how to add images to the content slider from a post.

The first plugin uses most of the original styling from the anythingslider.

Download the plugin here

The second plugin is the one I used on my websites. The Javascript  is the same but I have a different style. This one also uses CSS3 custom fonts which might not work in all browsers… Actually I know it doesn’t work in IE.

Download the plugin here

You cannot active both plugins at the same time. They will create conflicting errors. You can add them both to your plugin directory, but only one can be activated at a time.