mezzanine-slides

Add simple slide functionality to your Mezzanine based website allowing for beautiful banners at the tops of pages.

Setup

1. Run pip install mezzanine-slides
2. In settings.py add mezzanine_slides to your INSTALLED_APPS above mezzanine apps.
3. Run createdb or syncdb, if running syncdb run migrate if you are using South.
4. If you haven't modified your base.html or pages/page.html templates then you can just manage.py collectemplates mezzanine_slides and use the ones I provide. If you've already modified these templates see the Templates section for continued instruction.

Templates

Add this to your pages/page.html anywhere as long as it's not inside another block:

{% block slides %}{% if page.slide_set.all %}
<div class="row">
<div class="span12">
    <ul class="rslides">{% for image in page.slide_set.all %}
        <li><img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}{% thumbnail image.file 940 300 %}" alt="{{ image.description }}"/></li>
    {% endfor %}</ul>
</div>
</div>
{% endif %}{% endblock %}

Add this to base.html where you would like the slides to appear, which is usually between your main content and the navigation:

{% block slides %}{% endblock %}

Notice that I include the row and span12 classes on the pages/page.html template so that if you don't have any slides then nothing is added to the page.

Now you'll need to include the CSS and JS in your compress areas of your base.html template:

{% compress css %}
...
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/responsiveslides.css">
{% endcompress %}


{% compress js %}
...
<script src="{{ STATIC_URL }}js/responsiveslides.min.js"></script>
{% endcompress %}

Lastly you'll need to invoke the slides JavaScript by putting $('.rslides').responsiveSlides(); on in your JavaScript somewhere. In the base.html template I put this in the header around line 34 where I found some other JavaScript functions to just make it easy and try to conform to the original Mezzanine as much as possible, here is an excerpt of the area:

<script>
$(function() {
    ...
    $('.rslides').responsiveSlides();
});
</script>

Credits

Thanks to Viljami Salminen for his great ResponsiveSlides.js plugin.

License (Simplified BSD)

Copyright (c) Isaac Bythewood
All rights reserved.

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