Add a slider to the homepage of your Spree site, and manage the slideshow from within the Admin panel.

1. Add this extension to your Gemfile with this line:

gem 'spree_slider', github: 'spree-contrib/spree_slider'

gem 'spree_slider', github: 'spree-contrib/spree_slider', branch: 'X-X-stable'

The branch option is important: it must match the version of Spree you're using. For example, use 3-0-stable if you're using Spree 3-0-stable or any 3.0.x version.

2. Install the gem using Bundler:

bundle install

3. Copy & run migrations

bundle exec rake railties:install:migrations
bundle exec rake db:migrate

4. Restart your server

If your server was running, restart it so that it can find the assets properly.

Spree 3 uses the bootstrap framework and a default slider template is available for bootstrap 3 spree/shared/_slider.html.erb.

Example usage:

  <%= render partial: 'spree/shared/slider', locals: { slider: Spree::Slide.published, cid: 'home', interval: false } %>

If you desire to have a customized carousel template you can specify your own like so:

<% if Spree::Slide.published.count > 0 %>
  <section id="slideshow">
    <ul class="slide">
      <% Spree::Slide.published.order('position ASC').each do |s| %>
        <li>
          <h1><%= s.slide_name %></h1>
          <%= link_to image_tag(s.slide_image.url), url_for(s.link_url) %>
        </li>
      <% end %>
    </ul>
    <a title="<%= t(:previous) %>" class="slider-prev"><%= t(:previous)%></a>
    <a title="<%= t(:next) %>" class="slider-next"><%= t(:next) %></a>
  </section>
<% end %>

To add dynamic content, go to the spree admin section, under 'Configuration' and find the Spree Slider & Spree Slider Locations menu.

You can create new slides and new locations. Then to fetch & render the slider for a particular location you can do the following:

  <% slides = Spree::Slide.published.location("home") %>
  <%= render partial: 'spree/shared/slider', locals: { slider: slides } %>

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