WP Rotator is a plugin designed for developers to quickly and easily create custom rotators. It can be downloaded from the plugin repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rotator
Key features
- Uses query_posts() parameters to specify what shows up in the rotator.
- Uses Post Thumbnails for the images rotating.
- The Javascript, CSS, and Markup are all functions that can be unhooked and replaced by your code.
- Refer to the Documentation for more details on customizing it.
Simple Install Instructions
- Install the plugin.
- In Settings > WP Rotator, specify your query arguments. By default looks for posts in the Rotator post type, but you can change this to whatever you like (ex:
tag=featured) - Add
do_action('wp_rotator');to your theme file, or use the shortcode[//wp_rotator]without the //, or put the WP Rotator Widget in a sidebar.
Additional install instructions in the Documentation.
Examples
About the Developers
WP Rotator was developed by Chris Bratlien and Bill Erickson. We’ve developed many rotators for client projects and found ourselves always copying bits and pieces from our old projects. We decided to generalize the code we use often into a plugin, and make it easy to replace anything and everything with custom code if needed.
This plugin was released so other developers like us could use it. It isn’t designed for everyone, and if you aren’t able to customize it yourself please hire a WordPress developer to customize it for you. The plugin is well documented (both here and in the plugin itself) so most WordPress developers should be able to customize.