Each slide needs to have a background image and a content that will be shown at a specific position.
Here is how information must be set up in order to create the perfect slide for every data source.
The background image
| Data source | Action |
|---|---|
| image | one of the images from the selected directory |
| Joomla article | the full article image (the article manager option Administrator Images and Linksfrom the Editing Layouttab must be set to Yes in order to use full article images for the slides). Set the Alt Text attribute for better accessibility. or a custom field of type media Joomla 3.7+ |
| K2 item | the image from the imagetab of the item or a K2 extra field of type image |
The caption position
| Data source | Action |
|---|---|
| image | takes the default position setup in the module |
| Joomla article | add the position ('s', 'n' ...) to the caption field of the full article image |
| K2 item | add the position ('s', 'n' ...) to the caption field of the item image |
All the possible positions are explained in the Caption configurations
section. Positions can be lowercase ('s') or uppercase ('S')
The caption content
| Data source | Action |
|---|---|
| image | from the image captionsfield in the data sourcetab of the module instance. HTML tags are allowed in the text. |
| Joomla article | from the article content. Read More separates the text into 2 parts, left and right. Any content can be added to the text (images, links, videos…). Joomla plugins are triggered in the content. Use links A through C to show additional links New 2.5 The { field } syntax is now supported. You can include custom fields in the content and their value will show in place. |
| K2 item | from the item content. Read More separates the text into 2 parts, left and right. Any content can be added to the text (images, links, videos…). Joomla plugins are triggered in the content. |
Title and Category will show according to the parameter settings of the article or K2 item
