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Posted by elliot stiller
elliot stiller
283 Points

Slideshow attempt

I am trying to create a slideshow on my homepage. This slideshow would have a headline on it. When somebody clicks on the image of the slideshow, I want it to ANCHOR LINK them to the article that is further down on the page. Is this possible?

Code i can use, or a plugin?

1 Answer

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

You can do it either way, depending on what you are most comfortable with. I will say though that if you know how to do it, coding one in is going to have the best performance/flexibility. I'm not sure if the plugins are going to easily allow you to reference a link to an element on the page so you'll have to test that out. You can easily write a simple javascript function using scrollTo which will scroll down to the element on the same page.

Here are a few examples of what is out there:

Self Coded: http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/ http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/

WordPress Plugin: https://www.metaslider.com/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/soliloquy-lite/