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This request is largely inspired by this old/dead theme: http://community.mybb.com/thread-69362.html

Basically, I was hoping it would be possible to create a box on the portal page (above news items) for sliding images/text that link to "featured articles" or whatever other use people may use the feature for. I had looked into the Nivo Slider as a possibility already but wasn't sure how to exactly go about integrating it into MyBB (found instructions for phpbb but I don't believe the instructions would work the same).

In addition, it would be great if this feature was purely configurable via the Admin Control Panel, as shown in the above linked theme's video.

Here are a couple of random samples of what I'm hoping can be accomplished:

http://ffxiv.zam.com/
http://paroria.com/portal/

Edit: Found an identical request here-- http://community.mybb.com/thread-128214....eads+index

Not sure if any mods want to merge topics or not.

Hahah I'm the admin of that Paroria site

(2012-12-24, 03:28 PM)Kylin Wrote: [ -> ]it would be great if this feature was purely configurable via the Admin Control Panel, as shown in the above linked theme's video.

Sure, but hardcoding it's content is a possibility until someone made a good plugin for this.

A year ago or so - I tried to make this work with MyBB but had trouble.
Even though I used the no conflict stuff NivoSlider were glitchy and would behave weird.
Rather try using a native JS script like this one: http://www.menucool.com/javascript-image-slider

or

use a prototype based script since prototype is the JS libary MyBB is using.
Here are some scripts I found:
http://www.protoshow.net/
http://www.protoslider.com/

Oh nice! I stumbled across your site awhile back and really liked the general layout of the main page

I'm trying to use MenuCool option (first link) you suggested. I've got the html and css code all set up and uploaded images, but it's not fully functioning yet it seems. No images are showing up at all. I'm probably overlooking some incredibly minor detail but is there a specific path the images need to be? I tried the root images directory and the style images directory but still nothing. And I'm unsure if the java is working either (though hard to tell without images). My test site is here: http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/testsite/

I'd appreciate any assistance into this matter I can get

Edit: Looks like it may just be a result of me trying to use advanced features without a license. I'm guessing that's all it is.
Edit2: Bleh, still can't get images to appear on other non-advanced uses.
Edit3: Never mind! The paths to the files were apparently not working. I had to put in the full url for some reason. I'll have to play around with the relative paths later but for now, all is well! Thanks for the suggestion!

Oh wow, a lot of edits
Is everything working for you now?

Yeah, all is fine now and everything is working smoothly. Thanks