Javascript – add slick slider to wordpress

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I made HTML/CSS design of a web site, and now I need to convert it to WordPress. The part that I am working on right now is Adding slick slider to show only on my WP front page. It works perfectly in HTML (because there I incorporated javascript which could be found on actual slick slider website and initiated through 3 div elements with images inside.).

In WP functions.php I added:

//Add slider

 add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' );

function create_post_type() {
 register_post_type( 'slider',
   array(
   'labels' => array(
    'name' => __( 'Sliders' ),
    'singular_name' => __( 'Slider' ),
    'add_new' => 'Add new slide',
  ),
     'public' => true,

  )
);
}

?>

It is supposed to be a custom post type, so with this piece of code, I managed to show Sliders/Add new slider option in WP Dashboard. But now I have no idea what should I do next to make the actual slider show up on my front page. Because when I add a new slide it makes a whole new single image post instead of showing on top of my front page(not header). I am sure there is something else that i am missing, but I have no idea what to do, since this is the first time I had to do something like this. Can anyone help me, please? I am starting to go crazy over this. Thank you so much in advance, everyone.

Best Answer

You may want to try the WordPress plugin Slick Slider. It uses native WordPress galleries (in contrast to WP Slick Slider and Image Carousel mentioned in the other answer which uses a custom post type).

Disclaimer: I'm the author of this plugin.

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    <tr>...</tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

You would end up with the following:

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I would therefore recommend this approach instead:

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You can include anything within the after() method as long as it's valid HTML, including multiple rows as per the example above.

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DaRKoN_ suggests appending to the tbody rather than adding content after the last tr. This gets around the issue of having no rows, but still isn't bulletproof as you could theoretically have multiple tbody elements and the row would get added to each of them.

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I think the safest solution is probably to ensure your table always includes at least one tbody in your markup, even if it has no rows. On this basis, you can use the following which will work however many rows you have (and also account for multiple tbody elements):

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