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Creating a slide

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Truly Responsive Slides

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 Links from the Editing Layout tab 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 image tab 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 captions field in the data source tab 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