Slider Revolution magento extension FAQ

Slideshow for category page with Slider Revolution Magento Extension

You can easily creare slideshow for category page with Slider Revolution Magento Extension. In fact, you can have different slideshows for different categories in the following way:

  1. Login to admin
  2. Navigate to NWDthemes > Slider Revolution > Manage sliders and create new slider for the category.
    Slider Revolution - Manage sliders

  3. Navigate to Catalog > Manage Categories and choose category
  4. Switch to Custom Design tab and enter following code into Custom Layout Update field
    <reference name="top.container">
        <block type="nwdrevslider/revslider" name="revslider">
            <action method="setAlias"><alias>ecorecycle</alias></action>
        </block>
    </reference>

    As a result you should get slideshow right below your navigation.
    Slider Revolution - different slideshow for category

  5. If you want to place slider instead of category image, you need to update the code to
    <reference name="content">
        <block type="nwdrevslider/revslider" name="revslider" before="-">
            <action method="setAlias"><alias>ecorecycle</alias></action>
        </block>
    </reference>

    Since this category use statis block for this image, you need to disable it in Display Settings Tab.
    Switch Display Mode to Products Only
    As a result you should get slideshow instead of category static block.
    Slider Revolution - different slideshow for category

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