Adding Video Sliders on the home page is a great way to showcase new and popular videos on your platform. There are two different types of video sliders available: Dynamic and Manual. A slider can display up to four video thumbnails at a time. When there are more than four videos assigned to a slider, viewers can click the left and right arrows to browse the display of videos.
Manual Video Slider: Choose the videos that appear in this slider.
Dynamic Video Slider: Display all videos in the library or only videos that have been assigned to a category of your choosing. If you have the Essentials/Professional/Enterprise Plan, the dynamic video slider can also display videos assigned to an attribute.
When you first created your video platform, a dynamic slider was automatically created and published for you. To edit this slider or to add more video sliders, see the following topics.
Editing a Video Slider
First, follow the instructions in Accessing Widgets, then follow the instructions below.
- Click Video Sliders in the Widgets submenu.
- Find the video slider that you want to edit and click Edit configuration.
Adding a Manual Slider
First, follow the instructions in Accessing Widgets, then follow the instructions below.
- Click Video Sliders in the Widgets submenu.
With the Broadcaster or Enterprise Plan, if you’re configuring a video slider in a Featured Videos Sub-Page template, there are two positions where you can add video sliders, i.e., above and/or below the Ads Carousel.
- Click Add Video Slider.
- Click Dynamic Slider.
Ensure you select the correct slider as you won’t be able to change the type of slider after you have made a selection.
- Enter a name for the slider. (The name appears above the slider when it’s displayed on your platform.)
- Choose the order of the slider in the Slider Sort Order drop-down.
- In the Content Sort Order drop-down, select one of the following:
- Select Newest to sort the content by date.
- Select Manual to choose the order of the content.
- Select Library Order to sort the content by the order defined in the library.
- Select the Enabled checkbox if you want the slider to display on the page.
- Click Save.
The manual slider has been created. Now you can assign content to it. - In the Video field, start typing the name of the video or live video that you want to add. After typing the first three letters, a list of suggested items appears.
- Select the desired item and then click Add.
You can only add one item at a time.
- Repeat steps 9 and 10 above until you’ve added all the items that you want.
Your changes are automatically saved and you can navigate away from this screen.
Sorting Content in a Manual Slider
After creating a manual slider, you can choose the order in which content appears in the slider, if you had selected Manual in Content Sort Order (see Step 6 from Adding a Manual Slider).
- Click Empty.
- Enter the sort order in the field and press the ✓ button.
Your changes are saved.
Deleting Content from a Manual Slider
You can remove any content that you no longer want to appear in a manual slider.
Find the content that you want delete and click its Delete button.
The video has now removed from your manual slider.
Adding a Dynamic Slider
First, follow the instructions in Accessing Widgets, then follow the instructions below.
- Click Video Sliders in the Widgets submenu.
With the Enterprise Plan, if you’re configuring a video slider in a Featured Videos Sub-Page template, there are two positions where you can add video sliders, i.e., above and/or below the ads carousel.
- Click Add Video Slider.
- Click Dynamicl Slider.
You will not be able to change the type of slider after you have selected it.
- Enter a name for the slider. (The name appears above the slider when it’s displayed on your platform.)
- Choose the order of the slider in the Slider Sort Order drop-down.
- In the Content Sort Order drop-down, select one of the following:
- Select Newest to sort the content by date.
- Select Library Order to sort the content by the order defined in the library.
- Select the Enabled checkbox if you want the slider to display on the page.
- Choose a category in the Category Source drop-down. If you don’t select a category, then the slider will display all library content.
- Click Save.
The dynamic slider has been created. If you have the Broadcaster or Enterprise Plan, there are extra configuration options that you can edit. See the next topic.
Configuring a Dynamic Slider
Plan Availability
Essentials
Professional
Enterprise
After you’ve created a dynamic slider, you can apply additional filters to control what content appears in the slider.
- Click Video Sliders in the Widgets submenu.
- Find the dynamic slider that you want to configure and click Edit configuration.
- This step is only applicable if your platform has more than one channel. In the Channel Source drop-down, choose the channel containing the library content that you want to display in the slider.
- Choose an attribute in the Filters drop-down. If you don’t select an attribute, then the slider will display all library content.
- OPTIONAL: Choose a page from the “View More” page drop-down. If you make a selection here, a “View More” button will be added to your dynamic slider. When viewers click the button, they’ll be directed to the page that you’ve selected from the drop-down. See below for an example of how the “View More” button appears on the front end. (If you don’t select a page in the drop-down, your dynamic slider will not display a “View More” button.)
- Click Save.
Positioning Video Sliders on a Page
If you’ve created multiple video sliders for a page, you can easily change the order in which they appear on that page.
First, follow the instructions in Accessing Widgets, then follow the instructions below.
- Click Video Sliders in the Widgets submenu.
- Drag-and-drop a widget to the desired location.
Your changes are automatically saved.