djangocms-slider-easy-uploadcare

A simple django cms slideshow plugin. Fork of https://github.com/urga/djangocms-slider, but using uploadcare.

Features:

There are 2 plugins: SlideShow and Slide. A SlideShow can only contains Slides. Those can be arranged in the order you want just like any other plugin.
Each image can have a url specified (creating an anchor around the image)
By default, creates a flexslider slideshow.
Uses the uploadcare 3.0.1 widget to enable free cropping (currently no setting to enable self-defined cropping dimensions)

Installation

This plugin requires django CMS 3.0 or higher to be properly installed and configured.

To install:

run pip install djangocms-slider-easy-uploadcare on your virtualenv
Make sure pyuploadcare is configured with the UPLOADCARE setting
add djangocms_slider_uploadcare to your INSTALLED_APPS setting (mind the underscore)
Run ./manage.py migrate djangocms_slider_uploadcare

Why use this plugin?

Uploadcare is pretty great with an awesome widget, and very good at serving images fast
If you've stumbled upon the well-known performance issues regarding cloud storage in combination with easy-thumbnails and sorl-thumbnail

Own Flexslider config?

This can be done by overriding the slider.html template.

Place a djangocms_slider_uploadcare directory with a slider.html in your templates directory
In this slider.html, copy the original contents of slider.html and edit the Flexslider config included in it