Magic Slideshow for PrestaShop

Key features

Instant slideshow without coding

You don't need to know how to code to create magnificent JavaScript slideshows in under 5 minutes. It happily works with jQuery or without - no frameworks or dependencies required.

Fully responsive

Magic Slideshow will look great on any device. Make gorgeous homepage PrestaShop slideshows, or product slideshows, recently viewed product slideshows and other locations of your site. You can also add Magic Slideshow manually to any other page - just follow the instructions.

Stay up to date

We constantly improve Magic Slideshow. Since 2009, we've always updated it to support every new version of PrestaShop. Still, if you need any help, our friendly support team is ready to assist.

Optimised download speed & SEO

We created the lazy-loading option (to download pictures only when needed) to help your pages load fast. For great SEO, links use SEO-friendly URLs to help Google index your images and boost your visitors.

Screenshots

Installation

1. Download the PrestaShop module for Magic Slideshow (free and fully functional demo version).
2. Either upload it via your PrestaShop admin area. Or unzip the file on your computer and FTP the magicslideshow folder to the /modules/ directory of your store, keeping the file and folder structure intact.
3. Activate the module via the Modules menu Modules > Other Modules > Install.
4. The demo version is now installed!
5. Customize Magic Slideshow as you wish.
6. Magic Slideshow can be enabled on any page or section you choose.
7. Buy Magic Slideshow To upgrade your free and fully functional trial version of Magic Slideshow (which removes the "Trial version" text), buy Magic Slideshow and overwrite following file with the same one from your licensed version:

   /modules/magicslideshow/magicslideshow.js

Video tutorial

Setup a slideshow

Add a slideshow by setting "Enable effect" on any of these blocks:

• Product page
• New products block
• Specials block
• Viewed block
• Featured block
• Home page/custom slideshow

Use the following options to choose which images are used:

• What image type should be used as product image
• What image type should be used for 'Viewed products' block image
• What image type should be used for 'Specials' block image
• What image type should be used for 'Featured products' block image

Featured products slideshow

To create a slideshow of your featured products:

1. Go to the module options page (Admin -> Modules -> MagicSlideshow -> Configure).
2. Set the option "Use effect for 'Featured products' block" to "Yes".
3. Choose which catalog you wish to use and how many products for the slideshow.

Home page slideshow

Add an amazing slideshow to your homepage in just a couple of clicks:

1. Enable Home page Slideshow section.
2. Select Upload images and browse your computer for your set of slideshow images.
3. Your slideshow is now working!
4. To set a specific slideshow size, change Slideshow width (pixels) and Slideshow height (pixels) options.
5. Enjoy over 30 slideshow customizations. Try them all and see which works best for your site.

TIP: To show specific language as image description: Upload image > Set 'Lang' to correct language > Enter text in 'Title' and 'Description' fields. If your website supports 4 languages, repeat this process 4 times.

Slideshow in CMS area

1. Go to the module options page Admin > Modules > Modules > Magic Slideshow > Configure.
2. Go to 'Defaults' section > Miscellaneous > Include headers on all pages > Click 'tick' > Save settings.
3. Go to 'Home page/custom slideshow' section.
4. Upload slideshow images > Save settings.
5. Insert the slideshow shortcode [magicslideshow] where you want it to show on any CMS page.
6. If you want to show slideshow with specific images only, please use shortcode [magicslideshow id=1,2,5] where 1, 2 and 5 are the numbers of images from the ID column.

Uninstallation

Thanks for trying Magic Slideshow on your PrestaShop site! What did you hope Magic Slideshow could do? How can we improve it? Let us know, we're always improving our tools based on customer feedback.

1. Deactivate Magic Slideshow via the Modules and Services > Module and Services > Other Modules > Uninstall.
2. Delete Magic Slideshow via the Modules and Services > Module and Services > Other Modules > Delete.
3. Magic Slideshow is now uninstalled.

FAQ

1. I want my PrestaShop homepage slideshow to show in different languages.

   No problem! If your PrestaShop store supports multiple languages, this is easy to do. In this example, we will use 'en', 'fr', 'it' and 'de'.

   Simply upload the same image to your Homepage section 4 times. Then:

   - set 1 slide to Lang 'en' and add English text to 'Title' and 'Description' fields
   - set 1 slide to Lang 'fr' and add French text to 'Title' and 'Description' fields
   - set 1 slide to Lang 'it' and add Italian text to 'Title' and 'Description' fields
   - set 1 slide to Lang 'de' and add German text to 'Title' and 'Description' fields

   This means no matter which version of your PrestaShop store customers visit they will see correct language over homepage slides.

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This module was created for PrestaShop, the open source ecommerce solution. For help, contact us and we will help you install it on your website.