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Add them to your shopping cart and go through the check out process.

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Once in your My Account area go to the Downloadable Products link and download the plugins that you have ordered.

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Nop-templates Support Team

Hi influenceuk,

thank you for your feedback. It is highly appreciated.

The bug is fixed now and the new versions of the plugin have been uploaded on the site. So you have two options - either to download it again(no need to make another order, just to download it again from your 'My Account' section) or to make the following changes in one of the files:

1. Locate the Plugins\SevenSpikes.Nop.Plugins.HomePageSliders\Views\HomePageSliders\HomePageCarouselSlider.cshtml from your web site.

2. Edit the file with a text editor as follows:

from
<a href='@sliderImage.Url;'>
    <img alt='@sliderImage.Alt;' src='@sliderImage.PicturePath' />

remove the semicolons from the Url and Alt properties. These lines of code should look like:

<a href='@sliderImage.Url'>
    <img alt='@sliderImage.Alt' src='@sliderImage.PicturePath' />


Thanks!

Yes, but for our plugins you should call 7SpikesPlugin-CopyToWeb target instead of Plugin-CopyToWeb. Don't forget to add the new target in the file nop.plugins.targets
Here are detailed steps how to do it:

1. Add 7SpikesPlugin-CopyToWeb target in the nop.plugins.targets file.


<Target Name="7SpikesPlugin-CopyToWeb">      
      <Message Text="Copy $(PluginProjectName) plugin to Web" />  
    
        <PropertyGroup>
            <From>$(WebPluginsFolder)\$(PluginProjectName)</From>
            <To>$(PluginOutput)\$(PluginProjectName)</To>
        </PropertyGroup>
        <RemoveDir Directories="$(To)" />
        <MakeDir Directories="$(To)" />

    <!-- Copy all folders recursively as some of our plugins have folders i.e Styles, Resources etc. -->
        <CreateItem Include="$(From)\**\*.*">
            <Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="CompileOutput" />
        </CreateItem>
        <Copy SourceFiles="@(CompileOutput)"
                DestinationFolder="$(To)\%(RecursiveDir)" />
        
        <!--<RoboCopy SourceFolder="$(From)" DestinationFolder="$(To)"/>-->
        <Error Condition="!Exists('$(To)')" Text="There was a problem coping plugin '$(PluginProjectName)'." />
        <Message Text="Succesfully copied plugin '$(PluginProjectName)'" Condition="Exists('$(To)')"  />
    </Target>

2. Add another target Plugins-CopySevenSpikes in which call all needed 7Spikes plugins one by one i.e Home Page Sliders plugin.

<Target Name="Plugins-CopySevenSpikes">  
    <Message Text="Copy Seven Spikes plugins" />

<MSBuild Projects ="$(MSBuildProjectFullPath)"
                        Targets="7SpikesPlugin-CopyToWeb"
                        Properties="PluginProjectName=SevenSpikes.Core"/>

<MSBuild Projects ="$(MSBuildProjectFullPath)"
                        Targets="7SpikesPlugin-CopyToWeb"
                        Properties="PluginProjectName=SevenSpikes.Nop.Plugins.HomePageSliders"/>
</Target>
  
3. In the Deploy target in nop.proj file call the Plugins-CopySevenSpikes target.

<!--Lets copy 7Spikes plugins to the deployed directory-->
    <MSBuild Projects ="$(MSBuildProjectFullPath)"
                    Targets="Plugins-CopySevenSpikes"
                    Properties="
                        PluginOutput=$(DeployFolder)\$(DeployPrefix)\Plugins\"/>

That's all you have to do in order the Deploy.bat file to copy our plugins to the Deployable folder given our plugins are already in Presentation\Nop.Web\Plugins

Hi creative3k,

You need to manually copy any plugins that are not part of nopCommerce default plugins.
Here is some more information about how the Deploy.bat works.

Running Deploy.bat does the following:
1. Deletes the Deployable folder content. That's why everything there gets deleted.
2. Builds your NopCommerce.sln solution .
3. Copies what is needed in the Deployable folder - the web site and the plugins.

Deploy.bat file does NOT copy everything from Presentation\Nop.Web\Plugins folder. It copies only the plugins that nopCommerce knows about.
You can control, which plugins to be copied to the Deployable folder in the nop.plugins.targets file located in your Build folder.
As our plugins are not included in nop.plugins.target file you can't expect them to be automatically copied in the Deployable folder.
So it is not an issues and you are not doing anything wrong it is just how nopCommerce deployment process works.

Hope this helps!

Best Regards,
Nop-Templates Team

Your images need to be the same size. The slider would not attempt to resize them automatically. So once you decide what dimensions your images will be, set the slider width and height to the same values. After that new images need to be the same dimensions as the other images. Otherwise even if the slider tried to resize them automatically it will be very difficult to make it look good.

Glad it worked.
Your feedback is really appreciated!
We will change the instructions manual.

Could you also post your reply to the respective nopCommerce forum thread, so that all others can know what is going on?

Thanks

We have just downloaded the latest version and installed it on nopCommerce 2.2 and the Nop Home Page Sliders are visible.

So there must be some incompatibility with your installation.

You can catch us on skype and share your screen if you would like us to take a look:

skype name:

nop.templates.com.support

If you do not see the Nop Home Page Sliders in the config -> plugins section, these means that the plugins nopCommerce version differs from you nopCommerce installation version.
Please make sure that your are trying to install the correct version of the Nop Home Page Sliders. For example Nop Home Page Slider 2.2 on nopCommerce 2.2.

Hi mcecilien,

the problem has been fixed and it is uploaded on the site.

If anyone else that has already downloaded Nop Home Page Sliders experiences the same problem can download the new extension or contact us via email.

Thanks!