API controlled Slider

If you want to run a Slider on your Website and control the content like images and text via an API you can do that in this way:

1. The PRO-Version of the WordPress-Plugin SmartSlider 3 can use RSS-Feeds as Contentsource.
   
   So you need an RSS-feed to feed the Slider-Plugin.
   
   If the API gives you RSS everything is ok. But those APIs are rare.
2. Create an RSS-feed out of JSON via the PRO-version of the JCI-plugin:
   Create a Template in the JCI-TemplateManager with the following code. This is just static rss.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
   <rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
       <title>titleexample</title>
       <description>descriptionexample</description>
       <link>http://...link</link>
       <copyright>Copyright 20...</copyright>
       <docs>http://....docs</docs>
       <language>en-us</language>
       <lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2019 03:19:24 -0800</lastBuildDate>
       <managingEditor>info@.....com</managingEditor>
       <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2019 12:18:22 -0300</pubDate>
       <webMaster>webmaster@....com</webMaster>
       <generator>JCI</generator>
       <image>
         <url>http://www.....gif</url>
         <title>titleimage</title>
         <link>http://www....imagelink.htm</link>
         <description>descriptionimage</description>
         <width>480</width>
         <height>480</height>
       </image>   
   <item>
         <title>titleitem</title>
         <description>descriptionitem</description>
         <link>http://www.linkitem</link>
         <comments>commentsitems</comments>
         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2019 07:38:46 -0800</pubDate>
       </item>
     </channel>
   </rss>
   

3. To achieve this, build a JCI-Shortcode like [jsoncontentimporterpro url=http://….id=NUMBER_OF_ABOVE_TEMPLATE debugmode=10]
   You might have to add authentication-info or similar data.
   Publish the page and view it in ther browser. The browser should show you the debug-infos of the plugin and in the best case the RSS-code.
   Then remove “debugmode=10” from the shortcode and publish the page again.
   Add “?show=oc” to the browser. This should remove the template header, footer etc. and gives you the pure RSS-feed.
4. If the previous step gave you RSS you now can edit the template and insert the JSON-data. In the end you get a RSS-feed out of JSON.
   Notice: RSS is sensitive to speacial chars and chars used for RSS itself. Therefore consider to mask JSON-data in a CDATA-tag.

   <![CDATA[
   text....
   ]]>
   

5. The resulting RSS-feed can be used with the SmartSlider 3 RSS-connector.