HI hwdavies,

What version of concrete5 are you using?

If it is 5.7, there is a tutorial on creating a custom template for the Image Slider block. This will allow you to adapt the Image Slider output to use different image slider code.
https://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/5.7/working-with-...

Excellent. Thanks for the link, was very interesting. Do you know of a way we can create repeatable regions? e.g. copy in the markup for a slider or a carousel and then have the html of each item within the slider in a nice little repeat for users to add as they wish? I saw an 'Add On' called 'Designer Content' but I don't think it is yet compatible with the latest c5?

Basically I want to be able to add my own plugins and give users the ability to add items to these plugins (without having to base it off another block e.g. the image slider block).

Thanks :D

There is a block creator for 5.7 called Block Designer. It is very popular and has a five star review rating.
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/block-designer...

Excellent, as I am just testing, I am trying to avoid paying for add ons for now.. I might use v5.6.3.3 for now in order to get all the add ons I want working (e.g. 'Designer Content').

I noticed a vast amount of the add ons are not available in 5.7...? Are we relying on the developers of these add ons to update them to 5.7??.... Thanks a lot for all your help! Has really helped me get started with concrete!

Thanks.

A simple plan:
- use a fileset as the means of including files
- use the filemanager to add titles and descriptions
- use file attributes for any further data
- use the 'list files from set' addon to list the fileset
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/list-files-from-set/...
- add 'image list templates' for a list of image files
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/image-list-templates/...
- Adapt one of those to create a custom template and supply the markup and script for your favoured jQuery gallery

Excellent, thank you for your reply! I will give this a go!

You could take a look at my simple slider here:http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/simple-slider...

It uses swiper instead of jquery cycle, but the block code itself would pretty much be the same. Who knows, maybe you can just use that instead and it do 95% of what you want it to do.

Thank you! Will have a look.