We're beginning a new plugin, and I thought to ask anyone who may be interested, if you could comment on what would be the ideal Slideshow.
Our intention is to build with the following:
Mootools v1.2
Electricprism's Slideshow2.
And with lightbox integration.
Any suggestions or requests will be well received.
Thanx for your time.
Maybe I should elaborate:
As with most slideshow plugins you need to tell the plugin which images to use. I thought it would be great if the plugin could figure out for itself what images so the user just has to say give me a slideshow here. So we are building the Automatic slideshow creator, or SuperSlider. if you'd like to make any suggestions as to how you would like it to work, speak up now and maybe we can incorporate your request. thanx.
for - posts / pages / templates.
* Insert [superslider] tag into post or page automatically creates slide show pulling x number of recent or random images into slideshow
* Insert [superslider(category=mycat)] tag into post or page automatically creates slide show pulling x number of recent images from said category into slideshow
* Insert [superslider(tag=mytag)] tag into post or page automatically creates slide show pulling x number of recent images from said tag into slideshow
* Insert function call superslider(active) into template automatically creates slide show pulling x number of recent images from active category / tag / archives into slideshow.
Posted 1 year ago #
My ideal image sideshow would be:
1. appearance can be highly customized
1. navigation bar for thumbnails, enable and disable allow
2. play/stop function OR open an external/assigned link or full-sized image when clicking on the picture currently displayed;
3. Description field for each image available, and html enabled.
Posted 1 year ago #
Hi Daiv,
Did you manage to get the plugin built with electric prism Slideshow? Ive been working on simply getting his script to work in WP but can only get the thumbs and controller to show. The main images wont show. For me, electric prism has all the features I need - scrolling thumbs, controller, and different transitions. Any date for completion of the plugin?
Thx
Rob
Posted 1 year ago #
+1 on that,
I would love to see this implemented as a WP plugin transforming the gallery into a slideshow and supporting the lightbox.
Let us know what are the plans on this one...
Any one following this thread,
Between summer holidays(2 months)
and waiting for mootools 1.2 to come out of beta
this superslider project has been on hold.
I'm just getting back into it, so when I have some results I'll let you know here.
Meanwhile anyone wants to help out, register over at http://superslider.daivmowbray.com/
Thanx for your input.
Posted 1 year ago #
A good suggestion would be to have an admin panel for users that aren't that keen on editing stuff. Having the gallery pull images from categories and all is great ... but i would rather point it to a special directory and only have special images for the slideshow.
This is because most slideshows already do the other things but none come with an actual intuitive (read: newbie friendly) and simple admin interface where people can just upload images to the slideshow *AND* where the plugin automatically (please) resizes the images, crops them etc.. to fit whatever "viewport" one want;
XHTML:
<div id="topimg" class="slideshow">
<span><img src="1.jpg" alt="Alt-text" title="Description" /></span>
<span><img src="2.jpg" alt="Alt-text" title="Description" /></span>
<span><img src="3.jpg" alt="Alt-text" title="Description/></span>
</div>
CSS:
#topimg {position:relative; height:300px; }
#topimg img {position:absolute;z-index:1;}
#topimg span {position:absolute;z-index:2;background:url(cool-borders-in-a-transparent-png-24.png) no-repeat; }
One should ofc. have the option to have all images linked to "x" where "x" can be a post or whatever one chooses (this would also make the whole thing a viable choice for a feature content slider - especially if it was newbie friendly / non-tech friendly). And focus on it being compliant with XHTML Strict or even better - let one modify the output for ones needs.
Another suggesion is to have all the tech-stuff in one area and all the newbie-friendly stuff in another. That way clients doesn't have to get über-confused with stuff like auto-resize, cropping etc.
Good luck!
Great reply tommiehansen, thanx
I have a first draft up and running, sorry not yet ready for public use. It works off of the WP- gallery system. So insert a default gallery tag [gallery] and the plugin turns the gallery into a slideshow. This way the image upload and resize is already looked after.
As for the slideshow options I'm building that now, but will have most of the options from the Electricprism's Slideshow2.
have a look at a demo result here.
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