Need help creating a slideshow

  • mortalwombat

    (@mortalwombat)


    14 years ago

    I am trying to build a custom slideshow into my wordpress theme. I am trying to avoid plugins if at all possible. I found this link that says you can just click “Insert Slideshow” but my installation doesn’t show that. It only has “Insert Gallery”. I don’t really want to simply restyle the gallery to display as a slideshow, since the gallery is likely to be used in blog posts, whereas the slideshows will be on pages.

    Ideally, I would like a way to use the control panel to insert a <div> of photos with a specific ID, and in that a UL with a specific ID. I don’t want this to be hard coded though, so that authors can insert a slideshow whenever they want, if that makes sense.

    How would I go about doing that?

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  • Christine Rondeau

    (@crondeau)

    14 years ago

    The link that you provided is for wordPress.com so you’re right, it won’t be on your installation of WordPress.

    The easiest way (if you’re a coder) to get a sldeshow working is to use the wp_get_attachment_image function which will grab all of the images attached to your page and then display them as a list.
    Once you have them displayed, you can use JQuery and CSS to create a slideshow.

    Again, this is very easy if you are comfortable theming WordPress site. I recently did a presentation and discussed how to do that. You can read my tutorials here – http://www.bluelimemedia.com/2012/03/06/vancouver-wordpress-meetup-building-custom-sliders/

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