NYTimes/Washington Post Media Slideshow

  • Dan Petty

    (@dpetty)


    17 years, 9 months ago

    I’m building a Web site for a college newspaper with WordPress, and I’m interested in finding a plugin that might be able to create “media strips,” as they’re called, for my home page and to put at the end of stories. Some examples are here:

    http://www.collegian.psu.edu/ (that includes links to their magazine section, or specific articles)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ (about halfway down the page, includes links to video, images and articles)
    http://www.nytimes.com (also about halfway down the page)

    I have the NextGen Gallery Plugin. Is that the way to go (and how would I implement it?) Or is there something better out there?

    Thanks!

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  • mikey1

    (@mikey1)

    17 years, 9 months ago

    hi there, sounds interesting you could look at this plugin which is graphically similar to what you are looking for or maybe next gen could be used.
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featurific-for-wordpress/
    hope it helps.
    mike.

    Thread Starter Dan Petty

    (@dpetty)

    17 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the reply, Mike. I actually already have the plugin, and I don’t think it’ll do quite what I want it to. Perhaps a Javascript slideshow is the answer? That’s what the NYT uses for “Inside NYTimes”. I’m using it at the end of my posts to provide links to other stories. So, I want to be able to display like 4 images (linking to posts) in a horizontal row, with “left” and “right” scroll buttons to see more images. Lots of the plugins out there are flash-based and really visually appealing, I’m looking for something a little more basic.

    Can anyone else help?

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