Title: Need help creating a slideshow
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Need help creating a slideshow

 *  [mortalwombat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mortalwombat/)
 * (@mortalwombat)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-creating-a-slideshow/)
 * 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](http://en.support.wordpress.com/slideshows/)
   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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crondeau/)
 * (@crondeau)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-creating-a-slideshow/#post-2640533)
 * 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/](http://www.bluelimemedia.com/2012/03/06/vancouver-wordpress-meetup-building-custom-sliders/)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Christine Rondeau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crondeau/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-creating-a-slideshow/#post-2640533)
 * Status: not resolved

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