[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Slideshow of RECENT or RANDOM photos

If you are still looking and for anyone else that runs into this situation, I have found a way to show tagged photos in a slideshow that you can place anywhere on either the page or post, whiched worked in my situation and may (or may not) work in yours.

Please excuse the crudeness of this hack since I haven’t had much time to make it user friendly and hopefully over the next week or so I can get this to work with the built in recent and random functions as well.

Anyways, here is what you need to do.

/*– Instructions to add custom slideshow in NextGen Gallery –*/

Open file: ..\plugins\nextgen-galery\xml\imagarotator.php

Add an elseif {} statement under the heading ‘ //get the pictures ‘ that looks something like this:

`elseif ($galleryID == 999) {
$thepictures = nggTags::find_images_for_tags(‘favorite’ , ‘ASC’);
}`

where $galleryID is some arbitrary gallery that is called by either <?php echo nggShowSlideshow(999, width, height) ?> in a template file or [slideshow id=999] in a post and ‘favorite’ is the name of the tag that you used on your photos that you want shown in this slideshow(in this case I used favorite).

Hope that helps someone and let me know if anything isn’t clear.

Cool!

Still looking to get Recent/Random working with this. Just need some time.

Paul

this hack is not working for me, and I really need to show only some pictures in the slideshow. The slideshow is loading but not the images.
which version of nextgen you are using?

There are two new shortcodes for NextGen Gallery:

[recent max=4] and [random max=4]

Set the ‘max=’ value to number of pics you want returned and displayed. You can also include the optional ‘mode=’ parameter to grab pics by most recent date (i.e. [recent max=4 mode=recentdate] ). Finally, if you want to use this shortcode outside of content in a loop for posts, you can add the following PHP directly into a template file (i.e. to place in sidebar on a Page or something):

<?php echo do_shortcode('[recent max=4 mode="recentdate"]'); ?>

Hope that helps!

Just so I can keep this alive… has anyone found anything? I’m having the same problems that Pailio51 is having.

I’d also love to be able to add a random slideshow but can’t see anyway to currently do it. Assume the new random/recent shortcodes need to be integrated into the slideshow functions. Any NextGEN gallery developers keen to do this? Cheers.

I’ll only mention this in case it solves some people’s problems here – you can use the “random” command in the slideshow command like this:

[slideshow id=x random]

And it results in a random slideshow from gallery “x”. The problem that I have with this is that I would like it to be a random slideshow from ALL galleries. You can use “all galleries” as an option for the slideshow sidebar widget and this generates a gallery id of “0”, but setting id=0 in that slideshow command doesn’t work.

I’ll also add that I’m unsure how the width/height integrate into the command with the random call, I never tried it because I didn’t need it, but I’d bet that you can just enter them after random and it will work.

If anyone can figure out how to make this id=0 call work in this command I’d really appreciate it!

Edit: I found this:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-slideshow-from-album?replies=7

So it appears that you used to be able to accomplish this via an album ID, but it doesn’t seem to work anymore. Just throwing this out in case someone smarter than I can use this to implement a solution…