Dnewcomb

After I built my slideshows and had the problem described above, I did some reading and found out that I could build a custom stylesheet that would make the slideshows float a set number of pixels away from the left margin. I opened the Slideshows panel >General Settings >Custom Styles >Light >Customize.

After these lines of code:

.slideshow_container { }
.slideshow_container a { text-decoration: none; }:

I placed this:

.slideshow_container { float: left; }
.slideshow_container { margin-left: 165px; }

So now, each of my slide shows plays next to each other, with 165 pixels between them. I had to play with the number of pixels to get the spacing correct for the Twenty Twelve template I am using and the scale of my slide shows (100 pixels wide by 60 pixels high).

The next pain was to figure out how to make a title over each slideshow. I messed around with text and then realized I could make single slide “slide shows” with text and use the same custom stylesheet that I used for my slideshow and fortunately that worked. I hope this makes sense. I figured most of this out with tips on the WP Slideshow FAQs.