WordPress 3.x Slideshows
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Joe Castelli
Mar 15, 2011, 7:00:36 PM3/15/11
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Hey all,
I've been poking around for a simple slideshow solution that takes
advantage of the built-in gallery functionality/markup. There are a
lot of inconvenient/crap plugins out there. I was hoping to find one
that did some sort of Lightbox presentation with attached photos, but
have had no luck. They've tried a few things at the paper, but many
require logins to third-party services and crap like that.
Have any of you found any good solutions that the average newsroomer
can do? Attaching a bunch of photos and hitting "insert gallery" is
about as easy as it gets, so I'd like to keep it that way for the
folks who will be doing it.
It can pretty much be achieved with some additions to functions.php,
but I'd prefer to avoid that if possible. Good old WP wraps the
gallery in plenty of classes, and that shouldn't take TOO long to do,
but if there's something out there that ain't broke, no sense in
fixing it.
Thoughts/experiences? Thanks in advance for any input!
Joe
I've been poking around for a simple slideshow solution that takes
advantage of the built-in gallery functionality/markup. There are a
lot of inconvenient/crap plugins out there. I was hoping to find one
that did some sort of Lightbox presentation with attached photos, but
have had no luck. They've tried a few things at the paper, but many
require logins to third-party services and crap like that.
Have any of you found any good solutions that the average newsroomer
can do? Attaching a bunch of photos and hitting "insert gallery" is
about as easy as it gets, so I'd like to keep it that way for the
folks who will be doing it.
It can pretty much be achieved with some additions to functions.php,
but I'd prefer to avoid that if possible. Good old WP wraps the
gallery in plenty of classes, and that shouldn't take TOO long to do,
but if there's something out there that ain't broke, no sense in
fixing it.
Thoughts/experiences? Thanks in advance for any input!
Joe
Daniel Bachhuber
Mar 15, 2011, 7:02:24 PM3/15/11
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What display requirements are you trying to hit that WordPress doesn't do out of the box?
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Joe Castelli
Mar 16, 2011, 12:58:36 AM3/16/11
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Well, OOB an image gallery (assuming the theme isn't designed for it)
will give you the images you attached to a given post in some markup
that's primed for some JS action.
<div class="gallery galleryid-9 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-
thumbnail" id="gallery-1"><br style="clear: both;">
<dl class="gallery-item">
<dt class="gallery-icon">
<a title="Picture" href="http://www.mydomain.com/picture-link-
here.jpg"><img height="150" width="150" title="Title here." alt="Alt
here." class="attachment-thumbnail" src="picture-link-here.jpg"></a>
</dt></dl>
<dt class="And we repeat that for each
picture"></dt>
<br style="clear: both;">
</div>
That gives you a block of images that can be clicked on.
What I'm hoping for is a simple WP plugin that loads a jQuery plugin
(such as Lightbox) for posts, and does what it does on this set of
images wrapped in the div with a gallery class. It'd be cool to have
basic Lightbox functionality, where clicking a pic brings it up into
the overlay, with arrows to the left and right for navigating between
'em. I've worked with other jQuery plugins in the past, and know that
it's pretty easy, but I was really hoping someone else thought of this
before I did...
I assume that it's designed this way to be that easy, but I'm not
seeing anything that doesn't require the author to at least be
comfortable with adding markup to things. No matter how simple it
seems to us, the average writer is much more likely to adopt picture
uploading and hitting the 'add gallery' button than fiddling with
markup of any kind.
Know what I mean? I'm incredibly tired and am crossing my fingers that
I'm making sense haha Thanks for the reply!
On Mar 15, 7:02 pm, Daniel Bachhuber <d...@danielbachhuber.com> wrote:
> What display requirements are you trying to hit that WordPress doesn't do out of the box?
>
will give you the images you attached to a given post in some markup
that's primed for some JS action.
<div class="gallery galleryid-9 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-
thumbnail" id="gallery-1"><br style="clear: both;">
<dl class="gallery-item">
<dt class="gallery-icon">
<a title="Picture" href="http://www.mydomain.com/picture-link-
here.jpg"><img height="150" width="150" title="Title here." alt="Alt
here." class="attachment-thumbnail" src="picture-link-here.jpg"></a>
</dt></dl>
<dt class="And we repeat that for each
picture"></dt>
<br style="clear: both;">
</div>
That gives you a block of images that can be clicked on.
What I'm hoping for is a simple WP plugin that loads a jQuery plugin
(such as Lightbox) for posts, and does what it does on this set of
images wrapped in the div with a gallery class. It'd be cool to have
basic Lightbox functionality, where clicking a pic brings it up into
the overlay, with arrows to the left and right for navigating between
'em. I've worked with other jQuery plugins in the past, and know that
it's pretty easy, but I was really hoping someone else thought of this
before I did...
I assume that it's designed this way to be that easy, but I'm not
seeing anything that doesn't require the author to at least be
comfortable with adding markup to things. No matter how simple it
seems to us, the average writer is much more likely to adopt picture
uploading and hitting the 'add gallery' button than fiddling with
markup of any kind.
Know what I mean? I'm incredibly tired and am crossing my fingers that
I'm making sense haha Thanks for the reply!
On Mar 15, 7:02 pm, Daniel Bachhuber <d...@danielbachhuber.com> wrote:
> What display requirements are you trying to hit that WordPress doesn't do out of the box?
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> On Mar 15, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Joe Castelli <castell...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey all,
>
> > I've been poking around for a simple slideshow solution that takes
> > advantage of the built-in gallery functionality/markup. There are a
> > lot of inconvenient/crap plugins out there. I was hoping to find one
> > that did some sort of Lightbox presentation with attached photos, but
> > have had no luck. They've tried a few things at the paper, but many
> > require logins to third-party services and crap like that.
>
> > Have any of you found any good solutions that the average newsroomer
> > can do? Attaching a bunch of photos and hitting "insert gallery" is
> > about as easy as it gets, so I'd like to keep it that way for the
> > folks who will be doing it.
>
> > It can pretty much be achieved with some additions to functions.php,
> > but I'd prefer to avoid that if possible. Good old WP wraps the
> > gallery in plenty of classes, and that shouldn't take TOO long to do,
> > but if there's something out there that ain't broke, no sense in
> > fixing it.
>
> > Thoughts/experiences? Thanks in advance for any input!
>
> > Joe
>
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> > Hey all,
>
> > I've been poking around for a simple slideshow solution that takes
> > advantage of the built-in gallery functionality/markup. There are a
> > lot of inconvenient/crap plugins out there. I was hoping to find one
> > that did some sort of Lightbox presentation with attached photos, but
> > have had no luck. They've tried a few things at the paper, but many
> > require logins to third-party services and crap like that.
>
> > Have any of you found any good solutions that the average newsroomer
> > can do? Attaching a bunch of photos and hitting "insert gallery" is
> > about as easy as it gets, so I'd like to keep it that way for the
> > folks who will be doing it.
>
> > It can pretty much be achieved with some additions to functions.php,
> > but I'd prefer to avoid that if possible. Good old WP wraps the
> > gallery in plenty of classes, and that shouldn't take TOO long to do,
> > but if there's something out there that ain't broke, no sense in
> > fixing it.
>
> > Thoughts/experiences? Thanks in advance for any input!
>
> > Joe
>
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Matt Dulin
Mar 16, 2011, 1:50:14 PM3/16/11
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You might try Cleaner Gallery.
You'll have to add the Lightbox js another way (directly edit the theme header.php or get a lightbox plugin), but this plugin at least cleans up the html a bit and lets you tie it into something like Lightbox.
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