Content Slideshow

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This plugin creates a fullscreen slideshow that displays randomly-selected pictures from your media library. Designed to display pictures related to your business/organization in the background at an event or in your office, there is no need to configure any settings or controls. Image captions/descriptions are automatically displayed as well, and can be configured based on your needs.

Once activated, you can view the slideshow by visiting http://yourdomain.com/slideshow. All JPEG images will be displayed (since .jpg is best for pictures, while .png and .gif are typically used for graphics).

Please note that it is not currently possible to pause the slideshow or go back; the slideshow is not designed for personal viewing. However, clicking/tapping on the image will open its attachment page in a new tab, allowing images to be contextualized or edited easily.

The slideshow can also be embedded into your site via a widget or a shortcode.

You can control some options by adjusting the url of the slideshow. Parameters are controlled via query string (and widget options and shortcode attributes).

  • size is the size of the image to load, either thumbnail (discouraged), medium, large, full, or auto, which uses medium or large depending on wp_is_mobile().
  • year is the 4-digit numeric year in which the images were published.
  • month is the numeric month in which the images were published (between 1 and 12), typically but not necessarily used in conjunction with year.
  • mode defines a subset of images to use, such as featured for featured images only.
  • captions controls the captions display: either auto, none, title, titlecaption, caption, or description. Caption data is read from the image attachment post and can be updated in the media library.

Using all options, for example:
http://example.com/slideshow?size=full&year=2014&month=4&mode=featured&captions=titlecaption

You can see it in action here.

Download

Latest version: Download Content Slideshow v2.4.1

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Installation

  1. Take the easy route and install through the WordPress plugin adder OR
  2. Download the .zip file and upload the unzipped folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  4. Go to http://yourdomain.com/slideshow to see the slideshow in action. Add a widget version from the Widgets section in the Customizer or add the
    shortcode to a post or page.

Screenshots

  1. Full-screen mode.

    Full-screen mode.

  2. Shortcode, in the Twenty Fourteen theme.

    Shortcode, in the Twenty Fourteen theme.

  3. Widget, in the Twenty Fourteen theme.

    Widget, in the Twenty Fourteen theme.

Changelog

2.4.1

  • Fix missing file in 2.4 release package.

2.4

  • Add code comments for the slideshow JS.
  • Lazy-load slideshow iframes in widgets and shortcodes. Image loading is already lazy.
  • Exclude images with wp_attachment_context from the slideshow (site icons, cropped header images, etc).

2.3

  • Add a “featured” mode to only show featured images.
  • Add options to configure the captions display, including UI options in the widget controls.

2.2

  • Fix keyboard accessibility so that only the visible image can be focused with the keyboard.

2.1

  • Add support for selective refresh in the customizer preview, available in WordPress 4.5.

2.0

  • The slideshow is now JavaScript-driven. Images should load faster with smoother transitions between them, but the initial load time will be slower. The slideshow page will reload itself much less often now.
  • The delay query arg has been removed.
  • Fix WordPress 4.3 compatibility.
  • Add translations.

1.1

  • Link images in slideshow to their attachment pages.
  • Fix display of attachment titles as fallback captions.
  • Fix viewport in IE10+ in Windows 8 mode.
  • Confirm WordPress 3.9 compatibility.

1.0

  • First publicly available version of the plugin.
  • Tested with WordPress 3.8.