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Slideshow test

This is something I’ve been working on over the last few days. It’s a WordPress plugin that takes a Zooomr or Flickr photo stream and displays it as a slideshow on your page. It’s only tested on Firefox just now, so if it works in IE, it’s pure luck. More details soon, but for now enjoy this feed of the ’starjump’ tag from Zooomr, especially the flippin sweet martial arts ones.

Update: status and documentation of the plugin is at wp-plugins.net.

Hint: click a thumbnail and a bigger version of the image will appear. More thumbnails will appear as necessary, but only 5 are shown at one time.

This entry was posted on Monday, September 25th, 2006 at 6:50 pm and is filed under Other people's photos, Plugins, slideshow, Zooomr. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Slideshow test”

  1. Ryan Says:
    October 25th, 2006 at 1:38 am

    Looking forward to V0.3. This is the best use of Flickr for WP I’ve seen so far. Great job.

  2. Dave Says:
    October 25th, 2006 at 9:17 am

    Cheers Ryan. Development’s a little slow on this just now, I’ve been working on the rss reader plugin that this depends on, ironing out the wrinkles. Only a couple left, then I can get back to improving the slideshow.

  3. G Says:
    November 30th, 2006 at 6:16 am

    I like it. Can you make it so that the thumbnails load the larger image on rollover? How can you create a “frame” of micro-thumbnails around the edges that load into the center?

  4. Dave Says:
    November 30th, 2006 at 10:21 am

    Thanks G. Glad you like it.

    It would be a minor modification to the javascript to change the image with a rollover, rather than clicking.

    As far as placing the thumnails around the image goes, you might be able to accomplish this with CSS and a little more javascript. Currently, the thumbnails are controlled, placed, hidden, and greyed out entirely with CSS rules. The existing javascript just manipulates the classes.

  5. ovidiu Says:
    December 13th, 2006 at 10:45 am

    hi there,

    very nice plugin, but I have 2 questions:

    a) can it take another feed i.e. a feed of one of my categories containing only posts with images
    b) can I make the slideshow autoscrolling, so it goes through all pics in that feed?

    thx.

    what I am looking for is actually this:

    soem tiem ago I made a blog for friends who now have over 1000 pictures each in a separate post, the excerpt shows thumbnails and now they want a slideshow for each gallery, and it is way too complicated to start using another gallery plugin… so a plugin that takes the feed of each category, turning it into a slideshow would be awesome

  6. Dave Says:
    December 13th, 2006 at 11:02 am

    ovidiu,

    I’ll tackle (b) first. I’d like to make it do this, but I haven’t had time yet. The holidays are coming, so I hope to find some time to work on it. It should be fairly simple.

    Back to (a). This sounds like a great idea, and I think it could be achieved quite easily with some new or modified xslt. Basically, it could take a Wordpress rss feed, and convert it into the same format the slideshow expects.

    Cheers for the input. If you can’t wait for me to do it, read up on your XSLT. It’s really very powerful, and not too complicated.

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