The initial release of the WordPress slideshow gallery plugin was a huge success and WordPress users seemed to really enjoy the new concept of being able to easily embed (using a WordPress shortcode) a slideshow into any WordPress post/page and of course to hardcode a slideshow into their WordPress theme.
Changes to the Plugin
After the initial release of the slideshow gallery plugin for WordPress, I received tons of comments and much needed feedback to improve the plugin upon. So I did! This new release has some new, wanted features and also includes several improvements and fixes to the interface to provide you with a more pleasant experience. Here are the changes which were made to the plugin…
- IMPROVED: Directory separator constant DS from DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR to ensure compatibility of the plugin on Windows servers.
- COMPATIBILITY: Removed the 2nd, autoLoad (introduced in PHP 5) parameter from the class_exists function throughout the plugin to ensure compatibility with PHP 4 servers.
- ADDED: post_id parameter for the slideshow shortcode to use the WordPress media gallery images uploaded to a specific post/page with the ID as the value.
- ADDED: Webkit CSS border radius of 4px to the thumbnails in the slideshow-gallery/css/gallery-css.php file.
- ADDED: Configuration setting to turn On/Off the resizing of the images to fit the slideshow area.
- ADDED: Default, US English language file included in the languages folder of the plugin. You can add your language files in here.
- IMPROVED: The plugin does not utilize PHP short open tags anymore.
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#1 by Daniel on December 21, 2009 - 9:12 am
It is a great plugin, but the links of the images do not work in Internet Explorer 8. In Firefox, all normal!
#2 by Marco on December 21, 2009 - 2:58 pm
Hi! This is a great plugin, but I have a problem with it, because on Internet Explorer doesn’t work the link when you click on the image.
#3 by Antonie Potgieter on December 21, 2009 - 5:22 pm
Yes, I am aware of this issue and will FIX it ASAP, I promise.
#4 by Toby on December 23, 2009 - 4:09 pm
Hi there,
Great work on this plugin!
Have you ever encountered a problem where sometimes only the first thumbnail shows?
Happy Christmas as well!!!
#5 by Toby on December 23, 2009 - 4:16 pm
I’m seeing this in both Safari and Google Chrome on the Mac by the way.
#6 by Vickie on December 30, 2009 - 5:01 pm
This was working fine at first, but now I can’t get it to show up with the [slideshow] on the page’s content. I’m trying this on the following page: http://www.alsave.org/adoptions/
It quit working with the plugin update. I’ve just upgraded to WP2.9, but it didn’t work before that either. LOVED the plugin when it was working.
#7 by Vickie on December 30, 2009 - 5:27 pm
Should I be putting [slideshow post_id=X] into the page content instead? If so, what do I put in place of the X?
#8 by Jeff Longo on January 27, 2010 - 11:38 pm
HELP…i have V1.0.5 and the links dont work with Internet Explorer 8….Google Chrome and Firefox the links work great….BTW love the plug-in….