Dec 032016
Trying to see if I can insert a slideshow from the new CK plugin.
Created it (I think) – not sure how to add it.
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Well it appears to be working. Now if there was a way that the viewer could initiate the show so that they could dwell on some pictures longer at their will, that would be nice.
Way to go Nameless!
Hover your mouse over the slide, and the show stops.
Move it away – and it resumes.
I particularly like that when you hover the mouse, the little timer in the upper right also stops, and then restarts when you move away, so you can see it is working.
Ditto on stop, pause, resume mode with the mouse pointer.
If the first slide was static, maybe it was meant to be a title of the slide show.
What about making the slide show to full-screen…
What is the address of the CK plug-in?
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Don't think it was a Title slide as it was a different URL than the one that works, plus nothing I did – click, double-click, right-click – could initiate the slideshow.
Still on a learning curve, but I don't find an option to make it full-screen. But I am going to try to make it bigger – and add thumbnails. Maybe the thumbnails, when clicked, will open that photo in a full-screen.
No idea what the address is. It's called "Slideshow CK" – and it's just on the WordPress Dashboard as a plug-in, courtesy of TomCat.
NOTES WRT SLIDESHOW
To all you brave souls wanting to try adding a slideshow, here’s my basic outline to help:
[1] First, I found a Manual via Google that’s pretty rudimentary and appears to be for an older version – but it’s a good place to start:
https://www.uab.edu/brand/web/images/support/2_5tutorials/Slideshow_CK_Banners.pdf
[1-A] Doing this to keep as a Word Doc for myself, and I don’t want to renumber everything – so I’m taking cuts: When you begin w/ “New Slideshow” and Name it and click “Add a Slide” – you have to have already loaded your photos to the Media Library first. You can’t load them from your hard drive directly to the slideshow – they got to be in the Library
[2] I didn’t fill in all the options they provide, but it didn’t seem to matter on some of them
[3] I did fill in the size option based on the size of the photo (it’s displayed when you select it to insert it), BUT it appears that’s NOT what they mean. Some of my photos were different size, but they all appear OK – so I think they mean just the size of the display (like Small, Medium, Large – w/ you filling in the numbers).
[4] It appears that the “Caption” bar is there by default, so I filled it in rather than just have a black bar at the bottom
[5] For now, I would go definitely go w/ the “AutoPlay” option. I’m not a fan of AutoPlay, but when I selected “No” and finally figured out how to get the slideshow inserted – it was there, but I couldn’t get it to run. The first photo was static no matter what I did
[6] I did elect to have the “mouse-over” pause the show – and I think that’s a default setting
[7] AND the task that took me an HOUR to figure out: How to get the damn thing inserted
[8] Be sure to click SAVE whenever you exit either the Post window or the Slideshow window (they’re separate) – you’re pretty much screwed if you don’t!
[9] Assuming you now have your slideshow created and SAVED, and you start working on your new Post … when you get to the point where you want to insert your slideshow SAVE your Post Draft, and open the CK slideshow and click on the slideshow box you want. And then copy the Short Code
It’s like [slideshowck id=####]
Now go back to your SAVED Post, and paste it in.
You do NOT need to click the “Add Media” then “Insert URL” option – just paste the Short Code option directly in the post.
I’m pretty sure those are the major points – but don’t hold me to it. It took me 90 minutes to figure it out – not including finding, reading and digesting the manual.
If you find a newer or better manual, please LMK
Some feedback WRT duration. I programmed a 5 second display, and a 1 second transition.
Given that you can stop the show by hovering your mouse over the slide, the Goldilocks question is: Too Fast, Too Slow, Just Right? And that's an honest question – won't hurt my feelings one bit … even including "Who the HELL wants a slideshow in the first place?"
(There are lots of bells and whistles that appear to be available – but I'm in the KISS camp: Keep It Simple, Stupid.)
Five seconds and one second seem fine for pictures. If you were doing a show of memes, with words, you might want to lengthen the five, but I'm not sure to what. I guess it would depend. Excellent work on your part!
Thanks for this Nameless, gorgeous pictures!
Cobgrats, Nameless. I'm glad our second attenpt worked!!
Thanks!