Allows for the creation and display of animated slideshows. Uses sequence.js.
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An intuitive, compact user interface allows drag-and-drop reordering of slides, easy addition of new slides, and expand/collapse toggles to edit details of individual slides.
Select/remove images, edit titles, captions, links, and specify caption positioning and custom CSS classes all within a single location.
Full integration with the WordPress Media Library allows you to bulk-upload your images and select them from the Media Library, or upload individually as you build slides. Easily remove and/or select a different image using the WordPress tools you are familiar with.
FAQ
Installation Instructions
This plugin can be installed automatically through the WordPress admin interface, or by clicking the download link on this page and installing manually.
Once installed, slideshows can be created by accessing the “Slideshows” menu in the admin panel. Slideshows can be dropped into any page by using the “Add Slideshow” button on the post/page edit screen.
Manual Installation
- Upload the bu-slideshow plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate ‘BU Slideshow’ through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
ChangeLog
2.3.10
- Added ‘page_alt’ post type support to enable slides with BU Versions plugin
2.3.9
- Fix formatting error in shortcode generation
2.3.8
- Fix UI issues since WP 4.4
- Use minified CSS on the frontend. Fixes #31.
- Switch to min filenames: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21633
2.3.7
- Adds error checking to
bu-slideshow-thumb
image size handling
2.3.6
- Allow custom fields to use HTML (GH #28)
- Add
bu_slideshow_slide_admin
filter, allowing custom templates to change slide admin
- Adds “shuffle” attribute when shortcode is inserted in the Editor (GH #25)
2.3.5
- Fixes issue with “Add Slideshow” modal in Editor
2.3.4
- Formats slide titles (with HTML entities) correctly in admin view
- Adds unit tests
2.3.3
- Bugfixes for PHP notices
- Improving Add Slide UX
2.3.2
- Bugfix for potential duplicate slideshows
2.3.1
2.3
- Migrating slideshows to custom post type
- Support for custom slide templates: https://github.com/bu-ist/bu-slideshow/wiki/Actions-&-Filters#bu_slideshow_slide_templates
- Support for custom fields
2.2.1
- Cleaning up slide image select in WP 4.0
2.2
- Set caption position as dropdown, instead of radio buttons. Also adds
bu_slideshow_caption_positions
filter.
2.1.1
- Resolves an issue where slideshows may not update correctly on save/delete.
2.1
- Adding Grunt
- Updating “Insert Slideshow” modal z-index for WP4.0
2.0.1
- Admin-side fix for inconsistent behavior after updating slide order
2.0
- Improved “Add Slideshow” flow (3 screens -> 1). Now similar flow to creating new posts/pages.
- Abstracted “edit slideshow” form to a separate template file
- Added option to set default height (Avoids “jump” while calculating height on page load)
- Added option to set transition delay
- Added option to choose caption position
- Added loading indicator
- Added option to set show alignment
- Added shortcode option “shuffle”
- Added option to update image size (full/large/medium/etc) used in slide
- Removed old back compatibility with WP < 3.3
- Minor UI tweaks
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- On slideshow edit screen, expand edit container for first slide by default (previously: all collapsed)
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- Hide navigation elements until slideshow is fully loaded
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- Image details / “edit” link on slideshow admin page