WordPress plugin for making slideshows and galleries with simple ajax admin.
| Author: | Dallas Read (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.4.1 |
| WordPress version tested: | 3.4.2 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0.19 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 23-07-2012 |
| Last updated: | 07-03-2013
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 20 |
| Rated by: | 1 |
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| Total downloads: | 9 140 |
| Active installs: | 100+ |
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After trying a plethora of gallery management plugins, I didn't find one that I would want to provide for my clients. Up 'til now, I would use a plugin for home page sliders, a different plugin for a gallery widget, and a different one for galleries and slideshows embedded into posts.
Sliderly is my opinion of how galleries should be managed, whether they're for a slideshow or gallery.
How easy is it? Click on the Slideshows tab, upload your images via the core WP Media Gallery, and Drag-and-Drop your images to re-order them. Show them on your site with a shortcode or a widget.
In the front end of things, I chose to go with Slides and Colorbox because they're awesome, flexible, and reliable.
It comes with:
- Quick edit access via a menu item.
- Simple shortcode for
slideshoworgallery. [sliderly id=123 type=gallery]- Slideshows must declare their width and height
[sliderly id=123 type=slideshow width=500 height=100]. - To force links to open in colorbox (a pop-off-the-page image viewer), set colorbox to true
[sliderly id=123 type=gallery colorbox=true]. - Widget with intuitive interface for selecting gallery and type.
- Hard-codable into a template via
<?php echo do_shortcode('[sliderly id=88 type=slideshow]'); ?>.
For those developers out there,the javascript is found at js.php. With a little magic, you can leverage the backend of Sliderly with your own custom plugin.
In the back end of things, it creates a custom post type called slideshow and just stuffs a hash of info into the post's content.