These are some examples on how the ShowTime slide show plugin can be used in your blog.
ShowTime slide show plugin usage guide and discussion
Display an animated slideshow without user input and in random order:
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- As seen from outside the little town of Trapani in Sicily
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- or … the beach of my dreams !
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- (nothing but the sea)
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- (nothing but a sunset!)
[showtime height=308 transition=panandzoom rotationtime=5 transitiontime=1 transitionease=none autoplay=on showcontrols=off showtext=off showalt=off shuffle=on]
Display a slideshow with images attached to another post/page: (This could also be a hidden page, e.g. privately published)
[showtime id=488]
Expand imag dimensions to fill the slideshow area, change focus on transition, do not allow full-screen and show a text at the bottom of each slide. This text can be edited via WordPress admin. Media > Library (TITLE and ALT for small text):
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- As seen from outside the little town of Trapani in Sicily
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- or … the beach of my dreams !
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- (nothing but the sea)
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- (nothing but a sunset!)
[showtime scale=noborder transition=blur showtext=on showalt=on fullscreen=off]
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I don’t know If I said it already but …Cool site, love the info. I do a lot of research online on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,
A definite great read….
Hi
This is a great simple plugin and I understand that you don’t want to add too many features. However, I wish it could be possible to click on the slideshow and go to another url… that way I can make a very active rich-media site!
Thanks
hi marek, thanks for the suggestion. i don’t know a simple way to add the feature without breaking the cursor navigation … and also where/how to assign URLs. any ideas?
Heya, loved your slideshow. It worked fine until earler on today, now it doesn’t anymore.
I even went as far as uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin. I have the slideshow on my homepage under the header on the actual page. The images are there ok, I did everything as before, except for changing the background to white (Thank you, really pleased to have that option now). However, slideshow will not work.
Any suggestions, please?
if you got a black screen, it could mean that you installed the new version but the old slideshow player is still in your browser cache (you can check this by clicking on the black screen, it should say version 1.3 instead of 0.7)
can you post a link to the page if the problem persists? thank you.
I’d love to have my slideshow back … please help!
I have even deleted the page (it sits on the homepage below the header), and recreated that page loading all the images up afresh.
I have done everything I did before when it was working fine, such as adding [showtime] before and [/showtime after the images.
Thank you,
Angelika
http://www.journeyofintimacy.com
Thank you for your reply. it says 1.3 and the link to my site is:
http://www.journeyofintimacy.com/
(it’s a new site, still working on it)
Angelika, this plugin does not require you to add the pictures on the page itself. It pulls images linked to the page. In order to be linked, the images must be uploaded via WordPress “Add an Image” button in your page editor. hope this helps
that is what I did. The images reside on WordPress media folder on my site, and all I did was add the images via that button to my page. :-/
hello, it seams there is an internal server error with the following file: …/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/getxml.php?id=574
I have modified this file in v1.3.1 so you can try an update.
Did it work before? If so, you can download an earlier version (0.9) here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/showtime-slideshow/download/
Fantastic plugin. I’m loving it. It’s showtime everywhere NOW!
Thanks for answering. I would prefer no cursor navigation, and then in the gallery image ‘description’ field, or any other, insert the url to go to…
Another way is, if the text is overlaid over the image, then that is clickable to a url….
interesting idea!
this is cool wordpress plugins.
the images slideshow is good
Wow, really great slideshow! Super easy and looks great. Thanks!
I like these slideshow . Thanks
Fantastic plugin!
I just started with this plugin and it seems to be working really nicely. I go through the process of adding an image to my post, saving the post, then deleting the image from my post to get the image attached to the post without also showing the image in the post. My question is, how can I REALLY delete an image from the slideshow once it’s attached to the page? I thought to use Gallery, but my Gallery always shows up empty. Thanks.
David, the only solution i can think of is to delete the image from the library. To do so, go to Media > Library find your image and hit delete.
I fix it after changing the scale.
i’m glad you found a way
I have a problem, the plugin work ok, but it say: sorry no image found!
Thankyou
make sure that your images are attached to the post. To do this, edit your post, click the button “Add an image” and select your image file. The image does not need to actually be inserted into the post.
superb plugin. i am happy to use it without any html or other knowledge. so easy to use it.
hi. the demos are not showing in firefox. i can see in IE7, but doesnt appears in FF. see it. thanks.
please check if you have the most recent version of Flash, and try again. on all computers I tested it worked, however FF 3.5 requires Flash to be up-to-date for security reasons.
Wroks great when installed in a post.
Cannot get the id=null functioning. I am looking to put slideshows all over the place as attention getters. Have many pictures in posts, uploaded through wordpress media.
Function is currently installed in sidebar, at bottom under the ‘slideshow’ heading.
Steve, you may need to manually edit 2 files (I’m not sure if I changed this already in the last release)
In showtime.class.php remove line 73
$id=intval($id)and in getxml.php change line 50 to read$galleryID = ($result['id']);then in your post and enter
[st id=null]. In the sidebar, you should use the function like thisThanks Paul for such a great plug-in!
I have tried to use the slideshow on a new site but couldn’t get it going. The show area appeared to be the background color but the pictures could not show up. I went through the steps of inserting images and made sure they were all linked to the post. I am using FF on PC, but can see slideshows on your page properly. Since the site I am using it was set up just hours ago using WP 2.8.5, I wonder if compatibility is the problem. Here is a link to the page, http://www.kinesiologene.net/New%20GENG%20site/wordpress/, and it will be really appreciated if you could point some direction for me. Thanks!
Hi Geng, the slideshow is running fine on WP 2.8.5 I think that the problem is that your server is running on PHP4. Try to replace line 156 in getxml.php:
private $xml;->var $xml;and check the following link to see if you still get errors:http://www.kinesiologene.net/New%20GENG%20site/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/getxml.php?attr=id^51*source^medium*sourcehd^large*
Hi
Thanks for this great plugin. Works great!
But is there a way I could change or customize the loading cursor?
hi. you are welcome. the loading cursor cannot be customized currently, however I’m working on a fix for the cursor that is visible before the first image is displayed.
Hi,
I’ve the same problem of “gbusiness”: I have added two pics on the post, inserted this code
[showtime width=595 transition=panandzoom transitiontime=10 transitionease=none autoplay=on showcontrols=off showtext=off shuffle=on]
and I have the two pics as normal pics, and the plugin with the dark blackground showing: Sorr, no image found!
Any solution??
Thanks!
I may be able to help if you sen me a link to the test page.
Hi, I would like to add your slideshow to my blog header, I don’t really know a lot about php, I already tried adding show_showtime(id=36) to the header file, but it didn’t work. Can you tell me how should I do it?
I also added…
And Still does not work
Sorry, I don’t kow php… Thanks for your time!
Hi the attributes must be within quotes, like this:
show_showtime("id=36");.Yeah, I was confused about this too. It might help if you edited the sample that shows up in the configurations page:
“Use the function show_showtime() to hardcode a slideshow in your templates. This functions takes the same options as the shortcode, but separated by the “pipe” symbol. e.g. show_showtime (id=123|width=50|height=50)”
If you could change that to the more accurate
that might help…..if I even have this right! Anyway, I just got it working thanks to your tip about the quotation marks.
hi Tiffany, thanks for the tip. I have just noticed my mistake! In the upcoming version, I have rewritten the usage instructions. Hopefully it will be less confusing…
thanks Paul,
I finally made it work, here are some tips or the people that as I don’t know a lot about this….
If you have some spaces between the code the text “Sorry not image found” will show.
If the quality is not good even when you added quality=best in your code, check your main settings, where it says “Source Image (Window)” select full.
Thanks!
does not work in MSIE!?
Any way to change the font used for captions?
not at the moment.. I would have liked to use html fonts, but they did not render as cleanly. So I chose to embed a font into flash. This could change with a future version.
I love this plugin – thanks for much!!
A stupid quesiton – but is there a way to have it rotate once through the photos and then stop on the last one and stay there?
I’m trying to use it as an attention grabber but don’t want to keep saying the same thing over and over.
Thanks.
This option is currently not implemented, but I might add it in a future version.
un GRAZIE GIGANTE!
i just don’t get the slideshow hard coded into my theme. can anyone help me. I want to use it in a header of my blog. I tried to change the header.php already but it didn’t work. I used this code: show_showtime (“id=123|width=50|height=50″)
change the id from 123 to my post id with 2 pics. the front-end just shows the code above. would appreaciate any help thanks anyway for that great plugin.
make sure that your code is read as PHP.
Try this:
<?php show_showtime ("id=123"); ?>Great slideshow plugin, I am tryiung to use it in a post and would like the post’s text to wrap around the slideshow. Not sure how to accomplish this as I am a new to web authoring and wordpress. Thanks.
just write your text in the editor and put the [st] shortcode wherever you want the slide show to appear.
There are many ways to wrap text around a bloc in CSS. You may want to play around with the .showtime class. In your style.css file, add a line like this:
.showtime {float:left; padding-right:20px;}Great plug-ins, I like it but too bad it does not work on fire fox
(addition to the previous post)
I’m using FF 3.5.x, and flash 10,0,32,18
plug-in does not work. IE works fine.
what do you get instead of the slide show in FF? Are you using transparent mode?
Thank you for sharing.. I will be downloading this cool plug in.. sure it will be usefull for my sites..
Thanks!
I’m not sure what i’m doing wrong. I cant get pictures to post on the player… Please help
the player says sorry no image found… ps on the control panel I have to scroll halfway down before i get info to post ie; autoplay etc…
the control panel i’m talking about is in the media section. I hope I’m not using the wrong version of wordpress
That’s correct, the showTime settings are in the Media section. The plugin is designed for WordPress 2.8.x If you are using earlier version of WordPress, the settings may not be displayed properly.
several of my clients would donate to have this working on their blog… Please help… http://www.saintgeorgenow.com
My friend, thx a lot 4 this pluging ! You are the king. Very nice and great work. And in french let me say to you: MERCI.
I like the slide -show…
thanks:)
Hello,
Thanks for this great plugin !
I’ve just one problem, I can’t set the width on my homepage. It’s working perfectly on other pages, any ideas ?
Thanks
Finally! I found your plugin. I’ve been looking all over for the right application. I’ve installed it and am very happy.
Thank you!
you’re very welcome.
Great piece of work! How can I make the caption black box smaller in size? Or at least change the height? Thanks for your time.
hello Rod, to adjust the height of the textbox, edit the Style Sheet in the ShowTime options. The space between the lines is determined by the .spacer class.
e.g.
.spacer {fontSize: 2;}You can find more info in this post
Hi – Great Plug-In.
I’ve gotten it to work previously, now it’s not.
http://www.pdxjacl.org/JACL/?page_id=98
The images load individually and I get the “Sorry, no…”
Any clues would be appreciated.
Thank you for your work.
Hi there, I suppose that the images on this page are too small to have a ‘medium’ size. Try adding a source attribute. e.g.
[st source="full]This will force the plugin to look for the original image files.On your ‘TEST’ page you may want to add
autoplay="on"Hi Paul – thanks for getting back to me – still scratching my head.
I created another page with the “[st source="full]” as you suggested:
http://www.pdxjacl.org/JACL/?page_id=186
Still no luck.
Ideally, I’d like to get it to work on the Home Page:
http://www.pdxjacl.org/JACL/
I got it to work beautifully for this site:
http://www.theglobalkitchen.org/
I can’t thank you enough.
hi Scott, the images don’t seem to be attached to the post.
In WP 2.9, yo can easily find reattach images like this:
WP admin > Media > Library
Select tab ‘unattached’, find image, click ‘attach’, find post/page by keyword or ID, click Select, done!
Thank Paul,
We’re getting closer – at least now I can get the show going.
Now, as you can see, all of the images are also appearing underneath the “show” and I don’t know why.
Also, please accept my humble donation to you for your assistance – much appreciated.
http://www.pdxjacl.org/JACL/
really it works fine,
thks so much.
This plugin is the best. Spectacular really!
My only issue is that it sits below my javascript menu and the dropdown on my menu no longer appears to work on pages where the showtime is running. Either it’s conflicting with the javascript (not likely)) ot the menu is dropping behind the slideshow instead of on top of it.
Do you have any suggestions to remedy this?
I am having the same problem on IE8. I LOVE this plugin but in Internet Explorer 8, I can’t seem to get the drop down menu to appear on top of the slideshow.
I works fine in Firefox and safari. Please help!
I figured it out. Go to your settings: media-slideshow and select opaque for the window mode.
These demos look really nice, I think I’ll give it a try.
Thanks for the great plugin.
however i am having issue with Firefox 3.5.x with mode set to Opaque. however it works fine in IE/Chrome/Safari.
Many thanks,
Vipul
Please set window mode to window and it should work fine with Firefox.
Thanks paul
Yes it did work when i set it to window mode, but i am using menu which goes under the showtime object on mouse over. So I need to set Opaque mode for menu to work properly.
Once again thank you very much for your quick reply.
I looked around for every and tried out many plugins and scripts until I found this…and from the get go it is perfect. Really great plugin! Thanks so much.
I do seem to have a minor problem though when I map a domain….let me explain
I set up a website under a wordpress mu install. I then used the domain mapping plugin for WPMU and pointed the domain name threadinginaz.com to mzj.bizsitesnow.com(the WPMU install). The slideshow is perfect on http://www.mzj.bizsitesnow.com but then when I map the domain to http://www.threadinginaz.com I am left with a blank screen and no slideshow.
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Thanks again
for me, it seams to work on both domains.
did you resolve the problem?
No I havent yet….
do you mean when you go to visit the site? Thats because right now I just have the threadinginaz.com domain forwarding with masking to mzj.bizsitesnow.com.
Im still having an issue with this. I looked at the source code on the page when I have it mapped. It looks like the problem may be this…
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var flashvars = {
xml : ‘http://threadinginaz.com/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/getxml.php?attr=id^14*source^full*sourcehd^full*’,
there are a couple instances where it is looking for a directory under the root threadinginaz.com, however the root is actually mzj.bizsitesnow.com (but is displays as threadinginaz.com because the domain mapping plugin)
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? How do I fix that?
Thanks
Cody
Any thoughts/help. I really need to try and figure this out today.
Hi Paul,
I just install your plugins because i want to have a slideshow exactly like example no. 2.
But i can’t managed to get that result.
two main problems that i think i got here:
1. i can’t easily attach (not insert) an image to a post/page
2. i use [st] but the only thing showed up at the page was a small clickable thumbnail.
Please advise..:) and fyi, i’m new into this web dev…:)
Thanks.
I don’t see that is works currently, but would it make sense to be able to link image ID rather than page/post id?
It seems limiting to only be able able to link to page/post and there would not be an ability to build multiple shows some of which containing some duplicate images.
Example:
Page A with ST show – with 3 linked images
Page B with ST show – with 5 linked images
Page C with ST show – with an image from A and one for B and a few of it’s own linked images.
Thanks!
wow, trying to manage the page linking, making changes, and deletions is a total nightmare.
I love this plugin. It makes my site spectacular. I’m so impressed that I sent in a token donation.
My only problem is the transparent setting in Firefox. Once that page is cached, you no longer see the slideshow. All you see is a blank box where the slideshow should be. Deleting the cache restores the slideshow.
It seems like this is a common problem around the net with Firefox. The solution (discussed here) is to declare wmode twice.
Will you be issuing a fix for this?
Hi, Thanks for the great plugin, is there anyway to remove the .circle ‘timer’ when the slideshow is set to automatically run through the images? I tried to add a css class of visibility:hidden to the .circle but no luck.
I know this is annoying. will add a class to hide / change the appearance of the loading circle.
hi, great job with the plugin, I really appreciate your work.
The plugin works great on every browser except for firefox 3.6 on win xp (it’s flawless on ff on mac, btw). The thing is when I use the shortcode it seems to be working fine but when I code it into my template the flash movie doesn’t play (see the example here). I have the newest version of flash installed, set the wmode to window, my server is running php5 and I checked every other hint from the comments and still no luck.
I’d appreciate any suggestion.
ok, I “fixed” the problem by hardcoding
params.wmode = 'window';in place ofparams.wmode = '$wmode';. It’s working the way I want it now. Thanks again for this fabulous plugin and special thanks to Google for it’s infinite wisdomPluging does not show in explorer? Any tips available? Thanks in advance. -peace
So Sorry… specifically the url for images not showing in explorer is: http://www.shearillusions1.com/stylist/chuck-2/
Thanks again…
hello, it looks like there is a problem with your width and height setting. This is what the generated width looks like: “"326"”.
Make sure there is no quotationmark in width/height settings or try to enter the shortcode this way:
[st width=326 height=326]Hello Paul,
Can your showtime code be used outside of wordpress? I had to change the way I built a website but I love showtime. How can I get it to work without word press? Thank you!
yes, it works outside wordPress. Use the showtime.swf and the data.xml file. Edit the XML file to point to the image files.
Thanks Paul,
I may need to jump over to java to be able to see the slides on the iphone but I will find a use for Showtime and remember to donate. It’s the best slide show I’ve seen and there are a lot of them. Thanks again for all of your hard work! Peace! -wendell
Love your plugin and thank you for sharing. One question – I tweak with it but I was unable to center the slideshow in my page?? Will spread the work thru twitter…
Forgot. Nicety… Uploaded photos to my WP page and then erased from the “Visual” side (but still remained on the html side) publish the page and then I end up with standalone slideshow… thanks
thanks paul. I was able to center the slideshow. I inserted an html code like this…
[showtime]
Hi…I’m using WP v2.8.2 and installed the slideshow. but it seems I cant upload images.It just comes out black. is it problem with my WP or am I missing something here.need your assistance. really appreciate it..Thanks.
Thanks for the plugin. I’ve used it before no problem. However, I’m trying to upload a flickr set as a slideshow and I can’t get it to work. Black screen only. I have obtained the rss feed for the set etc… any tips?
[st flickr=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157623437610837&nsid=9507787@N02]
Thanks so much for your help.
Hello admin, I recently found your blog post from delicious as well as I look over a few of your other content articles.There’re very good. I highly recommend you go forward a great work.
Hi, great plugin, the best for photos I ever seen
I have a problem with flickr: I added the url from my album and the one from your example, but mine stops a the first photo, and I don’t know why.
This is what I wrote:
[showtime flickr=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157623548077282&nsid=47972091@N04]
[showtime flickr=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157622602489724&nsid=27531560@N02]
Could you help me?
And what about a gallery and music options? It would be great!
Reply
I checked it better, now no photos shows up
Did u solve this? I have the same prob. I can view the example flickr ffed but not my own feed
Hello Paul,
I have found a great place to use Showtime outside of wp. I’ve tried to load it up but keep getting errors after editing the xml.
Is there step by step instruction sheet/link you can direct me to? I’m trying to add pages for each hair stylist listed with a slide show.
You can see the site here at: http://www.shearillusions1.com click on Our Masters link. Any help would be great! Thanks!
I love your concept. I visited your weblog for the first time and just been your fan. Continue to keep posting as I’m gonna come to study it everyday.
Wow thak you very much.. work perfect..sorry for my language i’m italian
Thanks a lot!!! Very cool!!! High costumizable… Take a look http://travelrostov.ru/obshhee/brazilskij-karnaval/
It would be awesome if – apart from using WP [gallery] – it could use NextGen Gallery image database. Such a slick design + NextGen engine = thousands and thousands using it…
Good Comments. I agree with your point.
free ecards
Hi, I love your plugin!!
I have a question, is it possible select some images of the page.. I mean, not all?? That because one of my images is the tittle of the page and i dont want to view on the slideshow…
Thanks!
(sorry about my english)
hi Lorena, it’s not possible right now in the released version. the next update will have all the options of the wp gallery, including INCLUDE and EXCLUDE.
I’m redesigning my works website, and I’ve included a slideshow as a virtual tour of the building.
I have captions on some of the pictures, but for some reason, when there is a lot of text, its wrapping round in some images but not in others. Do you know why this would be happening?
how it is possible if i want to put background music on the slideshow?
Hi, thanks so much for these tips! My blogs usually do bring readers and responses. One thing I do is engage with the readers. Answer questions in responses and make clarifications where needed. I think they appreciate that I take the time to talk to them.
I’m getting lots of difficulty subscribing to your rss feed, it keeps giving me an error for some reason.
Have you ever considered adding more videos to your blog posts to keep the readers more entertained? I mean I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good but since I’m more of a visual learner,I found that to be more helpful well let me know how it turns out!
Hi,
Love Showtime. Totally. Thanks for the wonderfulness.
I am setting up a website for my newborn niece and want to use Showtime. I want to be able to pull off my niece’s pics of her picasaweb account to do so.
Am sure Showtime would meet this but I don’t want to make my niece’s albums public.
Would it be possible to make Showtime put up a slideshow of her unlisted albums? May be have her credentials for picasaweb configured as part of the settings for the plugin?
Thanks for the plugin again!
Regards,
Radha.
thank you very much for this VERY great plugin, very very very great and nice plugin.
But as usual, it generates some errors on the status bar of this f… Internet Explorer !!! and it seems that it need Adobe Flash 10 ? A friend of mine was unable ti see the slideshow under IE8/Flash 9 and no message to tell him to update Flash reader. Is it possible to add a message when slideshow does not appears ?
Great, great, great! I love it! Thanks! I have a little problem: if i dont insert one photo in the post, then in home page in theme slide the picture dont appear. Any sugestions?
how it is possible if i want to put background music on the slideshow?
Hi, I have the same problem as Jack:
“My only problem is the transparent setting in Firefox. Once that page is cached, you no longer see the slideshow. All you see is a blank box where the slideshow should be. Deleting the cache restores the slideshow.”
Has anyone found a solution for this yet?
Thx
I think here is a solution:
http://www.ozzu.com/flash-forum/firefox-auto-playing-swfs-with-wmode-set-transparent-t103196.html
but it needs to be incorporated in the Flash file.
Any chance of inclusion in an upgrade?
Congratulations for a great plugin.
Is there any way to remove circle timer?
Hi
i view this message: xml could be loaded…:(
Absolutely beautiful plugin! Just started playing w/ it, changing settings. It’s on a test site, kena3.com, before I put it on the main site, kenacubed.com. So far it’s working better than I imagined! Thank you!
Excellent plugin!
But I have a problem, all pop-ups on the page are displayed under the gallery and not a “z-indeh” does not help, how to correct the situation?
Can I define which images I want to show? I don’t see any options to make exceptions.
Thanks
Perfect plugin. Thanks a lot!