ShowTime Slideshow WordPress plugin can be downloaded on WordPress.org or installed directly via your wp-admin.
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Please read the usage guide hereunder before requesting support. I hope this will answer the majority of questions on the plugin.
Installing ShowTime Slideshow WordPress plugin
- In your administration panel, select Plugins > Add New
- Enter “showtime slideshow” as search term and click Install
- Choose Install Now
- Activate Plugin
Feeding the slide show
By default, the slide show includes all images “attached” to a post/page. To attach an image to a page (or post) in WordPress, please go to your admin:
- Choose Pages > Edit > select page.
- In the editor click the button Add an Image. Now, Select Files to upload.
- Next, click the tab gallery. Now you should see all images attached to the current page. The gallery allows you to edit the title and caption attributes, change the order or delete an image file.
Adding a slide show into a page
Simply add the [showtime] (or [st]) shortcode to a post/page.
Styling
The style class to include in your styles.css file is .showtime Width and Height parameters defined in the class will override plugin settings.
Using ShowTime in Themes
Use the function show_showtime("") to hardcode a slideshow into your theme. This functions takes the same options as the shortcode. Options must be separated by the “pipe” symbol.
Example: show_showtime ("id=123|width=50|height=50")
Changing display settings
The method described above will add a slide show using the default display settings. To change default settings, go to Media > ShowTime Slideshow
Please refer to the list of parameters below to find out what option is for. Most settings should be more or less self explaining. If you can’t guess what an option is for, you may just want to try out.
There is one special setting: Alternative Content. This option lets you select what should be displayed if Flash Player is not found. Choose between “WordPress gallery” or “ExpressInstall”. The latter will display a box requesting the user to enable flash, install or upgrade the Flash Player browser plugin.
Setting individual slide show options
Each option defined in the general settings can be overridden for individual slide shows using the ShowTime “shortcode” options. This is useful if you want a particular slide show to look different from the other slide shows on the same website. Note that each parameter is separated by a space.
To use individual settings, use the following syntax: [st param1="value" param2="value2"].
Example: [showtime scale="noborder" transition="blur" showtext="on" fullscreen="off"]
List of shortcode options
width=width Width in pixels
height=height Height in pixels
rotationtime=number Time in seconds to pause between each slide in playback mode
transitiontime=number Time in seconds for transitions (0 = no transition)
transition=blur|fade|flash|zoomin|zoomout|slidedown|slideup|slideleft|slideright| wipeh|wipev|kenburns|flip|fliph|flipv Transition type.
transitionease=prefix.suffix This setting changes the “acceleration curve” of a transition
prefixes: Linear, Elastic, Bounce, Circular, Cubic, Quadratic, Quintic, Quartic, Sine, Exponential, Back
suffixes: easeNone, easeIn, easeOut, easeInOut
autoplay=on|off Should the slide show start playing automatically?
fullscreen=on|off Turn on/off fullscreen option
reverse=on|off Reverse image order.
shuffle=on|off
Display images in random order.
showcontrols=on|off Display the cursor to control the slideshow.
showtext=on|off Display title of an image.
showalt=on|off Display caption (description) of an image.
scale=noscale|showall|exactfit|noborder Change the scale mode of images.
NoScale: display images 1:1
ShowAll: scale images proportionally to fit the slide show area
ExactFit: stretch images to exactly fit the slide show area
NoBorder: scale images proportionally to fill the slide show area
bgcolor=#000000 Change the background color. Use wmode=transparent to override bgcolor.
quality=low|autolow|autohigh|best Lower display quality results in higher animation performance. Use autohigh or autolow to automatically adapt quality according to display performance.
wmode=window|opaque|transparent|direct|gpu Defines the way the slide show is rendered in your browser.
source=thumbnail|medium|large|full Source file size to be used in normal operation. Resized copies of an image are stored automatically when uploading to WordPress. Change source image dimensions in WP admin: Settings > Media
sourcehd=thumbnail|medium|large|full Source file size to be used in full-screen operation.
Feeding the slideshow with alternative content
There are 3 special shortcode parameters :
id= id of a post/page containing the images. This may be a privately published. Default: current page id. To include all images of your blog, use id=null. Examples:[st id=488] [st id=null]
picasa= url of a Picasa feed
Example: [st picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/all?max-results=25&q=red+flower] This will show 25 public picasa images with search terms “red” and “flower”. More info on Picasa Rss parameters can be found here: http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/docs/2.0/reference.html#Parameters
flickr= url of a Flickr feed.
Example: [st flickr=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157622602489724&nsid=27531560@N02] This will show a Flickr photo set. To find out the rss feed of your photo set, you need to log in to your Flickr account.
Contribution
I have decided to release the plugin free of charge to make it possible for as many people as possible to benefit from it. If you use the plugin on a commercial website, please consider a small contribution. Every donation will be highly appreciated and contribute to the further development of this and other plugins.
You can also contribute by rating the plugin on WP, answering questions from other users or sending accurate bug reports.
Hello, I suppose that the Slideshow works only for pictures of the same size ?
Hello Lian, the pictures can be any size. By default, images are centered and scaled to fit by the plugin (
showall). You can choose in the options [Media > ShowTime Gallery] to display the images 1:1 (noscale), stretched-to-fit (exactfit) or scaled to fill the slideshow space (noborder). The same can be achieved through the shortcode option “scale”. e.g.[showtime scale=noscale]. Hope this helps… I will post a detailed usage guide sometime soon.Hi!
I love the plugin, very simple and does what I want. But I’ve run in to a problem I can’t figure out…
For some reason all the images are very blurry and pixalated..
I’ve adjusted the display quality to best with no change.
The site in question is at: http://www.greencauldron.org/wordpress/
This is a testing location for developing this site.
hi Kam, your “medium size” images are probably too small. Please set Source Image Size to full in the settings or using shortcode: [st source="full"]
Hi! I really love your slideshow; it’s just the thing I’ve been looking for to put on my website. I’ve uploaded 2 seperate slideshows on 2 different pages on my site, but I’ve noticed there seems to be a problem with Firefox on Windows. It seems the shows would work fine a couple of times, but then if you refresh or click off to a different page and come back they stop working and get stuck on the ‘loading screen.’ This was my experience, then I had my husband check on his Windows PC with Firefox and he said they never even came up.
It’s worked great on my site on Firefox on Mac, Safari on Mac, IE on Windows and Google Chrome on Windows. Any tips to fix it on Firefox on Windows? I hope so, I really want to keep using it. Thanks!
Hi Rhonda. I am really glad you like the plugin. I am developing on MacOS but I will try to figure out the problem on Windows/Firefox. I plan to release a final beta this weekend. Hope you keep using this plugin.
hello, i am getting problem in using this code in my posts, will you please send me an example code to help me out.thank you for this great plugin!!
hi anurag, basically there are 2 steps:
1. upload images to your post using the wordPress Add an image button
2. enter the following code where you would like the slideshow to appear in the post: [showtime]
hope this helps
Great plugin! tnx
This is probably a silly question, but this is the best plugin I’ve found so far and would love for it to work! How do I get the photos to show in the slideshow only, and not ‘in addition’ to the slideshow? v2.8.4
for example:
african-prestige.com/slideshow
Thanks!
peterxn, It’s not a silly question. The photo is automatically attached to a post/page when you upload it, so there is no need to place a copy into the post/page.
In other words, WordPress “remembers” which page the photo belongs to, so you can safely remove the photos from the page body.
Great Plugin! How can i use de code directly into a theme using a php code? Tks!
sure, the php function is show_showtime(). you may also set options. here is an example:
if ( function_exists( 'show_showtime' ) )
show_showtime( "width=200|height=200|transition=focus|transitiontime=.5" );
I wanted to find out if there is a way to order the photos once they are associated with a post. I’ve tried uploading the entire folder, and by uploading one pic at a time. The pics are still being shown in the slideshow backwards. BTW, great plugin so far.
hi Tom, yes you can always change the image order through WordPress like this:
1. Edit Post
2. Click the icon ‘Add an image’
3. Select ‘Gallery’ tab
4. Chang order by drag-and-drop or input a number in the Order column
5. Save all changes
The slideshow did not work on my site. I have images on NExtGen Gallery and had liked to the galleries. I added images to the posts themselves and then [showtime] and the images where still here and some sort of odd looking black spot with half an arrow when I moved the cursor on top of the “slideshow”. Sorry man, gonna try something else.
felix, as far as I know, NExtGen uses it’s own database tables (but i have not tried) whereas ShowTime uses WordPress native image attachments. Could you send me a link to your test page?
Yeah I tried that, didn’t work.
Yay! I updated the plugin with the new version you posted and it seems to have fixed the Firefox on Windows problem. Thanks!
The only issue now is it looks like the background for the slideshow (like on the sides of vertical images) is black. Black doesn’t really go with my color scheme and I’d like to change it back to white. I tried to look for a setting to do that but I couldn’t find one. Any tips? Thanks!
Rhonda, I gave up the transparent background because it is buggy with FF. I will add an option to change the background color in the next major version of the plugin, along with other options, perhaps a new transition effect. Stay tuned
I tried reordering like you said, tried deleting and importing one at a time, tried renaming the actual files, but they always come out backwards of the order I’m trying to get them into. Tips, ideas?
BTW, I know I’ve several times in the past day, but that’s shouldn’t be any kind’ve discouragement to you or your plug-in. Hands down it’s been the easiest slideshow to work with.
That is encouraging, thanks. The slides should be in the same order as in the wordpress gallery, unless you have set order to “random”. I will add more options if there is sufficient demand, like reverse, by date, …
That would be awesome. Ya got my vote to keep developing it…
Hi,
I have the same problem as TOM, my photos are not in the same order that in the MEDIA UPLOAD order…..
And I’m not using “RANDOM” order in the options page……any tips????
Thanks and that’s a really good plugin!!!
I’m going to look into that in the coming days. Busy right now. If you need a solution fast, edit showtime/getxml.php and add these lines after line 41:
'order' => 'ASC',
'orderby' => 'menu_order',
Awesome. Just works. Just awesome.
Have piddled w/various plug-ins. Some are quite good. Some require considerable back-end twiddling. Many just don’t work.
This plug-in is so simple. And the transitions are engaging without being cute.
Hello,
How do I order the photos that are in the slide show? Right now they appear in the order I uploaded them, but not in the order I would like…thanks!
Richard, please see my previous comment on this…
Hello,
I love the plug-in you created. When i activate it and try to edit posts & pages I get a warning at the bottom of my editor page:
“Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘tiny_mce_version’ was given in /home2/ccymtwoz/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166″
When i deactivate it, the “warning” goes away. I’m new to WP, and have no idea if this is a problem or not. Everything seems to be working just fine, but with this “warning” message that i don’t understand. I’m using a Flexx Theme with WP 2.8.4 in IE on windows.
BTW a few years back i worked as a cameraman on an Irish Dance show and we performed at Differdange (on two occasions), I think they are performing there again in November.
Cheers,
Paul
hello Paul, thanks for reporting this, it will be fixed in the next release.
I grew up in the town of Differdange, what a coincidence! Paul.
Hi,
I should have mentioned that I did read the other response in regards to ordering the photos in the slide-show. I ordered all of the photos from 1-144 just as you instructed, but they still appear in the order I uploaded them. They even appear in the correct order under the gallery of the page, which I uploaded them to. Help!
Thanks!
this will be fixed in the next release. meanwhile you can try the following:
Edit showtime/getxml.php and add this code at line 41:
‘order’ => ‘ASC’,
‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’,
Congratulations! This plugin is very nice ‘pra xuxu’. It works well for me in Mac. I will test in PC. Thanks!
a suggest for next versions: if is possible, to make a way to out thumbnails in this gallery. because if the post have multi fotos, the thumbs easy the navigation. its a suggest. because by this way, this plugin it works very really nice pra xuxu.
thanks for the suggestion. I try to keep this plugin simple and lightweight, perhaps this should go into a separate plugin “showtime advanced” ? hmmm…
Super! As far as I can see at the first look its just what I needed.
Thanks a lot!
I see that you came up with a fix for the ordering of pics. I just deleted those photos and then uploaded in the reverse order that I wanted them displayed. Thanks again, and I’ll be looking for that next version. Also, did I see SSAdvance being talked about?
I don’t usually reply to posts but I will in this case, great info…I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work!
thanks Bill, i do appreciate.
Great Plugin!!! Just wanted to add a bump to the Transparent background request. Thanks again for a great plugin!!!
thank you. Be careful with the transparency option. In a previous version, it was not always working nice with FireFox on PCs. Therefore I added the [experimental] tag.
I really like this plugin
Did tried locally and it’s working nicely
But one problem appear, probably not Showtime problem though, but because i use a css pulldown menu for navigation , i have to set the “z-index”, but it’s just not working, the menu always drop below the images. Please help…
make sure that you use default window mode option “window”.
If this doesn’t fix the problem try to increase the z-index of your menu.
Hello Paul,
Example
If I have 10 Jpegs on a page. I want one to display at the top. It is a Jpeg Banner pic.
The other 9 Jpegs I want to display “below” the banner Jpeg.
How do I get the 9 Jpegs to “Showcase” without the banner jpeg being included in the “showcase”?
Is this possible?
Thanks,
Paul B
hi, this not possible out-of-the-box. one possibility would be to upload all images you want in your slideshow into another (unpublished) page, note the id of this “dummy page”. Go back to your original page and type
[slideshow id=dummy_page_id]If you have this situation on many pages, I suggest that you load your banner(s) into a “dummy page” instead.
Hi, not really sure what you meant by “default window mode”, but for the z-index, i did increase it yet still nothing happened…
Thanks Paul,
I’m just getting a black box where the images/slideshow should be.
1.Created Unpublished page
2. inserted 3 jpegs but did not type [showtime] after the 3 jpegs
3. Created Page for Display
4. What part of the new unpublished page id do I type in?
5. do i actually type [slideshow id= ?????]
6. do i type [showtime = ?????]
7. Sorry for all the questions. i can bring this thread into private email if you prefer!
Thanks. P
hello Paul, 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)
In the public page you type [showtime id=
hope this helps.
I just installed version 1.3, added [showtime] to a post that has 2 pictures in the gallery, but when I loaded the page, all I see is a black box. Is there something I am doing wrong?
BINGO! BINGO! BINGO!
You are so very kind! And I thank you very kindly!
Now i have some page progress!!!
Thanks Paul….Fantastic Plug-in!!!!
P
Hope you can have a Leffe , Grimbergen or 1664 on me!
thank you very much for your generous donation. this is encouraging me to continue development
i do appreciate Leffe
Great plugin! Looking forward to implementing it in a few of my sites.
Any chance you have built in functionality to pull a Flickr or Picasa (or any external) gallery? This option would be ideal for a few of my clients.
Many thanks nonetheless!
-Doobie
Doobie, I’m not familiar with the APIs for flickr and picassa, but will definately look into this for the next major release… tnx, paul
Ok, after update to 1.3 i realize what you meant about “default window mode”, and did set it to widows. Still the problem with dropdown menu exist, even after i set the z-index to high numbers… don’t really understand what went wrong..
hmm, i am thinking that perhaps “z-index” works only with absolutely positioned elements… try if playing with the style attribute for the slideshow helps. add this line in your style.css :
.showtime {position:absolute;z-index:-1}
[...] ShowTime Slideshow 将图片以幻灯片形式播放。需将图片文件放入特定目录。从第三方软件post不起作用 [...]
Still no luck experimenting with css. Also have tried different wmode and…not working.
Bump in this page http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E5141... tried the “opaque” mode as mentioned in the article but not working also….pity me for I’m not a flash expert…
Hi,
I have a couple of questions:
I’d like to use your slide show my website but need more help with configuration. I get the player box to show but can’t figure out how to get the photos to go in it. Sorry if I sound too new … but I guess I’m new. Any more step by step helps?
Second question: How do I get 2 or 3 different slide shows on one page like you have on your demo page?
Thanks for your help.
Cheryl
hi Cheryl, the slideshow includes all pictures “attached” through a post by wordpress function “Add a picture”. Currently you have only one picture attached. (you just made me notice a bug, with 1-picture-slideshows not being displayed! it will be resolved in the next version)
2. For more slideshows on one page you enter the shortcode wherever you want on that page.
Great plugin, thank you! Much easier to use than others I’ve tried.
One thing I’d love to see though is a ’split’ between title and caption. I’d really like to be able to display the captions only without the title, but I can’t see there’s any way to do it – you have to go with both or none. Is that right?
that’s right, but i plan to add an option to choose one or the other. regards, Paul
thank you that is helpful!
one more question … I now have the photos displaying as thumbnails below the slideshow. how do I make those disappear?
again, thanks for your help.
Cheryl
This looks soooo promising… but I can’t seem to get the pics displayed except in the WP default gallery view (i.e., the Flash is not loading). What do I do? Thanks. (yes… a newb)
hello, do you see the flash on my demo pages? if not, it means that flash cannot be detected (i.e. javascript disabled) or is not present -> http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
if it happens only on your site, it could mean that your hosting provider does not allow Flash …
regards, paul
I would like your plug in to display a slideshow of ALL the images in my media library on a page. Therefore nothing would be attached to the page, you would just have [showtime] – I guess the code would check to see if any pics were attached and if not, revert to displaying all pics from the library.. is that easy to do? There is another plug in Media Library Gallery but that is full of bugs and I couldn’t get it to work.
marcus, there is a way to do so, but you have to manually edit 2 files (or wait until the next release)
in showtime.class.php remove line 73
$id=intval($id)and in getxml.php change line 50 to read$galleryID = ($result['id']);then go to your post and enter
[st id=null]Great tool. But I do not know why the display quality is not good. Please advise.
This is my webpage
http://www.kaizvent.com/blog/?p=662
Showtime code
[showtime height=301 width=550 transition=slideup transitiontime=10 transitionease=none autoplay=on showcontrols=off showtext=off shuffle=on quality = best]
That really really worked a treat! And what a quick response! next pay day, I will be donating!
Thanks again,
Marcus
Is there any way to have the pictures in the slideshow display with captions?
yes, make sure that you enable “Display description” in the options. You can enter the caption for your pictures in Media > Library
Hi, first off great plugin. I just have a quick question regarding it. If a browser loads a site with the plugin in use and does not have flash installed it shows a series a thumbnail images instead which can mess up the overall look of a site if alot of images are in the slide show. Is it possible to hide these and simply display a get flash box instead???
hi, I chose to display the standard gallery when flash player 10 could not be detected to make sure the images can be viewed on systems which don’t have Flash (e.g. iPhone). But you have a good point, I will add an option to force the “get flash” box in a future version. Thanks, Paul
Hello, I updated the slideshow to version 1.4 and now all I got is a row of thumbnails with Internet Explorer 6/7/8. I emptied the cache but no result.
As I am here, no solution for the wmode transparent? If I am using it, the slideshow goes blank. Thank you.
make sure that you have the flash player 10 installed in Internet Explorer. (IE uses a different player from other browsers)
You can get it here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Regarding the transparent issue, I need more details … which browser/flash player combination? thank you.
Hi, thanks so much for your work on this plugin. I have version 1.4 installed. When I add images to a page, and then the [showtime] code, the box display ‘no images available’. I have also tried creating a dedicated post and using the [showtime id=#] code.
Thanks
I meant to say it comes up ’sorry no image found’ I do use the WP add image button on the page, and upload it from my computer. It’s still not working for me. I appreciate your feedback.
Hi, please send me a link to the page, so I can check what is going wrong. thanks, paul
Hi the page that I’m trying to add the slideshow to is http://bizibar.com/blog/index.php/solution/mobileworks/
Hi Paul, does the flash code have a z-index associated with it? The slide show obscures/appears “on top” of my page navigation drop down menus. Hmm…
Otherwise your recent changes are looking great! Thanks so much.
Hi Kw, there is no z-index associated with it by default. You may do so by adding a line in your stylesheet like so:
.showtime {position:absolute;z-index:-1}Also, make sure that Window Mode is set to opaque or transparent in the ShowTime options. GPU and Direct ignore CSS layers entirely.
Good evening Paul, thanks for your answer.
As the site was already online, I went back to the version 0.9 and is back fine as it was.
With the version 1.4 I tried the wmode transparent on Firefox 3.0, flash player 10. I did not have the occasion to try it on IE due to the previous problem.
Anyway, I went to easy way to move the dropdown menu to another position so that it does not go anymore in contact with the slideshow.
Hi Paul, z-index has no effect on the layering. I did some research and figured out it is a Windows Mode issue. When I use your “transparent” option, everything is layered correctly in IE/Windows, but the images don’t appear at all in Firefox/Windows. It seems like Gaelle was having issues with this, too. Is it a Flash update?
hi KW, the transparent issue in ff/win should be fixed in the current version (1.4) since the slideshow player is compiled for flash player 10… at least in my tests it worked fine.
Hi Paul, great plugin, I’m definitely going to put some donation dollars in your tip jar once I get this working.
I just upgraded your plugin and it stopped working? It was working fine before. The website is: http://www.safensoundplayground.com
Any advice? I have it set up as [showtime id=291] and page 291 has a gallery with 4 different pictures associated with it. The funny thing is that is was working fine a few days ago and I can’t remember changing anything that would affect it. any advice would be appreciated! Thanks,
I loved the plugin when it was working. It stopped working for some reason. I installed it about a week ago and it was working. I have’nt done anything to the website in the past week, not even logged into the admin panel, and now it just will not do anything. After trying every possible thing I can imagine it just won’t do anything but say “Sorry, no image found!”. Also, can you please give us more control over the photos that show simply by creating a text box where you put the image URL in followed by a line break to add multiple images.
Thanks.
Nathaniel
hello Nathaniel, thanks for informing me about this, do you have a test page with the plugin? I would like to analyze what exactly is going wrong so I can fix this problem. Am I right that it worked fine with version 1.3.1 ? To test, please delete the showtime-slideshow folder and replace by earlier version which can be downloaded here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/showtime-slideshow/download/
thanks, paul
Great plugin, but (since the update?) the ‘reverse’ option doesn’t work for me.
If I change it via the options page, or put it in the [showtime] code, the images don’t get reversed. I use it in the top, right corner on my site, it pulls 4 images out of a post.
hi, thanks for informing me. I’ll look into that. a new version is planned for this weekend.
Cool, thanks!
Great plugin.
I can’t get my captions to display, though.
I’ve selected Display Title and Display Description in the options page and in the post I added showtext=on.
With the options not updating, is there a way to update these in the database?
Thanks!
thanks. I think the database is updated correctly … it could be a bug in the flash file. It should be fixed in the next release. by the way the shortcode for the captions is
showalt=onHi Paul,
Just FYI since you said you’re working on an update, but once I upgraded to version 1.4 it stopped working in IE and the WP gallery would display. I downgraded to version 1.3.1 and it’s working fine.
This may be too complicated, but the theme I’m using has a window for pages that automatically scales to fit the monitor. Since it’s a different size on each monitor and browser I have a hard time finding ‘universal’ slideshow dimensions. Is there any way to put in a code in for the slideshow to have it automatically fit the window?
If not I understand and I’ll find something that works but I thought I’d ask. Thanks for a great plugin!
hi Rhonda, you can use relative values for the showtime container class.
to do this, just add a line like this at the end of your main stylesheet (style.css):
.showtime{position:absolute;height:80%;width:100%;top:0}I would like to know how to fix the spacing between the slide show and whatever I have below it…How can I add more space between the bottom of the slideshow and a video or text?
this is done in your main stylesheet (usually styles.css). Add a line like this at the end:
.showtime {margin-bottom:32px}Hi Paul,
Thank you SO much for the code tip for automatically resizing the slideshow into a window. It was exactly what I was looking for and it appears to be working great….EXCEPT in IE. For some strange reason it’s all screwed up and behaving totally different. What’s even more weird is that I have the slideshow on 2 different pages in the same theme and they look totally different on each page. I wasn’t sure what I needed to set the dimensions of the slideshow once I added that line of code to the stylesheet…I tried a couple and it didn’t look like it made a difference.
Here is my website if you would like to see what I am talking about: pumpkinpiephoto.com There are slideshows on the home page (where its really screwed up in IE) and the portfolio page. Any tips?
If not I can go back to trying to find a universal dimension. Thanks so much!
hi Rhonda, the dimensions of the slideshow are ignored when it is has a position:absolute. My guess is that the IE bug is due to the DIV containing the slideshow DIV (which may not be the same on all your pages). You should be able to get advise when searching for “IE absolute positioning”. best regards.
hi i really love your plugin, it works perfectly in my pages/posts. but i was wondering how to use it in the theme of my page. i’m using the “freshy 2″ theme (http://www.jide.fr/english/) and want the ShowTime slideshow to appear where the header .jpg appears now. how i do i code in the ShowTime plugin?
In you header.php file, add a line like this example:
< ?php show_showtime('width=960|height=150'); ?>(remove the space between < and ?)how do i link it with a gallery? do i need to link it with a post/page?
Yes, you have to create a page (or post) where you add the images. This page can be hidden (non published). Note the id of this page. Then, you go to your header.php and add the php function
show_showtime('id=id_of_hidden_page');Hi Paul,
Still having the trouble I’ve mentioned above with my navigation appearing behind the slide show. I have the most recent version of Flash installed (WIN 10.0.32.18) and still having this issue. I thought it might be helpful to run through what’s happening on each setting…
Firefox 3.5 on Windows:
When wmode=window: slideshow works, but navigation is behind it
When wmode=opaque: slideshow doesn’t work, background color appears, navigation is in front
When wmode=transparent: slideshow doesn’t work, no background color appears (blank space), navigation is in front
When wmode=direct: slideshow works, but navigation is behind it
When wmode=gpu: slideshow works, but navigation is behind it
I.E. 7.0 on Windows:
When wmode=window: slideshow works, but navigation is behind it
When wmode=opaque: slideshow works, navigation works! yay!
When wmode=transparent: slideshow works, navigation works! yay!
When wmode=direct: slideshow works, but navigation is behind it
When wmode=gpu: slideshow works, but navigation is behind it
I haven’t checked this out extensively on my Mac at home, but I could if it would be helpful.
I also agree with James Sweeney’s suggestion above that instead of thumbnails appearing with the correct Flash isn’t installed, a prompt to update Flash appears. The website I’m working on is a portfolio, so all the emphasis of the website is places on the photos in the slide show, so I hope I can find a way to use STSS without compatibility issues because it really showcases the images perfectly.
Thanks so much!
Oi, I feel like I’m spamming the comments, but I found one more thing by researching Firefox/Wmode Transparency. It seems like you have to declare the wmode twice, “As a param for Internet Explorer and inside the embed for the other browsers.” I’m looking at the STSS source code, and while I don’t know anything about flash, I only see the wmode declared once. Maybe this is why IE works but not FF?
http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/keeping-flash-behind-the-header#post-6408
kw, you’re not spamming lol … Perhaps you could post a link to the test page?
btw. this plugin uses swfObject’s javascript to embed flash, so double declaration is not needed.
Can I email you the website using your contact form? It isn’t “live” yet.
Sure, you can send me the link by email. thanks, Paul
ok i got it to work pretty well with my theme header, thanks for your help!
is there a way i can keep the slideshow from looping? i’d like it to go through the pictures one time and stop.
hi Sam, I’m glad I could help.
There is currently no way to keep it from looping.
is there a way to under or over lay an image. for example, uploading a background.jpg? that way i could have an opaque, logo/name always on.
I sthere a way I can just use selected images to be in the slide show ratherthan having all the images on the pg. What Im trying to do is have a pg that has static images as well as a slideshow that only contains images that i want to be in the slideshow an dnot the static ones??? please help???
it is not currently possible to exclude images from a post. To achieve this, you would have to
1. create a new post where you upload the images to be included in the slide show
2. publish the post as private (so it is not visible anywhere else) and note the id of the post
3. go back to your public post and write
[st id=id_of_private_post]I added your slidshow plugin and it works great except when the second image displays i get the following error:
IO Error: [IO Error Event Type=”IO error” bubbles=False cancellable+false event phase=2text=Error#2124
This error displays over the image as the slide show continues. Can you help?
hmm. did you try to remove/rename this image? is the image #2 displayed in the slide show?
Is there a way to pull the images from a remote URL other than Picasa or Flickr? I’ll have 3 sites that need to have the identical slide shows, and would like to store the images in one central location.
The easiest way to achieve this (if all your sites use WordPress) is to open a free account on Picasa or Flickr, upload your images there and pull your images from the same RSS feed.
You could also use the showtime.swf file in the showtime and use an xml file with the image links. I will write a better tutorial on this when I have some time…
showtime.swf will look for a file called “data.xml” in the same directory, unless you call it with the flashvar parameter “xml=myfile.xml”
The structure of the xml is like this:
<slideshow><options transition="slideleft" transitionease="Back.EaseOut" transitiontime="4" scale="noscale" />
<img src="source_of_image_file" title="title" alt="description"/>
<hd src="source_of_highres_image_file"/>
</slideshow>
The <hd> tag is only necessary if you want to load a higher resolution image in fullscreen mode. The options available are the same as for the showtime wordpress shortcode (with few exceptions). If you have some knowledge in PHP, you could write a PHP file to create the xml dynamically. Take a look at the getxml.php file for inspiration on this.
Just getting started w/ the wordpress thing..would like to use the slideshow for my wife’s photography. Since i have professed my ignorance for wordpress code the question would be…where exactly do i insert the [showtime] code? Oh i am using a prophoto template. Not sure if this will be a problem..
Anyone’s help is greatly appreciated
hello mike. The [showtime] code goes right into the content of your pages. (the same textfield where you write the body of your page). I’m not sure if this makes sense to you. For help, using the WordPress administration, please go to http://www.wordpress.org
First of all too much thanks for this user-friendly slide show. It is the best I have senn till now. My concern is about title and captions:
1. Is there a way to change the position of title and captions?
2. How can I use UTF-8-tr coding in the captions? When I write in Turkish, some fonts are not recognized.
Thanks in advance!
Hi Selami, I’m glad you find this plugin user friendly …
Unfortunately, the special characters are currently limited to the characters available in the font. I am considering to replace the font with a system font in the next version and to allow custom CSS styling. This will trade in some typography for flexibility. I would be interested what other users think about this? Any suggestions?
First – big thanks for Paul Schroeder.
Great plugin!
Today I have long tried to connect picasa gallery
But everything was very simple – I went to the appropriate gallery and I copied the link for the RSS (for example – http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/3dKStudio/albumid/536754247851649?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=ru)
howTime Slideshow the best and the most beautiful gallery with very simple settings!
Love the Plugin! Seriously, I’m a novice to Wordpress and yet I managed to work it out. We’re a not-for-profit organisation and the showtime slide show makes the site look beautiful, and demonstrates what is possible when people do things for other people – like build great plugins!
Thanks for all your hard work!
Deb
hi paul, thanks for the reply…the only confusion that i have is that right now-i dont have any “pages”-other than the “about” page. All i have so far are posts…can i include the code in the post as well? Would it be in the title, or in the body where the images are uploaded? I have tried several different places within the post (including the permalink) I apologize for so many questions.
hi mike, you can add the slide show in both, pages and posts. The shortcode [st] must be placed within the body. It can be above or below other content, wherever you want the slide show to appear.
I added SlideShow to my self-hosted WordPress website (in process and not live yet) a couple of weeks ago and it worked fine. Today, the slideshow doesn’t work and says :XML could not be loaded.
I am using the latest version of WordPress and the latest version of Slideshow. Not sure what changed. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Paul,
I finally “got it” and have a basic start to using the slideshow in my galleries…i am proficient @ most things computer related–but NOT wordpress!! Wow your work is awesome! I am sure that i will have more questions…thanks for all your hard work, keep it up!
Hi
Is there anyway you can centre the whole show? It seems to left align no matter what html in the post window I use!
Thanks
yes, in your stylesheet file (style.css) add the following line:
.showtime { display:block; margin:0 auto; }This should adjust the left and right margin of the div and center the content horizontally.
Hello,
I am using the plugin on my Mac with Firefox, but a friend let me know that none of the showtime shows were loading on his PC using Firefox. He also noted that on Internet Explorer the shows were off to the side of the page and not aligned correctly. I have the latest v1.5 installed and was wondering if I have something in the code wrong.
Thank You.
What did your friend see in place of the slide show?
Does he see the slide show on my demo pages?
The alignment issue is probably due to a faulty css. You should be able to fix it using the .showtime classin your styles.css file.
Thanks.
In IE, the shows were off to the right side of the page and not aligned as I had them in Firefox on the Mac. In Firefox on the Windows PC, none of the shows appear, they are just blank spaces. On the Windows PC your test page IE looked fine, but in Firefox, only the first show at the top of your page worked, the other looked just like they did on my website – blank spaces. Also, can you elaborate on: “You should be able to fix it using the .showtime classin your styles.css file”. I appreciate your help with this.
I just noticed kw’s post on 10/28, as I had the wmode=transparent. So I put the wmode=window and the shows come in fine for Firefox in Windows (still have same issues with IE).
Thank you for notifying. I was aware of the transparency bug in FF/Win but in my tests it was resolved since I compiled the slide show for Flash player 10.
The alignment issue in IE is most probably related to the css of the container div. To force display position of the slide show, add a line like this in your stylesheet (usually styles.css):
.showtime{position:relative;margin:0;}First thanks for this great plugin!
After updating to 1.5 an error occures sometimes (eg if you click very fast through the slides)
IO Error: [IO Error Event Type=”IO error” bubbles=False cancellable+false event phase=2text=Error#2035
I think it’s the “Loading” layer.
Help would be great!
thanks for pointing this out. i have added this for debugging… i’ll check on this soonest.
This has the potential to be an incredible tool for use as photographers! (Which by the way my wife happens to be).. Im basically down to one last bug before i have this thing ready. When i first bring the page up, and begin the slideshow, the images are slightly out of focus (i am using large images 900×1200). If i enter into full screen mode, it clears up, and stays that way when i exit full screen.
Any ideas? Possibly in the settings? Or are the images (i save them for web or device in CS4) just too big? Most files are around 160kb.
WordPress automatically saves resized copes of each image. By default, the plugin uses the “medium” resolution as source and “large” for fullscreen (sourcehd). Try setting the source to “large”.
Re: Mike’s 11.4.09 question about blurry pictures. I’m also having the same problem. Could you please give me some direction to where I can “try setting the source to ‘large’” as was suggested? Thanks!
Nevermind, I found it! Was right in front of my face.
Many thanks!!!!
Just two quick questions…
1) How do I change the style of the ShowText font?
2) Can you make it so that when someone clicks on the slideshow, it sends them to the page of the image’s Link URL?
hello Jesse, both options are currently not implemented, but planned for a future release.
Hi,
I can’t seem to find this option in the UI:
“There is one special setting: Alternative Content. This option lets you select what should be displayed if Flash Player is not found. Choose between “WordPress gallery” or “ExpressInstall”. The latter will display a box requesting the user to enable flash, install or upgrade the Flash Player browser plugin.”
Am I missing something?
Thanks … great plug-in!
Hi Mike, it is the last option in the showTime settings. I have added it in version 1.5, if you don’t see it, you need to update the plugin first.
I finally got around to upgrading to the latest version, and the Flash install text option is now appearing. Thanks!
Your plugin looks great on my home page http://www.blissnosis.com, I’m looking forward to the ability to hyperlink the images… can’t wait!
I’m having the same problem as Charmian – I’m getting an “XML could not be loaded” error. Have tried playing with settings, using [showtime] vs [st] including a flickr rss – no joy so far. I have a self-hosted wordpress site using v2.8.5 so maybe your plugin isn’t compatible with that version of WP? It looks like a good plugin, so it’d be great to know if it’s possible to use with this version of WP or not. Thanks.
hello, I’m using wp 2.8.5 as well, this should not be the problem. I could only guess that your host would restrict dynamically generated XML. I might be able to help if you send me a link to the test page.
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Hi,
Thanks for such a great plugin! I’m using it on my site and really love how it works. But there is one problem: I don’t know how to use charset other than the standard Latin. Is it the font used or could I just change encoding to UTF-8 for example? Where should I search?
hi. i’m using utf-8 charset. If some characters are not being displayed they are probably missing in the embedded font file. I am working on a new version already where the font will behave just as in HTML and can be changed via CSS.
Hi, this plugin may be able to solve my problem.
Hi! I’m using NextGen Gallery to manage photo uploads. I want to be able to add a slideshow to a post BUT with specific transitions to that slideshow. Wonder if it can read nextgen gallery images so i don’t have to re-upload pics. I’d also like to be able to add audio to each slideshow. Is this possible with this plugin?
Cheers!
hello. showTime slide show is designed to use WordPress core gallery to avoid dependency on one plugin or another.
Unfortunately I am not planning on adding nextGen support or audio. There are some very good plugins out there to handle audio files.
hey,
at first i want to thank you for all the work you have put into it. it looks and works very well! but i do have a question: is it possible to show the captions of each image below it and not over it? i figured it should be simple to do but cant find a way to do it.
thank you again
oh, and is it also possible to change the font and color of the captions?
sorry, but captions are essential to my work.
it is not possible to show captions below unless you add a white space in your image files. (or by using a higher setting for height than the height of your images and setting scale to noscale)
changing fonts and colors with css will be possible in the next version.
hey, thanks for your reply. will you concider adding an option for caption-placement in the next version?
thanks for your time to answer all the questions here. very nice.
AWESOME PLUG-IN
THANK YOU THOUSAND TIMES
donation on its way
donation link is broken my friend …
Guillaume, thanks so much for informing me. Donation link is now fixed. I have also added a recognition wall to the sidebar.
Hi,
Great plugin, but I can’t seem to get it working on my webhosting server. It works locally though. In IE nothing happens when opening the page were the slideshow should show up. In the page sourcecode I can see the flash code is there. When I open the page with Firefox the following error shows up:
SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation: LoaderInfo.content: http://www.alphabouw.nl/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/st15.swf cannot access http://alphabouw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/foto1-300×225.jpg. A policy file is required, but the checkPolicyFile flag was not set when this media was loaded.
at flash.display::LoaderInfo/get content()
at st15_fla::MainTimeline/addSlideContent()
at st15_fla::MainTimeline/fadeSlideIn()
What could be the cause here? Permissions?
Looking forward to a suggestion.
Thanks.
it appears to be a “cross domain” security issue.
Try to add/remove the “www.” in the WordPress URL and blog URL.
This is done via the WP admin Settings > General
Thanks a lot for your reply :]
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Me again. Could you tell me the code to reduce the size of the title text ?
(and also to place it a little lower on the screen ?)
I read your guide, I know it must be something like [st parameter=value]. But I don’t know what parameter it is.
Thank you very much.
Styling is currently not supported. the upcoming version will let you style title and description with css. It may take a while though as I’m too busy to work on the plugin right now.
Hi, it doesn’t work with Picasa. I’ve tried every solution but it was unsuccessful. My picasa temporary photo album is hosted here : http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/ybernhard67/albumid/5404609723887283713?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=fr
Please can you help me ?
this album appears to be empty or private. you need to assign public images to it first.
Also try to remove
alt=rss&Hello,
I’d like to use the plugin to install a slideshow of a private page containing some pictures of our sponsors.
Don’t want to have this on a post, only in the sidebar.
How do I proceed ?
Thanks for your work.
hello, you will need to edit the file sidebar.php in your theme directory.
Add a line like this where you want the slide show to appear:
<?phpshow_showtime ("id=id_of_private_post|width=50|height=50")
?>
Hi,
I use it to show my picasaweb gallery and found one problem.
If you havent any images in media library, plugin didnt work neither with picasa as source of pictures.
its is possible to exclude some images from de gallery, to appear in showtimeslide? eg:
i have 10 photos. 3 of them i don want to show. how can i do it? i see in WP 2.9 have a exclude/include function in [gallery] shortcode. it is possible in showtime? thanks again!
exclusion is currently not supported. the way around would be to add a private post with the gallery images, then link to this post using the
idfunction.Paul, Showtime is a super wordpress plugin, but I can’t get it to display my Picasa album contents… I’ve tried various versions of the following, but I just get a blank box. (see http://travelhorizonstyle.com.au/country/southern-europe/greece/classical-tour-with-meteora/ ). Is it not possible to display an entire album ?
[st picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/horizonstyletravel/GolfAfrica# transition=flip autoplay=on]
Thanks very much & looking forward to your thougths.
hi Joan, it’s possible to display an entire album, just pass the album feed url as parameter:
picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/horizonstyletravel/albumid/5399131548260760097You’ll get the correct url when you click on the RSS link in you picasa album.
EDIT:
I noticed a little bug with the picasa code. You should add “?” to the picasa url string if there are no other parameters, so the correct code would be
[st picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/horizonstyletravel/albumid/5399131548260760097?]Great plugin – truly fantastic.
I’m having one issue – on an installation on Wordpress MU, I can’t get the medium, large or full size photos to be used for the slideshow embedded in the page.
It works perfectly in full screen (calling the full size using sourcehd=full) but can not get source=full or source=large to work for me. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Damien
When will you have an updated version that allows hyperlinking slides to html pages? Eagerly awaiting…
I’m using your plugin and despite one tiny issue, it is really good. I’ve noticed that I need to refresh the screen (usually when I first visit the site after a period of no activity) in order to get your plugin to show up. It hangs the page on a first view. Any advice in making this plugin more reliable on first views? I’m using IE8 and Firefox. Thanks!
hi Shawn, are you using wmode=transparent ? if so, changing window mode back to ‘window’ may solve the issue.
I would prefer to keep the wmode parameter set to “transparent” as I have a rollover menu above the slideshow that becomes “hidden/behind” the slideshow if it is set to anything else other than “transparent.” Not to mention, the background color widget seems to be buggy as well. Any other advice?
Hi,
I had been using the postcasa plugin to embed my Picasa slideshows, but found it very difficult to make it work. (The one on our home page is the only one I’ve ever gotten to work in WordPress…) So, I installed your Showtime plugin today. I like this plugin’s flexibility but am still having issues. I’ve read through all the comments above and made sure the album is public and that I’m not adding the rss at the end, etc. However, it still says “sorry, no image found” . Do you have any ideas? The test post is at http://bioquest.org/blog/2009/11/testing-showtime-slideshow-plugin/ and the code I’ve inserted into the post is this:
[st picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/bioquestcc/albumid/5406196726609242801]
Thanks for any help you could offer!
Amanda
hi Amanda, the testing page does not seem to exist anymore. however I found the problem is a bug in my code.
There needs to be at least one parameter in the picasa URL. It works fine like this:
[st picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/bioquestcc/albumid/5406196726609242801?alt=rss]I will correct this in my previous comment
I tried to point to a Picasa feed using this syntax:
[st picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/activistsd/albumid/5403516735870982161?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US]
But it won’t work. I get an error message that reads “Sorry, no image found.”
This is the page:
http://susanwestfriedmanfund.org/?page_id=39
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
hi Tito, your code is correct. I’ve tried it on my own page and it worked fine.
When you look at the generated xml page, you will see there is an error with PHP in the file getxml.php. This may be due to PHP settings on your server.
Hi Paul, thanks for your prompt reply. I looked at the source of the page and did not see the PHP error. Could you suggest what settings may be causing the problem? Do I need to set up a php.ini file to use the right settings? Thanks in advance for your advice.
it appears that you found a solution. I would be interested to know what you changed to get it to work.
It’s not an elegant solution at all. I downloaded all the images from the Picasa album and uploaded them to the slideshow page. I’m not using the Picasa feed to make it work. I would love to get it to work so that the Picasa album can be updated and modified and the changes be reflected in the slideshow. Any suggestions about how PHP should be configured are appreciated. By default, my server uses PHP4. Should I force it to use PHP5 instead? Thanks in advance.
One more quick question: how do I style the Title and Caption text? I’d line to tighten the line-height on the captions in particular. Thanks in advance, great plugin!
Tito, it is not currently possible to style the title and captions, I am already working on a new version where this is possible, there will be many other additions, but it is not ready for release.
Thanks for the info, Paul. I look forward to the upgrade. For now I’m very satisfied with the plugin, especially if I can get the Picasa feed to work correctly.
I also have problems with picasa slideshow
,y test-webside = http://www.snow2kite.at/test/
I get the error: “no image found!”
I added in The page [st picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/bioquestcc/albumid/5406196726609242801?alt=rss]
Flick is working with
[st flickr=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157622602489724&nsid=27531560@N02]
I just sent you an email and realized I should have posted my issue here instead…
I’d like to know if there is a way to post images to the page that will not be included in the slideshow experience? If not, I may have to uninstall your plugin. I can’t allow your plugin to dictate the rest of the page’s visual design. Otherwise, I really like this plugin. See the url for an example… i don’t want the “Continue” button to be part of the slideshow experience…
I figured out how to keep images out of the slideshow experience. I uploaded to the root of my site and called the file using the absolute url within my page/post. This workaround requires a little HTML knowledge but it seem to be working ok (for anyone interested). But… there’s still a few buggy things. Otherwise, very nice. Thanks.
hello Shawn, thanks for sharing your solution.
Another way which does not require HTML knowledge would be to attach the images for the slide show to a separate private post, note the ID of this post and call the plugin with the id attribute. e.g. [st id=id_of_private_post]
Here again my test-site:
http://www.snow2kite.at/?page_id=152
Picasa Link not working!
(flick – slideshow ist working)
Hello, did you remove the slide show? I cannot find any reference in the source code.
Your feed URL is correct. I can only guess that it is a problem with the PHP settings on your server and the code generating the XML from the picasa feed in getxml.php
Hi,
Trying to use this on: http://bandr.hosting.strawberrymedia.ie/gallery/
but it’s only using the thumbnail / small sized photos. When I pull in to the fullscreen it then shows the full size images, and continues in full size once returned to normal.
Can you take a look please?
D
Hi, first time using your plugin tonight, overall works great, awsome work.
Bug:
its returning the medium image no matter what admin variable you choose for source image.
Duck tape used:
i traced the issue from looking at your flashvars I wasn’t sure how to fix the source of the problem (pardon the pun), so i edited Line 66 of getxml.php from using a default value for ‘medium’ to ‘full’ guessing its not being set properly in showtime.class.php
but ducktape will have to do for tonight, would love to hear what the proper solution is.
hehe duck tape is always good to have.
anyway, thanks for notifying, I’ll try to fix it in the next release.
Hello Damien, in the ShowTime Settings search for “Source image”. Try to set it to “large” or “full”.
Wow! I got it working in the header.
Love this plugin.
Hi Paul,
Isn’t it possible to select the pictures you want to display in the slideshow? Or maybe select a NextGen album you want to use for the the slideshow. I have put the code into my theme but my in oppinion it’s way to difficult to publish new pictures in the slide… Why use only the pics on a page or post?
hi Ruud, For most people, this is the easiest way to upload/add/edit/remove pictures to a slide show. I think that wordPress makes it fairly easy to add pictures to a page, and it will become even more convenient in the future. Another benefit of administrating your galleries through WordPress is that you will not become dependent on a certain plugin.
Alternatively, you can feed an image gallery from Picasa or Flickr.
Very nice plugin.
Is there a way to turn off the error messages? I get error #2124 often, and can’t pinpoint the image that triggers it, but the show keeps going – if I could turn off the error message the viewer would never know there was an issue. Thanks.
good point. I’ll disable the error messages in the next version.
hi, great plugin but I still haven’t seen it working on my site. It only shows a black box. I have version 1.5 and Flash 10.
My server has safe mode turned on and i think maybe this causes the problem. Previously, i had the plugin wordpress showtime slideshow. Is there any know conflict with that? What can i do?
it is probably due to safe mode. The plugin needs to be allowed to generate XML dynamically through PHP.
i forgot to mention that i have the mystique template installed http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mystique, if there is any known conflict with it
Hello
I’m using this plugin without issues on a live site. But now I’m developing a new site, and the adminpanel for showtime slideshow is messed up! The labels are missing and bits and pieces of php tags are floating about. Any thoughts? I’m using the same version of WP and ST, and I have even tried to download the working ST folder from my live site to my dev site, but without success.
Thx for this great plugin! i will be using it for sure:)
i got a problem here, for the first post the slideshow works, but for the second post it is not working, i tried reupload the image but it still says “no image found” http://www.ktstyles.com/wordpress/?p=179
nice plugin, thanks~
Hi,
I added the images to the media library, installed the plugin and typed [showtime] into the page, but I get an error of “XML could not be loaded”
the most probable cause for this error is a hosting that does not allow dynamic generation of XML. I might be able to analyze the problem further if you can send me a link to a test page.
Thank you for your hardwork, this plugin is one of the best gallery plugin I’ve eve seen.
You are very welcome.
I tried to integrate the most requested features
I hope the new features will not make setup too difficult for beginners. I guess I will need to post detailed instructions for the new features in version 1.6
Hi, GREAT PLUGIN!!!
Would be great and COMPLETE with thumbnails navigation in the gallery………Do you have something in mind for the future of the plugin?????
Thanks very much!!!!!!
Fantastic plugin.
I am running slideshow with images that are same width but different height, is there any way to align images at top rather than being vertically centred in the slideshow window.
thanks. images can’t be aligned currently but I consider the idea for the next release.
Hi! This looks fantastic, just what I’ve been looking for – a simple slideshow that keeps the WP Gallery. Surprisingly hard to find.
However, when I try to use it, it doesn’t display a slideshow, instead it displays two galleries. Any ideas? I’m using the latest version of WP with not too many add-ons. I’ve got Flash installed, etc. Using latest version of Firefox on Ubuntu.
Thanks!
Thanks. Please check if you have JavaScript enabled. It is needed for Flash detection… TWO galleries? That’s weird!
agreed that this is a great plugin and does exactly what i want EXCEPT the lack of thumbnail or number navigation for easy viewing. unfortunately this is a deal breaker for me!! are you sure there is no way to include them?
I’m using ShowTime with a Flickr set. I could not figure out how to use the original size of my photos. The source image settings seem to be ignored and the medium size is always returned.
Alexis, I was having problems with getting the large and original photos in the feed, so I removed that option. Perhaps it only works with a Flickr Pro account.
Here is something you may want to try. In the file showtime/getxml.php replace the line 195:
$imgurl = str_replace(“_m.jpg”, “.jpg”, $imgurl);
with
$imgurl = str_replace(“_m.jpg”, “_b.jpg”, $imgurl); // (big)
or
$imgurl = str_replace(“_m.jpg”, “_o.jpg”, $imgurl); // (original size)
I’ll be glad if you can share your experience.
Great work, but still problems with menus apearing under the slide show. Everything is fine on my mac, but firefox on windows puts the menus behind the slide.
great plugin! i agree with Raoni: with thumbnails it would be COMPLETE!
thank you
i love your work, you have an eccellent plugin. but when your plug in is active and i am in the dashboard or page edit mode the cascading menus stop working, but once i deactivate the plugin they fuction normaly again. i really love the plugin and i am hoping it is a simple glitch to fix…thanks
sam
Paul, thanks for the quick response. I definitely have JavaScript enabled.
I did a bit of troubleshooting, and here’s what I learned:
If I use the [st] shortcode, it displays a gallery instead of the slideshow. But if I use the [slide] shortcode, it works fine (great, actually. I love this plugin!)
I’ve confirmed this behavior on Opera and Firefox on Linux (Ubuntu) and Opera, Safari, and IE on Windows (Vista). Haven’t tested on a Mac.
Weird, right? Why would your plugin be triggered by a different shortcode than the one you coded? Anyway, now that I now how to trigger it, I’m happy. But this may be useful info for others.
Hello Johnson, thanks for sharing your experience. May I ask which version of the plugin you’re using? [st] [showtime] [slide] should all work in the current version. Anyway, what matters is that you got it working
Latest version, since I just installed it.
Thanks again for all your work on this!
I changed my theme to an updated version of Reflection, and then went back to my original theme and now the showtime slider isn’t working anymore. Any thoughts?
It looks like it’s working fine in Firefox. It seems to be malfunctioning in IE (shocking)
hello Darren, please explain what is displayed in IE. It would also be useful to know your version of IE and its Flash plugin. Thanks, Paul
i placed this in my post “[st id=36 shuffle=on|off]” and i got the slideto work but it is not randomly picking the pictures, it is still going in order. do i have the tag correctly?
i am still problems with my dashboard not cascading the drop down menu!?
thanks
for any help.
sam
hello Sam, the correct syntax is
[st id=36 shuffle=on]The pipe symbol (|) separates different options in my shortcode examples.
Hello — this plugin looks amazing, but I can’t get it to run. The plugin seems to work fine, but on the page I get the “this slideshow needs Flash”. I have the most recent Flash and I know it’s working because I have another bit of Flash that is working ON THE SAME PAGE. I also know that Javascript is working. I don’t think there’s a problem with the plugin. Do you have any idea what could be wrong? Some “wires are crossed” here. Thanks so much.
*Update — I tried the hardcode as well… no dice. It just won’t recognize my current install of Flash. (I’m testing FF and Safari on Mac – on two different computers)… *I will donate if I can get this to work! ^_^
*Update – sorry there’s 3 comments – please delete these added comments during moderation if you wish (or combine them).
I’ve turned off other plugins (didn’t help). I’ve taken other elements of Flash+JS off the page (didn’t help). I’ve tested other Flash items in the posts (other Flash items work fine). I tried a third computer (same results)…
RESOLVED. If anyone is building custom themes, this plugin needs the function in order to work. Thank you Paul.
the wp_head function that is.
I building a new wordpress based site. is it possible to have two showtime slideshows in a post? I would like to have one at the top of a post then text then another at the bottom of the post.
hello Toren,
Yes, in your post type [st] then some text and then [st id="id of another post"]
This will add a slide show with the images attached to the current post, and another one with the images attached to “another post”.
“another post” may be privately published.
It would be nice to have the option of FS (full screen) like F1AGallery plugin.
I installed and activate.
and insert the code [showtime] to the post
but appears blackbox and text ‘Soory, no image found!’
what’s wrong?
Jeann, make sure you have added images to the post.
Use
[showtime id="all"]if you want to insert all images from your blog into one slideshow.[...] ties into the rest of our Fresh Rocket site. We also need to acknowledge Paul Schroeder’s Showtime WordPress plug-in that facilitates the header banner slideshow on the blog [...]
Hello! nice plugin
I just installed it to a 2.8.6 version of WP and getting the following error:
Bad link to /wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/include/style.css?ver=2.8.6 and received a 404.. etc.
Should a style.css file be there? it’s not in the installation zip
thank you
sorry for late reply … style.css should not be needed anymore.
In the file showtime.php, please remove line 83. thanks for the hint, will be removed in next version.
i love your plugin. The only thing i can’t figure is how to hide the normal slideshow of wordpress?
I’m using wordpress 2.9 and if I’m attaching a normal gallery to a post and add the shortcode [st] or [showtime] to it, the showtime gallery works perfectly, however the normal gallery is visible as well.
What do i do wrong?
hello, you don’t need to attach the normal gallery. Please just delete it and it should work fine.
The [st] shortcode replaces the standard wp gallery, retrieving the same set of images.
This is THE BEST slideshow plugin I have ever installed on my sites!
So simple and yet so powerful!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
I’ve just made some tests on a site I am building and I find your slideshow is perfect. I am really impressed by all the possibilities. It is so beautiful and skinable.
I do not donate very often because I do not have a lot of money but really I will donate for this slideshow with pleasure in a few days when I finish my tests and if I am still so happy with your appplication.
Thank you a lot !
If you need some assistance, let me know.
Thank you a lot too.
Great plugin! One question: I’m pulling from a Flickr set. It works fine. However, if I add some more photos (or delete photos) from that set within Flickr, its not reflected in the slideshow. Are you caching the images on the first run somewhere? Is there a way to reset that so I can pull in the updated set? Thanks again!
I believe flickr itself is caching queries to reduce server load.
I’d be glad to know if you find it out.
I think you are right about flickr caching. Thanks.
Hi again. Not sure if this is a bug or not. On IE v8 using the latest Adobe Flash, I sometimes get this error:
——-
SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation: LoaderInfo.content: http://deleted my website name b/c its only for our family]/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/st16.swf cannot access http://farm3.static.flickr.com/delteted/deleted.jpg. A policy file is required, but the checkPolicyFile flag was not set when this media was loaded.
at flash.display::LoaderInfo/get content()
at st16_fla::MainTimeline/addSlideContent()
at st16_fla::MainTimeline/fadeSlideIn()
———
This only happens sporadically (10% of the time) on IE, not every time. Once it happens, though, it continues to happen each time I try the site. To fix it, I basically need to clear my IE cache and go back to the page and it runs fine. I’ve had this happen on 3 different computers running Windows XP and Win 7 , running IE8.
I don’t get this on Firefox or Chrome at all so it could be an IE problem only. Don’t know if you’ve run into this before but thought I’d let you know. Thanks again!
Great plug-in. The loading process was a bit non-intuitive but once I figured it out, the plug-in works very.
I have many computer illiterate readers. Is it possible to pop-up an automatic, “Please update to Adobe Flash Player 10″ with a link to Adobe when v9 or earlier is detected? Thanks.
I made the same comment on my PayPal donation form.
hello Lee,
In the settings page, you can choose between 2 alternative contents if Flash player version 10 is not detected:
- gallery display wordpress gallery (same as [gallery] shortcode
- expressInstall display a message asking users to upgrade or install Flash player including link
Thank you very much for donating.
I´m really happy with your plugin and learning how ti implement it in another page, but you responsed to other here, so I think I could do. Happy 2010 from Argentina
Hello. good plugin!
I’d like to ask how to add code using my image url.
I usually add post using html editor in wp blog.
so the codes looks like
so how can I add [st] code in the html codes?
thx
hi Jun, you can add shortcodes [st] in html editor just like you would add any other text.
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Love this plugin! Donation is coming as soon as I get all the bugs worked out for my site.
I have showtime-slideshow installed in a template file directly below a javascript dropdown menu. Here is my code:
The above code worked fine for the show in both FF and IE. But the menu directly above it did not dropdown. I changed the wmode to “transparent” in the options panel and now everything works fine in IE. menu drops down directly on top of the show.
But in Firefox, I now have a a blank window where showtime used to be. Either I’ve lost the menu or it’s behind the content it was suppose to be in front of. The menu drops down correctly over the blank window.
I suspect this has something to do with the embed tag. I’ve seen posts directing you to add wmode=”transparent” to the param tag AND to add wmode to the embed tag as well I don’t see the embed tag in your code anywhere or I would have tried it.
Here is one such post
This is so close, but I’m not a flash developer, so I’m out of my comfort zone. Any ideas?
The template code got dropped out of the previous comment. Here is my code:
here is my site:
hello Jack,
Thanks for sharing. The flash object is embedded via swfobject with the wmode property being passed as parameter.
I have tried your website in the FF, Safari and Chrome for Mac and it works nicely in all of them.
Yea, this is interesting. I see the slideshow perfectly when I view the website in opera, chrome, and IE. But in Firefox, the show is blank. Yet you say you see it fine in FF. Sounds like the slideshow is working fine.
I’ve tried this on 3 different PC’s and all with the same result. I’m running FF 3.5.6 and usually with the same addons.
Could it be one of my addons? Have you had any reported conflicts with FF addons? Maybe I should try to clean out my cache? Obviously the show is running because I’m not seeing the gallery.
Any thoughts on why I’m experiencing this problem? This is the best plugin ever!
I really like this plug-in. It is easy to use and I had no problem getting it to work; however, I notice that the images in the slideshow are blurry. I thought it was an image size issue, so I resized the images in the slideshow to exactly the display dimensions, but they are still blurry. I uploaded the exact same jpeg to a blog post and it is displayed as clear as expected. I can’t see anything in slideshow settings that would affect display like this. Do you have any tips?
Please try to set the source image size to full.
thanks- setting the source image to full worked.
Is there a way to add background music to the slideshow?
The plugin is super great! Hopefully you can make it perfect by enabling background music.
Thank You Very Much!
Hi,
great slideshow. I was Nextgen’s slideshow, but there’s a huge logo in the upper left that was interfering with my menu navigation.
I’m having some of the same issues as others in concerns to dropdown menus and the slideshow.
The slideshow & menu look great & function correctly in IE & Chrome with the wmode set at transparency. However, in Firefox, there is just a white space.
but, if I set to wmode to window – the slideshow works, but obscures the dropdown menu.
Thoughts? and thanks for any help. If we can get this working, I’ll donate.
Here’s the sandbox site running the slideshow: October Publications
great plugin! have been looking for something like this for a long time. thank you very much!!!
best regards
kevin
This plugin rocks! No doubt one of the best things out there for viewing images in wp. Simple but powerful and very well thought out. I have only two minor issues:
First, I use wp 2.9 and after ShowTime activation all wordpress editors shrink down to 11 lines. Everything gets normal again after deactivation. No big deal, just inconvenient and no idea how to fix that.
Second, after the page is loaded and I click on ‘image left’, it takes very long until the image changes. Doesn’t bother me, but might be annoying to visitors.
I hope it’s not inappropriate to add a wishlist (I understand the labour that’s behind a project like this, but ShowTime is really close to being perfect!!!):
- Thumbnails
- Show title/captions only in fullscreen
- Give the option to either download flash or continue with wp-gallery if no plugin is found
Anyways, thanks a lot. If I have extra cash, I’ll donate!
Hi
Great plugin! I love it so much, easy to work, smooth working and an asset to any site that focuses on images!
I was wondering, as I have seen others ask about it, and you saying… maybe as a separate addon…
but will you be adding a thumbnail feature in the near feature…
It is the only thing that I need, that sadly might make me have to look for a different plugin
any hope on this?
thanks again for the great plugin.. I am also willing to make a little donation (wish it could be bigger) but something to help
thanks
Miz Cozma
Hello, Great pluin, but all of a sudden all the images are showing on the pages where the slideshow should be showing. What should I do to fix it?
Please help.
Hello. Great plugin!
Is there a way to pull the images only from published posts?
I like to use the Schedule option in WP.
Thanks.
please set the id attribute to “all”. e.g.
[st id="all"]and the plugin will pull images from all your posts. (I’m not sure if it will include unpublished posts as well)I was using your plugin with great success to display a picasa slideshow. However I changed the Blog address(URL) setting in the Wordpress general settings to allow the blog homepage to be different from the directory that WordPress is installed. It was http://minorcapoa.net/wordpress and I changed it to http://minorcapoa.net. Now I get a black box where the images shoukd be with white text in the bottom left of the box displaying “Sorry, no image found”. Is there anything I can do to get it to work using a different Blog address? Thanks.
I like this plugin – thanks for the work !
As I am using the plugin on a homepage I would like not to bother people with dialogs about Flash Player installation or the messy view of an entire gallery on the homepage when they do not have the right Flash Player installed.
Is it possible to have just one static image when Flash is not installed?
My suggestion would be to have the additional options “none” and “static image” in the “Alternative Content” settings.
good idea, Marc. I’ll add this option in the next version.
thanks for the quick reply. As I need a quick fix for this:
Can you tell me where to modify the code in order to disable the alternative content completely. Displaying nothing is fine for now – I can use a static image as background then.
thanks, Mark
got the solution myself:
I modified showtime.class.php by commenting out the call to the gallery shortcode in the $alternative section and set alternative content to use the gallery. Voila!
I found a very simple solution for the static image: Load the image URL into $gallery instead of commenting out the call to the gallery shortcode function:
$gallery = ”;
Hello, how do I add a border around the flash file?
please try the following in html mode:
[st]if you want the border around all your slideshows, you need to add a line in your style.css like this:
.showtime {border:1px solid black}sorry, code was stripped in previous comment, it should be:
<div style="border:1px solid black">[st]</div>Hi
Is there a way to feed a slideshow from category-id instead of post-id?
Thanks
Hi,
I’ve been having a really tough time trying to get the flickr feed to work. I believe it only worked once and managed to get three images to appear in a slideshow but now the slideshow only displays ONE photo from my photoset and it’s not even the “cover” photo for the set.
I have no idea what’s going on. Would appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Jerrold
update: tried picasa and it worked, thankfully.
You can test your feed URL by pasting it into the navigation bar in FireFox. If the images listed are different from the images in your slideshow, you are welcome to send me the link so I can check what’s going on.
Paul: Would it be possible to compile the SWF to be compatible with Flash Player 9 ? I have a sense that a lot of people still use that version of Flash Player.
Marc, thanks for your ideas. The first versions used FP 9, then I switched to FP 10 because some people reported incompatibility with wmode transparent in FF on Windows.
At first, compiling for FP 10 seamed to do the trick. Since then, I have added 3d transitions which require FP 10.
Now I am thinking about creating a light version with less options and optimized for minimum requirements. It will also use the default cursor, and display the symbols on fixed locations.
Any other ideas?
Paul: The idea of a light version is great. In my case as an example I do not need 3d transitions etc, because use the plugin to display “just” images – no borders, texts, captions etc. on a homepage. And I think FP 9 compatibility would be good as there are still lots of machines out there that are still on FP9: Many Macs running 10.4 “Tiger”, some Linux users who prefer FP9 due to FP10s problems with camera support and all those who never do software updates for what ever reason.
Hi,
Thanks so much for this excellent slideshow plugin. Much easier to configure and populate than the others out there.
A couple of folks have asked about excluding certain images from the show. Justin Tadlock’s “Cleaner Gallery” plugin has two functions that do this. You implement them in shortcode
[gallery exclude="range, of, id, numbers"]
[gallery include="range, of, id, numbers"]
Possibly the functions is his plugin would be easy to adapt for your slideshow.
Thanks again.
Building WP site… love the plugin but I can only get it to work with the [st id=null] setting. When I place the [st id=199] it says images cannot be found. I’ve tried placing the images into the page like the tutorial shows and I just cannot get it right.. can anyone help. The site is http://test.monicanelsonart.com
Thanks in advance
update – if I use [st id=all] that seems to work and finds the graphics. Setting to a specific post or page ID just says “Sorry, no images found”
I’m lost… could I possibly be putting in the wrong ID? I’m getting the ID # from the URL.
Thanks, Rich
OMG — Sorry to waste everyone’s time. I wasn’t actually attaching the images to the post or page like is outlined in the tutorial.
I figured it out and how simple it was.
once again… great plugin!
Hi,
First of all, a great thanks for this plug-in…
I was wondering why when I click on a pic to have a full screen mode, I have the following message :
ArgumentError: Error #1063: Non-correspondance du nombre d’arguments sur st16_fla::MainTimeline/setCursorPos(). 0 prévu(s), 1 détecté(s).
at flash.display::Stage/set displayState()
at st16_fla::MainTimeline/toggleFullscreen()
I am using Flash Player 10…
If I fix this issue, this plug in would be perfect for me…
Best regards and thanks again…
S.
Hi there,
I found a solution by simply downloading the latest version of Flash. That fix the issue.
Bye
Hi, after trying almost every ShowTime configuration, I figured out that when I close the fullscreen (full) to window (medium) the image is still on ‘full’ showing a cropped version of my fullscreen image. It refreshes after a next/previous click and the window view is ‘medium’ again. Is it possible to make that consistent without refreshing first? And do you think a window/fullscreen option for the caption/title would be possible? Still, best gallery plugin!
Sorry, another thing I forgot: I use ST 1.6 and Firefox 3.0 with Flash 10 – it seems I can’t get the transparency option to work. It’s just transparent, no navigation or image. Works fine in Opera/IE though… Thanks.
Hello, [gallery] appears underneath the slide show. How do I remove this. This is my first time using a plug-in like this.
wordpress w/ firefox
Many thanks!
Never mind… :]
Thankyou, fixing the “medium size” in the immage library settings fixed my problm.
another question: Is it possible to disable the swirl that appears between fades while images are loading? Perhaps a command to load all the images when the plugin launches?
I installed your plugin yesterday and look forward to using it. However, I am getting the message “XML could not be loaded.” The URL for the page is http://www.pcspringfield.com/showtime. I am on WP 2.9.1. I’ve seen a few other comments regarding this issue, but have not found a resolution.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
I resolved my problem. Turns out it was a permissions issue for the wp-content folder. Set the permissions to be the same as other folders (0755), and the xml loads fine now.
thanks for sharing your solution.
I hope this will help many people out there who had the same issue.
I’m also getting this error. just wrote my hosting company about it.
I love this plugin, but is there a way to make it feed from a category ID instead of strictly from a post ID? That’d increase its usefulness tenfold, I think.
Hi, is there a way to change the “no images found” message or completely remove it? I use your plugin on my theme but not all pages have photos. Tnx.
it should be possible to hide the message by adding
display:nonein the css settings, though I did not try it out. I guess I will add an .error class in the next versionHello! Thank you for this great plugin! i love it!. I have a little problem, i did this:
if ( function_exists( ’show_showtime’ ) )
show_showtime( “width=200|height=200|transition=focus|transitiontime=.5″ );
As you suggested, to use the slideshow in my theme, i also add “id=13″ so it can get the images from one page, but it gets all the images from all posts and pages in the slideshow.
How can i fix that?
I hope you can understand, my english isn’t very good.
the syntax would be
show_showtime("id=13|width=200|...");if this fails, please try like this:
echo do_shortcode("[st id='13' width='200' ...]");
Great plugin!!
However, it seems there’s a slight problem and I’ve seen it’s been discussed without a final solution here… It’s firefox issue. I’m using FF 3.6, WP 2.91, and v1.4 of this plugin, it always shows a blank when I’m using wmode=transparent. But when I hit ctrl+F5 keys, it shows fine just like in IE. Could it be cache problem with FF? and is this can be solved soon?
Thanks.
Digging the slideshow, but I wondering how to post slideshows of two different sizes on the same blog.
I’m trying to use one size for posting slideshows for blog post and a different size for posting to a portfolio page.
I’ve tried a couple different options and I’ve read on your site for the answer and still can’t seem to wrap my around the sizing issue.
Thanks for your help. Cheers,
Nathan
Think I found the solution to my earlier post – how to pull images from a page to create a slideshow a different size from blog posting:
[st id='x' width=x height=x]
Amazing what a cup of coffee after a good night’s sleep can do for you
Thanks again for the wonderful plugin!
Cheers,
Nathan
Hi,
Great plugin really..
I have a problem though, I don’t know why but the slideshow stopped working in my mac but works perfectly well in windows. I have not the least idea why, yesterday i made some changes in my blog on windows and this morning the showtime slideshow does not show when opened on mac.
thank you in advance for your help.
ozge
Paul,
You really have to address this firefox/transparent issue. It’s been brought up a number of times. I’m using V1.4 of your plugin with FF3.57 , XPSP3 and WP 9.1.
I’m using the slideshow with Ken burns transition and transparent window mode (because I have a drop-down menu above it.
It clearly appears to be a cache issue. If I clear the cache and then go back to the page, it works fine. If I reload the existing page it’s a big white blank area. If I go away from the page and then return, it’s blank again. Works fine in IE8, Opera and Chrome.
Try it yourself => http://www.livingstoncc.com
add ‘display:block’ to the css for #st_0 – this appears to fix it for me on FF.. windows..
cheers, pc
Great plugin very simple!
Is there a way to make the background of the text(title and description) semi- transparent so I can see the image behind it.
Hi, i just thought i’d post a comment and let you know your blogs layout is really messed up on the K-Melon browser. Anyhow keep up the good work!
as long as it looks nice on current versions of IE, FF & Safari and it is at least readable on IE 6 and up, I’m not too worried.
anyway, thanks for informing.
Hello the plug in is brilliant; but i can confirm that transparency doesn’t work in firefox. I can’t see anything in firefox if i keep transparency on. And the design needs tarnsparency for the flash or i won’t be able to put anything on top. Please fix it as it is quite needed.
Thanks a lot
thank you… well, I think I fixed it but I did not have the time to issue an update.. I’d like to fix other bugs at the same time… Would you accept to test the modified SWF? This would save me some time
Hi Paul
yes i could test it.
Send me an email and i’ll let you know.
Thanks
Hey Paul, I would accept this modified SWF aswell. Thanks a lot, cause I really need transparent wmode.
Hi there,
Im getting the XML cannot be loaded error. This is a wordpress installation on Windows however.
Can you tell me where and at what point this XML file is created..so I can sort out the permissions. I have tried all sorts of various permissions and nothing seems to be working.
Thanks for the plugin.
hi Rolf, the dynamic XML file is called getxml.php (wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/getxml.php)
I hope this helps. (I suppose Windows servers are trickier to configure for PHP)
Hi Paul,
I integrated your superb slideshow on my website. But there seems to be a problem showing several gallerys at once. I have 5 articles on my site and included a gallery (about 30 pics each) in every article. When the site loads, only 2 or 3 gallerys are shown. The other ones are simply blank… Is this a gallery problem (max number of imported images per RSS?) or might this be a prob with my hoster (PHP, max. execution time limits etc?). Did you experience similar problems, showing several gallerys (with a lot of pictures) on a website? Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Buzz
Great plugin and the first time I added the slideshow to my page it worked perfectly. However, it is now just coming up as a black screen as you will see on my website. Any help would be greatly appreciated and great job again. Murray
Love the plug-in!
For some of our more novice users, I want to put instructions about the controls and can’t find the double arrow icon for full screen. Did you create that yourself or can you tell me where I can find it?
Barb
Hi there. This is an amazing plugin. I’ve run into problems though. How do I publish the slideshow on my sidebar? Where do I add the code [slideshow] if it’s in the sidebar I want it to appear?
Thanks.
Hi
A truly great plugin, especially when compared to the native picasa embed code… but I can’t get it to pick up my picasa album. I’ve used the following code and you can see the native picasa embed works, but not my Showtime plugin ( ibooktravel.com.au/1/hello-world ) :
`[st picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/ibooktours/albumid/2F5435529054511401921?]
[st flickr=http://www.flickr.com/photos/38568935@N05?]`
Can you see what I might have done wrong ?
hi, the picasa album id you provide appears to be brocken: “Invalid entity id: 2F5435529054511401921″
you need to pass the feed url as value to FLICKR parameter, in your example:
[st flickr=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=38568935@N05]If anyone can help before I go nuts, I would be so appreciative: Can you see what’s making this NOT work….
[st flickr=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157623264870231&nsid=47361697@N02]
when the flickr link is…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47361697@N02/sets/72157623264870231/
but this one WILL work on my site….
[st flickr=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157622602489724&nsid=27531560@N02]
(as per the example from Showtime)
I’ve tried 20x today, mine is not working either. How did you fix it?
Thank you Paul; I created another picasa album incase the first was broken, but I see that the two picasa albums work with the picasa embed code. Also the flickr album works from the flickr embed code, even though I changed the flickr feed code as you suggested. Can you see from my source code what I might be doing wrong, or could I have a Showtime setting incorrect ? (although its just the standard settings.)
Sorry the reply should be in the above thread…
I have successfully added a slideshow to my sidebar. I have a couple questions though.
I only want this slideshow shown on a single page, though it carries throughout every page. Is there a way around this?
Also, can I create multiple slideshows (with different photos) that draw from the media library?
I apologize if the answer if obvious, I did try to get it worked out before posting.
Thanks a lot, it’s a great plugin.
you might try Section Widget… blogs.ubc.ca/support/plugins/section-widget/
As many others I think this is an awsome plug in. I have one question/request.
Is it possible to add a border (with custom colour and width) to the slideshow? If not would you please concider adding that?
Im going to use it for my photography webpage to display a slideshow on the front page. It would look much better with a border around it
…keep up the great work.
please add a .showtime class to your style.css, e.g.
.showtime {border:5px solid black}
Worked like a charm. Much appreciated.
@Jacob,
Border: SLIDSHOW
@all
I need your help. The plugin is working very well but is there a possibility to include a fallback image for all those visitors who don’t have flash (e.g. iphone users like me^^)?? Everytime, I visiting my website (via my iphone) I see the normal ugly gallery (within the configured width and height figures of the slideshow) instead of the slideshow
help! 
Just a tip for those who do not need fancy transitions (3d) and other stuff, but would like to be compatible with Flash Player 9:
- open the file “/wp-content/plugins/showtime-slideshow/showtime/showtime.class.php
- look for the line starting with “swfobject.embedSWF” and replace the 10.0.0 with 9.0.0
- save the file
- check the plugin settings that no fancy transitions are enabled
- enjoy at your own risk…
Thanks for an awesome plugin. It works extremely well on my posts. But I need your help to integrate this into a Single Post Template so that it echos any post ID rather than a individual post id?
I’ve tried many variations to try and get it to work similar to pulling a single thumb image, but nothing seems to work.
I’m imagining it working something like this:
ID, "width=300|height=200'', true); ?>
With the example above, I get the the showtime black box but get the message, “Sorry, no image found”.
oops, sorry, the code was chopped off.
i’ll try again…
ID, "width=300|height=200", true); ?>Alright, the code tag still isn’t showing up right…
ID, “width=”300|height=200″, true); ?>
any plans to add sound? if so, an on-screen “click to play sound” option would be great. thanks!
Dropdown menus on my homepage are dropping behind the showtime slideshow (Pauro reported this before). I can confirm that none of the suggested solutions work.
Has anybody solved the problem successfully ?
I found the solution myself:
Setting “window mode” in the Showtime options to “transparent” allows dropdown menus to drop before the slideshow (I tested it on Firefox, IE, Opera, Chrome, Safari on Linux and Windows).
As this is transparent mode you have to define the background color externally. I did this by putting the showtime shortcode in a div-container and using CSS to assign a background color.
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Like the plugin, but was wondering if on the next redesign if you would consider rendering a control bar. The hovering cursor may not be intuitive to the people who come to my site.
Love your plugin.
i simply put php code to my widget (using “php code widget”)
to get image from picasa and its work perfectly
Thankkss
Çok güzel olmuş, çok da faydalı. Teşekkürler…
Hello friend,
I enjoyed this plugin so muc, but I have a question…
Can I integrate thickbox/lightbox with showtime slideshow?
Thx mate!!!
Hey Guys,
This plug in seems very neet. I am very new to word press, and am having to trouble figuring just how to post it in that blank space on my homepage. Can anyone help a newbie out. I have tested it out on my North page but it just shows a black blank space. I don’t know if I uploaded something correctly. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi!
A wish for the next next version:
The Ken Burns effect is really nice – but it would be neat if the degree of panning/zooming could be set.
For example: you want a photo to have a very slight KB effect, but always focusing on the centre of the photo, never the corners. This is especially valid for slideshows where the display width/height ratio is very different from the uploaded source image. With a control like this you could use the KB effect as long as you ensure that the important part of the photo is always in the centre.
A control like “Ken Burns effect strength” from 1-100% would help a lot. This could affect both how far from the centre the effect starts and also the amount of zoom/pan.
What do you think?
Great plugin. Is there a way to stop the slideshow after it automatically plays? Basically, I want it to run once and then stop on the last image. Thanks.
I really love this plugin! However, is there a way to make multiple post’s images show up in the same slideshow? The reason I am asking this is because all the other link settings work except for the description one. So a way to get around this would be to just put multiple posts images in the same slideshow and just set the linking to the post. If you could find a solution to this problem, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Hello,
I was using this plugin on WPMU without any problem until the update in 2.9.1.1
Now as a superadmin we can activate the plugin for all the blogs, but blog’s admin can’t do it by themselves. The plugin link doesn’t appear in the plugin control panel ?
Any idea ?
PS : forgive my english i’m a poor little french guy lost on an english forum..
bonjour Thierry,
if the plugin does not show up in the list of plugins, it is not installed. Go to Plugins > Add plugin enter “showtime slideshow” in the search box… click install.
the plugin options are set in Media > Showtime Slideshow.
PS : je parle français également
Merci pour la réponse rapide..
Il est bien installé et fonctionnel.. En tant que superadmin de WPMu l’extension est visible et nous pouvons l’activer pour tous les blogs..
Mais, depuis la mise à jour, il n’est pas accessible pour les admins dans la liste des plugins.. alors qu’il leur est possible de le gérer par Medias > Showtime Slideshow ? Ils ne peuvent donc pas le désactiver ou l’activer. Ce n’est pas un gros problème, mais..
Merci encore de vos réponses.
Thanks for the great plugin.. I’ve looked over other posts and suggestions, tried at least 20 different times to get the following flickr photos to show up in my slide show on my website. Each time black screen only. Would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks so much.
[st flickr=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157623437610837&nsid=9507787@No2]
Hello –
I loved the work you did on your slideshow and was planning to migrate my slideshows over from nextgen gallery.
Unfortunately, every time I give it a shot (both by inserting the [showtime] into a post) or by hardcoding into the them) the slideshow displays the “loading” prompt, which then fades out, leaving the page with just a black box indefinitely.
My test page is here: http://justinwaldstein.com/?page_id=759
I have associated images with the page as instructed. Thanks for helping out!
Hi there,
I’m having some problems with the image quality – they come up pixelated.
The ‘Source Image’ for all the photos is set to ‘full’, ‘Display Quality’ set to ‘best’ and I have tried all ‘Scale Modes’.
The images themselves are of high quality so there’s no issue there.
Website: http://www.triathlonphil.com/
Post: http://www.triathlonphil.com/?p=85
Thanks for the work so far!
Regards,
Phil
Busy Saturday night…
Found the reason this isn’t working. For some reason when you just insert in header.php then the quality is low, even if the ‘ShowTime Settings’ in WordPress are set to ‘best’.
Thus, insert and it now shows unpixelated images.
Enjoy!
Phil
Don’t know why the code doesn’t show on my last comment, but basically it should have quality=best in the code.
Hi,
Your plugins is great but i have a little problem when I visit the page the slideshow is not showing and when I click refresh or press F5 the slideshow is now showing. Please help.
I’m using WordPress 2.8.6 and this code
[st picasa=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/jhoe241/albumid/5445084408817698385?&alt=rss]
Thank you
Great slideshow! thanks for making it!
Im trying to put this into my header.. and so far IE is showing it nicely.. but firefox is duplicating it
I know its the way ive written the code.. could someone tell me where im going wrong?
inside my header.php Ive got
when i change that to
it works in Firefox. But NOT IE...arrrgh. Ive spent several hours trying to figure it out and im stumped.. help!
lol.. how am I supposed to ask a question about code when it wont display it here?
does anyone know how to display code here?
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Hello
Thank you for your work on the plugin.
I would also like to acquire the modified swf you’ve made to try and fix the wmode=transparent issue. Could you please post the link? And perhaps make mention of this in your original post? I just read through 300 comments
Thanks for your time.
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