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SlideShowPro and WordPress

20/09-2006 | 8:23
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After I announced my business and portfolio site yesterday, I have received several requests for doing a little on how to make WordPress interact with SlideShowPro as it does on my portfolio site.

I have chosen not to, but instead make two small scripts that will do all the work for you. For both files, change the filename extension to php and upload it to the root directory of your WordPress install.

When editing your SlideShowPro, you will simply have to set it grab /post_gallery.php or /post_gallery.php instead of /images.xml

post_gallery.php

  • A post equals a SlideShowPro album.
  • The post title and post content works as album title and description in SlideShowPro.
  • JPG images uploaded to that specific post (through the inline uploader) equals an image in the album.
  • The image title and description set while uploading is used as title and caption for the image in SlideShowPro.

When using post_gallery.php to output an XML, you have the possibility to give the script a variable, that tells which category it should grab posts from. If that variable is not set, it will grab all posts from all categories.

The variable is set by adding ?cat=ID to the XML include in Flash. E.g. /post_gallery.php?cat=1.

site_gallery.php

  • A category equals a SlideShowPro album.
  • The category name and description works as album title and description in SlideShowPro.
  • JPG images uploaded to any post (through the inline uploader) equals an image in the album.
  • The image title and description set while uploading is used as title and caption for the image in SlideShowPro.
  • If clicking on an image in SlideShowPro, it will direct you to the post, where the image is attached

When using site_gallery.php to output an XML, you have the possibility to give the script a variable, that tells which categories you do not want to function as albums. If that variable is not set, it will show all categories as albums.

The variable is set by adding ?exclude=ID,ID,ID to the XML include in Flash. E.g. /site_gallery.php?exclude=1,2,3.

Not working?

  1. Are you sure you have set the correct path to the php file in your flash file?
  2. Are you sure you have uploaded the php file to the root of your WordPress install (same directory as wp-config.php)
  3. The script will currently only work with JPG images
  4. Do you have any images uploaded at all?

110 comments

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22/09-2006 | 14:14

Marcos Says:

Hi There,

I’ve tested your solution but it doesn’t work properly :-(
It generates 2 extra thumbnails when I add one image to the post.
Am I missing something?

Thanks and it’s a great idea!

26/09-2006 | 5:19

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Marcos, could you possibly post a link?

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05/10-2006 | 20:01

juice Says:

Do you have “dummies guide” for using these slideshowpro scripts? I’ve got the concept working with slideshowpro using Flash Quicktag, but it’s not elegant :-)

I looked at monoslideshow, but it looks like a real pain to use, and the support appears to be non-existent.

cheers, juice

10/10-2006 | 10:52

Israel Meneses Says:

Hi,
It looks like a great plugin; I just can not get it to display the uploaded images to the post “album” how many images can there be in each album?
It shows the post tile and image when the page loads, but when I click on the image it all goes blank and I can not go back to previous screen where it shows all albums, I have to refresh the page.

Do you have “dummies guide” for using these slideshowpro scripts?

Thank you & have a great day

Keep up the good work

14/10-2006 | 6:28

Phil Says:

Hey, great idea-
I am having the same problem as Marcos. It generates 2 extra thumbnails on each album. Is there something I have to change?
Thanks

13/11-2006 | 23:02

Phil Says:

I see this error message when I view that actual file in a browser:
Missing argument 2 for ssp_fetch_images() in www.abc.com/post_gallery.php on line
5

13/11-2006 | 23:05

Chris Says:

Just posting so I can follow up on this… However, now you’ve got me thinking about monoslideshow which is sweet so I hope you post those scripts as well. Thanks.

12/12-2006 | 9:28

Marcio Duarte Says:

Hey, I just wish to thank you for this great script. Fantastic.

Cheers!

12/01-2007 | 14:29

ssasa Says:

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23/01-2007 | 20:29

elBarto Says:

Can I use SlideshowPro Director to manage the album after having this integration? Thx,

24/02-2007 | 16:30

Jürgen Says:

Thnaks for the SlideShowPro Info. Verry helpfull. Jürgen :-)

17/03-2007 | 20:14

RRRunescapeSS Says:

I agree with you , your done a great job~

23/03-2007 | 15:03

onemak Says:

wanted to implemend that in my myspace wordpress,
thank god i found that

31/03-2007 | 22:19

Lohness Says:

Hello, great blog and interresting info :]
Best regards :)

09/04-2007 | 17:18

Luk Says:

You know that thing about sense of humour.
If you ain’t got it then you won’t get it.
Keep it up…

12/04-2007 | 12:51

link Says:

thankss

24/04-2007 | 22:34

resimler Says:

very very thanks

24/04-2007 | 22:34

arabalar Says:

l think very nice article

24/04-2007 | 22:34

Joshua Isaac Says:

If anyone has been having the problem that Marcos has been, there is a quick simple solution.

Line 5 of post_gallery.php looks like this:
`function ssp_fetch_images($postid, $size) {`

To fix the problem change Line 5 of post_gallery to this:
`function ssp_fetch_images($postid) {`

This will remove the 2 undefined elements (ie, 1 and 2) of the Slideshow Pro movie.

27/04-2007 | 16:00

Web Hosting Review Says:

dont work for me eather.. any follow up on fix?

21/05-2007 | 3:06

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24/05-2007 | 5:46

Resimler Says:

I agree with you , your done a great job

04/06-2007 | 14:33

araba Says:

Thanks for the SlideShowPro Info. Verry helpfull.

04/06-2007 | 14:40

araba Says:

Thanks for the SlideShowPro Info. Verry helpfull.

04/06-2007 | 14:40

arabalar Says:

Hey, I just wish to thank you for this great script.

06/06-2007 | 17:07

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l think very nice article

08/06-2007 | 12:25

resim Says:

the great web site

08/06-2007 | 12:27

resim Says:

Hello, great blog and interresting info
Best regards

10/06-2007 | 9:14

bebek resimleri Says:

I agree with you , your done a great job

10/06-2007 | 9:22

Arabalar Says:

very nice article

10/06-2007 | 21:47

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11/06-2007 | 2:12

Cristiano Ronaldo Says:

It looks like a useful script and I will try it for my website. Thank you…

11/06-2007 | 16:56

Resim Says:

great jop..

22/06-2007 | 8:56

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22/06-2007 | 22:16

resim Says:

I agree with you , your done a great job

23/06-2007 | 17:32

resimler Says:

good work

27/06-2007 | 0:45

Arabalar Says:

Hello, great blog and interresting info
Best regards

27/06-2007 | 11:20

Matt Says:

Is it possible to have the links when you click on the pic in the gallery not open up in a new tab or window? I want them to open up on the same page. Thanks! Great script by the way.

Matt

29/06-2007 | 1:32

Rackjobbing Says:

Great blog & very interesting informations.

Regards, John

02/07-2007 | 2:30

resimler Says:

good work..
Best regards.

04/07-2007 | 16:57

oyunlar Says:

Great blog

04/07-2007 | 17:04

Media Says:

the great web site

04/07-2007 | 17:13

Sohbet Says:

it is great

04/07-2007 | 17:20

bebek resimleri Says:

Best regards.

05/07-2007 | 15:06

Bidding Directory Says:

Hey that’s freakin awesome man!

07/07-2007 | 0:35

Gazeteler Says:

Hoowdie hooo!

07/07-2007 | 0:39

Canli TV izle Says:

That’s just great dude!

07/07-2007 | 0:41

video Says:

thanks….

12/07-2007 | 22:39

Healty Says:

its great

14/07-2007 | 20:22

Directory Says:

thanks a lot

14/07-2007 | 20:27

Resimler Says:

Thanks for the blog, it has multi-functionality :P

26/07-2007 | 3:07

Barcelona Spain Says:

The same question here :
Is it possible to have the links when you click on the pic in the gallery not open up in a new tab or window? I want them to open up on the same page.

By the way ,excellent blog

Regards

28/07-2007 | 10:41

BMW Vent Visor Says:

Very helpful, amazing job, you just did it great. Thank you so much. Your a pro, man.

09/08-2007 | 7:03

Dmitry Says:

Thanks, realy nice job!

Regards, Dmitry.

20/08-2007 | 14:14

andrew Says:

works great for me — until you go back and make an edit to the title or description of the image and resave….

I’m using WP 2.2.2 — using the “upload” function.

What do you suppose can be done about this?

24/08-2007 | 2:29

andrew Says:

when you edit the image title and description and resave — the image gets remove from slideshowpro and all you can do is delete the image and re-upload when its perfect — kinda sucks that you cant edit

has anyone else noticed that?

24/08-2007 | 2:40

Neil Says:

Hello, great blog, you are a real gadget man,

Neil

28/08-2007 | 14:39

Yerel Gazeteler Says:

Thanks for this nice piece of information man. :)

29/08-2007 | 17:59

sohbet Says:

Hello, great blog, you are a real gadget man,

30/08-2007 | 18:47

BEDAVA OYUNLAR Says:

Thanks , i will use it.

03/09-2007 | 23:58

GÜZEL OYUNLAR Says:

Thenks for this great blog.

03/09-2007 | 23:59

andrew Says:

after i get this initially working — its great. BUT — if you edit the image title and description and resave the image in “browse” for WP 2.2 — the image gets removed from slideshowpro and all you can do is delete the image and re-upload when its perfect — kinda sucks that you cant edit the title or description after you publish it the first time.

has anyone else noticed that?
what do you suppose the issue is, SSP or WP?
how is the XML feed getting corrupted?

05/09-2007 | 21:14

Śmieszne filmy Says:

Good work! .thank you.

08/09-2007 | 12:01

bedava tema Says:

thanks you

01/10-2007 | 12:47

polish translation Says:

Very helpful…

02/10-2007 | 11:15

Bilstein Shocks Says:

Great…I think I have to try it out too. Keep it up, man..

04/10-2007 | 2:40

Aoleon The Martian Girl Says:

I could never get this one to work.. I also got Monoslideshow, which is better thanks to you!

07/10-2007 | 4:35

video izle Says:

thanks look nice

07/10-2007 | 23:11

Video izle Says:

Thank you

09/10-2007 | 23:43

Joe Beeson » Blog Archive » Slideshow Pro and Wordpress Says:

[…] At this point you should have a new Slideshow Pro SWF file on your server. If you did a Publish Preview before step six and no photos showed up, that’s fine. They won’t show up yet, Wordpress will handle that for us once we do a couple things. We’ll need to create a PHP file called galleryAssist.php. I modified a file from this gentleman so that SSP only is given the photos for a particular post. […]

22/10-2007 | 2:14

kraloyun Says:

thanks..

29/10-2007 | 9:15

forum Says:

Thnaks for the SlideShowPro Info

02/11-2007 | 18:41

oyun Says:

nice site

04/11-2007 | 22:02

yarisma Says:

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04/11-2007 | 22:07

hemenresim Says:

I tried to make it but still problems :( can any one did that?

06/11-2007 | 18:17

Blogger Says:

Thanks, look nice

08/11-2007 | 12:46

Theatre Says:

Great…I think I have to try it out too. Keep it up, man..

08/11-2007 | 13:14

kral oyun Says:

Great?I think I have to try it out too. Keep it up,

27/01-2008 | 22:55

kral oyun Says:

thanks…

08/02-2008 | 13:09

e-okul Says:

Thanks for all
by e-okul

11/02-2008 | 10:19

aşk resimleri Says:

Great help ,i think I have to try it out too. Keep it up

18/02-2008 | 8:21

şekilli msn nickleri Says:

thanks you go go go.

23/02-2008 | 10:49

arabalar Says:

Thanks for all , arabalar

23/02-2008 | 10:51

genpa Says:

Thanks for it .
by genpa

27/02-2008 | 9:11

resim upload Says:

Thanks mann :) googd article
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27/02-2008 | 9:12

resimler Says:

thankss so much

02/03-2008 | 22:43

arabalar Says:

thanks you

07/03-2008 | 16:06

South Florida Guide Says:

I integrated Slideshow Pro and wordpress by using SSP Director on the back end in the same directory as WordPress. Then I added the link to the directory album xml in the post metadata and modified the WP template to put that in flashvars for the SSP object.

08/03-2008 | 8:02

indir Says:

thanks you

10/03-2008 | 15:35

Game Says:

thank you very much

14/03-2008 | 11:16

Nameless Says:

thanks so much

14/03-2008 | 11:17

iddaa Says:

Hello
I just wish to thank you for this great script.

24/03-2008 | 9:29

89 Says:

gracias.

21/04-2008 | 0:41

Adam Says:

Great script, quick question though, is it possible to use this for “pages” rather than “posts” and have the page category as the album and each page as an image?

29/04-2008 | 14:20

radyo dinle Says:

very helpfull. thnks.

06/05-2008 | 15:58

canlı yayın Says:

Hello, great blog, you are a real gadget man,

11/06-2008 | 0:47

Oyunlar Says:

very useful javascript galleries built nowadays. They are very simple to edit and use. Try them.

25/06-2008 | 7:01

Business Says:

thank you very much

18/08-2008 | 0:04

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