Help creating a custom slideshow

  • mortalwombat

    (@mortalwombat)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    I am building a custom theme for a photography company, and have hit a complete block here. Mainly, I don’t know what my options are. The design calls for a slideshow of images on several of the pages. Each instance of the slideshow is designed the same, but the photos will be unique to each. The design is really simple. It’s just a large photo, dots below to represent each image in the stack, and left/right arrows.

    I can build this in javascript or something like that, but I’m not sure what my options are for integrating that. I could use a plugin, but I have two problems with plugins: 1 – They can break if the user upgrades WP, and 2 – They are hard to style to fit the design you need and the styling may not survive an upgrade of the plugin.

    I would think integrating it into WP would be a great way to go, but I don’t know where to start on that. Ideally, the user can add and change photos in the galleries through the WP admin panel, so this would be nice as well.

    I dunno, I just don’t really know where to start on this one, so if someone could point me in the right direction, that would be great!

    Thanks!

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  • Digital Raindrops

    (@adeptris)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    The client and I are deciding if we will need these slideshows in blog posts, or just the pages.

    I could not see the slideshow on the page!

    To make it slick and on pages or posts, you could use a custom field or better still a metabox, with a checkbox to enable slideshow, then all you need to do is check the page or post metadata to see if the slideshow is active.

    HTH

    David

    cindywang123

    (@cindywang123)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    i am so haapy that,Thanks so much for the prompt reply.now i think i know something,i will try my best

    Thread Starter mortalwombat

    (@mortalwombat)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Try again. I was working on the slideshow from work when I posted this, then last night I pulled the functions.php file from the ftp and started working on it from home. When I re-uploaded, something happened and I corrupted my functions.php on the host, and through a series of stupid events, lost my local copy as well. So my functions.php was completely blank until I got back to work this morning to re-upload. It’s all better now.

    Digital Raindrops

    (@adeptris)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Nice!

    Lost the top menu in IE9 Compatibilty (IE7) view (css issue).

    Shame it is not responsive like twenty eleven when you resize the browser, so will you have a mobile option?

    David

    Thread Starter mortalwombat

    (@mortalwombat)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for the heads up on the IE7 view. I will probably have some custom CSS for mobile, just to keep things pretty, but I won’t have a full mobile site. I tend to think that’s a silly requirement for a lot of sites. Mobile sites are great for sites that have a content people want to keep up to date with – News, shopping, etc. But sites for business like photographers are very much about the visual aspect. I would rather them see the site on the phone the same way they would on the computer.

    Digital Raindrops

    (@adeptris)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    I have four daughters in their twenties with kids and most of their viewing is done on small devices (net books or smart pads) or mobiles (iphone or blackberry) now for ebay, facebook etc:

    I.M.H.O. I would say a mobile presence is getting more and more a requirement for a service business aimed at a young market.

    The website concepts looks to be weddings, one of my daughters is planning hers and sends links to my mobile (HTC), if the page does not have a mobile view or is hard to read it will frustrate me, and it is unlikely I will view it at work or home.

    Regards

    David

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    I would rather them see the site on the phone the same way they would on the computer.

    Apple would agree with you. They deliberately configured the iPhone & iPad to ignore mobile stylesheets on the grounds that their users wanted “the rich-media experience”. And from what I’ve seen, most sites render just fine on modern mobile devices. When carrying out my own small, ad hoc, user surveys, I was told that most people shunned mobile sites because they were “boring” or “clunky” and would only use them if they absolutely had to (eg didn’t have a nearby wireless connection, so needed a low-bandwidth version).

    Thread Starter mortalwombat

    (@mortalwombat)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for the input on the mobile stuff. I will definitely have to take those into consideration.

    Thread Starter mortalwombat

    (@mortalwombat)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    BTW Digital Raindrops – If you guys are looking for a good wedding photographer, I know some! :p

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