Title: Image Slideshow plugin using WP Media Library? Last modified: December 10, 2021 --- # Image Slideshow plugin using WP Media Library? * [Kim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaverblad/) * (@khaverblad) * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/) * So, spent a fair share of time to test various slideshow and gallery plugins to see if there is any add-ons that would make use of WP own Media Library instead of as many gallery add-ons that requires to upload the same photos which I have in the WP Media Library once again to the Gallery. * So far the [Enhanced Media Library](https://wpuxsolutions.com/plugins/enhanced-media-library) has shown to be a very nice add-on which creates a simplistic light-box/gallery based on the Media Category. Quite nice as the gallery will be dynamically updated and include new images being added to the WP Media Library. * What I’m trying to find, and fine if it would replace the above EML add-on, is a slide-show add-on which can will show images based on the media category. * Any suggestion or direction what to look for. - This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/). Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [webbistro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbistro/) * (@webbistro) * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15148847) * Hi Kim, * I am the author of the EML plugin. If you describe what you expect from the slide show I can suggest a solution that will work with EML. Also, I would be grateful if you describe in a few words what’s wrong with the plugin and why you want to replace it. * Best, -Nadia * Thread Starter [Kim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaverblad/) * (@khaverblad) * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15148873) * Hi Nadia, The EML works as mentioned very well for generating dynamic galleries based on media category. All other add-ons that I tried one had to manual add images to the gallery which just not going to do it. So far everything is fine. * What I’m missing is a simple slide-show option instead of clicking on the image which brings one to a new page. So just going to be a lot of clicking back and forth if a gallery contains a lot of pictures. So, when using the EML add-on to view a image category and clicking on an image (optional feature of course to be set) that it’s brought up in a slide-show mode with simple forward and back buttons. That would be a winner for me 🙂 * Oh, and kudos for finding your way in to the forum and responding. * [webbistro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbistro/) * (@webbistro) * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15149061) * Kim, * Thank you for your kind words about the plugin! * Here is the list of the lightweight gallery plugins compatible with EML and supporting dynamic galleries that you use: * [Justified Gallery](https://wordpress.org/plugins/justified-gallery/) [Gallery Lightbox](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gallery-lightbox-slider/) [Simple Lightbox](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-lightbox/) * Also: Jetpack Carousel Jetpack Tiled Galleries * What you need is to install one of them and it will work with your current galleries. Just make sure to set in the Gallery Settings the “Link to” parameter to “Media File” not the “Attachment Page”. * Please let me know if you need further assistance with this. * Finding a way to respond is a fault of the wp.org notification system. I just receive all the mentions of EML here 🙂 * Best, -Nadia * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15149436) * Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic. * Please ask plugin specific questions in that plugin’s dedicated sub-forum instead. * [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/enhanced-media-library/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/enhanced-media-library/) * Thread Starter [Kim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaverblad/) * (@khaverblad) * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15152660) * Thanks for the input Nadia. Checked the suggested gallery/lightboxes and from what I could it still works with that one have to choose which images to make use of or include the ids in shortcode: * [gallery ids="729,732,731,720"] * what I’m trying to find is a add-on which provides feature to use category tag by using the EML media_category or by all means the native media category. So by for example using the following EML tag: * [gallery media_category="Dragon"] * I then get the WP gallery to show the images which has been categorised with the above name. But, seems so far that no gallery/lightbox can pick up images to be shown in this way, or? * [webbistro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbistro/) * (@webbistro) * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15152739) * Hi Kim, * I just activated Justified Gallery on WP 5.8.2 with EML 2.8.8, added a shortcode`[ gallery media_category="one"]`, and it perfectly shows the gallery based on the category “One” with the lightbox feature. * I believe you should use “dragon” with the lowercase D because it’s a slug, it cannot be capitalized. You can see media category slugs on this page: `/wp-admin/ edit-tags.php?taxonomy=media_category&post_type=attachment` * Best, -Nadia * Thread Starter [Kim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaverblad/) * (@khaverblad) * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15152825) * Yes, and got it to work, and issue was that I never checked the actually images and hoovered the mouse over the image which would show the magnifying glass… So with the EML and the suggested gallery add-on it works exactly as I wanted. * Thanks for your patient and with that have a great weekend! * [webbistro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbistro/) * (@webbistro) * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15153452) * Hi Kim, * Glad to know! Have a great weekend too! * Best, -Nadia * [kanyekim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kanyekim/) * (@kanyekim) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15333692) * Installing one of them will allow you to use your existing galleries with it. All you have to do is to install one. It is very important that the “Link to” parameter in the Gallery Settings is set to “Media File” and not “Attachment Page.Here is the list of plugin Justified Gallery Gallery Lightbox Simple Lightbox Also visited the mentioned link provide to solve the problems easily. [https://wordpres](https://wordpres) [.](https://kanyewestmerch.ltd/donda/)org/support/plugin/enhanced-media-library/ [https://www.ezusy.com/](https://www.ezusy.com/) - This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [kanyekim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kanyekim/). Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Image Slideshow plugin using WP Media Library?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [EML](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/eml/) * [gallery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gallery/) * [media library](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media-library/) * [slide show](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/slide-show/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [kanyekim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kanyekim/) * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-slideshow-plugin-using-wp-media-library/#post-15333692) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics