Title: Rotating Image Widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Rotating Image Widget

 *  [Eric Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmann/)
 * (@ericmann)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotating-image-widget/)
 * I’m building a new widget plug-in to allow WordPress authors to display a Javascript-
   powered animated media gallery in their sidebar. The widget is supposed to pull
   images from the WP database and dynamically re-size them to fit the intended 
   location (to save on download time).
 * You can see a demo version of this plug-in in the lower-left corner of [http://www.mindsharestrategy.com](http://www.mindsharestrategy.com).
 * I’m looking for preliminary reviews, ideas, tips, and feature requests so I can
   polish things off before a) sending it to the client and b) potentially publishing
   it to the WP repository.

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 *  [lilyana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilyana/)
 * (@lilyana)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotating-image-widget/#post-1351059)
 * I will eagerly wait for this widget.
    Keep it simple. Just allow authors to specify:
   1. location of images 2. width or/and height of images to resize to
 * (and maybe 3. number of seconds before next image)
 * thanx
 *  Thread Starter [Eric Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmann/)
 * (@ericmann)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotating-image-widget/#post-1351061)
 * @liliyana – An early version of the widget is already available. It’s as simple
   as possible (unfortunately) and allows for 1 of your 3 requests:
 * 2) You can specify the height and width of the images
 * Right now, the widget pulls a certain number of images at random from your WordPress
   image gallery (you can specify the number of images). The next version will allow
   you to pick the image source and will allow you to change the fade time.
 * Try it and let me know what you think: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rotating-image-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rotating-image-widget/)
 *  [jwillua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwillua/)
 * (@jwillua)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotating-image-widget/#post-1351087)
 * Does anybody know how to change to source to get images from a specified folder,
   not from blog entries?
 *  Thread Starter [Eric Mann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmann/)
 * (@ericmann)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotating-image-widget/#post-1351091)
 * [@jwillua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwillua/) At the moment, you can’t.
   The plugin pulls images from the WordPress database itself, not a particular 
   folder on the server. We’re working on a new release that will allow you to specify
   folders or create new image galleries, but that’s still quite a ways out in the
   development path …
 *  [Kahakura](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kahakura/)
 * (@kahakura)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rotating-image-widget/#post-1351092)
 * This would be preferred for me, but not absolutely essential.
    I keep all my 
   images in folders of my own creating and upload them with CuteFTP.

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