The same thing has just happened to me.
The slideshow on top of posts seems to work only the first time. Besides, it’s not editable. After creating my first slideshow, I thought I’d rather remove and image from it… and found no way of doing that.
I decided to restart fresh, trashed the problematic post and created another, but I haven’t been able to create a new slideshow since. =(
OK, I really don’t know how, but I’ve managed to create slideshows on top of new posts. So the slideshow isn’t necessarily a one-time thing.
I’ve got optimal results by following these steps:
- Create a new post
- Select the Gallery post format for it
- Upload some images for the slideshow
- Once they’ve loaded, close the window using the X at the right top corner. Don’t “insert into post” or you’ll end up with a slideshow at the top of the post and also a bunch of photos inside the post’s body!
And that’s it.
However, editing the slideshows still seems impossible. x_X
SomniumLucidus,
Thank you for your post, I found steps 1-4 helpful.
The gallery seems to be limited to 12 images. Is there a way to increase this?
Also, editing the post doesn’t seem to be a problem, but if you edit the media included in the gallery all hell breaks loose as you said.
-Tom
The gallery seems to be limited to 12 images. Is there a way to increase this?
No idea, sorry. =(
So far I’ve only made slideshows with a maximum of 5 photos.
ahh, i realized I didn’t see that the other pictures weren’t finished loading.
I’ve managed to get the slideshow (above the post) working by activating Galleries / Carrousel / custom CSS in the Jetpack plugin.
Hope this works for you as well?
Adding photos will delete the slidehow and I’m not able to get it working again..
