Comments on: Wordpress Slideshow Plugin: Superb Slideshow

By: james_m

james_m — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:18:45 +0000

I only have a surface knowledge of PHP Nick. If you visited Gopi’s page, you’ll find that I asked him a lot of questions there.

The code you used, if I’m not mistaken is designed for templates. Unfortunately, I haven’t tried that code out because I only used the code that is supposed to be used for pages and posts. Thus, the code for the above slideshow goes like:
[superb-slideshow=filename=filenameofxml.xml&width=522&height=226]
Thus, if I want to have another slideshow in the same post, I’d just prepare another set of images and create another xml file say, filenameofxml2.xml and type the above code again where I want the other slideshow to appear, replacing filenameofxml.xml with filenameofxml2.xml and adjusting the width and height values accordingly.

I’ll probably explore the installation of multiple slideshows in a template some time. However, if you find the solution to your issue, I’d appreciate if you write about it here too. Thanks Nick.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:01:03 +0000

Thanks for the quick response! When you say “in your code” do you mean as in the snippet of code I put in the template?

This:
if (function_exists (sswld_show)) sswld_show();

And if so how would I point to it? Sorry I have some knowledge of PHP but it’s not the best.

By: noelmoralde

noelmoralde — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:54:12 +0000

Thanks Wil.

By: james_m

james_m — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:50:38 +0000

Nick, you need to create another xml file for your other slideshow. The default xml file is the ’superb-slideshow.xml’. Now create another file, say ‘nick-show1.xml’ based on that default file. You can put your other images on the same folder as the default. In your code, point it to nick-show1.xml.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:50:06 +0000

Hey I was wondering if you knew how to use this in the template multiple times.. Say I have two groups of “sponsors” and want to use this for each of them.. separate images in each slideshow. What is the code to use to display another slideshow other than the default one? Any help is greatly appreciated!

-Nick

By: willy

willy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:24:29 +0000

waooo very nice picture
maybe later i’m gonna try this plugin
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By: james_m

james_m — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:52:47 +0000

Cool! There’s probably a lot of other great slideshow plugins out there, but for my purposes, this one seems perfect enough.

By: Brian D. Hawkins

Brian D. Hawkins — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:21:43 +0000

I’m glad you posted about this plugin James, I’ve been looking for something to use when I get enough buttons back. I want to display everyone’s photos with a link back to their site. This one looks like a good candidate.
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By: noelmoralde

noelmoralde — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:55:29 +0000

Recreated the lost xml files and re-uploaded the images. Running cool again.

By: noelmoralde

noelmoralde — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:02:37 +0000

NOTE: Right after updating the plugin to a newer version, it stopped working and instead produced a few mad error messages. I’m contacting the author.

The Update action deleted the xml files and images I’ve previously created for this slideshow. Must be some code glitch.