This new version of the free flash slideshow wordpress widget is again the result of the feedback of one of you. So don’t hesitate and post your praise, questions, comments and critics. It all helps to make a better product!
So, what’s new? Version 1.2 resolves a problem with domain redirects.
For example: your domain is ‘www.mydomain.com’, but people can also use ‘mydomain.com’, without the www. Since the widget up to version 1.1 used relative paths to point the flash module to the xml files with the settings, this meant that one of the two urls caused an error (in IE) or a blank slideshow (in FF).
Version 1.2 uses absolute paths, so this problem won’t occur anymore.
The following information can also be found in the ‘readme.txt’ file that is included in the zip-file.
Installation
Installation is easy. Just download the free flash slideshow WordPress widget, and install and activate it using the ‘Plugins/Add New’ menu in your WordPress admin panel.
Once installed, you can add instances of the widget to your website through the ‘Appearance/Widgets’ menu, and change the settings by editing the added widget. Take a look at the CCSlideShow user guide for a complete list of all parameters. This info is also available in the ‘settings documentation.txt’ file that is included in the zip-file.
You can add as many slide shows as you want. Each slide show has it’s own set of settings.
To make the images appear in the slide show, you need to set the first two parameters:
path
Has to contain the absolute path to the slides folder, WITH the final slash.
Use this setting when you have disabled ‘Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders’ in the WordPress miscellanious settings, or are using a plugin that allows you to upload the images to a single folder.
Images
Has to contain a list of the image names, one image per line.
If you didn’t use the ‘path’ setting, or only put a part of the path there (because you’ve enabled ‘Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders’ in the WordPress miscellanious settings, or anyway the images are stored in different folders), then you’ll have to add the (missing part of) the path to the image names.
License
The flash slideshow WordPress widget is released under the GNU/GPL license.
The CCSlideShow.swf flash file included in the widget is released under this license. As long as the flash file is a part of the CCSlideShow WordPress widget, you are free to use it as if it was released under GNU/GPL as well. If you want to use it outside of the CCSlideShow WordPress widget, then you’ll have to abide the rules of this license.
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Okay, now I really do have a question. The info says: “Put your images online in the ‘images’ subfolder of the CCSlideShow’ folder. I don’t see any ‘images’ subfolder. I downloaded through WP. I also downloaded from your website, and don’t see one there either.
2. It says “Edit the CCSlideShow.xml in the ‘CCSlideShow’folder. I don’t see a CCSlideShow.xml file there, or anywhere.
So I’m really not sure what I’m supposed to be doing! Can you please tell me where I can find this subfolder? I cannot play the .swf file; is there something there I need to see?
Happy New Year, and Thank you.
Hi Jane,
The user guide is written for the ‘do-it-yourself’ version of the slide show. To use the WordPress widget, all you have to do is install it and change some of the parameters as described here. Of course, you can change all other parameters as well, to change the look of the slide show, but the ‘path’ and ‘images’ parameters are the ones you must set to make the slide show work.
The only reason the user guide is mentioned, is because it contains a list and description of all the parameters you can set. You’re not the first to be confused by this, and for the new version of the slide show I’ll make separate user guides for all versions (do-it-yourself, WordPress widget and Joomla module).
So, if you want to put all images in a folder outside of wordpress, all you have to do is put the absolute path to that folder in the ‘path’ parameter. For example ‘http://www.yoursitename.com/slideshow_images’.
You can also use the standard WordPress year-month folders. If all images have been saved in the same month, put the absolute path in the ‘path’ parameter. If the images are saved in more than 1 month, then you’ll have to put the part of the path that is different (the year-month part) in front of each image in the ‘images’ parameter.
For example:
‘path’: ‘http://www.yoursitename.com/wp-content/uploads/’
‘images’: ’2009-12/image1.jpg’