Post Gallery Widget
This plugin adds a Gallery Posts menu to your WordPress dashboard. To add content to the rotating gallery:
- Add a new Gallery Post for each image/headline to be shown in the rotating gallery
- Attach one or more images to the gallery post by uploading the image(s) with the media uploader while editing the post
- Enter the title & content that you would like to overlay the image
- Publish the post(s)
- Add the Rotating Post Gallery widget to widget area on your home page
- Enter the number of Posts to rotate in the gallery (default = All).
- Choose the size of image to display in the gallery (based on your Media Settings)
When multiple images are attached to a Gallery Post one of the images is randomly selected to be shown on each page view.
In the initial verion, you will have to add some CSS to your theme’s stylesheet:
.slideshow {
width: 123px;
height: 456px;
}
Substitute 123 & 456 with the width & height in your Media Settings.
This plugin was written by Ron Rennick in collaboration with the CUNY Academic Commons.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.