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ddegner · 2012-04-04 14:18:38

You obviously put a lot of work into the current WordPress plugin to make it look so good, but it doesn't serve the most common reason that people buy SSP director, to serve slideshows.

A quick zip through the feature requests archive shows that I'm not the only one with this idea. Making the plugin easier as a bridge for putting slideshows into wordpress would open up SSPs usefulness to the massive base of 72,000,000 Wordpress installs. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites. Most of these are blog and news sites that are looking for an easy and powerful slideshow solution.

The answer is relatively simple

1. Slideshow shortcode:
There should be an easily inserted slideshow shortcode to insert each slideshow into a wordpress page. This will help with future compatibility and speed of publishing slideshows.

2. Links between posts and slideshow
This is probably the easiest part. When I'm creating a post and I'm ready to add a slideshow there should be a simple link that takes me to the "upload" page of my director install, and likewise after I upload photos there should be a link that takes me to the "new post" wordpress page.

3. SEO and Photo Editor friendly photo pages:
The old SlidePress plugin created thumbnail links to individual pages for each photo in a slideshow which was great for search engine indexing of each photo and their caption information. For an example look at this page on something without Flash support: http://www.incendiaryimage.com/projects … evolution/

Now there aren't any hard linked individual photo pages which makes the photos invisible to search engines, and hard to share individual photos with photo editors.

Using a shortcode should make this much easier to implement.

p.s. Background color:
This is a relatively minor bug, but when the embed code is copy and pasted into wordpress it includes a default of black background color. That setting should be part of the params.xml file or at least have a default available in the settings page (be sure to include a "none" option).

Last edited by ddegner (2012-04-05 15:37:15)

ddegner · 2012-06-09 19:22:08

bump.

mgilvey · 2013-02-20 05:44:21

I agree! I just installed it and while it lets me grab images from my Director there's no actual slide show function. Not even something like FancyBox or Lightbox. I especially trupet DDegners request for SEO, these are desperate times and SEO is really important.

DDegner: I ended up copying the code from one of my albums into my page but had some problems there like not being able to align right or left. I don't want to hijack this thread but I thought you might be interested: I placed the SSP code into a div on the page or post:

<div id="ssp-r">paste your ssp code here</div>

and set the controls to the div in the style.css and I got it got it to align right:

#ssp-r {
float: right;
padding-left: 20px;
Padding-bottom: 5px;
}

#ssp-l {
float: left;
padding-right: 20px;
Padding-bottom: 5px;
}

It works like a charm! There are some other problems that I will address in my wishlist post I'm about to make called SSP MOBILE FEATURES.

#1 2012-04-04 14:18:38

Tighter Slideshowpro Wordpress Integration

#2 2012-06-09 19:22:08

Re: Tighter Slideshowpro Wordpress Integration

#3 2013-02-20 05:44:21

Re: Tighter Slideshowpro Wordpress Integration

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