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Great, I like the idea a lot but it does seem a little busy. I recently changed my site because there were too many buttons/links . If you could reduce the number of buttons on the top banner and distincly seperate the blog/info links from the gallery links I think it would be a fabulous format.  What's the best way to learn about developing with word press because I have used it but never spent the time looking into the php?

all the best,
Eric

edit: has moved to here....
http://www.sleepingwolves.com/blog/?page_id=90

i don't use director..but i don't see why not
the files to edit are many...but the header and css files are key.

there is a quick and dirty way:

Step 1: download, install, and activate the kml plugin
http://kimili.com/plugins/kml_flashembed

Step 2: add the following code to your post or page.
[kml_flashembed movie="minimal3.swf" height="400" width="600" /]

that's all there is to it.. keep the swf and the xml in the same folder

good...the only other thing will be to watch the references in your xml file..for example i went the absolute way
like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gallery>
<album title="" id="" tn="" description="" lgPath="http://www.sleepingwolves.com/gallery/Timber Wolves/large/" tnPath="">
<img src="DSC_0094.jpg"/>
<img src="DD_0836.jpg"/>
etc.

erick wrote:

Hi,

I've been starting to setup a blog, and I've managed to get my gallery into one of the pages but it seems to keep breaking themes. 

http://erickramp.com/wp/?page_id=7

thanks

I couldn't see the problem you describe, but was pleased to see you got this to work. How did you insert the show in your wp page? It looked good to me.

Did you use a plugin or widget and where did you insert the code? Can I ask you to show me the code you used?

Many thanks!

Ellie

erick wrote:

i just used an <object> tag

I guess to see what I mean by broken, I should ask to you look at the "about" page, to see what the theme is supposed to look like

I see what you mean. Where exactly did you embed this code? I mean in what file? And where in the file?

Is it possible to use the swfobject code for this, do you know? The embed object code is not supposed to be good anymore, is it? I mean I get warnings from DreamWeaver when I have that type of code in the page.

Ellie

Did you just insert it in a wordpress page box? As in your admin panel?

Ellie

erick wrote:

and this is what it is now, I was trying to use the kamil plugin, though I'm not really clear on how it works to be honest, and it doesn't seem to have made any difference

<p>Photos from my adventures.</p>
<p><object width="500" height="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.erickramp.com/unpub/slide.swf" /></p>
<param name="movie" value="http://www.erickramp.com/unpub/slide.swf" />[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.erickramp.com/unpub/slide.swf" height="400" width="500" /]

you are putting references to the swf twice...you are combining two different methods instead of using one...if all you need is a simple implementation of SSP...use the plugin method..replace the code above with this:

Photos from my adventures <BR>
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.erickramp.com/unpub/slide.swf" height="400" width="500" /]

if your page is still broken it is because of the dimensions of the swf....if the movie is too large in width it will push the right side of the page (sidebar.php) over....this should be a simple fix...if the code above does not work, try to make a smaller movie, if that doesn't work edit your css file or post it here.

I saw your page and 500 wide should be fine so i'm convinced it is the fact that you are embedding two movies instead of one.

Last edited by jcw99 (2006-12-23 07:45:37)

Thanks so much for this help. I will give them a try and try to see which is best.

You are so helpful - I can't thank you enough for this.

Ellie

Glad you got it fixed Eric...your site looks clean, good job...often it is a good idea to start from scratch, it could be the smallest typing error that throws the syntax and everything else off

happy holidays

If it's a path issue then fix it, but you might also like to post the slideshow url so we can check.

HELP! I downloaded the kml_flashembed file, unzipped it and uploaded to my plug-in's folder and here's what I got:

Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/share/pear/buttonsnap.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/httpd/vhosts/garystripling.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /home/httpd/vhosts/garystripling.com/httpdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/kml_flashembed/kml_flashembed.php on line 34

Warning: main(buttonsnap.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /home/httpd/vhosts/garystripling.com/httpdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/kml_flashembed/kml_flashembed.php on line 34

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'buttonsnap.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/httpd/vhosts/garystripling.com/httpdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/kml_flashembed/kml_flashembed.php on line 34

I'm running WP2.3. What's going on??

Thanks,
Gary

I wanted to use SSP inside of a single post to display that post's images and I didn't want to write a new XML file for each one. I found a couple things online and changed added some stuff to accomplish this, it's pretty neat.

I wrote a tutorial on how to do it. It can be found here at my website. Note that only try this if you already got SSP working on your website before.

I am not having problems at all. In fact I have just added a SSP to the header as the header graphic on the page and it seems to work very well with all the browsers I have checked. On the Shadows and Light site.

It works fine for me on the home page, but not on the content ones, this is beacuse on the homepage, it looks for the images.xml file here http://209.35.116.207/images.xml but on the content ones it looks for it here http://209.35.116.207/contact/info/images.xml or http://209.35.116.207/news/newsletter/images.xml and so on.

Thanks for all of the information on this thread. By reading through all of the posts, I was able to piece together the information needed. Here's what I had to do to get SSP working on a WordPress post or page:

My paths are:
slideshow.swf - http://website.com/gallery   (this is not my actual site, just an example)
slideshow.xml - http://website.com/gallery   (this is not my actual site, just an example)
photos - http://website.com/gallery/slideshow/large   (this is not my actual site, just an example)

Step 1: Download, install, and activate the "Kimili Flash Embed" plugin for WordPress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kimili-flash-embed/

Step 2: In Flash, with the SlideShowPro component selected, set the XML File Path to "/gallery/slideshow.xml" in the Component Inspector. Publish and upload the slideshow.swf and slideshow.xml files to the following location: http://website.com/gallery/

Step 3: Set the "lgPath" in the XML file like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gallery>
   <album title="" id="" tn="" description="" lgPath="/gallery/slideshow2/large/" tnPath="">
      <img src="pic_01.jpg" />
      <img src="pic_02.jpg" />
      <img src="pic_03.jpg" />
      <img src="pic_04.jpg" />
      <img src="pic_05.jpg" />
      <img src="pic_06.jpg" />
   </album>
</gallery>

Step 4: Add the following code to the post or page. This can be done using the WYSIWYG editor. The height and width should match the dimensions of the slideshow.swf file.
[kml_flashembed movie="/gallery/slideshow.swf" height="400" width="600" /]

Hi,

I'm having a problem that only happens in Internet Explorer: Kimili embedded SSP slideshows appear in front of the menu drop down lists.

i.e. when on the page below, the menu drop down lists (under say, the "categories" heading are rendered behind the slideshow. Has anyone experienced this? Can you suggest a workaround?

www.glenpepin.com/families/

Thanks very much for any help,

Glen