Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more. Featured Content Gallery home page: <a href="http://www.featuredcontentgallery.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">FeaturedContentGallery.com</a>.
Additional Plugin Information:
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<li><a href="http://www.featuredcontentgallery.com/install-setup" rel="nofollow ugc">Installation, Setup & Instructional Video</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.featuredcontentgallery.com/about" rel="nofollow ugc">About and Changelog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.featuredcontentgallery.com/showcase" rel="nofollow ugc">FCG Website Showcase</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.featuredcontentgallery.com/forum" rel="nofollow ugc">Help and Support Forum</a></li>
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<h3>Usage</h3>
After you download and activate the new Featured Content Gallery plugin, you will first want to head over to the options page which will allow you to configure your gallery. You will also need to select whether you’d like to have your featured content come from a blog post category or from individual post or page IDs.
The featured content gallery plugin is now fully customizable. Style the gallery with options like size, color, and custom slide transitions through the options page. For each featured item, you have the ability to determine the main image used, thumbnail, and overlay text.
The new plugin uses four different custom fields in advanced mode. Simply upload images or enter your custom text to have the gallery display exactly what you want.
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<li>articleimg: (required) used to determine the main image for the gallery.</li>
<li>thumbnailimg: (optional) used to determine the thumbnail image displayed. Without this enabled, the main image is automatically cropped to create a thumbnail.</li>
<li>featuredtext: (optional) enter in custom text to be displayed in the text area. Without this enabled, approximately 100 characters of text from the post or page is displayed by default.</li>
<li>alttext: (optional) enter in custom text to be displayed for the post or page image alt tag in the value field. Without a value, the image will not have alt text. </li>
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Make sure to visit <a href="http://www.featuredcontentgallery.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">FeaturedContentGallery.com</a> for a live demo, detailed installation instructions and video, info about the plugin, a website showcase, and support forum.
Jason Thurston | Kris Themstrup | Yelena Khamidullina | <a href="http://www.ieplexus.com" rel="nofollow ugc">iePlexus.com</a>

Featured Content Gallery

Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site.

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Jetpack has a pretty robust Image slideshow feature. (If you don’t know, “Add Media” button > “Create Gallery” > Choose photos > “Create new gallery” > Change type to slideshow in “Gallery Settings” > “Insert Gallery”)
Make sure you have “Compose using shortcodes to embed media from popular sites” enabled in “Settings” > “Writing” > Composing section of Jetpack settings.
Jetpack’s handling of photo’s captions doesn’t work well with long captions (as it overlays the caption above the photo). This plugin modifies the layout so that the caption is displayed below the photo and the slideshow expands to accommodate.
Contribute on <a href="https://github.com/tw2113/Jetpack-Slideshow-Caption" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>.
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