Justin Tadlock

Ptah Dunbar

Patrick Daly

DevPress

<p>The Slideshow plugin gives you a shortcode called <code>[slideshow]</code>, which pulls any image attachments for a post (or any post type) and formats them into a nicely-designed slideshow.</p>
<p>The Slideshow plugin was originally developed as a feature of the <a href="http://devpress.com/themes/news" title="News WordPress theme" rel="nofollow ugc">News theme</a> (if you’re using that theme, please don’t install this plugin).  Realizing that users sometimes switch themes, we wanted to give those users a way to continue using their slideshows with other themes.  This also allows us to make the slideshow feature something that anyone can use, even if they’re not using one of our themes.</p>


Slideshow

A shortcode for displaying a slideshow of image attachments for a post.

eswhite

<p>WordCycle is a WordPress plugin that acts as a wrapper for the popular <a href="http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery Cycle Plugin</a> by Mike Alsup. Use the [slideshow] shortcode to insert a jQuery Cycle slideshow into your WordPress post or page.</p>
<p>No JavaScript necessary! Customize the slideshow using the shortcode options and by modifying your theme’s stylesheet.  The plugin also adds a custom template tag wordcycle_slideshow().</p>
<p>WordCycle is developed by <a href="http://blog.estherswhite.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Esther S White</a></p>
<h3>Usage and Examples</h3>
<p>Uploaded images are called attachments in the WordPresss database. If WordCycle is installed, you can use the [slideshow] shortcode to create a slideshow of all the attachments associated with a post. You can also use the custom template tag wordcycle_slideshow()  in your WordPress template files.</p>
<p>The slideshow advances automatically and is minimally styled. The slideshow uses the Link, Title, and Caption attributes of the WordPress Image Uploader/Gallery, as well as the gallery sorting options.</p>
<p>To add the slideshow to a post, insert this code:  [slideshow]</p>
<p>More examples available on the plugin website.</p>
<h3>Options & Defaults</h3>
<ul>
<li>id            // post id: #, current (default)  </li>
<li>order         // slide order: ASC (default), DESC, RAND  </li>
<li>orderby       // slide order by: menu_order ID (default), see list in codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts  </li>
<li>size          // image size: thumbnail, small, medium (default), large, full-size  </li>
<li>speed         // effect speed: slow (default), normal, fast  </li>
<li>fx            // slideshow effect (view the <a href="http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/browser.html" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery Cycle Plugin Effects Browser</a> for a complete list)  </li>
<li>timeout       // time on each slide: miliseconds: 8000 (default)  </li>
<li>pause         // pause on mouse-over: 0 (default) or 1</li>
<li>next          // selector of element to use as click trigger for next slide : null (default) or DOM element ID</li>
<li>prev          // selector of element to use as click trigger for previous slide : null (default) or DOM element ID</li>
<li>include       // include image by ID</li>
<li>exclude       // exclude image by ID</li>
<li>link          // image link: file, attachment</li>
<li>align         // slideshow position: left, right, none (default)  </li>
<li>float (deprecated)            // slideshow position: left, right, none (default)  </li>
</ul>


WordCycle

WordCycle is a WordPress plugin that acts as a wrapper for the popular jQuery Cycle Plugin by Mike Alsup.

Slideshow vs WordCycle