Wordpress: Nice slideshow not attached to article?

[The Dawg]

I want to insert a slideshow of pictures to the index of my blog, but I dont need them attached to any articles.

Whats the easiest solution to do this?

Thanks

[Lace]

jquery slider?

[LoveSandra]

bump bump

[fris]

how do you want to specify the images?

[The Dawg]

Originally Posted by Lace

jquery slider?

Thanks, this may do it.

Originally Posted by fris

how do you want to specify the images?

Doesnt matter, it could be a file folder, a plugin or whatever. I just want it to scroll through 3 or 4 images. FCG is attached to an article and thats not really what I want.

[fris]

Originally Posted by The Dawg

Thanks, this may do it.


Doesnt matter, it could be a file folder, a plugin or whatever. I just want it to scroll through 3 or 4 images. FCG is attached to an article and thats not really what I want.

not that hard to do.

here are a few jquery sliders

http://bxslider.com/

http://workshop.rs/projects/coin-slider/

http://www.mopstudio.jp/mopSlider2descrip.html

http://www.madebyrendr.com/jquery-plugins/simpleslider/

http://nivo.dev7studios.com/

[fris]

Originally Posted by The Dawg

I want to insert a slideshow of pictures to the index of my blog, but I dont need them attached to any articles.

Whats the easiest solution to do this?

Thanks

if you still need this let me know

icq: 704-299

i did this today with a directory of images instead of attachments.

[fris]

Originally Posted by The Dawg

Thanks, this may do it.


Doesnt matter, it could be a file folder, a plugin or whatever. I just want it to scroll through 3 or 4 images. FCG is attached to an article and thats not really what I want.

If you want to do it via folder, here is something i would go about doing.

in your template you would do <?php custom_slideshow_image_list();?>

and have the slider code above or below that, the part where it sets the div, jquery, etc

    function custom_slideshow_image_list()
    {
        $path = sprintf( '%s/images/slideshow/', TEMPLATEPATH );
        $url = sprintf( '%s/images/slideshow/', get_bloginfo( 'template_directory' ) );
        $file_types = array( '*.jpg', '*.png', '*.gif' );

        $images = array();
        foreach( $file_types as $file_type )
            foreach( glob( $path . $file_type ) as $file )
                $images[ $file ] = $url . basename( $file );

        $output = "<ul id=\"slideshow\">\n\t";
        foreach( $images as $i )
            $output .= sprintf( "\t<li><img src=\"%s\" alt=\"%s\" /></li>\n\t", $i, basename( $i ) );
        $output .= "</ul>\n";

        echo $output;
    }

hope this helps (images/slideshow) being the directory inside your theme dir.

[fris]

oh and add that to functions.php in your theme dir, sorry about that.