Slimbox2 Slideshow is a WordPress plugin that implements a lightbox style affect to images using Slimbox2.
Functionality
The main advantage of Slimbox2 Slideshow plugin is being able to show a slide show of ALL images in every single post.
Click here to see it in action (notice the slide count).
Additional functionality;
- automatically add rel=lightbox’ tags to images.
- automatically re-size images to fit in browser window.
- based on jQuery library, no need for additional libraries such as script.aculo.us or Prototype.
Examples
Slide show of all blog images (click me) – notice the slide count.
Standard images, showing grouping.
Image Map – yes it works
Installation
- Upload folder ‘t-slimbox2-slideshow’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Under ‘Plugins’ > ‘Slimbox2 Slideshow’, you will find the ‘Slimbox2 Slideshow Options’ page. Next section will explain the options.
Configuration/Options
The following configuration settings are available with meaning;
- Automatic Image Link Tagging – automatically add the HTML to image links to show images in a lightbox. Leave it at default ticked.
- Automatic Resize – automatically resize images in the lightbox to fit the browser window. Large images will be shrunk and small images will be expanded.
- Image Scaling Factor – used to determine how much of the browser window an image will be automatically resized to. The default value of 0.75 means the image will be scaled to 75% of the browser window. This value does not take into account border and caption.
- Enable Slimbox on Image Maps – enable lightbox affect to be enabled for Image Maps.
- Enable Slideshow on All – when ticked, all images and Image Maps will start in slideshow.
- Slide Time – the seconds between images during a slideshow.
Slide show of all blog images
Simply create a link with url “#slide” or just “#s”. For images to appear in the slideshow, they must have a title attribute.
Why was Slimbox2 Slideshow created?
My wife and I were in a situation wanting to show our photos to our friends, we had Lightbox but every photo needed to be ‘Next’ manually and that would only show photos in a single post. Slimbox2 Slideshow allows for one-click to start a slideshow of all your photos and sit back and enjoy.
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Download Slimbox2 Slideshow from the WordPress Repository here