Need recommendation: Image slider plugin showing photos in folders outside WP

  • Resolved Westlake

    (@westlake)


    7 years ago

    I am converting a website from Joomla to WordPress, and have ~2000 photos already uploaded and organized in folders that I need to display in slideshows based on those folders. I am looking for a slider plugin that will show all photos in a specified folder in a slideshow, preferably using a shortcode on the respective page.

    There is one plugin that comes close, Folder Slider, but it hasn’t been updated and no help requests have been answered in months, and it doesn’t work on folders ouside of the WordPress installation.

    Other than Folder Slider, all of the slider plugins I find require each photo to be uploaded, which is not practical given the number of photos, and my slooooow rural wifi internet connection. I would appreciate any suggestions for solutions

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  • There are a number of plugins that offer that functionality, https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+slideshow+from+folder
    I have not used any personally so you may want to look into them –

    Thread Starter Westlake

    (@westlake)

    I had looked at all of the suggested plugins in that search; one hasn’t been updated for 3 major WP updates, another is the one that the owner hasn’t responded for months, another costs too much and doesn’t come from www.ads-software.com., and one is a forum conversation that ends without a solution, thus my query.

    I would test the one that wasn’t updated in a while since there have not been any major core functionality changes in the last few updates. If there are issues I am sure you can fork the plugin and get help in the developing forum to bring it up to date-

    One big part of WordPress building/development is testing –

    Thread Starter Westlake

    (@westlake)

    Thanks, @jaycbrf! I stumbled on the solution (adding ../ at the start of the URL to indicate a file from the same domain’s root folder) so it is now working. If issues arise in future with it that are not resolved by the developer, I will seek help in the forum as you recommend ??

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