• I’ve spent a few days searching for a slideshow suitable for my needs, and I’m really impressed with Cyclone Slider 2. It has tremendous advantages over many others:
    1) It’s lightweight.
    2) It has a widget.
    3) It has an intuitive user interface.
    4) It’s the only slideshow plugin I found that enables separate controls for every slide.
    5) It WORKS.

    I have a wish list. Would you be able to add the following features?

    1) I want my slideshow to resemble the Powerpoint presentation it was taken from, but I haven’t been able to find a plugin that is both lightweight and also has an option to run a slideshow from start to finish with a single click, and stop when it’s done instead of continuing an infinite loop. This is not a random bunch of images; the slides have text that should be read in order. My visitors are liable to miss the first caption or two if they get caught unawares that a slideshow began before they noticed it was there. I thought of offering the visitor a click on a text link to another page to view the slideshow, but the infinite loop means they are liable to get confused, not recognizing the end of the presentation, and not knowing where to go after they view it.

    I understand the idea of making a “child plugin” by copying the file I want to modify from the plugin into my theme folder and making the desired changes there. I’ve already done something similar, changing my theme’s formatting by making a child theme CSS file. However, making changes in the plugin’s programming logic entails altering a PHP file. Since I don’t know PHP, I can’t figure out how to how to make the slides advance automatically ONLY after manual initiation. Can you make an option (via the administration panel) to navigate an entire series of slides with one click?

    2) My slides are 300 pixels high and only 400 pixels wide. An obligatory left-justified display of the slideshow leaves the right side of my theme’s 850 pixel content area blank. Some slideshow plugins offer a variety of formatting options on the administration panel such as centering the image, and a choice of right or left justification together with text-wrapping alongside the image. Although this could be done with a “child plugin” CSS file, I think this plugin would be even better if you would offer a choice of centering and right or left-justified presentation with text -wrapping via the administration panel.

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