Different Slideshows for Different Pages into Template

That’s a pretty complex request I think.
The slideshow plugin has no way to know which slideshow should go on which page – you have to code that decision yourself.

I think you’d need to make your own look-up-table, that says

Page SlideShow_ID
about-us 14
about-them 25
contact 12

And do the look-up yourself (via PHP code in your template) to figure out which slideshow ID should be on which page.

Possibly the easiest/fastest way to store the lookup table is as a static variable in the template.php file itself.

So there’d be a variable something like:
$LookUpTable = array( 'about-us' => '14', 'about-them' => '25', 'contact-us' => '12' )

And then make your slideshow deploy code be something like:
<?php do_action('slideshow_deploy', $LookUpTable[ the_shortlink() ] ); ?>
Where the_shortlink() returns the short-link (eg. ‘about-us’) for the current page. That shortlink should match one of the keys in the $LookUpTable variable you created, and the code $LookUpTable[ the_shortlink() ] will be replaced by the value ’14’, ’25’ or ’12’ when the short-link for the current page matches a key in $LookUpTable.
(If the_shortlink() isn’t found in the LookUpTable I think you’ll get an error.)

Say, that’s just an untested guess – give it a shot!

Hi Demisjohn
thanks for your help! Should have closed this request as I found out the solution, it works as you suggested ??