Embedding into WordPress page

  • I’m a librarian trying to use openseadragon to embed some zoomable map images onto a website. These are historic maps.
    But I’m stuck trying to get openseadragon to work on my wordpress site. I have the plugin installed. I have both jpeg images and a large dzi file + folder to use but I’m just not sure how to get them up and running. I tried adding the openseadragon = true shortcode and the longer code for large images but I seem to miss some details about both.

    Can anyone help explain implementing this to a non-specialist? I do tinker with html and css here and there but it’s not my forte.

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  • Thread Starter ark2077

    (@ark2077)

    For more detail, here is the code I have in place for a dzi file I have on Google Drive,

    [gallery openseadragon="true" zoomimages="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hLiGPu0ahkpK8_wp9ZKAg0UYHcBKnKoN/view?usp=sharing"]

    But I get nothing after loading up the page.

    https://cambriamemory.org/map-testing/

    Did you manage to get it working? If not, you probably need a direct link to the DZI file (i.e. ending in “.dzi”) as Google Drive’s link probably won’t work. The best thing is probably to host the .dzi file on your WordPress server – you can use a tool like FileZilla to get access to it so you can transfer files across easily from your computer.

    That’s what I do and then when it comes to the shortcode, you include the dzi file like this: zoomimages=”/wp-content/OpenSeaDragon/my_dzi_file.dzi”.

    That’s assuming you put your DZI files in a folder called “OpenSeaDragon” within the wp-content directory, you’ll need to create the OpenSeaDragon folder so you can call it whatever you like. Replace “my_dzi_file” with the actual name of the dzi file of course.

    I think you also need to set at least a height parameter for the container, at least it didn’t work for me without one. You can include “width=” height=’800′” in the shortcode or whatever height/width values you like.

    Thread Starter ark2077

    (@ark2077)

    Hey Kaleun, I ended up using a program called Zoomable to get my maps working again. Zoomable works with .zif files to make it so you can place them online. I’ll file away your advice about Openseadragon though. I might need it if Zoomable breaks someday!

    Oh and I believe I tried uploading the dzi file to WordPress but WordPress seemed to reject that file type. That’s why I tried Google Drive. The problem might have been more with my host than anything. I’m using Godaddy and apparently it has some issues that impacted my zooming image.

    Hello I am trying your plugin to show zoomable image with dzi extension but it seem to not working at all with that.
    Can you help?

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