I need a simple slideshow that does NOTHING else.

You might try the Superb Slideshow Gallery. I had the same requirements and have found it to work out well.

The problem with Superb Slideshow Gallery is that it forces Hyperlinks on to every displayed image.

Is it really THIS hard to find a slideshow WITHOUT links, thumbnails, and all the other nonsense that people insist on loading into their plugins?

…apparently so. ??

Using Superb Slideshow Gallery you can suppress the hyperlinks on each slide by entering the # (shift-3) symbol in the hyperlink field. If you don’t want pop-up comments, leave the description field blank. I do and it works great.

Thanks for the input, TGFHR. Please don’t think I’m unappreciative. You’re the only one that’s bothered to answer. ??

That said: putting in the # doesn’t appear to disable the hyperlink. It just forces it to use the current page as the default link. See below:
https://robinvfoundation.com/?page_id=80
Note that when you mouse over the slideshow, you still get a Hand Icon, and if you click it still treats it like a link, and attempts to reload the entire page.

Also, it automatically pauses the slideshow on mouseover, and there’s no way to disable that behavior. Most people probably wouldn’t care, but I’m just looking for a way to present a series of slides, without any other complications. I don’t want people to get the Hand Icon, I don’t want the page reloading if they accidentally click it, and I don’t want the slideshow pausing on mouse over.

Ironically, I probably could have just written it directly into the .php by now, but for some reason I keep beating my head against the wall, insisting that surely SOMEONE out there has a plugin that just shows a slideshow. ?? At some point, I’m just going to have to stop being so pig-headed and either do it in Flash or code it up in JavaScript. Heh.

Thanks again man! You’re the best.

Perhaps the bulk of the work has already been done for you.

image sliders

Easy Gallery (via Freelancer ID) was always one of my favorites. Very light, very simple.

You are correct. I hadn’t paid any attention to the link function after entering the #. And yet the mouse hover slide stop is a “feature” of the plugin per the web site.

I may look into the code myself and see if I can fix that for my site but I don’t mind the page reload. But it would be nice to have the features you want. Perhaps Clayton James suggestion of Image Sliders is the answer? I may look into those…

Glad I could help a small bit.

Well I did get the slideshow to stop pausing on mouse over by commenting out this line in the superb-slideshow-gallery.js;

setting.$wrapperdiv.bind(‘mouseenter’, function(){setting.ismouseover=true}) //pause slideshow mouseover

Using Bluefish editor it is line 70 of the script. I’m still trying to get the hyperlinks to disappear, but having little luck.

I finally got the hyperlinks in the images to disappear.

Line 211 (in Bluefish editor) of the superb-slideshow-gallery.js looks like this:
var layerHTML=(imgelement[1])? '<a href="'+imgelement[1]+'" target="'+imgelement[2]+'">\n' : '' //hyperlink slide?

Remove this:
<a href="'+imgelement[1]+'" target="'+imgelement[2]+'">

and the hyperlink disappears from the images.

That line ends up looking like this:

var layerHTML=(imgelement[1])? '\n' : '' //hyperlink slide?

Don’t know if this will cause problems with shows other than page post types of shows, because that is the only way I use this plugin.

Hope this helps…