[Plugin: Meteor Slides] Adding Multiple Slides

Yes, you can select and upload multiple images at once with the Flash media uploader. Once they are all in your media library, you can set them as the featured images of different slides as you create them.

Thanks for the speedy response. (I have noticed how active you are here . . . really setting an example for and putting to shame other programmers/authors).

I have uploaded multiple jpg previously for other uses . . .

i will attempt to set each as “featured.”

I don’t know why these slide shows are so hard for me to figure out. I have tried at least ten other plug-ins . . and I just don’t have the intuition to grasp many of the concepts. And they all use different techniques.

And I am not a novice. . . been doing HTML and other stuff for twenty years or more . . .

Okay . . enough of this rambling on.

Oh . . and thanks for the demo videos.

No problem, hopefully I’m setting a good example ??

Yeah it is very wild west, every plugin is different! My goal with Meteor Slides is to make it feel like a built in part of WordPress and be as easy to use as Posts or Pages. But it is possibly more handy for a smaller amount of slides since each must be created separately.

I hope the videos were helpful for you, i need to record some more screencasts that go into more detail on the newer features.

Yes . . I find the screencasts are the best way to show what would take hundreds of words to describe.

This should be amusing.

Here is me, the Meteor novice stumbling my way, in an attempt to up load multiple slides.

You’re on the right track, the screencast helps. Yes, you only need to add the slideshow name, the slug will be generated from the name.

For the slides, you can upload multiple slide images at once like you did with the media uploader. But each slide must be added separately as a slide post using Slides -> Add New.

So when you are click the Use as featured image link in the gallery or media uploader, each time you click it you are replacing the slide’s image, not adding another one.

You have to go to Slides -> Add New, give it a title, click Set featured image, upload an image or choose an image, click Use as featured image, then close the media uploader, publish or save the slide and then go to Slides -> Add New to add another slide.

So although you can mass upload the slide images, each slide must be created separately, does that make sense?

This method works well for small slideshows like where the slides are used as banners to highlight certain areas of your site, but it could be cumbersome when adding lots of photos, such as a photo gallery.

It looks like you have not set a height or width for your slideshow. You should set these on your settings page. This will enable WordPress to automatically size the slide image correctly for you and size the slideshow so that the nav lays out better on the page.

By gosh I think I have it. Watch

Can I rely on the actual size of the photo . . . and not mess with size parameters in the script?

I noticed I have to use the slug name NOT the slide show name to point to a specific slide show collection.

Thanks.

Cool, it looks like you got it figured out! Yeah, the slideshow’s slug is used to specify a slideshow instead of loading all the slides.

The slide dimensions in the settings aren’t used just for sizing the images, but for sizing various CSS and JavaScript elements of the slideshow so for it to work properly the dimensions must be set.