[Plugin: Portfolio Slideshow] Support for standard wordpress shortcode [gallery]

This isn’t foolproof, but adding something like this to your functions.php should do the trick:

function replace_gallery($content) { //finds the gallery shortcode and rewrites it
  $content = preg_replace('/\[gallery/','[portfolio_slideshow',$content,-1);
  return $content;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'replace_gallery');

Hello Dalton,

Thanks for the code, altough I asked for it I don’t think I’m ready to keep up with updates & maintenance to maintain compatibility. Although I could use a shortcode find & replace plugin-tool like this one (https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/safe-search-replace/) that is still iffy in some cases to use when custom gallery shortcodes have their own custom attributes & meaning for it. But at least I have a work-around of sorts.

Anyway, I’m not looking for find & replace functionality, but rather a slideshow plugin that recognizes [gallery] as a valid shortcode and replaces the standard wordpress gallery view with its own slidshow-view for it on-the-fly; so long as such an option is enabled via a checkbox for the plugin settings. If you can just include such a feature in the plugin & tie that into a checkbox for the plugin settings that would be ideal instead of doing a rather kludgy find & replace on the database.

I’m not trying to preach to the quire, just a suggestion – This would be a great Freemium feature to gets 1000s of Freeloaders to use this plugin, some of who will eventually become paid customers.

J.

Hi J.,
If you add the code above to your theme’s functions.php file, you won’t have to worry about plugin updates.

I’ll consider adding something like this to the plugin, although this is the first request I’ve had in over 200k downloads, so I’m not sure it will be universally useful. I think the functions.php solution is probably good enough for most people who need this functionality.

Dalton

Hello Dalton, Thanks for considering to add such a feature. I’d love to see it.

I don’t have any functions.php of my own, since I’m using a theme that I’ve downloaded from www.ads-software.com theme repository which I may change anytime & use different themes on different sites/sub-domains. I’d have to implement a child-theme to properly do the work so that it can survive theme-updates instead of plugin-updates. ??

If I was a full-time website developer, I’d consider such an endaevour, but I’m a photographer just trying to get some of my gallery sites up in wordpress.

I hope you can add this feature soon – may be it’ll get your plugin past 1-million downloads! (assuming you tag and keyword the description appropriately)

Thanks in Advance.