RSS SLIDESHOWS

  • [email protected]

    (@nigelcoombsbritishresidentsch)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    I have been embedding Picasa slideshows for some time to be able to let other users filter their photo albums and add captions, etc.

    There are two disadvantages to this approach:
    1) because Picasa uses Flash Player, the slideshows are not visible on iPhone or iPad, not on my Samsung Galaxy, This is becoming a serious disadvantage!

    2) On PCs the slideshow works perfectly but at the end displays a great big arrow which takes the viewer right into my Picasa album, which I definitely do not want.

    Using Google Sites for a couple of other sites I maintain, I am able to insert a Google Gadget which takes the Picasa RSS feed and presents a slideshow which completely fulfils my requirements.
    I have spent some hours looking through the slideshow plugins, but none of them really fit – they almost all use static photo galleries, sometimes with a one-off upload.
    Your plugin seems to offer daily updates, which might be usable but can lead to misunderstandings!
    You can find an example of my WordPress page at https://zurich.britishresidents.ch/past-events/golf-2013-2/ and, by chance, the corresponding Google Sites page at https://sites.google.com/site/angloswissfribourg/recent-events/fasc-bra-golf-challenge.
    Can you not offer an RSS feed function? Surely it is not so complicated.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/shashin/

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  • Plugin Author Mike Toppa

    (@toppa)

    I don’t have any plans to add an RSS feed to Shashin. It gets its data from Picasa’s feed. Why not just use Picasa’s RSS feed?

    Thread Starter [email protected]

    (@nigelcoombsbritishresidentsch)

    Thanks I understand.
    An RSS feed just gives me the slides without the slideshow in WordPress. There are plenty of plugins that use RSS but they are not suitable for a variable number of slides – only a slideshow will do that.

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