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Hi MichaelH
Many thanks for the forum and list info I will subscribe to these

I have set-up WordPressMU with 10 blogs.
I think ‘blogging’ could be a great tool for our establishment (education) and see great potential in offering a blog as our electronic messaging system.
I have set-up a test message system:
https://www.greshams.biz/blog/test
This system is a blog with the J Post Slider plugin, each post is then scrolled in/out and an image is faded in/out behind.

A computer is pointed the URL and then hooked up to big display screens. I have removed the status bar in IE and am using the full screen feature (F11). I have also added a refresh to the meta so the whole system will refresh after a few minutes.
This works, but I wish to tweak it slightly so the viewer has an idea on how many messages will scroll through and which message they are currently viewing.

The total number of messages will change as old messages are removed and new ones added, however I wish to use a numbering system from 1 rather than <?php echo $post->ID; ?> which is the mySQL post number.

I’m not too sure of the php bit needed for the numbering but it must be possible to do?

I would be grateful for any help

Hi MichaelH,
Many thanks for the info.
I’m new to WordPress and PhP and I do not have a clue how I would be able to add a counter to the loop, it all looks a bit daunting atm.

I would be grateful for any help you can offer.

Hi,
Just for info, I have now created a messaging system which will allow a number of posts to scroll round using the J Post Slider plugin.
Each post fills the whole screen (1024 x 768).
IE is set to full screen (F11), the vertical scroll bar removed (CSS overflow:hidden; in the theme css) and the staus bar removed (Tools > Toolbars > Status bar)

I’m now stuck with telling IE to refresh after a new post has been added, can anyone help with this?

Hi guvnr,
Many thanks for the tip.
I have altered the \wp-content\plugins\JPostSlider\JSlider.php file with “the_content()” instead of “the_excerpt()” and WOW, just want I was after!
Many, many thanks for this tip, I’m not a programmer and delving into the code is a bit daunting but sometimes worthwhile.

I’m experimenting with a single column theme which is not fixed but, should, change to fill any screen size.
I originally used UTheme but now I’m looking at FamousSpeech theme which I’m trying to modify.
I’m saving large graphics into the media area of WordPressMU and using them as the background. I’ve also altered the slideout box to fill the screen which contains the post.
Still a long way to go, but https://www.greshams.biz/blog/test/ is a start.
Cheers

Further on from my original posts, I have abandoned the ANT widget as I can not get the widget to run in the main blog’s window rather than the sidebar.
I have tried to contact the widget’s author but no replies.

I couldn’t get Featurific to do what I wanted again no reply from the author.

I have found J Post Slider plugin.
This is a very good plugin that will display excerpts of a post or series of posts over an image.
I think it might work with what I’m trying to do, and have set-up a test blog to try and experiment further.

Trouble is I’m no programmer and I have been unable to tell the plugin to use all of a post in the ‘slider’ rather than an excerpt.
I suspect the code actually only calls a ‘post excerpt’ rather than the whole post and ask if anyone would be able to tell me if this is correct?

I have contacted the plugin author and I’m still waiting for a reply, but if anyone could help who knows about these things I would be very grateful.

Hi,
Many thanks for the replies.

The person who will be entering the data into the ‘Messaging system’ is not particularly computer literate. WordPress seems like a great way to start them off as it is so easy to use (fantasic large display on the editing side) for the novice.

The PhP/javascript banner scripts I have seen are not as polished as WordPress and might cause some discomfort for the individual involved, also the messaging system might be expanded upon in the future.
Found this site using-wordpress-to-make-a-secure-twitter-for-business/which looks really good and a great possibility for us to expand in to.

Many thanks for the links from where I have found some interesting add ons for WordPress. I have found the ANT widget. This would do the trick but I can not get it to display into the main wordpress window, it’s configured to use the sidebar.

Also found Featurific plugin which also looks promising if I can configure it!