insert a gallery slideshow into a post that automatically pulls from a category
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Is there a way for me to insert a gallery slideshow into a post that automatically pulls from a category tags and then is clickable to go to a post? Essentially like the “featured” gallery part of twenty fourteen, but embedded into a post. It would look like this:
“Weekly Themed Posts Page”
-slides / rotating banners displaying Moombahton Monday posts, which when clicked go to that post.
-slides / rotating banners displaying Mashup Monday posts, which when clicked go to that post.
-slides / rotating banners displaying Trap Tuesday posts, which when clicked go to that post.
-slides / rotating banners displaying Downtempo Thursday posts, which when clicked go to that post.
etc.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Currently, it isn’t possible to create a slideshow like you mention. This is mainly because gallery images cannot be pointed to specific URLs.
As to what you’re describing, the Outspoken theme seen here seems to offer something close to what you’re looking for:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/outspoken/
It has the ability to showcase multiple headlines from various different categories on the homepage. Is that similar to what you’re looking for?
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I tried switching my theme and didn’t like it, I want to stay.
Could we do it using the display posts shortcode? is there anyway to turn the display posts shortcode into a gallery?
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I can see where that would be beneficial. However, currently, it isn’t possible to use the display posts shortcode to create a slider as you mention. You could create a gallery. However, the gallery would need to be manually updated (it wouldn’t automatically include new posts) and the images could not be linked to custom URLs, so clicking the image would not direct users to the individual blog post.
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Ok how about this instead:
Display a row/column of posts (with titles and excerpts) on a static page. For example on the “Weekly Themed Posts” page there would be a static full width page with a row of 3 articles across, extending infinitely down. http://electroniccurrent.com/weekly-themed-posts/
-thumbnail images
-with title and short excerpt
-organized by date posted.[display-posts image_size="thumbnail" category="DOWNTEMPO THURSDAY" posts_per_page="20" order="ASC" wrapper="div" orderby="most recent" include_excerpt="true" ]
Here’s the code I’ve come up with so far but its not working right, Title and short description should be below the image, not to the right, and limited to the width of the image (250 px) as if wrapped in a div tag.
A good example of this would be the following blogs:
http://www.earmilk.com/category/dance
http://metrojolt.com/The blog I need help with is electroniccurrent.com.
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Hi there,
Currently, it looks like the only way to display the posts in columns with the display post shortcode involves adjusting the functions.php file shown here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-in-columms
Unfortunately, that isn’t possible at WordPress.com. The only way to use the display post shortcode at WordPress.com would be in a vertical list.
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Hi Jesse,
I believe I may have mistaken what you were looking to accomplish. This can be done using the shortcode you mention. It looks like you were already able to accomplish the look you’re going for. Are you happy with the way it is looking now?
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