Optional slideshow in Modularity Lite soon claiming it's first victim.

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  fancybloggen · Member · Aug 2, 2012 at 1:58 pm

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  Is there any way to control which photos will show in the optional Slideshow (in modularity lite)? So far I’ve understood that it’s only the featured ones from the latest post which will show? Am I correct? But is there any way to choose, lets say, three photos – and not having to upload them in a post first?

  What I want is three photos on top of my blog, which has nothing to do with my latest posts.

  I have read through what I could find here on the forum, and the external links, but it seems like I can not find the answer.

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  ardpete · Member · Aug 2, 2012 at 2:39 pm

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  I don’t think it’s possible I’m afraid. From the support document.

  Can I exclude certain images from a slideshow?

  No. Currently the slideshow will only display all photos attached to a post. If you’d like to exclude certain photos you may be interested in using the gallery feature instead.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/slideshows/

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  timethief · Member · Aug 2, 2012 at 2:42 pm

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  You can exclude images from a gallery, but the built-in WordPress slideshow will display anything uploaded to the post or page where it appears. no way to exclude in a slideshow.

  See here about using excludes:http://agallerydemo.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/gallery-with-excluded-image/

  Also about slideshows: http://agallerydemo.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/mix-it-up-slideshowgallery/

  See here about using excludes: http://agallerydemo.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/gallery-with-excluded-image/

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  timethief · Member · Aug 2, 2012 at 2:43 pm

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  If you decide to go with a Gallery then you can use the Gallery Shortcode to exclude images.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/#gallery-shortcode
  o get an attachment ID for an image, go to your Media Library and hover over the image title you want to exclude. You can find the ID in the URL (the number after attachment_id=).

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  justpi · Member · Aug 2, 2012 at 3:59 pm

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  @ardpete&timethief: The question isn’t about the WP slideshow.

  @fancybloggen: The ML slideshow is designed to showcase images from all your latest posts. It displays the first image you have uploaded to each one of the posts on the main page.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 2, 2012 at 4:03 pm

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  @justpi
  Thank you for the correction.

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  fancybloggen · Member · Aug 2, 2012 at 9:14 pm

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  @justpi That was what I figured out as well at the end. Thanks!

  Haha. Thanks for the help guys, even though it wasn’t quite the help I asked for. Anyways, I got the help I needed in the end.

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  ateaoscemxs · Member · Aug 12, 2012 at 12:10 pm

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  Where can i read about header slide show?
  I don’t understand how do it!