Slideshow in widget

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  dickiebo · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:34 pm

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  Can I put a slideshow in a widget please?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:37 pm

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  Does it say that you can here? http://en.support.wordpress.com/slideshows/
  Currently the slideshow will only display all photos attached to a post or page. Please see here for all the slideshow choices we have. Be sure to note those under “Related”.

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  dickiebo · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:47 pm

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  Thanks. The answer seems to be ‘No’!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:53 pm

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  Yes it’s no. Too bad, eh? Best wishes dickiebo.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 8:04 pm

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  But the answer is yes if you upload images to Flickr and use the Flickr slideshow or another 3rd-party slideshow. See here:

  The gigya shortcode 2 – inserting Flickr slideshows

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  timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 8:05 pm

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  @panaghiotisadam
  I was just on your site looking for that link http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/gigya-2-flickr-slideshows/

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  dickiebo · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 12:05 pm

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  Thanks very much indeed for your help, folks. Must say that as soon as I saw the coding on Pana’s article, I knew that it would be beyond me. And so it has proved. Never mind, eh?
  PS. If you would like to see what I ended up with, I have left it at the very bottom of my sidebar, for you to have a Xmas laugh! lol.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 3:13 pm

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  @dickiebo: First I don’t laugh when someone doesn’t succeed the first time he tries something strange, second I don’t believe it’s beyond you. Could you please link to your Flickr page? The code in your widget says “dickiebo1”, but Flickr says there’s no such user.

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  dickiebo · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 3:32 pm

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  http://www.flickr.com/photos/48850791@N05/
  “You are signed in to Flickr via your Yahoo ID (bowenrichard26)”
  Hello Pana. I only went onto Flickr as a result of your advice and these are the two ‘addresses’ that I have. For your info, the slideshow that I was attempting to put onto my sidebar, is the ‘Page’ on my blog entitled Awards.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 5:02 pm

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  So, this is the shortcode you must paste in your widget:
  [gigya src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" width="249" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=/photos/48850791@N05/sets/72157628512509081/show/&page_show_back_url=/photos/48850791@N05/sets/72157628512509081/&set_id= 72157628512509081&jump_to=" allowFullScreen="true" ]
  Note: some of the images will show up in poor quality because the originals are too small.

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  dickiebo · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 5:42 pm

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  Close but….no cigar! Nothing there! I think that my errors are at Flickr and I shall have to try and sort that out first.
  I can;t thank you enough for your patience, help and expertise. Many thanks indeed.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 5:57 pm

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  If your errors were at Flickr I would have told you so! Your slideshow is working fine in my tests blog at the moment. Seeing your sourcecode, my guess is that you didn’t copypaste the shortcode directly from here into the widget: did you paste it in a word processor first?

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  dickiebo · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 6:07 pm

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  You truly are a genius! No kidding.
  My slideshow is absolutely dreadful due to the ‘sizing’ of the images, but I can now work on that. Many, many thanks.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 6:21 pm

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  You’re welcome, and happy holidays!