This one kept me busy for a bit, but now that I’ve got it solved, I though someone could benefit from my knowledge of inserting a Photoshelter Slideshow into your WordPress blog.
Photoshelter has a great little feature that allows you to embed a slideshow of a public gallery into lots of different places. When you create a public gallery of your images at Photoshelter, there is a little red link you click called Embed Gallery. This opens a little pop up with a sample of your sldieshow and two ways to grab the code. Over and over I would grab the code and try to insert it in my blog and it never worked. I would see the cool slideshows on the Photoshelter blog, but they use Moveable Type as their blogging plarform, so I wasn’t sure that it would work with WordPress at all.
There is a way to fix the problem, and the simple solution, it turns out, has two steps:
First I had to get and install a plugin that allows WordPress to play SWF files. WordPress plugins are easy to install, and if you don’t know how, a quick search on the web will provide lots of tutorials. The plugin I use is Kimili Flash Embed for WordPress, and I simply downloaded it, dropped it into the plugins folder on my server, and activated it via the plugin control panel in the admin section of WordPress. The version I am using is 2.0.1.
The second step is to create a new post. Pick your title, and do the write-up the usual way, and when you are ready to insert the Photoshelter slideshow change to HTML mode, and click the Kimli Flash Embed Button. You are going to want to take only a part of the code that Photoshleter provides and paste it into the box that opens. Specifically, this section of the code that is between the quotation marks. Your link will vary based on the actual link to your slideshow.
<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://pa.photoshelter.com/swf/Slideshow.swf?feedSRC=http%3A//pa.photoshelter.com/c/wedding/gallery-show/G0000WNmEMWSZmtk%3Ffeed%3Drss%26ppg%3D200" /><embed src="http://pa.photoshelter.com/swf/Slideshow.swf?feedSRC=http%3A//pa.photoshelter.com/c/wedding/gallery-show/G0000WNmEMWSZmtk%3Ffeed%3Drss%26ppg%3D200" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object>
If you change any of the height, or width attributes, you will want to adjust them in the Kimli box at this point, too. Once you have everything all set, you can preview, save or publish the post as usual. You can see a sample at the bottom of this post. I’ve also used this for single images, too, and it works great.
FYI – this method also works for single images. I’m using this method to insert a Photoshelter slideshow into a wordpress blog running wordpress 2.7. Specifically, this is WordPress MU running Buddypress, but that is probably more info than you need. Good luck, and let me know if you get this working – I check the comments daily.
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