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About this Tutorial
This tutorial was written by Brian Aguilar, a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. This tutorial was written primarily for students at the J-School, but is intened for anyone just getting up to speed with WordPress for the first time.
After the basics have covered, we also cover some of the advanced plugins that make adding multimedia elements to WordPress sites a breeze.
Additional content by Scot Hacker, Webmaster, KDMC.
Adding Photo Slideshow
A photo slideshow can add color and vitality to your Wordpress website. Most versions of Wordpress doesn't have a tool for you to upload photo slideshows directly. However, you can create slideshows on an external site, and then embed the code the site gives you to your Wordpress post. It's easy. You could do it without any knowledge in html or coding. Let me show you how: First, choose a friendly website to create your slideshow. flickr.com is good for photo uploading and sharing, but it doesn't provide an embedding code. I recommend Rockyou.com, which could help you create decent slidshows with ease and then gives you a code to paste to your own Wordpress website. You don't even need to register on Rockyou.com to get started. Simply click into the slideshow creating page (http://www.rockyou.com/slideshow-create.php?source=cw), and upload your photos. You can then adjust the order and size of the photos, add captions, and choose a transition style to make the slideshow more attractive. Click the Save button after you finish, and you will see the code appear automatically. Copy the code, go to the backend of your Wordpress website, and paste it into a post of your chosen. You could either combine it with text or post it as an independent entry. Save the post and the slideshow will appear on your website. Make sure your are using the Html mode instead of the Visual mode of your Wordpress editing page while pasting the code. Otherwise you will see the text of the code rather than an active slideshow after you save the post. Rockyou.com also provides songs and music for you to use, but unfortunately most of them are pop songs that are not suitable to accompany news photos. Another major limitation is that you can not add audio files of your own to the photo slides. But you could still get decent slideshows. Click here to watch examples of running Rockyou.com slideshows on a Wordpress-powered website: http://albanytoday.org/tag/slideshow/ Another website I tried once is http://web.splashcast.net/, which also allows you to create a slideshow and gives you a code to be pasted on your Wordpress website. However, it takes a long time to upload photos and doesn't provide convenient ways to adjust photo orders and add captions.
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