A Call-Out for WordPress Gurus
June 5, 2008
Posted by Dan Edelen in : Blogging, Technical Functions : Trackback,
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I’m fairly knowledgable in WordPress and sometimes work with clients in setting up WordPress pages. I could probably answer 95 percent of non-programming WordPress questions.
But I haven’t used galleries much, so I have an open question for all you WordPress experts.
I need to rotate images in a banner section of a template. The call would be inside one of the template/theme PHP files rather than inside a page or post.
I’m using an embedded PHP call to the NextGEN Gallery plugin to rotate the images; it works perfectly in most every browser. Unfortunately, one of the browsers it’s NOT working in is that classic pain-in-the-posterior, the non-standards-compliant Internet Explorer. Yes, that’s a big problem.
Anyone out there know of a simple way to rotate images live (as opposed to a page refresh) that works across all browsers? The lighter the weight, the better. No Flash, if possible.
NextGEN is great, but it’s also overkill for a simple live slideshow. Unfortunately, most other plugins I tried don’t work at all because they can’t be called from anything but a page or post.
This is a very common need, so I’m a bit surprised I’m having trouble resolving this.
UPDATE:
I have another question. I’ve been asked to setup a static page of podcasts/MP3s, but want to feed that page. I thought there might be a way to do it with the podPress plugin, but I’m finding no solution.
With a minimum of finagling, how can I feed a static podcast page (and/or feed each podcast that is added to the page when it is added)?
Thanks for your help.
Tags: Atom, Banner, Feed, Gallery, Help, MP3, Plugin, Podcast, RSS, Static Page, Template, Theme, WordPress
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Dan,
Can’t help with the header, but if I correctly understand the question about the podcast/mp3 page this might help.
I have been using del.icio.us to create a feed for my sermons. After uploading the sermon to my server, I create a link to the audio file in del.icio.us. I tag the link, in my case, twice: once for the sermon series, and once for a list of all sermons.
For each sermons series I have created a widget using the del.icio.us widget tool.
On our church WordPress blog I create a page for each sermon series, and paste the widget code.
The list of sermons on each page updates when I had the link in del.icio.us.
I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, but you can check out http://www.beaverbaptist.org and check out the sermons pages.
Blessings,
Les Bollinger
Les,
Thanks for the solution, though it sounds complex and brings in a 3rd party. I don’t think the people I’m doing this for want to mess with del.icio.us, though I won’t rule it out if I can’t find another means.