Share Photos with a Slideshow
Media is a big part of my life. Showing friends a slideshow of a weekend excursion is a common occurrence. When blogging these photos, displaying them in a long gallery doesn’t always make sense.There wasn’t any other option to show off the images uploaded to your WordPress.com blog until now.
Today, we’re rolling out 100% JavaScript powered slideshows. But, why did I bother to mention that they’re JavaScript powered? Most importantly, because we’re consuming the web in different ways. Our JavaScript powered slideshows will work in any browser that supports CSS and JavaScript – even the iPad and iPhone!
The slideshows are simple and straightforward. Upload your photos as a gallery, then click the “Insert slideshow” button, or use the [slideshow] shortcode. The slideshow automatically adjusts its dimensions to fit your blog’s theme.
Without further ado, here are some pictures I took while visiting some zoos over the years.
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
This feature is currently only available on WordPress.com. A WordPress.org/self-hosted plugin will be available soon.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Wow! At last! Extremely pleased to see this! Good call.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Very nice pictures.
It’s nice to see wordpress.com integrate a moving slideshow feature
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Keep it up!
March 31st, 2010 at 9:28 pm
O… M… G to the moon! Where were you when I uploaded too many pix onto our church blog earlier this week?!! This is ter-r-rific news! I’ll be sure to try it out. Thanks ever so much!!!
March 31st, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Cool! Thanks
March 31st, 2010 at 9:31 pm
This is a really cool idea! I can’t wait to start making use of this on one of my own blogs.
Thanks for adding this to the WordPress tools.
Amazing pictures in your zoo slide show, too.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:31 pm
.org plugin?
March 31st, 2010 at 9:46 pm
It’s coming soon!
March 31st, 2010 at 9:35 pm
hey i dont understand how i can make a slide show;( where is the slideshow button…plis help!!
April 2nd, 2010 at 7:08 pm
The Insert Slideshow button will show up in the Gallery tab when you have attached images to a post or page.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Fantastic work! Always wanted an on-site gallery option! Can’t wait to give it a try, thank you!
March 31st, 2010 at 9:42 pm
This is NICE. Thanks for the update.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:43 pm
This is SO COOL! Thanks!
March 31st, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Oh that’s great, it’s something I’ve dreamed of for a long time. Thanks
March 31st, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Wonderful! The students who run The Communicator are going to be so excited. We’ve been struggling with ways to do slideshows easily. Hopefully semi-native will help!
March 31st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Nice work.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Thanks. I will try it soon.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:52 pm
really fantastic feature!!!
March 31st, 2010 at 9:52 pm
wOW !! Cool
March 31st, 2010 at 9:52 pm
I just looked for this feature earlier today. Glad to see it’s available now!
March 31st, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Oh MY GOD PERFECT!!
March 31st, 2010 at 9:54 pm
This is really hot! It will help me with tutorials as well. Thank you.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Is this available for already published posts?
March 31st, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Definitely! Just go in and add the shortcode – either by typing or clicking “Insert slideshow,” from the upload/gallery management pane.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:55 pm
I’m blogging through my hikes in the White Mountains, and people love the pictures. This is a great feature to add – better than embedding jpgs and scrolling. Can’t wait to try the slideshow. Guess that means I better pick another peak to climb.
March 31st, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Wonderful news, you keep on surprising us with new feature every week. Thank you.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:03 pm
cool! very interesting… bang up!
March 31st, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Applause! If only the slide show had a “view all” option and was more customisable.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Great slideshow feature. I will try it soon.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:15 pm
This is exactly what I was waiting for! I’m really glad I switched for WordPress.org!
March 31st, 2010 at 10:28 pm
great news,thankssss!!!
are we also going to have settings for it, like we do in gallery?
such as captions, duration of photos, linking photos (to its original dimension for example) or resizing the whole slide show…
March 31st, 2010 at 10:35 pm
lovely ! awesome ! running out of adverbs
I was not expecting a js slideshow on wp.com
thanks for adding
March 31st, 2010 at 10:37 pm
whoooaaa..Awesome feature
March 31st, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Great feature!
I’ve been experimenting with the slideshow but haven’t been able to create a Gallery without uploading a file for that post.
Is that possible? Can we get a slideshow to work *only* by using items in our existing Media list?
I’m planning on doing a video tutorial on this as soon as I figure out the rules of engagement.
@JesseLuna
April 3rd, 2010 at 6:18 am
Correct. A slideshow will work by using images which are attached to the post or page you are editing.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Super – thanks so much!
March 31st, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Excellent new feature. Thanks!!
March 31st, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Great, just what we were waiting for!
March 31st, 2010 at 11:02 pm
am i the only one who got question marks where there s/b images? even after hitting the ‘display images’ link
March 31st, 2010 at 11:03 pm
good news, right after i send the comment above, i immediately landed on your site and out of my email, so that was the fix, yay!
March 31st, 2010 at 11:06 pm
what an amazing feature… finally!
March 31st, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Just learned about how “Attached files” work. I think that answers my question above. The pictures must be attached to the post that will display the Slideshow.
March 31st, 2010 at 11:07 pm
this is so cool!
March 31st, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Had been waiting for this. Hope this is not an April Fool’s joke (it’s definitely not).
March 31st, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Things keep getting better and better! Thank you, Sweetman
March 31st, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Hello from Ukraine !
This another new feature, and this 1 very good for my Blog because I have much the foto’s that makes page load slow, thank you for this
Sincerely to you,
Marina.
Ukraine.
March 31st, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Love this, Love this, Love this!
particularly if I could also include previously upload pics (as you replied in a comment).
and iPad compatible? you rock!
*fist bump*
March 31st, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Wow. That’s really neat. Just the thing for a photo-orientated blog. Excellent. Thanks a bunch
March 31st, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Amazing!
I can see myself using this! I can’t wait to try it out later… Oh, screw it- I’ll try it now!
Sara 
March 31st, 2010 at 11:41 pm
SWEEET!
March 31st, 2010 at 11:44 pm
I opened this as a thread just to see if other people have better ideas. I am hoping the auto-enabled option could be turned off.
March 31st, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Thanks for this! Really good to have this feature.
March 31st, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Is there going to be a widget for this? It would be nice to insert a slideshow into the sidebar.
March 31st, 2010 at 11:53 pm
I love this. I’ve already edited some old posts to utilize this new feature. Makes sharing a lot of pics a lot better. Thanks!
April 1st, 2010 at 12:06 am
Awesome and excellent feature. Just in time for some pics I wanted to post. But I strongly dislike the long blogs with tons of photos. This will be much better. However – can we caption each one?
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Yep, any captions you add to photos will be added as captions in the slideshow.
April 1st, 2010 at 12:17 am
This feature has been long awaited and is bound to make many bloggers very happy inseed. Thanks
April 1st, 2010 at 12:20 am
Finally! Hurrah!!!!
April 1st, 2010 at 12:33 am
oh that will be great if we can add this into old posts too. i think the best part is, we can now show two or more different slideshows for different subjects, am i right? for example, you went to zoo and you can show tigers and lions grouped in different slideshows.
i’ll wait for the .org plugin.
April 1st, 2010 at 12:50 am
So relieved to see this feature! I cannot wait to give it a try!
April 1st, 2010 at 12:54 am
Wow, thank you guys. I am so amazed. Constantly amazed. Brilliant and fantastic.
*off to find pictures*
April 1st, 2010 at 1:00 am
Adding now! Exciting!
Is there a way to change the background to white? I think it would be visually magical if the images floated on white space.
But hey, I’m happy! Thanks
April 1st, 2010 at 1:06 am
wow you must like going to the zoo.
heidi
April 1st, 2010 at 1:07 am
Thanks and Finally!
April 1st, 2010 at 1:08 am
This is gr8 news thank you again for such a wonderful feature!
April 1st, 2010 at 1:16 am
Oh well done! Thank you for all the hard work.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:20 am
YES! This is exactly what I have been needing/wanting
! THANKS!
April 1st, 2010 at 1:30 am
Been waiting for something like this. Very nicely done!
G
April 1st, 2010 at 1:42 am
Wow!! This is good
April 1st, 2010 at 1:44 am
YAY!!!! finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!
April 1st, 2010 at 1:56 am
I’m looking forward to using this feature. It adds impetus to sorting out a few photos. Cheers.
April 1st, 2010 at 1:57 am
Wow! That’s nice! Thank you!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:00 am
Very cool! I have been waiting for you guys to do this!!!
WP rocks!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:05 am
Wow!
This is one feature that I was hoping would be developed! Now, I don’t have to bother posting too many image thumbnails on a post! Is this available for a WordPress.com blog’s sidebar as well? As a widget, maybe?
Cheers!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:10 am
Wow! Beating the world. WordPress – No.1.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:13 am
Great feature! I wish it was more customizable but it’s still fine.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:20 am
Wow, this is a fantastic WordPress feature. I’m going to use it for my tutorial artikels. Great improvement
April 1st, 2010 at 2:38 am
Brilliant. Thank you!
April 1st, 2010 at 2:41 am
Nice.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:57 am
Wow..
That looks interesting…
got to try this…
April 1st, 2010 at 3:10 am
This is very gooood
April 1st, 2010 at 3:25 am
Just used the slide show feature in my gardening blog tonight. I really, really like this feature. My daffodils look so much better. I plan to go back and do my other posts. Again thanks a lot. Mary
April 1st, 2010 at 3:29 am
Thanks!
But why limit it to the pics from the gallery?? A great feature nevertheless
April 1st, 2010 at 3:39 am
Wonderful! I post occasionally images from the phone to the blog and this will be a nice addition.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:03 am
This is great, and I love the dark background for photos–makes the colors pop, especially in white themes. One thing I’m still waiting on that will make this slideshow feature even better is a way to create multiple galleries in one post, so that I can show several pictures of one building in one slideshow and several pictures of another building in another slideshow, while adding explanatory text about each in between. Thanks for all the new stuff this last month!
April 1st, 2010 at 4:09 am
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
LOVE this!
Can totally see myself using this to blog about one of my corny date days with my husband.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:18 am
Awesome feature! I’ve been waiting for something like this!
April 1st, 2010 at 4:21 am
Wow! This is the coolest upgrade ever! And since I’m on vacation in a glorious place just now, Sedona AZ, who knows it might be a perfect way for me to share special moments!!!
Thanks so much for this very synchronistic upgrade to my blog!
April 1st, 2010 at 4:27 am
Hola! Very Good…I Like.
Thank you.!
April 1st, 2010 at 4:41 am
great news!
April 1st, 2010 at 5:09 am
This is good news for me as I live in the UAE where there is a firewall to block some sites and one major one is Flickr so I can’t link to a nice gallery very easily (Google Picassa is a bit clunky). This gets round this – can’t wait to try it out.
April 1st, 2010 at 5:21 am
Fantastic! Any thoughts of doing a slideshow widget, too?
April 1st, 2010 at 5:36 am
This is a terrific news. Always wanted this, used slides.com before but this is more convenient. Thanks.
April 1st, 2010 at 5:40 am
Awesome! This feature will save me precious times. Thanks so much W.P. You guys are great!.
April 1st, 2010 at 5:45 am
At LAST!!! I’m really gonna wear this new feature out! Thanks!
April 1st, 2010 at 5:59 am
awwwweeeeeeesome!
April 1st, 2010 at 6:45 am
This is great. Will all pictures in each post automatically be added to the slide show like with the gallery?
April 1st, 2010 at 6:45 am
That’s one COOL feature. I took some great Tropical Flowers that I posted on our website for people to download. I can now feature them in a Slideshow on our blog.
Thanks guys … very cool indeed.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:09 am
Yes, this is good.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:15 am
But try to improve wordpress gallery, that will be great feature.
April 1st, 2010 at 7:18 am
Happy to hear the news for upcoming plugins. Love this
April 1st, 2010 at 7:22 am
Wonderful!! Have been waiting for something like this!
Thankyouuuu!
April 1st, 2010 at 7:40 am
At long last! This is excellent news and now I can put up my gallery page without further ado! Thank you.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:12 am
Thanks! I can see it’s possible to stop the slide BUT: can one enlarge the single photos from the slide if one wants to do so? Just wondering..