Slideshow border in Coraline

landscapelover · Member · Jan 15, 2012 at 9:24 am
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Hi

I’m just setting up a simple blog to act as a website, and want to include a slideshow with some of my photographs. I’ve selected a series of landscape images, thinking they would more or less fill the slideshow frame – and am disappointed with how large the black border is around the images; it seems to engulf them! Is there any way to make the images larger or the border smaller? Here’s a direct link to the page: http://jillsinclair.wordpress.com/photography/

Many thanks for any help.

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panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 15, 2012 at 9:42 am
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No, the WP slideshow isn’t customizable.

You can try the better looking gallery carousel slideshow, with just one image on the page. Go to Media > Library, hover over the image you want to display, note its ID number in the status/progress bar of your browser. Back to the post editor, switch to HTML, change the shortcode to this:

[gallery columns="1" size="full" include="ID NUMBER HERE"]

For examples of the gallery carousel check this post:
http://gammagirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/not-the-official-wordpresscom-gallery-faq/

Or you can use 3rd-party slideshows:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/gigya-2-flickr-slideshows/

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landscapelover · Member · Jan 15, 2012 at 4:13 pm
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Thanks for the suggestions. I don’t really want visitors to have to click on an image to activate the show (which is I think what happens with the gallery carousel). I’d like the photos just to change automatically as people open the page and read the text. I guess I’ll just try to get used to that over-sized frame!

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