Would you like to embed Slideshow Pro into Wordpress? The easiest method for doing this is using Kimili’s Flash Embed plugin for wordpress. It will allow you to either post your Slideshow Pro gallery into a post, page or into the actual layout of your theme ie. in your header.php file.
I tried embedding Slideshow Pro into the header.php file of this site earlier tonight and ran into problems because I was simply copying and pasting the code from the html page that is exported when you export your flash file into my header.php file. It worked on the homepage fine, but not on the subpages of this site. So I gave Kimili’s plugin a try and it worked great.
So if you want Slideshow Pro to appear on ever page of your wordpress blog then you can do so by embedding the simple code for Kimili in your layout. Here’s the code I used:
{kml_flashembed movie=”http://yoursitedomain.com/slideshow.swf” base=”http://yoursitedomain.com” height=”300″ width=”450″ /}
Be sure to exchange the { with [ and the ending } with ] - When you install Kimili be sure to read the instructions.
Pretty simple. Also, make sure you use absolute URL’s to your swf file or it won’t work.
Here’s an example:
If you’d like to see this slideshow in action where it is built into the layout visit Website Design for Photographers
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Marty 11.30.08 at 7:31 pm
We tried the Kimili plug-in in our header, but then had problems with IE aborting our website. Have you experienced this problem?
Jeff 12.05.08 at 10:23 am
Hey Marty,
Kimili should work with IE and I believe I tested it and didn’t run into that problem. I’m not a fan of IE and only use it for testing purposes. I use Firefox mainly and also Opera.
Are you embedding flash into wordpress? I assume so.
Marty 12.08.08 at 2:49 pm
Is see you’re using Thesis, we haven’t been able to get Kimili to work with our custom-functions.php hooks anywhere on the site. Just returns syntax errors. We like Slideshow Pro, but it does have the problem of only working on the Home page and showing “not found” on sub-pages.
Marty 12.10.08 at 9:05 pm
Well, finally got Kimili to work… But we’re back to aborts in IE. Yes we’re embedding a Slideshow Pro slideshow into our header in WP using the Thesis theme from DIY Themes. The embed problem is a known IE bug, (for how many years?!!!) but still, that’s half our traffic.