How I Used AutoViewer with WordPress

14 January 2009 ~ 12 Comments

Last year my friend asked me to work on his photo blog and one of the features that he wanted was a slideshow for his upcoming photos. I did a basic Google search using the keywords ‘wordpress slideshows’ or something like that and eventually I ended up using AutoViewer.

I’m going to share on how I used AutoViewer inside WordPress. I’m not sure if someone else is using the same method but I’m pretty sure there are others with different methods that worked for them one way or another. Hopefully this quick tip would be helpful.

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First download and setup AutoViewer (I used NextGen Gallery software together with AutoViewer). At first glance I was intimidated by the documentation needed to run AutoViewer with NextGen but just stick with it and you will realize that its all too easy.

After creating your first gallery and uploading the images, write a post or in my case, a page inside of WordPress and enter the tag for the autoviewer [autoviewer=GALLERY-ID,WIDTH,HEIGHT,*LINK(optional)*]

autoviewer-page

Final step is to output the AutoViewer slideshow into the template. We can do this by using a very useful plugin called Improved Include Page. Just place the code into your template where you want the slideshow to appear, reload the page, smile and then pat yourself on the back for a job well done!

Do you have any other tips on using AutoViewer with WordPress? You can share them through the comments below. I would love to hear your workarounds on using this wonderful piece of software. Thank you.

12 Responses to “How I Used AutoViewer with WordPress”

  1. Boris 14 January 2009 at 3:45 pm Permalink

    Hey Raymond,

    when using NextGEN Flashviewer you can do this by just echoing this function in the template you want AutoViewer to show up:

    echo nggShowAutoViewer(GalleryID,Width,Height,Link(optional))

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  2. marcusdxs 3 February 2009 at 1:52 pm Permalink

    Just an amazing site!
    :)

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  3. free host 7 February 2009 at 5:45 am Permalink

    Nice to see good posts like this one, Great Info thanks.

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  4. Fideocam 16 February 2009 at 8:03 pm Permalink

    I wrote a dynamic backend script (PHP5, MYSQL) for autoviewer recently. I haven’t done any WordPress integration yet, but feel free to click my link above and have a look if you need a handy tool for gallery management.

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  5. raymond 16 February 2009 at 9:14 pm Permalink

    @Boris: Thanks for the tip. Sometimes I tend to make things difficult for me. hehehe. I will definitely try that on my next project.

    @marcusdxs: Thanks for the amazing comment!

    @free host: Thank you. I’m glad you found my article useful.

    @Fideocam: Thank you for the offer. I will check out your back end script for the autoviewer.

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  6. E.Karnika Yashwant 27 February 2009 at 6:55 pm Permalink

    amazing site…great sidebar

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  7. Stefan Segers 13 March 2009 at 10:55 pm Permalink

    Hi Raymond,

    Could you please help me out? I still can’t make it work.

    1: I uploaded the autoviewer swf file and activated it.
    2: added a gallery with id=1
    3: started a page in wordpress
    4: this is what’s in the content of my page: [autoviewer=1,800,535]

    after saving it and viewing it I get a blank screen. The navigation is visible but that’s it.

    I installed the plugin Improved Include but have no idea what to do with it.

    Also I tried the tip from Boris to include the echo into a seperate template page, but it gives me the same blank screen.

    I hope you can help me out?

    Please Mail me

    Stef

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  8. raymond 14 March 2009 at 12:17 am Permalink

    Hello Stefan,

    I already sent you an email. I hope everything works out. Thank you.

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  9. Stefan Segers 17 March 2009 at 7:51 pm Permalink

    Hey Ray,

    Tried you tips but non of it work. If have replied your e-mail. Hope you got it?

    Stef

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  10. ronald 12 June 2009 at 1:34 am Permalink

    hi raymond i`d tried your steps but still have the same problem as stefan could you send me some tips? thanks

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  11. Raymond Selda 12 June 2009 at 7:34 am Permalink

    This quick tip is a hack. One tip I would give is to first make sure that everything is working on it’s default basic level. Setup and make everything work first without following this tutorial. Then after you’re sure everything’s working, that’s when you try this tip.

    Most of the time the issue boils down to making sure the AutoViewer actually works in the first place. Thank you and good luck.

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    This is very helpful, thanks for the info. :)

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