We’re excited to announce more updates to the Media Manager, which makes it even easier to upload and manage media on your site.
Insert a Slideshow in the Media Manager
You can now enable a slideshow in the Media Manager. In Edit Gallery mode, you’ll see a list of options on the right under “Gallery Settings.” Click on the dropdown menu next to “Type” to see a new list of gallery types, including a Slideshow option at the bottom:
Similar to the gallery feature, the slideshow option allows you to include specific images. You can reorder the images by dragging and dropping thumbnails, randomize the order by checkmarking the box next to “Random Order,” and reverse the order of images by clicking the “Reverse Order” button at the top. You can also insert multiple slideshows into a post or page, just as you’re able to do with galleries.
Note that the “Link To” and “Columns” options do not apply to slideshows.
The old [slideshow] shortcode will continue to work, but to access all these new features — such as ordering, excluding certain images, etc. — you would need to update your shortcode to use the new [gallery type="slideshow"] format.
Select Gallery Layouts Easily
You’ll also notice you can now set the type of gallery in the Media Manager, in the same dropdown menu mentioned above. In addition to Slideshow, you’ll see a list of gallery layout options: Default, Tiles, Square Tiles, and Circles. Note that Tiles is the option for the rectangular layout, and Square Tiles is the option for the square layout. (As mentioned in our recent galleries post, the thumbnail grid layout is the default option for all sites.)
Using the various gallery shortcodes to display your galleries still works as well.
These latest updates make it even easier for you to manage your media — all in one place! For further information, please visit our slideshow and gallery support pages.
That’s brilliant! I’m sure a lot of people will make use of that.
“Oh, yeah!” to quote Kool-Aid Pitcher Guy. Finally! I’ve waited for this a looong time! Thanks ever so much!
This is that I’ve been looking for, the slideshow! I couldn’t find it before when wrote my latest post last week.
Thanks very much for this upgrading! I’m gonna edit my post.
great progress!
Great. I’ve always found this feature to hard to get right. Will try it next time I have a few images to share
I have spent much time struggling with galleries but this LOOKs like it will be much easier …. I will give it a try.
I discovered this new feature yesterday…very user friendly design I thought. Real step saver too.
Excellent! It used to make me nuts that I couldn’t omit my featured photo from a slideshow. This will be a big improvement.
Multiple slide shows are awesome! Christmas has come early. Thank you!
can’t wait to try this new feature !!!!
This is what I like with WP – we are pampered with this kind of support. This is another gallery feature that will certainly enhance the page layout. Thank you so much for this one.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soooo muchhhh… I’ve been looking for this since the image presentation changed!! Very useful post
Yay! This will make adding a gallery so much easier.
This is a huge improvement! I immediately did two posts and loved using these features. Thanks a lot!