Slide shows are a great way to add a personal touch to your church website. Pictures of events, and outings can help people feel the atmosphere and culture of your church in a way that words alone don’t convey.
If you’re using wordpress.com to host your website, you have three basic options for embedding slide shows into your site: slide.com, RockYou, and Slideshare.
With each of these you can select the photos you want to include in your slide show and then embed the code from the slideshow into your page or post. (You cannot currently embed slide shows in your sidebars).
Do not use the <embed> tag code, since this is disabled on wordpress.com. Look for the custom WordPress code enclosed in the square brackets [ ].
For example on slideshare the code would be found here:
For more information check out wordpress.com’s article “Can I Have a SlideShow?“
Unfortunately, due to security concerns Picasa slideshows (and flash content from countless other sites) are not available on WordPress.com at this time. There is a workaround for this but that will have to be a future post.
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September 20, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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