SSP Director Tools is a WordPress app, with a 4.5 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
SSP Director Tools is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by parelius. With a rating of 4.5★ from 2 reviews.
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Pros
- +High average rating (4.5★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by parelius — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (2) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How SSP Director Tools works
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This Plugin uses the SSP Director API to pull content from SlideShowPro Director.
Features:
Insert a single image from SSP Director into a post using a shortcode.
Insert a photo grid with multiple images from SSP Director into a post using a shortcode. Query SSP Director for albums, galleries, tags and configure the sorting of the output. Photo grids with random images are possible.
Insert widgets into your theme if you want to display a photo grid in a widget area.
Sizing and image handling are according to your default settings but can be overridden by shortcode attributes.
Use image metadata provided by SSP Director for formatting image captions.
Enable/disable photo feed functionality which generates an encrypted RSS photo feed URL for photo grids.
Use FancyBox to display photos in lightbox style.
Shortcode Help Use this shortcode: [sspd].
List of allowed attributes:
album: The id of an album to show (integer).
gallery: The id of a gallery to show (integer).
image: The id of a single image to show (integer).
align: Alignment of a single image (left|center|right, default: left).
caption: Whether or not to show the caption of a single image (yes|1|no|0, default: 1).
limit: The maximum number of images to be shown in a grid (integer, default: 0). 0 if unlimited.
tags: List of tags to filter the content by, separated by commas.
tagmode: Mode in which the tag filter works. Match all tags or any out of the list (all|one, default: one).
sort_on: The sort field (null|created_on|captured_on|modified_on|filename|random, default: null).
sort_direction: The sort order (ASC|DESC, default: DESC).
rss: Whether or not to show a RSS photo feed link below the photo grid (yes|1|no|0, default: 1).
If no attributes are specified, the default plugin settings apply as defined in the sections “Photo Grid Defaults” and “Image Sizes and Handling”.
Example:
[sspd gallery="6" limit="10" tags="technology" sort_on="captured_on" sort_direction="DESC"]: This will output the 10 most recent photos of gallery 6 which are tagged with "technology".<h3>Using captions</h3>
Image captions are automatically generated using image metadata. You can define different captions for preview images and images presented by FancyBox. Use placehoders like %placeholder% in your caption definitions and define how dates will be formatted.
List of allowed placeholders:
%caption%: The image caption as provided by Director. If the caption is not set in Director, the IPTC caption is used instead.
%byline%: The IPTC byline
%city%: The IPTC city
%country%: The IPTC country
%date%: The image capture date from the EXIF record
Date formatting: Use common PHP date formats.
Using HTML in your captions: You may use the following HTML elements and attributes:
<div style="">, <p style="">, <b>, <i> <strong>, <em>, <br>
Example: <b>%caption%</b> (%date%)<br><i>Photograph by %byline%</i>
Known Issues
A bug in the Director API v. 1.5.0 beta generates a wrong result when a query with multiple tags is done. See SSP Director Forum.
photo grids and photo feeds don’t work for smart galleries and albums. (Seems to be a Director bug.)
The plugin currently doesn’t check if the photo feed feature is installed correctly.
The photo feeds don’t show the real sizes of the downloadable enclosures, but the sizes of the originals.
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What is SSP Director Tools?
SSP Director Tools is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.5-star rating from 2 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by parelius.