SlideShowPro Director Connector vs SSP Director Tools

This WordPress plugin helps you to add pictures and albums from SlideShowPro Director to your WordPress blog by either choosing them from the media tab or by inserting some shortcode directly into your post. The images are served from Director, so no image is saved or loaded into your Blog. Features: Media tab for comfortable album and image browsing. Add one or more images to your post. Supports video with included JW Player. Show album with one preview image and the others as in lightbox. Show album in matrix mode. All images on a page or post. Add a photostrip as template tag. Widget for displaying thumbnail in your sidebar. Uses the Lightview-Plus plugin by Puzich or Lightbox 2 plugin by Rupert Morris for displaying ‘fullsize’ images. Admin interface for easy setup. Uses WordPresses’ easy and fast shortcode API. Official Director API from SlideShowPro included. Known Issues: I should write a decent documentation some day, especially for shortcodes… The plugin’s CSS file is not overriden by the theme as it is loaded aferwards. For now you’ll have make appearance changes to the plugin’s css file. Be careful. The file will be overwritten by the next update. Shortcodes = Add one image by its director content id = [sspdc content=(content_id) link=(default:lightbox|post|director|url:) format=(format_name|default:post)] BETA(be careful): Pass flashvars to mediaplayer If your content_id is a movie you can pass flashvars by adding the mediaplayer shortcode: [sspdc content=(content_id) mediaplayer=”autostart=false&backcolor=#000″] You can get a list of valid flashvars at longtailvideo Add one album [sspdc album=(album_id) style=(default:matrix|preview) description=default:false|true] Photostrip A photostrip can be added to your theme by using a template tag: Where’album_id’ is the SlideShowPro Director album number and ‘image_count’ how many images should be shown. Additional notes Thanx to Alex Rabe & the NextGEN DEV-Team: their NextGEN Gallery Code helped me understand many aspects of the WordPress API. Checkout the best WordPress gallery plugin.

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". Using captions 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: , , , , , Example: %caption% (%date%) Photograph by %byline% 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.