Share Photos with a Slideshow
Media is a big part of my life. Showing friends a slideshow of a weekend excursion is a common occurrence. When blogging these photos, displaying them in a long gallery doesn’t always make sense.There wasn’t any other option to show off the images uploaded to your WordPress.com blog until now.
Today, we’re rolling out 100% JavaScript powered slideshows. But, why did I bother to mention that they’re JavaScript powered? Most importantly, because we’re consuming the web in different ways. Our JavaScript powered slideshows will work in any browser that supports CSS and JavaScript – even the iPad and iPhone!
The slideshows are simple and straightforward. Upload your photos as a gallery, then click the “Insert slideshow” button, or use the [slideshow] shortcode. The slideshow automatically adjusts its dimensions to fit your blog’s theme.
Without further ado, here are some pictures I took while visiting some zoos over the years.
This feature is currently only available on WordPress.com. A WordPress.org/self-hosted plugin will be available soon.
Mar 31st at 9:26 pm
Wow! At last! Extremely pleased to see this! Good call.
Mar 31st at 9:27 pm
Very nice pictures.
It’s nice to see wordpress.com integrate a moving slideshow feature
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Keep it up!
Mar 31st at 9:28 pm
O… M… G to the moon! Where were you when I uploaded too many pix onto our church blog earlier this week?!! This is ter-r-rific news! I’ll be sure to try it out. Thanks ever so much!!!
Mar 31st at 9:30 pm
Cool! Thanks
Mar 31st at 9:31 pm
This is a really cool idea! I can’t wait to start making use of this on one of my own blogs.
Thanks for adding this to the WordPress tools.
Amazing pictures in your zoo slide show, too.
Mar 31st at 9:31 pm
.org plugin?
Mar 31st at 9:46 pm
It’s coming soon!
Mar 31st at 9:35 pm
hey i dont understand how i can make a slide show;( where is the slideshow button…plis help!!
Apr 2nd at 7:08 pm
The Insert Slideshow button will show up in the Gallery tab when you have attached images to a post or page.
Mar 31st at 9:36 pm
Fantastic work! Always wanted an on-site gallery option! Can’t wait to give it a try, thank you!
Mar 31st at 9:42 pm
This is NICE. Thanks for the update.
Mar 31st at 9:43 pm
This is SO COOL! Thanks!
Mar 31st at 9:47 pm
Oh that’s great, it’s something I’ve dreamed of for a long time. Thanks
Mar 31st at 9:47 pm
Wonderful! The students who run The Communicator are going to be so excited. We’ve been struggling with ways to do slideshows easily. Hopefully semi-native will help!
Mar 31st at 9:49 pm
Nice work.
Mar 31st at 9:49 pm
Thanks. I will try it soon.
Mar 31st at 9:52 pm
really fantastic feature!!!
Mar 31st at 9:52 pm
wOW !! Cool
Mar 31st at 9:52 pm
I just looked for this feature earlier today. Glad to see it’s available now!
Mar 31st at 9:54 pm
Oh MY GOD PERFECT!!
Mar 31st at 9:54 pm
This is really hot! It will help me with tutorials as well. Thank you.
Mar 31st at 9:54 pm
Is this available for already published posts?
Mar 31st at 10:06 pm
Definitely! Just go in and add the shortcode – either by typing or clicking “Insert slideshow,” from the upload/gallery management pane.
Mar 31st at 9:55 pm
I’m blogging through my hikes in the White Mountains, and people love the pictures. This is a great feature to add – better than embedding jpgs and scrolling. Can’t wait to try the slideshow. Guess that means I better pick another peak to climb.
Mar 31st at 9:56 pm
Wonderful news, you keep on surprising us with new feature every week. Thank you.
Mar 31st at 10:03 pm
cool! very interesting… bang up!
Mar 31st at 10:08 pm
Applause! If only the slide show had a “view all” option and was more customisable.
Mar 31st at 10:09 pm
Great slideshow feature. I will try it soon.
Mar 31st at 10:15 pm
This is exactly what I was waiting for! I’m really glad I switched for WordPress.org!
Mar 31st at 10:28 pm
great news,thankssss!!!
are we also going to have settings for it, like we do in gallery?
such as captions, duration of photos, linking photos (to its original dimension for example) or resizing the whole slide show…
Mar 31st at 10:35 pm
lovely ! awesome ! running out of adverbs
I was not expecting a js slideshow on wp.com
thanks for adding
Mar 31st at 10:37 pm
whoooaaa..Awesome feature
Mar 31st at 10:38 pm
Great feature!
I’ve been experimenting with the slideshow but haven’t been able to create a Gallery without uploading a file for that post.
Is that possible? Can we get a slideshow to work *only* by using items in our existing Media list?
I’m planning on doing a video tutorial on this as soon as I figure out the rules of engagement.
@JesseLuna
Apr 3rd at 6:18 am
Correct. A slideshow will work by using images which are attached to the post or page you are editing.
Mar 31st at 10:38 pm
Super – thanks so much!
Mar 31st at 10:39 pm
Excellent new feature. Thanks!!
Mar 31st at 10:57 pm
Great, just what we were waiting for!
Mar 31st at 11:02 pm
am i the only one who got question marks where there s/b images? even after hitting the ‘display images’ link
Mar 31st at 11:03 pm
good news, right after i send the comment above, i immediately landed on your site and out of my email, so that was the fix, yay!
Mar 31st at 11:06 pm
what an amazing feature… finally!
Mar 31st at 11:06 pm
Just learned about how “Attached files” work. I think that answers my question above. The pictures must be attached to the post that will display the Slideshow.
Mar 31st at 11:07 pm
this is so cool!
Mar 31st at 11:08 pm
Had been waiting for this. Hope this is not an April Fool’s joke (it’s definitely not).
Mar 31st at 11:18 pm
Things keep getting better and better! Thank you, Sweetman
Mar 31st at 11:24 pm
Hello from Ukraine !
This another new feature, and this 1 very good for my Blog because I have much the foto’s that makes page load slow, thank you for this
Sincerely to you,
Marina.
Ukraine.
Mar 31st at 11:27 pm
Love this, Love this, Love this!
particularly if I could also include previously upload pics (as you replied in a comment).
and iPad compatible? you rock!
*fist bump*
Mar 31st at 11:32 pm
Wow. That’s really neat. Just the thing for a photo-orientated blog. Excellent. Thanks a bunch
Mar 31st at 11:36 pm
Amazing!
I can see myself using this! I can’t wait to try it out later… Oh, screw it- I’ll try it now! 
Sara 
Mar 31st at 11:41 pm
SWEEET!
Mar 31st at 11:44 pm
I opened this as a thread just to see if other people have better ideas. I am hoping the auto-enabled option could be turned off.
Mar 31st at 11:47 pm
Thanks for this! Really good to have this feature.
Mar 31st at 11:48 pm
Is there going to be a widget for this? It would be nice to insert a slideshow into the sidebar.
Mar 31st at 11:53 pm
I love this. I’ve already edited some old posts to utilize this new feature. Makes sharing a lot of pics a lot better. Thanks!
Apr 1st at 12:06 am
Awesome and excellent feature. Just in time for some pics I wanted to post. But I strongly dislike the long blogs with tons of photos. This will be much better. However – can we caption each one?
Apr 2nd at 11:32 pm
Yep, any captions you add to photos will be added as captions in the slideshow.
Apr 1st at 12:17 am
This feature has been long awaited and is bound to make many bloggers very happy inseed. Thanks
Apr 1st at 12:20 am
Finally! Hurrah!!!!
Apr 1st at 12:33 am
oh that will be great if we can add this into old posts too. i think the best part is, we can now show two or more different slideshows for different subjects, am i right? for example, you went to zoo and you can show tigers and lions grouped in different slideshows.
i’ll wait for the .org plugin.
Apr 1st at 12:50 am
So relieved to see this feature! I cannot wait to give it a try!
Apr 1st at 12:54 am
Wow, thank you guys. I am so amazed. Constantly amazed. Brilliant and fantastic.
*off to find pictures*
Apr 1st at 1:00 am
Adding now! Exciting!
Is there a way to change the background to white? I think it would be visually magical if the images floated on white space.
But hey, I’m happy! Thanks
Apr 1st at 1:06 am
wow you must like going to the zoo.
heidi
Apr 1st at 1:07 am
Thanks and Finally!
Apr 1st at 1:08 am
This is gr8 news thank you again for such a wonderful feature!
Apr 1st at 1:16 am
Oh well done! Thank you for all the hard work.
Apr 1st at 1:20 am
YES! This is exactly what I have been needing/wanting
! THANKS!
Apr 1st at 1:30 am
Been waiting for something like this. Very nicely done!
G
Apr 1st at 1:42 am
Wow!! This is good
Apr 1st at 1:44 am
YAY!!!! finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!
Apr 1st at 1:56 am
I’m looking forward to using this feature. It adds impetus to sorting out a few photos. Cheers.
Apr 1st at 1:57 am
Wow! That’s nice! Thank you!
Apr 1st at 2:00 am
Very cool! I have been waiting for you guys to do this!!!
WP rocks!
Apr 1st at 2:05 am
Wow!
This is one feature that I was hoping would be developed! Now, I don’t have to bother posting too many image thumbnails on a post! Is this available for a WordPress.com blog’s sidebar as well? As a widget, maybe?
Cheers!
Apr 1st at 2:10 am
Wow! Beating the world. WordPress – No.1.
Apr 1st at 2:13 am
Great feature! I wish it was more customizable but it’s still fine.
Apr 1st at 2:20 am
Wow, this is a fantastic WordPress feature. I’m going to use it for my tutorial artikels. Great improvement
Apr 1st at 2:38 am
Brilliant. Thank you!
Apr 1st at 2:41 am
Nice.
Apr 1st at 2:57 am
Wow..
That looks interesting…
got to try this…
Apr 1st at 3:10 am
This is very gooood
Apr 1st at 3:25 am
Just used the slide show feature in my gardening blog tonight. I really, really like this feature. My daffodils look so much better. I plan to go back and do my other posts. Again thanks a lot. Mary
Apr 1st at 3:29 am
Thanks!
But why limit it to the pics from the gallery?? A great feature nevertheless
Apr 1st at 3:39 am
Wonderful! I post occasionally images from the phone to the blog and this will be a nice addition.
Apr 1st at 4:03 am
This is great, and I love the dark background for photos–makes the colors pop, especially in white themes. One thing I’m still waiting on that will make this slideshow feature even better is a way to create multiple galleries in one post, so that I can show several pictures of one building in one slideshow and several pictures of another building in another slideshow, while adding explanatory text about each in between. Thanks for all the new stuff this last month!
Apr 1st at 4:09 am
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
LOVE this!
Can totally see myself using this to blog about one of my corny date days with my husband.
Apr 1st at 4:18 am
Awesome feature! I’ve been waiting for something like this!
Apr 1st at 4:21 am
Wow! This is the coolest upgrade ever! And since I’m on vacation in a glorious place just now, Sedona AZ, who knows it might be a perfect way for me to share special moments!!!
Thanks so much for this very synchronistic upgrade to my blog!
Apr 1st at 4:27 am
Hola! Very Good…I Like.
Thank you.!
Apr 1st at 4:41 am
great news!
Apr 1st at 5:09 am
This is good news for me as I live in the UAE where there is a firewall to block some sites and one major one is Flickr so I can’t link to a nice gallery very easily (Google Picassa is a bit clunky). This gets round this – can’t wait to try it out.
Apr 1st at 5:21 am
Fantastic! Any thoughts of doing a slideshow widget, too?
Apr 1st at 5:36 am
This is a terrific news. Always wanted this, used slides.com before but this is more convenient. Thanks.
Apr 1st at 5:40 am
Awesome! This feature will save me precious times. Thanks so much W.P. You guys are great!.
Apr 1st at 5:45 am
At LAST!!! I’m really gonna wear this new feature out! Thanks!
Apr 1st at 5:59 am
awwwweeeeeeesome!
Apr 1st at 6:45 am
This is great. Will all pictures in each post automatically be added to the slide show like with the gallery?
Apr 1st at 6:45 am
That’s one COOL feature. I took some great Tropical Flowers that I posted on our website for people to download. I can now feature them in a Slideshow on our blog.
Thanks guys … very cool indeed.
Apr 1st at 7:09 am
Yes, this is good.
Apr 1st at 7:15 am
But try to improve wordpress gallery, that will be great feature.
Apr 1st at 7:18 am
Happy to hear the news for upcoming plugins. Love this
Apr 1st at 7:22 am
Wonderful!! Have been waiting for something like this!
Thankyouuuu!
Apr 1st at 7:40 am
At long last! This is excellent news and now I can put up my gallery page without further ado! Thank you.
Apr 1st at 8:12 am
Thanks! I can see it’s possible to stop the slide BUT: can one enlarge the single photos from the slide if one wants to do so? Just wondering..