Slideshow
Use a slideshow module when you want to display a set of images in the foreground, one at a time.
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Use a slideshow module when you want to display a set of images in the foreground, one at a time.
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Besides the traditional horizontal slide transition, there are a number of other types of transitions from one image to the next, as described in the Playback tab section below. The images come from a gallery you create either in the WordPress Media Library or in SmugMug. You can display the image title, but if there is other content you want to display and the image is of secondary importance, see the related modules described below.
Besides various types of transitions of the slides themselves, there are various options to display navigation and play controls, an image caption, social media links, thumbnails of the gallery, and a fullscreen toggle, all described in the following sections.
Here's a screenshot of an image slideshow, showing the three main areas:
The slides are taken from a gallery of images that you specify.
Large navigation arrows can be displayed on either side of the slides, or with wider slides the icons are overlaid on the slides.
The control bar appears above or below the images, depending on your settings. All of the icons that appear in the control bar can be displayed or hidden
This tab has the following settings.
Source WordPress Media Library or SmugMug.
Photos (Media Library only) Contains links to create a gallery of images in your Media Library or to edit an existing gallery.
Height Sets the height of the box in which images and controls are displayed. The default height is 500px.
Skin color There's not much difference, but choose Light if you have light-colored images and background and Dark if you have dark-colored images and backgroiund. Individual image size is adjusted to maintain this height.
Crop Since the Height setting keeps the height of each image constant, the Crop setting determines whether the width of the image will adjust to display the full image (so width will vary depending on each image) or the image width expands to the full width of the column (minus margin and padding) and crops the left and right edges if necessary.
Disable right-click Does not allow image to be downloaded.
Type None, or choose Link to add a URL that will serve as a single destination for the entire set of images. You can't set a separate link for each image.
Link URL If you selected Link for the Click action, enter the destination URL here.
Auto Play Yes (the default) means the images transition automatically and can be overridden by any navigation controls that are displayed. No means the user must advance the images using the navigation controls.
Speed Number of seconds the full image is displayed. The default is 3 seconds.
Transition Choose among the following types of transitions from one image to the next. The default transition is Fade.
None The next image is immediately displayed instead of a transition effect.
Fade Slide loses opacity while the next slide comes into view.
Ken Burns The Ken Burns movement is applied during both the display and transition times with a quick fade transition to the next slide.
Slide horizontal Typical horizontal movement from right to left
Slide vertical Current slide moves upwards followed by next slide. There is no white space between the current and next slide.
Blinds Vertical bands of white space appear over the image and become narrower until the full image is displayed.
Bars The next image appears with an overlay of nearly transparent gray squares during a fade transition..The effect works best at short transition times. For longer transitions the effect more resembles the Fade transition.
Random bars Vertical light gray bars of random width and spacing overlay the next image and fade out.
Boxes The next image appears with an overlay of nearly transparent gray squares during a fade transition.
Random boxes Random gray rectangles overlay the next image and fade out.
Boxes grow The next image appears with a gray grid overlay that shrinks and disappears.
Transition speed Number of seconds spent transitioning to the next image. The default transition speed is one second.
Randomize photos No (default) means photos are displayed in the same order as they appear in the gallery. Yes means the images are randomized. The randomization order stays the same with autoplay loops and navigation.
This tab lets you select which controls you want to display.
The following figure shows the control icons in the control bar that you can see in the Accept Builder editor, with the icon labels underneath the figure. Any of the icons can be displayed or hidden.
1 Navigation arrows 2 Thumbs button 3 Caption button 4 Fullscreen button 5 Social button 6 Play button 7 (shown in the front end but not in the Accept Builder editor preview: Photo count control)
There are six sections on this tab: an unnamed top section, Control bar, Control bar buttons, Control bar overlay, Thumbs, and Social.
Navigation arrows Choose whether or not to display larger arrows that appear on each side of the slides, shown in Figure 1. If the image is wide enough, they are overlaid on the image. The actual color of the arrows depends on whether you set Light or Dark as the Skin color on the General tab. These arrows may appear inside or outside of the image, depending on image width and the Crop setting on the General tab.
This section lets you choose the type of control bar and where to display it.
Nav type
If you don't want to display any control bar, choose None. If set to None, then the other Controls tab sections described below are hidden.
The Buttons choice displays the control bar in the layout shown in Figure 3, depending on the control buttons selected for display.
The Thumbs choice displays thumbnails of the gallery images, which can be clicked to navigate to a different slide. By default, the size of the thumbnail images is 50px, but you can change that in the Thumbs size field in the Thumbs section.
Nav position By default, the control bar is displayed below the slides. To move it above the slides, set it to Top.
You can show or hide any of the icons in the control bar.
Navigation arrows (only visible when NavType is set to Buttons) Yes provides the ability to move the slides forward and backward manually.
Play button Yes provides the ability to begin automated playback of the slider. Note: The Play/Pause icon is only visible in the control bar when it is set to Yes and the Nav Style setting in the Control Bar section is Buttons.
Fullscreen button If set to Yes, this button is displayed and the slideshow expands to fullscreen when clicked.
Photo count button If set to Yes, the photo count is displayed as current photo position / total photos.
Thumbs button (only visible when NavType is set to Buttons) Yes displays this icon, and clicking the icon opens thumbnails of all the images in the gallery, as shown in this screenshot. By default, the size of the thumbnail images is a square 50px, but you can change that in the Thumbs size field in the Thumbs section.
Caption button Yes displays the Information icon, shown in this screenshot, and clicking the icon displays the image's caption from the Media Library in an overlay over the slide.
Social button Yes displays a Heart icon, shown in this screenshot, and clicking the icon displays whatever social buttons you have enabled in the Social section on this tab.
This section has an Overlay enabled field, which by default is set to No, meaning the control bar is displayed below or above the slides. If set to Yes, the control bar is placed in a narrow semitransparent band along the bottom or top of the slides themselves. In this case, there are two additional settings: Overlay Hide and Overlay Hide Delay. If set to No, the control bar overlay is always visible. If set to Yes, the control bar overlay disappears after the number of seconds that you specify.
Thumbs size Sets the size of the thumbnails in pixels. The thumbnails are cropped squares, both in Buttons and Thumbs control bar layouts.
This section only appears when Social button is set to Yes in the Control bar buttons section. It controls which social icons appear when the Social icon is clicked.
The choices:
Facebook button
Twitter button
Pinterest button
There are all the usual Advanced tab settings for margins, visibility, animations, and advanced HTML settings.
Other modules that display a set of images one at a time with automatic transitions or navigation controls or both:
Content slider module Displays individual images in a set in the background, with the option of a foreground content overlay on the image. Images displayed in the background to fill the space often get cropped and the focus of the image usually changes as screen sizes decreases, so this module is best used when the focus is on the content overlay and the background image is used for effect.
Posts Carousel and Posts Slider modules These module display a set of posts or pages one at a time with the option to display a featured or fallback image. Use these modules when you want to display information about a set of pages or posts.
Feed URL (SmugMug galleries only) Enter the URL for the RSS feed here. For help with linking to a SmugMug gallery, see the .
Unnamed top section
Control Bar section
Thumbs section
