[Erin Allsop]

I am looking to add a rotating slideshow to my websites homepage. Does anyone have any recommendations as to coding and/or platforms to add this? I’ve utilized the “WowSlider” application and I have not had much luck with it as far as adding the coding to my site. Any help you can provide is appreciated! Thank you!

[Patrick Murray-John]

If you use the latest and greatest Omeka (version 2.2.2), the shortcode carousel plugin will let you add that with a shortcode in a simple page, and you can then make that your homepage in the navigation settings. Most other parts of Omeka homepages can also be built with the various other shortcodes.

If you’ve built up your homepage directly in the theme’s index.php file, you can invoke shortcodes directly via PHP.

[Erin Allsop]

Thank you, Patrick! I will try this and let you know how it works out for me.

Best,
Erin

[Erin Allsop]

Ah, unfortunately, I am working with 2.1.3! I will need to upgrade to 2.2.2 if I want to use this plugin. Is there anything you can suggest without involving an upgrade? My experience with the upgrade in the past did not go over to well and I would like to avoid that process again at this time.

Thanks!
Erin

[Patrick Murray-John]

If the past upgrade experience was something big like 1.x to 2.x, there is much less to worry about in 2.1.3 to 2.2.2. It won’t break themes or plugins, for example.

You could look through the plugin to see how it works. Most of the guts are in the views folder, so you could probably copy a lot of that.

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