So this is the final post to complete my gallery.  If you read the documentation carefully you’ll notice that the gallery doesn’t work until you have at least 2 posts in your gallery.  After adding 2 posts with the “Featured Content” category, and the articleimg custom field pointing to the exact location of my image I got a working featured content gallery slider on my site.  Check it out on the home page: Bloggers Project.

The image size I used on this article is 500×375.  Take a look at the Featured articles section and you’ll see that there is black space on the right and left side.  For optimal image size use the same size you specify in your gallery.  The other two articles I used are 557×333 which is the exact same size as my featured content gallery.

If you have any questions on the featured content gallery plugin then let me know.  I am by far from an expert, but I was able to get mine up and running.

This is part II and if you’ve read the documentation then you’ll know you need at least 2 posts to get this bad boy working.  My next post will be part 3 to complete the content slider.

There are so many plugins available through WordPress that I can’t imagine using another Content Management Software (CMS) package for any of my projects.  Joomla has come across my plate several times and I’ll work with Joomla, but WordPress is definitely my CMS of choice.

I was recently asked if we could add an rotating image gallery to a site a created about a year ago.  I was pretty sure there would be a plugin available and I’ve also built Flash files that rotate through a sequence of images.  After doing a little research I found the Featured Content Gallery plugin.  The plugin does exactly what I hoped it would do.  It’s very simple to use.  Just take a look at the Featured Content Gallery plugin on the home page of this blog.

Featured Content Slider

So what’s the step by step for this plugin?  Pretty simple.

1. I’m not going to review how to install a plugin, but just download this guy from here: Featured Content Gallery plugin and install like normal.
2. Here’s a screen shot of the options you can use on your blog:

1. I used the category “Featured Content” for all of my gallery posts.
2. It’s recommend you crop your images to equal the same size you create your gallery.  I used 557×333
3. I’m rotating the most recent 3 posts from the “Featured Content” category, but you have other options as you can see in the Featured Content Gallery Options menu