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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:

featured-gallery

  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

Filed under: Featured Content

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