[Plugin: Meteor Slides] Custom dimension per slideshow

Hi Radovan, you can do this using metadata, here is tutorial on how to add multiple slideshows with different sizes.

Ah,

thank you so much! Probably I’m so blind, because i miss it and i have visited another tutorials, not this one.

Thanks again.

No, your eyesight is fine, I just published that tutorial yesterday!

Thank you.

I tried it, but it is not for me enough.
I have an idea how to create multiple different sizes more elegant.

Just create more than one thumbnail size joined to slideshow category. (or custom post format which is more flexible [or combination of both])

For example have two categories. Frontpage (frontpage) and Subpage (subpage).

So are created two thumbnails sizes. And unique name should looks like.
POST-TYPE [CATEGORY [POST-FORMAT]] in brackets are optional.

add_image_size('slide-frontpage', width, height)
add_image_size('slide-subpage', another_width, another_height)

Then in theme file just call right size.
the_post_thumbnail('slide' . category-of-image)

One big problem of WordPress is that don’t create images on demand, it creates by upload. It’s sucks. Now only find plugin for hack this media behaviour ?? I like Drupal 7 solution… (legacy ImageCache plugin)

That’s a good idea, there is actually already another thumbnail sized image being generated for the slides overview in the admin. So that size, or any other sizes you wanted to set in your theme could be used.

I’d suggest creating a copy of the slideshow template file that uses the other size and including that where you want the use the smaller slideshow.

By default you have to re-upload images, but there is a plugin for this called Regenerate Thumbnails that can come in handy if you have a lot of images you need to update.

But in the end WordPress isn’t Photoshop, I think you are better off prepping them exactly how you want them for your site before uploading them and only relying on WordPress to size images as a fallback.

I’m using Simple Image Size what i post in another topic. It is really great plugin. No need to edit fuctions.php ?? and regenerate.

I know WordPress isn’t Photoshop, but resizing, croping and another basic transformation are in core. Why not use it. Btw, site are created for clients and they want automatizations. I can’t imagine how i saying them you need edit images.

I try to imagine flexible implementation and write it to this topic.

Simple Image Size sounds like a handy plugin if it takes care of regenerating the thumbnails too!

I wouldn’t want to tell a client they have to do it a certain way either. My main goal with Meteor Slides great usability, I want to make it easy to implement and even easier to use!

But it depends on how the slideshow is being used. If the slides are photographs, relying on WordPress to crop them might be alright. But generally the slides I am adding to a slideshow are graphics that have text and other elements added to them and they are designed to a certain size. With these types of slides, allowing WordPress to auto-crop or size them would give poor quality results.

For projects like this, me or the client are usually working with a graphic designer and I advise them to prep these slides to specific dimensions for the best quality but it’s never a requirement.

Ideally I’d like to be able to let the user choose how the image is sized or cropped within WordPress, just like how adding a custom header image works!