Ken Burns Media Gallery / Slideshow

WordPress Version

Updates

UPDATE 2.1 [ 14/06/2011 ]

• added autoheight example + api calls

UPDATE 2.0 [ 09/06/2011 ]

• fixed bugs
• rebranded to Phoenix Gallery – same gallery features + more
• added thumbnail navigation

Introduction

jQuery Ken Burns Slideshowis the perfect way to showcase your pictures/ads in style. Each item has a separate slideshow time and you can edit their link, target and many other individual settings just by modifying the HTML.

Features

• supports .PNGs, .JPGs, .GIFs
• API – call pause, play, gotoNext, gotoPrev from your html (outside the gallery)
• autoheight – option to autosize the gallery depending on the height of the content
• supports unlimited items – rotate as many pictures as you wish
• slideshow mode – with independent time for each item that you can define in the HTML provided
• values you can set up for each item – description (the description from the top), initialZoom(any value you wish), finalZoom, slideshowTime ( the time the banner rotator stays focused on the specific item ), burn effect time ( the time you wish the effect to take ), url (if no url is set the item will just be a image with no link on click ), transitionType(easeInSine,linear etc.) , initialposition, final position (choose from topleft,topcenter,topright,middleleft,middlecenter,middleright,bottomleft,bottomcenter,bottomright )
• resizable to your preferred size – all contents will position proper

Possible panning positions ( initial and final )

FAQ

How to set the number of thumbnails, I have this portrait images in the slider.. the navigation only shows 2 of them, while there is space for 4?

You can’t set the number of thumbnails displayed per ‘page’ because it’s calculated automatically from thumb width / height and thumb space. So try to lower that for more thumbs. Also there is another parameter “nav_arrow_size:40” – this is the space that is allocated for each arrow ( so at default 80 px are substracted for the arrows ) and you can also lower this for more thumbs.

is it possible to put a link on the images ( the main image offcourse not the thumbnails) Yes, sure, write

<a href="#"><img src="img/def1.jpg" /></a>

instead of

<img src="img/def1.jpg" />

I try to add links in the description but it breaks the script

Propably you are doing something like this

BAD:

data-description="My link is <a href="

The problem is that the ” inside href breaks the ” from the data-description. The solutions is use ’ instead of “

GOOD:

data-description='My link is <a href="

Hi. How can i stop the auto-sliding of the phoenixgallery

you have in the parameters

        targetgallery.phoenixgallery({
        transition_type:"random",
        nav_type:"thumbsa",
        nav_position:"up",
        thumb_width:100,
        thumb_height:75,
        thumb_space:20,
        nav_space:25,
        nav_arrow_size:40,
        settings_shadow:"off",
        settings_autoresize:"off",
        settings_autoheight:"off",
        settings_pauseonrollover:"off",
        settings_usethumbarrows:'off',
        transition_strips_x:10,
        transition_strips_y:5,
        arrows_normal_alpha:1,
        arrows_roll_alpha:0.3,
        thumbs_normal_alpha:1,
        thumbs_roll_alpha:0.3
        })

to disable slideshow just add a new parameter settings_slideshow and set it to off like this

        targetgallery.phoenixgallery({
        transition_type:"random",
        nav_type:"thumbsa",
        nav_position:"up",
        thumb_width:100,
        thumb_height:75,
        thumb_space:20,
        nav_space:25,
        nav_arrow_size:40,
        settings_shadow:"off",
        settings_autoresize:"off",
        settings_autoheight:"off",
settings_slideshow:"off",
        settings_pauseonrollover:"off",
        settings_usethumbarrows:'off',
        transition_strips_x:10,
        transition_strips_y:5,
        arrows_normal_alpha:1,
        arrows_roll_alpha:0.3,
        thumbs_normal_alpha:1,
        thumbs_roll_alpha:0.3
        })

For some reason when I add a link to the image the zoom effect no longer functions.

That is because the attributes data-initialZoom, data-finalZoom, data-effectTime etc. need to be on the direct child of the gallery div. For example if you have

< img src="img/1.jpg" data-finalZoom="2"/>

effect will work, but if you add link like this

<a href="#">< img src="img/1.jpg" data-finalZoom="2"/></a> 

effect won’t work. You need to move the attributes to the direct child of the gallery like so:

<a href="#" data-finalzoom="2">< img src="img/1.jpg" /></a> 

Credits

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