Add option to turn post gallery into a slideshow

[ericlewis]

To build on the improvements to the WordPress Media manager, it would be great to have an option built-in to output a gallery as a slideshow.

Why a slideshow?

Isn’t that plugin territory? You can filter the gallery output already or hijack the shortcode.

Replying to helen:

Why a slideshow?

The current gallery shortcode implementation works fine, however a gallery with numerous images starts to break up the flow of a post on the front-end.

Replying to toscho:

Isn't that plugin territory?

It could always be plugin territory. But since the 3.5 media changes, there's a UI for creating multiple galleries within a post. Users don't have to make galleries separate from the post editing experience, which is what most gallery/slideshow plugins have been making up for. Since that's not an issue now, adding support for a slideshow in core would fit well in the UI.

Are you asking for an option or to add slideshows to core? Because in the latter case, I think that would be a no, and in the former, that doesn't make any sense because core doesn't have different output.

Seems plugin territory to me too. Not sure what you want to see as a slideshow. Just output and let the theme fix it?

If you mean as in a jQuery slideshow, I don't see a way how to make this backwards compatible in a good way. Another thing is that WordPress shouldn't force in using a certain slideshow, specially when there are a lot of them.

I think it would be great (tentatively speaking) if core had some sort of basically slideshow functionality. But I'm not sure if they'd be a new type of gallery, or something that could be chosen as part of the "Link To" gallery ("Popup" rather than "Attachment Page" or "Media File", for example), or a global setting for all galleries.