I'm trying to embed a rotating set of image with some nice effects in the wordpress sidebar and I want to use this...

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_Image_Rotator

I've never used flash before and I'd like to try it out but the site's instruction are a bit confusing for me to set up.

Can someone adapt his instruction and/or explain them again/differently to me. I'd to be able to store all the image files to be rotated in the normal wordpress uploads folder and then know what code to insert in the sidebar.

I've used the wizard but don't know what to do with the resulting files?

Thanks Pete

smooth gallery There are also some widget smooth (google?) gallery plugins

Great timing Pete. I was fighting with this guy for an hour the other day before I managed to beat him down. hopefully I can help.

You can put the imagerotator.swf and the xml file in any folder (differernt ones too) just be sure to use the full path in all places. here is what you would put in sidebar (or anywhere)

This example has all the files in the same folder.

<embed src="http://kick-the-kat.kom/wp-content/uploads/rotate/imagerotator.swf"
width="450" height="500" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"
flashvars="height=500&width=450&file=http://kick-the-kat.kom/wp-content/uploads/rotate/imagelist.xml
&backcolor=0xffffff&frontcolor=0x000000&screencolor=0x000000&transition=flash&overstretch=none" />

pretty straight ahead. Here is what I fought with. In the xml file, also use full paths for the location so you don't have to figure out what directory you are in etc...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
<trackList>

<track>
<title>Grass by Nightszzzz</title>
<creator>Jeroen Wijering</creator>
<location>http://kick-the-kat.kom/wp-content/uploads/rotate/Crossing1.jpg</location>
<info>http://www.jeroenwijering.com</info>
</track>

<track>
<title>At the Sidewalk</title>
<creator>Jeroen Wijering</creator>
<location>http://kick-the-kat.kom/wp-content/uploads/rotate/Crossing2.jpg</location>
<info>http://www.jeroenwijering.com</info>
</track>

</trackList>
</playlist>

Hope we get this on the first try cause I have to hit the sack.

good luck....

Matt

works a treat... thanks! easy when it's explained clearly

glad you like it coollew, here is smoothgallery plugin from wpelements.com that uses it.

wpelements smoothgallery plugin