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Insert a Flash SlideShow on the Front Page: the most efficient way?

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  • Started 13 years ago by Baudesign
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  1. Baudesign
    Member

    Hi everyone,

    I am building a child theme that needs to have a large slideshow on the front page. Based on kimili's plugin, I embedded a flash movie (.swf) like so, in my function.php file:

    // Ça y est, on place le diaporama en page d'accueil, basé sur le plugin Kimili
    function my_slideshow() {
    	if (is_front_page()) {
    	$content = '<div id="slideshow">';
    	$content .= '[kml_flashembed publishmethod="static" fversion="8.0.0" movie="http://www.mulibwanji.com/ma/wp-content/themes/ma/media/test.swf" width="940" height="528" targetclass="flashmovie"]
    					<a href="http://adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" /></a>
    					[/kml_flashembed]';
    	$content .= '</div>';
    	echo do_shortcode($content);
    		}
    	}
    	add_action('thematic_belowheader', 'my_slideshow');

    It actually works fine.

    But the response time seems to be a bit long, probably du to PHP parsing. Would there be another and more efficient way to do so?

    Thanks

    Pat

    By the way, if you want to have an idea, look here temporally: http://www.mulibwanji.com/ma/

    Posted 13 years ago #
  2. Hi Pat,

    open the sourceview of your browser and copy the code created by the plugin. Paste this code into your function. This should work faster.

    Chris

    Posted 13 years ago #
  3. Baudesign
    Member

    @ Chris,

    Yea, this makes sense. You save a couple of milliseconds of PHP parsing that way. I should have thought about this one. ;-)

    Posted 13 years ago #

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