I was searching for a quick slideshow plugin to use within an article in Joomla and stumbled across one called Simple Picture Slideshow . It is extremely simple to set up. You download the plugin from their site, install it into your Joomla backend, then find it in your plugins directory. There are few settings to play with from having the images link to other pages and buttons for controlling the slideshow. I went with a simple approach for Ryan Gibbons Real Estate and just had a button-less image slideshow that began automatically on page load. The beauty of Simple Picture Slideshow is its ease of use. It's default directory (which you can change in the plugins settings page) is set to /images/stories . To use it in your article, you use the following syntax: {besp} sampleimages {/besp} Where sampleimages would actually be /images/stories/sampleimages . It will load all the images in that directory and size them to the dimensions you set on the plugins settings p
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