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Admittedly I don't know Wordpress very well, so you are welcome to take this with a grain of salt. I wanted a slideshow plugin that could use all existing media plus media that a user uploaded to their blog post landing pages. I did not want to create tags for slide shows etc. I did not want the user to have to deal with gallery vs. upload vs. library vs. stashing images in some other random place.The idea was to be as dead simple but to change the user process as little as possible.

Enter the jQuery. There are lots of great jQuery plugins to do slide shows. I used the jQuery Cycle Plugin. Markup is straight forward- just put a bunch of images into a div and use .cycle(). My approach was to grab all the images in a post, hide them, and add them into the jQuery Cycle div. Not much to it. I used a custom field to enable the slide show if the user wanted it and then they could just add as many images to their post as they liked.

I've used Wordpress on and off for several years to power my rambling about code and work. It has served me well and I think offers some advantages over more robust platforms (mainly that it is a fairly refined tool for blogging) for straightforward tasks like blogging. This being said, wanting to showcase some of my work on Drupal a bit more clearly, having a major data loss last month, and needing to get more acustomed to Drupal 6 have made the proverbial push over the cliff to move to Drupal from Wordpress easier to stomach.