Forum:Gallery Slider Question

Hello... Is it possible? to add more than 4 photo in slider gallery? If yes, how?

Thanks SealSoedHelper 21:03, March 28, 2012 (UTC)


 * You should ask Wikia staff at Special:Contact/general. Make sure you have a valid e-mail set in Special:Preferences. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 29 Mar 2012 10:21 AM Pacific


 * Why is there no help page for the slider wikitext? I found only this:
 * Helpwiki:Galleries and slideshows/wikitext
 * It does not cover slider wikitext. --Timeshifter 07:02, April 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * Or maybe you could try doing the one like in here. I was about to create this forum. However, I can't figure out the CSS and JS for that unfortunately &mdash;  S a m  Wang  07:16, April 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * You should complain via Special:Contact that there is no wikitext help for Sliders. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 2 Apr 2012 2:55 PM Pacific

(unindent). I added Category:Staff needed to this thread. Here is some info comparing slider to slideshow:

I experimented for a few minutes with the slider widget from the edit window and gave up. Looks like another buggy Wikia tool (at least when trying to use it from the source editor). See: Helpwiki:Galleries and slideshows. It seems to prefer the visual editor. I have the visual editor turned off, and don't want to turn it on just to use the slider.

Helpwiki:Galleries and slideshows/wikitext is very helpful. Much better than the widget. It does not cover slider wikitext though. It only covers slideshow and gallery wikitext. I see no help page for the slider wikitext.

I have been experimenting here:
 * w:c:cannabis:Portal:User:Timeshifter/Sandbox 18 - please create your own sandboxes. :)

I don't like how the links are screwed up in the slideshow. There is no color change in link text.

Click the slideshow and it opens. I don't see a way to have it be default open, so that one sees the image choices on the bottom when one first launches the page.

Slideshow looks better to me than the sliders I have seen. I don't want to use the slideshow though unless I can figure out how to make it be open by default. Even then I need to study it more.

Even when the slideshow is open it only shows 5 of the image thumbnails on the bottom. Also, when it is open, the images are not as large as I prefer sometimes. I sometimes set the slideshow images to be 700 pixels wide. When the slideshow is open it drops down to 620 pixels wide for the images.

Forum pages on the slider show that it is really buggy. See this list of forum pages. And the end results for sliders on various wikis don't look that good to me. The slideshow looks better to me for what I would use it for on the main page. I think the current gallery, though, on the main page of the cannabis wiki is better, and is very impressive.

This study has given me other ideas. I created a show-hide box for GMM crowd photos and added it to the 2012 GMM city pages. --Timeshifter 01:10, April 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi guys! Thanks for tagging this Staff Needed. As you know, we have hundreds of help pages, and we're working through them systematically to get them updated, but we might not always get to the one you need when you need it. But it's an open wiki, so please feel free to add in extra information, especially on advanced pages like this wikitext one.


 * Our gallery/slider/slideshow features are sometimes limited in how versatile they can be, but if you use them as intended, you can usually get attractive results. If you have any specific feature requests or bug reports, please send them to us via Special:Contact. Thanks! --Dopp http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 17:53, April 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * From my past experience from editing Shared Help, this doesn't give much guidance on what is acceptable as for as help edits go and what is not. Also, are you suggesting we just try to reverse engineer info that Wikia should already know and update help accordingly? Unlike many topics of help, the Slider was developed by Wikia, so random users seems like a poor source for the best info. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 11 Apr 2012 4:33 PM Pacific