A better SlideShare WordPress plugin

10 February 2008 Joost de Valk 20 comments, leave your own!

After doing my post about RIMC, I was kind of annoyed with the SlideShare plugins out there, as they had me change the default embed code, instead of just using it, so I've built a new SlideShare WordPress plugin.

It allows you to set a default width as well, so it will automatically size all presentations to that width. Enjoy!

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18 Responses to “A better SlideShare WordPress plugin”

  1. By Karel Geenen Mon, February 11th, 2008 at 13:29

    Do you ever sleep Joost??

  2. By Joost de Valk Mon, February 11th, 2008 at 13:32

    You know what they say Karel, sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.

  3. By Karel Geenen Mon, February 11th, 2008 at 13:59

    Totaly agree with that! By the way, did you receive my mail yesterday?

  4. By gantico Mon, February 11th, 2008 at 14:20

    Hey Joost, thanks for producing good stuffs. It's handy the default size for all the embedded presentations.
    Anyway I think that I'll keep running just pb-embedflash, because I prefer to have a single plug-in for handling all the different kind of flash content: from youtube to vimeo, from flv to slideshare...

    The syntax of pb-embedflash is quite straight and it's easy to use it with slideshare:
    [flash http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=thesis-160970-15829 w=488 h=417]

    note that the parameters w and h are actually the width and height of the embedding.

    you can see it in action here:
    http://www.gantico.com/blog/2007/11/slideshare-review/

  5. By Joost de Valk Mon, February 11th, 2008 at 17:27

    @Karel: yes, you're on my todo list ;)

    @gantico: thx for the great feedback! :)

  6. By rashmi Tue, February 12th, 2008 at 06:45

    Thanks. We will add a link to this from our blog where we list other embed plugins for SlideShare.

    rashmi
    SlideShare cofounder

  7. By Tomek Tue, February 12th, 2008 at 22:34

    Hi I instaled plugin but evry slideshow has a message: the slideshow has either been removed or made private by his owner. I checked the status of presetations are publick.

    Could u give me any suggestion what i should do?

  8. By Joost de Valk Tue, February 12th, 2008 at 22:36

    @Tomek: you had already used previous plugins?

  10. By Tomek Tue, February 12th, 2008 at 22:48

    now it's everything fine :)

  11. By Rogier Mon, February 25th, 2008 at 22:17

    Hello Joost!

    Tnx for the plugin! your doing a great job!

    I'm trying to pimp our weblog... only 25 readers now so I really need to do something different.. from now on i'm more focusing on Lifehacking/Entrepeneurhacking :-)

    The slideshows are really handy and I hope my vistors will love it an scream follow stripe!!! :-)

    But I'm getting the following error:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_parse_args() in /stripe-rs.nl/wp-content/plugins/slideshare.php on line 86

    What should I change?!

    TNX

    Rogier @ Reykjavik! :-)

  12. By Joost de Valk Mon, February 25th, 2008 at 22:32

    Ey Rogier, upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3 :)

  14. By Rogier Tue, February 26th, 2008 at 11:23

    Works great Joost!! tnx!

  15. By Anne Helmond Fri, March 28th, 2008 at 13:57

    Dank je wel! Works great.

  16. By John Whalen Thu, April 3rd, 2008 at 03:56

    Hi,

    I installed the plugin but every slideshow shows the same message: "The slideshow has either been removed or made private by his owner."

    I checked the status of my presentation and it is set to public.

    Any suggestions on what to do to make it work? I've got the latest wordpress and latest plugin.

    Thanks very much,
    -John.

  17. By Chris Wed, April 30th, 2008 at 18:56

    Same problem with me!
    Do you need further informations Joost?
    Wordpress version or so?

    Would be terrific if you could possibly fix it.
    Thank you 4 this great plugin already so far!

    Best regards,
    Chris

  18. By Sergejpinka Thu, August 7th, 2008 at 22:58

    In output, your plugin is not valid XHTML.

    This is not XHTML valid :

    and this is valid code :

    Can you chage your plugin, please?

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