I finally released another one of my plugins. This one is a widget that displays rotating images from a post’s gallery in the sidebar of your site. You just specify the post or page in the widget settings, and it will cycle through all the images from the gallery of that post or page. You can even have as many of them as you want on your site simultaneously! As usual, this plugin requires PHP5, and the latest WordPress (currently 2.5.1).

As many of you may have read, WordPress 2.6 will include another plugin of mine (built into the CORE) to allow you to reorder your images to make them display in whatever order you prefer. Until then, go get my Reorder Gallery plugin! They work great together!

When I talked about my first impressions of WordPress 2.5 I mentioned the new shortcodes. Then I went more in depth, as I explained exactly what WordPress Shortcodes were, and how they worked. However, neither time did I mention that there is a shortcode that is built into WordPress (no plugin needed). It’s the gallery shortcode. You can upload images to the post, and then choose to “Insert gallery into post” and it will add a [gallery] tag to your post, which will be replaced with the image gallery when people view it. The problem? Images are stuck in whatever order you upload them in.

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