A jQuery Slideshow for WordPress 2.9

You want a jQuery slideshow for your WordPress blog? – on the front page, or maybe in the sidebar? No real problem, all the javascript is taken of with the help of a jQuery plugin, all we have to do is figure out how to get the post data.

And to keep things really simple, this is going to use the thumbnail functions in WP 2.9 – no need to mess around with custom fields any more.

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WordPress 2.9 – Using Post Thumbnails

With WordPress 2.9 comes a revised image thumbnail system – previously, support for posts with attached thumbnails was a little haphazard (it is a fiddly business in terms of the programming), but this is a significant step forward.
The need is for a series of images, of given size, associated with a series of posts – [...]

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