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I am looking for a way to create an embeddable slideshow using one of my smugmug galleries as a source. AFAIK, smugmug only enables me to link to a slideshow, not to embed it into my homepage. So I started looking for javascript slideshows that use an RSS oder ATOM feed as source (since I get those feeds from smugmug) and display images from that feed as a slideshow.

I also used smugmug's help page for research as well as some other listings, but either the RSS-as-a-source feature is not prominently listed or there aren't many JS slideshows for that. So far I only found flash galleries capable of that or some specialized wordpress or drupal plugins, but all I want is to be able to drop a few lines of html into my website, include some javascript and have it working.

Is this the right way to go? Did anyone try this and get it working? Thanks a lot.

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You're not the only one who'd like to have this! – jdigital Jun 26 '12 at 4:12

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There's a super easy way - go to your gallery when logged in and choose Share > Show off and get an embeddable slideshow link there. This is a flash slideshow.

For your SmugMug Homepage you can also use the Slideshow Homepage box, that is in your Homepage Tools button on your homepage.

More on the SmugMug Help Pages.

Finally, there are two very popular slideshow customizations, the Jfriend Slideshow and the Fastline Slideshow. Both are listed here.

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Thanks for your answer, Andy, one question though: I understand that both customizations only work within the Smugmug pages? I can't see how I should embed that into any other website I have, which is what I'd really like to do. – Masterfu Jun 10 '12 at 18:43
Yes - then you'd use our Share>Showoff option :) – Andy Williams Jun 10 '12 at 20:30
Which is a flash slideshow, not javascript, but thanks for your directions anyway. I didn't make that JS - restriction clear enough in my question, but I will play around with the customizations anyway. – Masterfu Jun 11 '12 at 20:51

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