Placing small carousel in sidebar

[kkrafts 0]

I would like to place a narrow (obviously) carousel in one of my sidebars. About a month ago, Bryan Hadaway answered a similar question. He suggested placing the following php code into an advanced text widget: <?php if (!defined ('ABSPATH')) die ('No direct access allowed'); ?><?php if (!empty ($gallery)) : ?> <!-- Thumbnails --> <?php foreach ( $images as $image ) : ?> <li id="ngg-image-<?php echo $image->pid ?>" class="list-item ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box" <?php echo $image->style ?> > imageURL ?>" title="<?php echo $image->description ?>" <?php echo $image->thumbcode ?> > <?php if ( !$image->hidden ) { ?> alttext ?>" alt="<?php echo $image->alttext ?>" src="<?php echo $image->thumbnailURL ?>"/> <?php } ?> <?php endforeach; ?> <?php endif; ?> I did that - but it doesn't seem to be working. Is there something else that needs to be done? I will have to mess with making it narrow - but first I need to get it to show up! My site is http://www.pathologystudent.com/ if it matters...

[Kate 3]

Hey Kristine - Haven't tried the code myself, so can't say for sure if it would work. But, are you putting this into a PHP enabled text widget? (You would need a separate plugin for that...) Also, have you see this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery-sidebar-widget/

[makeylon 0]

As Kate said, you need to have the ability to use php in widgets/posts/pages, etc in order to use php code in them. Personally, I use a plugin called Exec-PHP. That allows me to add php code Pretty much anywhere.

[bryan-hadaway 3]

Exec-PHP is good, used it before. But, I wouldn't recommend it in this case, might be overkill. Use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/ And in Appearance > Widgets you need to actually drag it into the sidebar and then place the code inside. Thanks, Bryan

[ysdt 0]

Hello, I also tried using the aforementioned PHP code with the php code widget (that Bryan suggested) and the carousel isn't showing up. But, (and I don't know if I should start another thread for this) is it possible to have the carousel align vertically and link to blog posts in a sidebar? I may be asking too much. I tried to find a plugin that would do this. Found some vertical carousels, but I can't seem to link them to the blog post entries. Thanks everyone. Take care, Samar

[cmunns 16]

There is a way to configure the carousel vertically, but it would require quite a bit of HTML customization in the template. I would really consider a plugin to make your life easy: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smooth-slider (try this)

[ysdt 0]

Thank you so much Adam. For some reason when I had downloaded that plugin before (this is a while back) I couldn't get it to work. Now it is working beautifully. Thank you again.