Create responsive slideshows with Meteor Slides 1.5

Meteor Slides 1.5 adds responsive slideshow support, touch navigation, an improved slideshow widget, new translations, and updates jQuery Cycle.

I have been building more responsive websites lately and receiving more and more requests from users for responsive slideshows, so I have updated the slideshows to scale automatically.

I’ll be at WordCamp Omaha this week

On Friday I will be in Omaha for their first WordCamp. I’m glad to see more WordCamps happening in the Midwest, especially since WordCamp MSP didn’t happen this year.

Update: It looks like WordCamp Omaha didn’t happen this year either, better luck next year…

Adding multiple slideshows with different sizes

Meteor Slides users often ask how to create multiple slideshows with different sizes.

Here is a tutorial which will show you how to do this using multiple slideshows and metadata.

Using the Members plugin with Meteor Slides

One of the new features in Meteor Slide 1.4 that needs covering in more detail is support for the Members plugin.

Using Members, you can control which roles can create and edit slides and slideshows, and which can change the slides settings.