How to Create a Photo Slideshow in WordPress

A step-by-step guide to inserting a photo slideshow into a WordPress blog post

Written by Jack Lloyd

Last Updated: May 30, 2022

This wikiHow teaches you how to create a photo slideshow on your WordPress site. Photo slideshows can be inserted into a blog post on any page of your site. You cannot create a photo slideshow using the WordPress mobile app.

Steps

1
Open WordPress. Go to https://wordpress.com/ in your browser. This will open your WordPress site's dashboard if you're logged into WordPress.
- If you aren't logged in, click Log In in the top-right side of the page, then enter your email address and password to log in.
2
Click My Site. It's in the upper-left corner of the page.

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3
Go to your preferred page. Click the tab for the page to which you want to add the slideshow. The tabs for different blog pages are usually at the top of the page.
4
Find the "Blog Posts" tab. You'll see this option on the left side of the page, just below the "Manage" heading.
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Click Add. It's to the right of the "Blog Posts" tab. Doing so opens a post window.
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Click ＋ Add. This option is in the upper-left side of the post window. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Click Media. It's the top option in the drop-down menu. Doing so opens a window with all of your WordPress blog's photos on it.
8
Add photos if necessary. If the photos that you want to use aren't in your WordPress media library, click Add New in the upper-left corner, select photos to add, and click Open in the bottom-right corner of the window.
- Skip this step if all of the photos that you want to use are in your WordPress media library.
9
Select photos. Click each photo that you want to add to the slideshow. Selected photos will have numbers listed in their bottom-right corners.
- If you uploaded photos in the last step, they will be selected by default.
10
Click Continue. It's a blue button in the bottom-right side of the window.
11
Click the "Layout" drop-down box. This box is in the upper-right side of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Click Slideshow. It's at the bottom of the drop-down menu.
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Select other options if you like. You can randomize the slideshow order by checking the "Random Order" box. You can also change the photos' redirect links by clicking the "Link To" drop-down box and selecting an option.
14
Click Insert. It's a blue button in the bottom-right side of the page.
15
Enter a title and text. You can enter a title in the "Title" text box in the upper-left side of the page, and you can add text to your slideshow post below the slideshow box itself.
16
Click Publish…. It's a blue button in the top-right side of the page.
17
Click Publish when prompted. This will publish your slideshow on your WordPress site.

Warnings

Posting copyrighted content without permission may result in your blog being suspended or taken down.

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