using featurific on a category page or a post

[Guest]

is it possible to place featurific on a post-category page? here is my blog on word press: http://www.spirrsblog.com.

i would like to use a different featurific gallery on each of the categories displayed in my category menu. is this possible? and how would i insert them in these pages?

would i have to create a custom category template for each category and then insert a sepecific featurific gallery into each?

thanks alot i think this is such a great pluggin.

lex

[rinogo]

Hi, Lex!

By 'post-category page', do you mean a page showing only posts from a particular category? (e.g. http://www.spirrsblog.com/category/featured ) If so, then you should be able to put Featurific onto this page. You'll have to insert the following code into the correct template file (whatever file defines the template for a post-category page for your theme):

PHP Code:

<?php
//Code automatically inserted by Featurific for Wordpress plugin
if(is_home())                             //If we're generating the home page (remove this line to make Featurific appear on all pages)...
 if(function_exists('insert_featurific')) //If the Featurific plugin is activated...
  insert_featurific();                    //Insert the HTML code to embed Featurific
?>

Unfortunately, the Featurific slideshows that appear on the post-category pages will be the same for all of the categories. The Featurific for Wordpress plugin currently only supports one slideshow configuration per blog. However, if you're dead set on the idea, you could always use Featurific directly without the Wordpress integration. To do so, you would generate the data.xml files manually and then have different Featurific instances point to different data.xml files (category1_data.xml, category2_data.xml, etc). This would take a lot of work, but it's certainly possible. If you'd like to read up on using Featurific directly, visit:

http://featurific.com/docs

Good luck!
-Rich