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Learn how Blogshow can save you time.
What is blogshow?

Blogshow is a WordPress plugin that allows you to showcase your photos in numerous ways in almost any WordPress template. You can embed Blogshow into pages and posts with both images and video. Want it to auto play? No problem. Want it to have thumbnails? No problem. BlogShow is a flexible plugin that is perfect for portfolio building in WordPress blogs.

How can blogshow help me upload and organize images?

Are you annoyed at WordPress’s clumsy file-uploader-slash-image-insert … thing? How much fun is it to upload — and to make matters worse, insert — 20 images one at a time? Does your workflow go like this - click upload, select files, get lost, repeat 20 times, give up? And then all your images across the board all get lumped into one mess of a “Media Library” — gah!

Trust us, we’ve seen the alternatives — clunky, overcomplicated, and they just don’t make it easy when you are uploading double-digit images to every post. You are a photographer, right?

Blogshow makes uploading images to your posts/pages a snap! Bulk uploading means you can upload all your images in a single shot, and they automatically get neatly organized into named groups. Uploading one image is just as easy as uploading 50. Then you simply insert into your post, and you’re good to go. Update the images/captions anytime, and the changes take effect immediately without you having to dig around your post or looking through your Media Library.

How can this WordPress plugin help save bandwidth?

And once you’ve uploaded all your images, what are you left with? A blog post with 20-30 images in it that people have to use their browser scrollbar to navigate them with. Since when did the browser scrollbar become the first-best navigation mechanism we could come up with?

It’s time to do better than that.

Blogshow wraps all your images into a clean, professional, and elegant Flash slideshow. It’s easy to use, loads instantly, and requires a fraction of the initial bandwidth than posting all your images at once. Slideshows not your thing? Fine by us — you can choose to disable the slideshow feature, and embed your images in your posts just like your used to, all the while reaping the rest of Blogshow’s organizational benefits and ease of use.

Is it RSS and mobile ready?

Maybe you’re a step ahead of the pack, and you’ve gone on to use things like PhotoBucket, Flickr or any of the multitude of 3rd party slideshow systems. But what a hassle! You have to login to a completely different website, upload your images there, copy and paste embed code into your blog — and then to add insult to injury, they smother the entire slideshow in their own logos and branding. Then comes the realization you’ve now alienated all of your RSS subscribers since RSS readers aren’t going to display Flash. And I think we all know Apple’s stance on Flash …

It”s ALLLLL good! Blogshow is seamlessly integrated with WordPress so there is no back and forth to different websites, and the best part is that it’s RSS compatible, feeding RSS readers images from the slideshow, and breaking any slideshows down to individual slides for non-flash mobile devices and tablets.

So when we say 100% user capture, we mean it. We’re talking WAP phone accessibility here. We’re talking Linux accessibility. Blogshow rocks the iPad. If it can render an image, BlogShow will deliver one.

What other features should I know about?

The awesomeness doesn’t stop there, no sir! Click on the fullscreen button, and you get beamed into a full-screen, immersive slideshow presentation. We’re talking big, beautiful images — as big as your monitor — like unbelievably big. With server-side image resampling, you can upload high-resolution images and Blogshow will resample them to just the right size, minimizing unnecessary bandwidth hogging.

Video you say? Oh yes, it’s video ready. You can mix videos — imported directly from Vimeo or YouTube — right in with your images. We’re even using html5 if Flash isn’t available!

Finally, you have complete control over each and every BlogShow you make — maybe some slideshows need to be bigger, maybe some don’t require the slideshow altogether — it’s up to you each time you create one.

What is your refund policy?

There are no refunds. Since the product self-installs on your server, the files are out of our control. Similar to you providing a client with a DVD of all the digital files. Therefore, we can not provide you with a refund.