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Highslide for Shashin is a WordPress plugin that integrates Highslide with the Shashin plugin for WordPress. After you install it, “Highslide” will be available as a viewer option on the Shashin settings page. It also has its own settings page for Highslide’s settings.

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Why Use Highslide?

Shashin was originally designed for use with Highslide, but I had to switch to Fancybox in order to keep Shashin in the wordpress.org plugin repository, as Highslide does not have a GPL-compatible license. Therefore, Highslide for Shashin is only available here, not at wordpress.org.

Fancybox has a few shortcomings compared to Highslide. Whether these matter to you depend on how you are using Shashin:

• For Twitpic photos, Twitpic redirects its URLs to Amazon AWS, and Fancybox cannot resolve these redirects. Shashin works around this by resolving them server-side, which means displaying a Twitpic photos involves 2 requests, which can make performance slow (and may sometimes result in missing thumbnails). This is not an issue for Highslide.
• Fancybox has a method for setting the dimensions for a video, and another method for mixing videos and photos in the same slideshow, and these two methods are not compatible with each other. I set Fancybox to use a default size for displaying videos, which means you cannot adjust the video display size, and it’s possible the aspect ratio will be incorrect.
• Shashin comes with an older version of Fancybox, as the current version has a different license which is also not GPL compatible. Although Highslide is not currently under active development, it does still get periodic bug fixes and minor updates. (Unfortunately, I have yet to find a widely used, robust photo and video viewer that currently has a GPL compatible license.)

Requirements

• WordPress 3.0 or higher
• Shashin 3.1 or higher
• PHP 5.1.2 or higher

Installation

1. If you don’t have Shashin yet, download and activate Shashin.
2. Download Highslide for Shashin
3. Unzip it, and use FTP to copy the “highslide-for-shashin” folder to your plugin directory. See the WordPress Manual Plugin Installation instructions if you need more details.
4. Activate Highslide for Shashin on your plugin admin page
5. On the Shashin settings menu, select the new option to use Highslide as the viewer
6. On the Highslide for Shashin settings menu, configure Highslide as desired
7. I do not have my own plugin auto-update system in place. Please check back here occasionally for updates.

License

This plugin has a split license:

• All files in the directory shashin/Public/Display/highslide fall under these license terms. Highslide is free for non-commercial use only. Please follow the license terms link for further information.
• All other files are GPLv2
• Based on this entry in the GPL FAQ, it is my understanding that distributing this plugin under a split license is valid under the terms of GPLv2, as Highslide functions as an optional add-on to Shashin, and is invoked through 2 lines of code (one for Highslide’s .js file and one for its .css file).