Adding slideshare presentation to your wordpress posts or blog pages has never been so easy. Their are many different methods you can apply. You can move with custom function, plugins or the simplest embed form method.
Actually slideshare is one of the most efficient and easiest methods to create and share slide show presentations. Its an online service which let your upload your slides on cloud and deliver it through their viewer. They even offers lots of options to share each individual presentation on social media and on websites. They have also developed their own custom short-code for wordpress users, and they also offer common iframe embed options.
This service currently offer almost 4 different plans. One is free and the rest three are premium. With every free account you get ability to create slide-shows and upload the audio. You also get options to upload the files in different supported formats. But if you move with professional, then you get capability to upload your own videos. You get powerful analytic dashboard and lots of options to customize the content and your profile.
Add Slideshare Presentation To WordPress Blogs
Add Slideshare Presentation To WordPress Posts
Slideshare presentations can be a good source of referral traffic to your website. It can also help you increase your online presence as according to quantcast it receives 3.2 million U.S based visitors per month. So overall its like a heaven of presentations with picture perfect slides and information. In this article we will be discussing three different options. I will try to explain every methods in the simplest form. I wish you will like it.
Using The Simplest Embed From
This is the copy and paste technique. You have to just grab the embed form code and then you have to paste it into any website, webpage or blog post. Since its an iframe, so it will work on almost every browser and on any platform.
Steps 1
- First move to slideshare website
- Now login to your account
- On the top right hand side of the screen you get options to manage your profile and uploads.
- Now click on ” My Uploads “
- You will be redirected to the page containing all the your uploaded presentations.
Step 2.
- Now select your slideshow.
- The new screen will open with the presentation viewer.
- On the top of it you will get ” Embed ” option
- Click on it.
See the images below.
Above is the example and I have highlighted the region you have to click on. The second image shows the options you will receive in-order to customize your slideshow.
EMBED OPTIONS
So what can you do with all these settings.
- You can change the size
- You can enable or disable the related contents
- You can select the exact number of slide to start from
- Then finally you have short-code for wordpress.com
The short-code provided here will not work on self hosted sites. But you can use the iframe code. Just copy the codes provided in their field and paste it in any webpage or post. It is that simple.
Using Plugin To Add Slideshare Presentation To WordPress Posts
Their is one very popular plugin developed by very popular known internet personality, he is Joost de Valk. This plugin is named as SlideShare for WordPress by Yoast. Its is very easy to use and is very customizable. Actually its still the copy paste system, but you don’t need to use iframe. Instead of that you can grab the short-code for wordpress.com.
Slideshare wordpress plugin setup page
Step 1
- Download the plugin and finally install it.
- Set the default settings. Over here you can set the default size of the presentations.
- This page provides the explanation of the short-code you will be using.
Step 2
- Now move to your favorite presentation
- Customize the way you want
- Finally copy the short-code which is generated
- Simply paste it in your wordpress posts or pages and it will work for you.
I think its the simplest method to use. But why to waste our hosting server resources. You can use the move advanced methods. Just check out the guide below.
Steps To Add SlideShare To WordPress oEmbed
This method has been first posted at wpbeginner. Thanks to their team and also thanks to @tammyhart for sharing the snippet. This is very easy to implement code. You have to just edit you theme. So simple follow the instruction provided below.
Step 1
- Please create the backup of your theme’s function.php file.
- If any think happens wrong in this php file, it can bring your website temporarily down.
Step 2
- Move to your wordpress dashboard
- Now move your cursor to ” Appearance “, then from fly-over menu select ” Editor “
- Find function.php file and simply paste the code provided here.
// Add Slideshare oEmbed
function add_oembed_slideshare(){
wp_oembed_add_provider( 'http://www.slideshare.net/*', 'http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed');
}
add_action('init','add_oembed_slideshare');
That’s all. You are done. Now just grab the link of the slideshare presentation and then paste it in your post and just like YouTube video it will get auto embedded their. I wish you would have liked this tutorial. I have shared three different methods and I have tried to explain them all. If you still have any questions, then please leave your questions in the comment area. Also share your suggestions.
About Vivek Kumar Poddar
hi,
really a great share,
I think its useful for everyone specially for new blogger like me.
thanks….
Thank Rajkumar for your regular comments and being a loyal redader to my blog. You blog is also informative.
Adding a slide share presentation to the blogs is a new concept and it has many advantages like, it gives clarity for the message and it attracts more audience.
You are very correct. Slideshare presentations are all the way very attractive. You can also use slideshare presentations to increase your brand presence and backlinks ( though nofollow )