Changelog:

v 0.2 - Added Category-Name in the Options. Now you can set your own Featured-Category, just enter the name of the category in the field on the options page.
v 0.1 - Inital Version

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FCS is a modded version of Jason Schullers Featured Content Gallery Plugin which is based on JonDesigns SmoothGallery. Id say that still the overwhelming part of the plugin is Jasons work, so please give him the credit for this!

The main difference between the two plugins is, that with FCS you can use dynamic content in your slideshow. With Jasons plugin you would have to enter all the content manually on the settings-page of the plugin. With FCS, you just write a new post, select a certain category, upload an image and the post will be put into the slideshow. Its always the 4 newest posts that will be visible in the slideshow. Older posts will just be kicked out of the slideshow without being deleted from the blog.

So how does this work?

WARNING: This is just a beta-version! Only tested on 2.5.0!
0. Backup all your data
1. Download the Plugin
2. Extract the files
3. Upload the folder fcs with all files contained to your Wordpress plugin-folder
4. Activate the plugin
5. Go to the settings page and set the alt and read_more texts to whatever you want (your language for instance)
6. Create a new category that is named FCS
7. Assign at least 4 posts to the new FCS-category
8. Every post has to contain a so called leadimage. That is done by uploading the image (if you do not plan to change the CSS, the image should be 546267 pixels) to any subfolder of your Wordpress Upload-Folder. Then you have to add a custom field to your post with a key called leadimage and a value that is subfolder/imagename.jpg
9. Go to your index.php or the file where you wish to include the slideshow
10. Paste the following code to where you want the slideshow to show up
<?php include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/fcs/gallery.php'); ?>
11. Thats it. The Slideshow should be running.