DP Showbiz is a custom widget for display posts from selected category (categories) in form eye-catching slideshow. This widget use ShowBiz Pro jQuery plugin by themepunch . You have a choice of three styles:

The configuration of the widget contains a lot of useful options:

Let’s start with describing the Data source section – this section contains all important options connected with selecting posts to display:

• Slideshow Settings– here, you may select:
  • Slideshow lauyout style – lighbox style, full overlay style, overlay style
  • Slideshow style – light or dark
  • Thumb size
  • Count of item displayed for different screen resolutions
• Data source settings– here, you may select:
  • Category (categories) slugs – this can be coma separated list of categories
  • Ordering – ordering of posts
  • Offset – set > 0 if you wish start with not first post in category
• Articels configuration– here, you may select:
  • Ammount of articles – general ammount articles to display in slideshow
  • Title length
  • Text length
  • Excerpt length – important only by full width overlay style.

The cache time option is very important – it specifies how often the widget content is generated – it is safe to set it for at least 30-60 minutes or even more if the page isn’t often updated.