SlideShowPro Director Connector is a WordPress plug-in written by Swiss-based photographer Ruggero de Pellegrini. It’s a nice piece of work that lets you access Director images directly from the WordPress editing window – just compose a blog post or page, click a button, and choose your picture from Director – and you’re done. It adds code like this:

Here the number 2389 refers to an image that I’ve uploaded to Director, and there are alternative codes to display images as a grid, but you don’t need to know much more than how to install the WordPress plug-in.

Documentation could be better. There are some screenshot JPEGs in the plug-in zip file, and there are some details of the shortcodes you need for inserting image grids or displaying single pictures. That’s fine for those of us who think they know what they’re looking for, but others will need step by step instructions. For instance, the WordPress page template needs links to Lightbox, since they aren’t added by the plug-in. That took me a minute or two to figure out, but should be made obvious in the step by step installation instructions. Page formatting is also a little awkward and I suspect Ruggero would acknowledge that this aspect is unfinished. I might understand how to modify the CSS stylesheet so the thumbnails have nice big borders, and I might also know where to look so the thumbnails don’t crop – but would those without the same sort of experience? So I do see some rough edges, but I also see something that’s got a lot of potential and is very close to being a great solution.