Hi everyone! Today I am back with another Shortcode post. This time, I am looking at the Presentation Shortcode. To start with, have a look at a presentation I created using this code.

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The Secret to a Good Presentation

Before we start…

Presentations are meaningless unless people listen!

Background

Boring presentations present:

• Unclear Assertions
• Unclear Results
• Unclear Reasons

and produce a sleepy audience

The secret?

State your conclusion FIRST

Give my best point first, you say?

–> Correct!

But I will have nothing left to say!

–> Incorrect!

Give Your Conclusion First

A presentation made from the conclusion will present:

• Clear Assertions
• Clear Results
• Clear Details

and produce an interested audience!!

Just Like an Ad

If people know the conclusion first,
they will catch your flow
and
WANT to hear more!

Conclusion

Want to give an effective presentation?

Give your conclusion FIRST!

The content of this presentation was adapted from “Introduction to Informatics I”, published by Hokkaido University, Japan, and translated by the author of this blog.

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Brief Explanation

The Presentation Shortcode is a nifty way to create a presentation for your site using only Shortcode and HTML/CSS. Basically, the content of a presentation looks like this.

[ presentation]
    [ slide]
        Content of your first slide.
    [ /slide]
    [ slide]
        Content of your second slide.
    [ /slide]
[ /presentation]

Note: If you copy-and-paste from here, you will have to remove the space at the beginning of every shortcode braquet. Shortcode in the code block gets interpreted as shortcode, not code! So I had to add those spaces so it wouldn’t.

The Support page on Presentation Shortcode doesn’t mention this, but I found you can insert HTML code with inline CSS styling as the content of each slide. That is how I achieved different font sizes and the list format. What I also noticed was some HTML tags that are forbidden in posts, pages and widgets actually worked in the presentation shortcode! (It would seem there could be options for exploitation here if someone really wanted to…?)

As part of the shortcode, you can also add background color, change slideshow transitions, rotate and scale slides and even set the duration of transitions. So, to create a thoroughly designed presentation, you would have to do a bit of coding, adding Shortcode and HTML/CSS.

Conclusion

The experience creating a presentation using this Shortcode is definitely unique. To someone who is not used to coding, using presentation soft such as PowerPoint would probably be a more pleasant experience. But if you are up to the challenge, then this is a change of pace and might be a fun thing to try out some time. I can’t wait to publish this post and see how it all turns out on my mobile.

Thanks for reading!

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The Secret to a Good Presentation

Reprise

Thanks for checking this out…

Before we start…

Presentations are meaningless
unless people listen!

Background

Boring presentations present:

• Unclear Assertions
• Unclear Results
• Unclear Reasons

and produce a sleepy audience

The secret?

State your conclusion FIRST

Sorry… Editing by code takes a bit of effort. I’m going to sign off here ?