Web-site development

[imtommygunn]

Anyone on here develop web-sites using wordpress?

I've volunteered to help on a site and it's created using this so it's the boundaries I have to work within.

So here's the problem(s)/questions(s):
-I'm looking at creating  a gallery and potentially a slideshow.(I have a gallery no problems)
- I have admin GUI access but no access to UNIX box.

To create a slideshow I would need to add a wordpress plugin (WP photoshow I think it's called) so a few questions on this...
- I can add the plugin via the admin GUI - is this safe? What will this do in the background ?? Will it just get a tarball and untar etc on the machine ready to use??
- Anyone any examples of wordpress slideshows?

Any advice on the above would be appreciated. It's not my site however I'm helping out and would like to add a few features which people less computer savvy wouldn't be able to. I'd be happy enough hacking round were it my own site but as it's not my site I'm kind of limited in that regard...

Any help appreciated.

[bailestil]

Just install the plugin via the admin panel. Straight forward enough.

Shouldn't need to install any files etc. all done automatically by  wordpress

[imtommygunn]

Happy days - sounds easy enough.

Cheers bailestil.

My main concern would have been around what goes on in the background when you do this but sounds like you've done it before so I will trust that...