12 Useful WordPress Slideshow Plugins
WordPress Slideshow Plugins are based on jQuery sliders and some even offer multiple layouts. This is a great technique to show several pieces of content and a good way to engage the website users. You can use images or any other HTML elements, including Flash movies as layers and pull videos from Youtube and vimeo. See below for a list of 12 most used WordPress Slideshow Plugins.
RoyalSlider – Touch Content Slider for WordPress
RoyalSlider for WordPress is a cross-device jQuery content slider with touch-based navigation and responsive layout. It has user-friendly admin area where you can manage slides, change slider settings, customize interface and add blocks-captions using custom WYSIWIG editor.
Slideshow Gallery
Feature content in a JavaScript powered slideshow gallery showcase on your WordPress website. You can easily display multiple galleries throughout your WordPress website displaying your custom added slides, slide galleries or showing slides from WordPress posts.
Paradigm Slider WordPress Plugin
A combination of Parallax Effect, state-of-the-art Slider and Text Animations defines this slider. Customize unlimited sliders with our own Drag&Drop Slider Editor to your very needs. Give each slider a parallax caption to transport your message. ouch swipe for iOS and Android mobile devices is of course included. So it works on every modern browser (including IE7 /8) and on mobile devices.
CCSlider WP – 3d/2d Slideshow WordPress Plugin
CCSlider WP makes it easy to embed the CCSlider jQuery slideshow plugin in your WordPress theme. CCSlider is an unique slideshow plugin because of the fact that it supports 3d transitions! There are 14 stunning 3d transitions available, and also 16 stylish 2d transitions. You have the option for mentioning a 2d transition fallback for old browsers that don’t support HTML5 Canvas, which is used for producing the 3d transitions. The plugin also supports HTML captions, autoplay of slides and custom transitions per slide. See below for a list of features available in the plugin.
vSlider Multi Image Slideshow Plugin for WordPress
vSlider is a free WordPress image slider plugin where you can host multiple image sliders and upto 20 slides per slider. Create unlimited vSliders throughout the site or on the same page, each with different styling and image transition options. 9 Image transition effects, 4 Slide layouts, Auto resize images, image caching and quality.
LayerSlider WP – The WordPress Parallax Slider
This is a WordPress plugin of the LayerSlider! You can create as many layers and sublayers as you want. You can use images or any other HTML elements, including Flash movies as layers. The script is very user-friendly, you can add global settings or local (per slide) settings to each layer or sublayer.
Estro – jQuery Ken Burns slider – wordpress plugin
After the success of our Estro jQuery plugin, and due to popular demand, today we bring you “Estro” a Premium WordPress Slider Plugin by pixelentity.“Estro” meaning “creativity”, “talent” or “inspiration”, in Italian, is a fitting moniker for this beautiful slider.
Pixwall slideshow for WordPress
Pixwall is a plugin for WordPress based on a project called Diapo, a jQuery slideshow developed by me, Manuel Masia (or Pixedelic), but improved since the original version. Pixwall is used to create animated slideshows with particular effects, and you can use it also for fullscreen background slideshows.
Easing Slider
Easing Slider is great image slider jQuery WordPress plugin featuring unlimited sliders each with their own unique settings, add text to your images or use post excerpts, Use image thumbnails as pagination etc.
Slider Evolution for WordPress
Slider Evolution is a JQuery plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript sliders with very nice transition effects. Enhance your website by adding a unique and attractive slider!
3D Content Slider WordPress Plugin
F3D WordPress Slider is based on jQuery Featured 3D Slider plugin that converts static HTML content into a 3D stage with smoothly moving objects. It is very easy to integrate it in a WordPress theme. Slides are just wrappers of whatever HTML content you can imagine – images, captions, links, buttons, icons.. Even video embeds.
WordPress Media Gallery – Ken Burns Effect
WordPress Media Gallery is the ultimate gallery for your WordPress site. It supports any kind of content from simple images to advanced inline content to videos. Because of this, it can be used not only as a gallery, but also as a slider, banner rotator, video gallery and more
DDSliderWP – 11 Transitions – Slide Manager Panel
Manage your slides the way you want, don’t depend on pages and posts. Upload Images via AJAX direct from the slide manager page. 12 cool transitions, Support to multiple sliders on the same page
Also check out: Top 10 Free Slider Plugins for WordPress
