10 best wordpress slideshow plugins

Slideshows are a great way of presenting your featured products or services. Typical wordpress Theme is designed so slideshow is just beneath the upper menu which makes it the first thing you notice when you visit a website. That means you should pay a lot of attention to it since visitors may get intrigued by it’s content if it is presented well. Installation of a flash or jQuery slideshow can be tedious if you are not familiar with PHP code and basic wordpress file structure. But as a WordPress user you have one advantage, you can install a slick and stylish slideshow as a plugin. Implementation of most plugins is simple and you can add and edit slides via WordPress Administration. Below is a list of some of the best free and premium wordpress slideshow plugins out there.

 

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FREE WORDPRESS SLIDESHOW PLUGINS

There is a lot of free wordpress slideshows available and you can find most of them on WordPress repository site. Below is the list of the ones that are most widely used.

Nivo Slider

Nivo slideshow is one of the most popular slideshow scripts available on the internet. This plugin is a lightweight jQuery powered slideshow plugin that uses nivo slider script. It offers a lot of options to customize the slideshow to your needs.

Content Slider Plugin

Accordion slideshows have been getting really popular lately and this is plugin allows you to easily implement a jquery script that will present your images in a rresh and unique way.

Coin Slider 4

Coin Slider 4 WP is WordPress plugin for creating a slideshow with unique transition effects of featured posts like random, swirl and rain. This plugin will use featured images in posts and automaticlly display them. That means slideshow will always be up to date (with images from latest posts).

Slideshow gallery Plugin

If you wish to have a slideshow with thumbs that present images that this is the perfect choice. It is easy to use and allows you to use multiple instances of galleries throughout your wordpress website.

NEXTGEN GALLERY

NextGEN Gallery is a  the most popular WordPress Slideshow and Gallery plugin. It offers an amazing number of options and different features with a simple yet thoroughal administration sytem.

PREMIUM WORDPRESS SLIDESHOW PLUGINS

Sometimes a free slideshow plugin just won’t meet all the demands that a user has. Or maybe you would like to have a slideshow with a unique design. That is when premium wordpress slideshow plugins comes in handy. CodeCanyon is a great resource for all kinds of premium plugins and below is a list of some the best Slideshow Plugins available on this premium market.

WORDPRESS ACCORDION SLIDESHOW

Beautiful WordPress Accordion Slideshow will showcase your products or services in an impressive manner. A lot of cool features will help you adjust the slideshow to your web site.

WordPress Ken Burns Slideshow

Ken Burns is an image transition effect that is quite popular in today’s image presentation. This plugin implements a smooth and beautiful flash slider with Ken Burns effect.

RoyalSlider – Touch Content Slider for WordPress

Royal Slideshow for WordPress is a jQuery content slideshow with touch-based navigation and fluid layout. This plugin offers an amazing touch navigation. You can toss the images left and right with mouse cursor and this unique feature made him an instant top seller on CodeCanyon.

Estro – jQuery Ken Burns WordPress slider

This is a jQuery powered Ken Burns WordPress Slideshow (slideshow presented above is a Flash version).

Lightbox Evolution for WordPress

Lightbox Evolution will display your images, content, maps and videos in a creative lightbox style. What separates this lightbox plugin from the free versions is a high end design and ease of use.

SliderCart

Plugin is built using WordPress custom post type and custom taxonomy to store slideshows, individual slides and their settings. Featured images are used as Slide images, Title and Content Boxes are used like an animated objects. Tag slugs are used as categories to group slides into separated slideshows and than show them with Shortcode in content. Youtube and Vimeo slides are supported in responsive 16:9 format. Using default but extended WordPress post system you can quickly create multiple animated sliders in just a few minutes.

 

CONCLUSION

There is a lot more quality wordpress slideshow plugins out there, CodeCanyon and WordPress repository are the best places to look for free and premium slideshows and I am sure you will find a slideshow to your liking.