No web design trend has become as wide-spread and as popular recently as the content slider, they are everywhere! And rightly so, not only do they offer a marvelous method for displaying a lot of content in such a minimal space, they are also a great way to highlight your best and most popular articles and content. And on top off all that, with the correct image selection and well chosen content they look great as well.
When you take the most popular current web trend (the sliders) and mix it with the most popular CMS (WordPress), you just know there is going to be a bunch of free plugins you could easily use. And that is what we focus on in this post, 10 of the best free Content Slider WordPress Plugins.
The competition will end on the 31st of July 2010.
Front Slider WordPress Plugin
Front Slider, with its smooth sliding effect, will allow you to display an unlimited number of posts including images and thumbnails. You can set the speed, duration and whether or not to allow it to auto-rotate. Overall its very easy to customise and can be integrated into most WP themes with ease.
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vSlider – WordPress Image Slider Plugin
vSlider is a jQuery based image slide show script that can display specific images on your WordPress based website with fading or sliding transitions. It makes use of the core WordPress jQuery library, making it very tiny, about 20 kb, and you don’t have to have any knowledge of coding for using it!
It can use images from your posts using custom fields or scanning for images in the post to feature your latest posts from a specific category (for example a featured category), this way with every new post the slider will automatically update it self.
vSlider – WordPress Image Slider Plugin »
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SlideDeck WordPress Slideshow Plugin WP
SlideDeck is a new way to display rich content on websites and blogs. It delivers a better user experience by removing the information overload and providing a fun, quick and beautiful slider for users to interact with your blog posts and other content.
The SlideDeck WordPress plugin allows you to easily create a content slider widget or slideshow on your WordPress blog without having to write any code. Just create a new slider with the SlideDeck control panel tool and insert the widget into your post via the WYSIWYG editor with the TinyMCE plugin SlideDeck picker.
You can also create a dynamic slider by using the Smart Slider function. Just choose your blog post criteria (recent, popular, featured), select a theme, set your options and viola, you have a dynamically updated slider in seconds! Users can now visually experience your blog posts.
SlideDeck WordPress Slideshow Plugin WP »
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WP Slideshow Gallery
WP Slideshow Gallery is a flexible and easy to configure JavaScript powered slideshow gallery showcase for WordPress.
WP Slideshow Gallery »
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Featured Content Gallery Plugin
Completely customizable, the Featured Content Gallery is very easy to integrate. Choose to automate the plugin and simply add a custom field to each post or page you want to display and the gallery will show the image, an auto-generated thumbnail in the upper carousel, and the title and first few lines of page/post text. Advanced options allow inclusion of custom thumbnail images, text, gallery styles and transitions.
Featured Content Gallery Plugin »
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Frontpage-Slideshow for WordPress
There are no limits to how many slides Frontpage-Slideshow will allow, it will automatically start when images are preloaded and will retrieve automaticaly all information to show depending on global parameters. All aspects can be easily customized: sizes, colors, background-images, transitions, durations, parts to show and preload animations.
Frontpage-Slideshow for WordPress »
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Featurific, The Terrific Featured Item Slideshow!
Featurific, The Terrific Featured Item Slideshow! »
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Smooth Slider – Slideshow Of Featured Posts
Smooth Slider is a free, feature rich and easy to customise and style WordPress Plugin that assigns a post as featured posts on a blog and then create a slideshow with them to show at any location on a blog.
Smooth Slider – Slideshow Of Featured Posts »
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WordPress Content Slide Plugin
Content Slide a WP plugin to create fully customizable jQuery fading image slideshows/sliders anywhere within your WordPress site. Custom options include slideshow size, color, style and more, much more.
WordPress Content Slide Plugin »
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Coin Slider 4 WordPress
Coin Slider 4 WP will show your featured posts as an image slider and rotate them using unique effects provided by jQuery’s Coin Slider. Implementation is very easy, after you download and activate this plugin, just paste one line of code in your template and Coin Slider 4 WP is ready to use.
Coin Slider 4 WordPress »
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Featured Posts Slideshow WordPress Plugin
This basic, yet smooth, slider plugin can be easily incorporate into your WP theme. In the admin overview you can set the category, the number of posts, and easily customise it.
To view the images in the slideshow, you must create a custom field with the key "thumbnail" and with the direct link to the picture as value.
Featured Posts Slideshow WordPress Plugin »
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1 Jul, 2010
Thank for this awesome list. I have known some of them since I need to search for one slider that is compatible with jquery 1.2.6. That’s a pain in a b… because my theme runs jquery 1.2.6. I switched to a new theme already though :)
1 Jul, 2010
waw,tats really nice list of sliders…
thanks for the post…
1 Jul, 2010
Some nice examples here, I am most impressed with the Featured Content Gallery, but will also try out vSlider, Content Slide Plugin and the Coin Slider too.
Wouldn’t mind a license for the the SlideDeck Pro version either ;)
1 Jul, 2010
NICE! :o
I always do my own sliders :\
Maybe next time i’ll use one of that
1 Jul, 2010
The WP-Cycle plugin by Nathan Rice is also a great content slider for WordPress. It has a built in image uploader, plus the ability to display images as links, or not to. That’s great for photographers who want to display some portfolio samples but don’t necessarily need them to link to anything
1 Jul, 2010
Thanks for this nice sliders!
1 Jul, 2010
love these, thanks for listing them all like this. I would love one of the licences too- would put it in the new design of my DWE blog (linked above) when I finally redesign it!
1 Jul, 2010
Good to see a list of working sliders all in one place. I find many of the sliders and carousels in the market are out-dated and require too much effort for users. Some of these are plug n’ play, so the Average Joe should be able to get them working quite easily. Cheers.
1 Jul, 2010
Would love to put the SlideDeck Pro in this website: http://www.lemansportugal.com/
;)
Can you give me one?
:)
1 Jul, 2010
It’s a great opportunity, love that very much, i’ll be more then happy to get it.
2 Jul, 2010
I’d love for people to be able to look through my image-focussed posts more easily.
3 Jul, 2010
Great article! Out of these I would love to get slidedeck pro. Sign me up!
3 Jul, 2010
Hello! Thanks for this great post. I don’t even want to think about the number of hours I’ve spent researching featured content sliders for WordPress.
I’d use the SlideDeck Pro at http://bigimprint.com which I’m transitioning to WordPress.
Thanks!
4 Jul, 2010
Thanks man. Nice post.
6 Jul, 2010
In the past we have selected WordPress Themes that had a Content Slider integrated for our clients that wanted or needed that feature. We are working on a few things at the moment that I believe would benefit from use of a couple of the options you shared here.
We were going to use the Slidedeck plugin for a project about a month ago, however we ended up having to part ways with the client due to some unrealistic expectations. We’d really like to have the opportunity to utilize Slidedeck soon.
Thanks for Sharing this great information.
6 Jul, 2010
Excellent list. I like WordPress content slide as it is simple and easy to use plugin. I used it on my various wordpress sites.
6 Jul, 2010
Hi! My name is Rich Christiansen, and I’m the author of the Featurific for WordPress plugin. It’s great to see such a comprehensive list of so many wonderful plugins here. Great work! Please let me know if you have any questions about our plugin – I’d be happy to answer!
-Rich
6 Jul, 2010
This is a great post. I already use SlideDeck Lite version at http://intonasi.com and it was very easy to set up.
I’d be very happy to have Pro version :)
11 Jul, 2010
Thank you
really nice collections
I hope get the SlideDeck Pro
14 Jul, 2010
I would love to use slidedeck at http://www.bebridges,org! thanks for the info in this post.
14 Jul, 2010
I’m using the free version of SlideDeck at Kerri Follett Photography and I’ve been really impressed with how user-friendly the interface is. I tried playing around with a few different sliders that used shortcodes before I tried out SlideDeck, and it definitely makes life easier with it’s well designed user-interface. The Pro options look great so I’d like to be in the running for a licence too, to upgrade :)
15 Jul, 2010
Nice list. I’ve been working on a list of about 27 different sliders that I’ve been evaluating. I’ve rated most of them and taken some notes, but no time to write a review at this time (if anyone is interested in the list let me know).
The key factor for me is the option to pull automatically from various sources like featured posts, or to select an image. Slidedeck nailed this one on the head!
For my money Slidedeck looks like the top of the heap. Featured Content Gallery (which I use now) and Dynamic Content Gallery are also very good, but don’t offer the optios of Slidedeck.
I just installed the free version of Slidedeck, and intend to put Slidedeck on several sites (although Slidedeck doesn’t currently offer an Unlimited version of the WordPress plugin).
But I’d still be interested in a free copy of the Pro version until then, or better yet a discount on the Unlimited WordPress :)
~Jeff
21 Jul, 2010
Hello, I would like to use the slide deck for wordpress plugin at my blog. i.e. http://hiteshjoshi.com
Thanks
24 Jul, 2010
Well, go on then.
I truly don’t see the point of content sliders. “Look at all these topics that you can also see in all the other places where recent posts are listed! Yay!”
Pointless reason to include jQuery, if you ask me. Use the space for something more creative. Like actual content.
23 Jul, 2010
Thanks for the wonderful guide to WP slider plugins! Just what I need to put the finishing touch on the school website I’m building!
As for SlideDeck Pro, it would certainly be a welcome addition – I can only imagine how much more room for creativity it would lend me!
23 Jul, 2010
I forgot the URL! Oops! The site I’m building for my school’s student council is currently hosted on my own website, at http://www.pawarpower.com/ehmsstudentcouncil.
However, I hope to have it running on the school’s server in the near future!
12 Aug, 2010
These are so nice, I really enjoy using them on my blog, thank you! ^_^
16 Aug, 2010
hi
send me plugins for e-shop word press
thank u
29 Aug, 2010
Front Slider WordPress Plugin its just what i was looking for. Thanks!!