Having a WordPress slider or simply a jQuery Slider worked into a blog or website front page, category page etc. not only looks good it also can have a massive positive effect on conversion rates i.e. getting visitors to sign up, buy products etc. This is also true for jQuery Carousel scipts. In most professional themes for building WordPress websites sliders are included but what if you have an existing WordPress website and want the benefits from a slider right now? It is actually quite simple because a bunch of skilled programmers have create plug and play solution and provide this in the form of a a WordPress Slider Plugin. They are easy to install, configure and integrate into most WordPress sites. Many of them also support multiple slider models and can be used to run multiple sliders in various spots on the same site.
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1. LAYERSLIDER (MUST SEE EFFECT)
This is the WordPress plugin of LayerSlider! You can create as many layers and sublayers as you want. You can use unlimited images with links. The script is very user-friendly, you can add global settings or local (per slide) settings to each layer or sublayer. You can change delay times, easing types, durations and much more.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
2. TOUCH CAROUSEL
TouchCarousel is a posts content slider WordPress plugin with touch navigation for mobile devices. The Touch feature also works when you use a mouse…pretty cool actually. You can slide custom post types, with custom taxonomies (categories, tags, e.t.c.) and create layout templates using simple templating system
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
3. UBILLBOARD WORDPRESS SLIDER
uBillboard is a Premium Slider for WordPress. It is a jQuery based slider with a multitude of transitions and options for you to be able to customize it to your needs while not overwhelming you with options you never wanted or needed. Version 3 is a revolutionary release with most of the codebase rewritten from scratch. This has enabled us to integrate many features that you have been requesting during the first year. Make sure you see this WordPress Slider demo in action!
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
4. ROYAL SLIDER – 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.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
5. 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! Create an unlimited number of sliders with customized settings for each one, and place them anywhere on your WordPress website with ease. You must check out this WordPress slider demos
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
6. ESTRO – JQUERY WORDPRESS SLIDER
“Estro” meaning “creativity”, “talent” or “inspiration”, in Italian, is a fitting moniker for this beautiful slider. For the design of this slider we wanted to create a price of work which could form the centerpiece of your next web project. A starting point, who?s design and execution would inspire you and supercharge your own work. See the WordPress slider demo in action.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
7. DDSLIDER for WORDPRESS
Manage your slides the way you want, don’t depend on pages and posts. Upload Images via AJAX direct from the slide manager page. Over 11 different transitions
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
8. KEN BURNS WORDPRESS SLIDESHOW
With cool features and effects this WordPress slider can become the perfect way to showcase your products.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
9. WORDPRESS SLIDER GALLERY SHORTCODE
This plugin creates a new shortcode for WordPress. With this new shortcode, you can create a slider gallery in seconds just by typing [slider] while you’re writing your post or page. The slider will display the images that you have uploaded to the current post or page. If you need more options, this simple shortcode features multiple attributes that you can set
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
10. SMOOTH SLIDER
11. WORDPRESS LI JQUERY SLIDER
liJQuery Image Slider plugin for WordPress is carefully crafted slider/banner image rotator, full of features, easy to install and customize. It comes with intuitive – user friendly WordPress admin interface.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
12. SUGAR SLIDER – WORDPRESS SLIDER
Sugar Slider makes it as easy as it could possibly be to create gorgeous sliders for your WordPress powered site. Forget nasty custom fields and image URLs. You can even forget about manually resizing every image before you upload it. With a huge list of features, Sugar Slider is on of the most advanced and powerful WordPress slider manager.
MORE INFO / DEMO– by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
13. FLIP BOOK WORDPRESS SLIDER
Flip Book WordPress Pluginis based is on XML Flip Book / AS3 one of the three top selling items of all times on ActiveDen . It has been built from scratch. Almost everything you see on the page is easily customizable through the WordPress administration panel – easy installation, no coding skills required.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
14. FEATURED POSTS WORDPRESS SLIDER
Show off your content the real way – in a slider! This WordPress slider includes 6 predefined layouts and allows you to customize layouts with 18 variables. Intuitive admin GUI with inline help. Try the preview now.
MORE INFO / DEMO– by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
15. ROYALSLIDER
RoyalSlider for WordPress is a cross-device jQuery content slider with touch-based navigation and fluid 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.
MORE INFO / DEMO– by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
16. WORDPRESS ANYTHING SLIDER / BANNER MANAGER
The WordPress AnythingSlider plugin is a premium WordPress Slider/Banner Manager that brings the magic of Chris Coyier’s AnythingSlider to WordPress in an easy to use format.
This plugin provides an easy to use management system, making managing slides comfortable for WordPress users of any level.
MORE INFO / DEMO– by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
17. Easing Slider
You can create unlimited slideshows each with their own unique settings
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Matthew Ruddy (free plugin)
18. CCSLIDER WP
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 10 stunning 3d transitions available, and also 10 stylish 2d transitions.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
19. WP Slideshow Gallery
With the WordPress slideshow gallery plugin you can embed a slideshow gallery into any WordPress post/page with the use of the “sideshow” shortcode. You can hardcode a slideshow gallery into any of the PHP files of your WordPress theme using just a few lines of code. This WordPress Slider plugin have thumbs below the image being presented, text overlay and looks pretty cool – and then it is completely free. 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by tribulant.net (free plugin)
20. SLIDER PRO – WORDPRESS SLIDER PLUGIN
Slider PRO is one of the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress on the market (some buyers have been saying that it’s actually the best). The slider offers you 100+ customizable properties, 100+ possible transition effects, 10+ skins and much more. Also, the slider’s administration area is very powerful and uses the default WordPress design, which WordPress users are already familiar with. This slider plugin is carefully coded, using WordPress development best practices, to avoid conflicts with other themes and plugins that are well coded. Please take a look at the list of features at the feature page.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
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All usefull plugins for slider but my preference is for DDSlider.
Thanks for the feature! Awesome sliders!
Great list, really nice sliders!
Thanks Theo! Slider are so useful for business sites!
Awh you’re the greatest!
This is very good list of sliders – I recommend adding Mattew Ruddy’s ” easing slider ” to this list. Great post – thanks for sharing !
Thanks Ricky!!
Great list – haven’t come across a few of those!
I regularly use Nivoslider for Wordpress, and would definitely recommend it!
Highly customisable and really easy to integrate.
One more awesome slider
http://www.vibethemes.com/vslider-wordpress-image-slider-plugin/
All are excellent plugins, specially 3. SLIDER PRO – WORDPRESS SLIDER PLUGIN. I really like it and use it.
hope you will continue your posting.
Thank you so much
This is very good list of sliders – I recommend adding Mattew Ruddy’s ” easing slider ” to this list. Great post – thanks for sharing ! think’s
Hi, I just wondered if you knew which sliders are compatible with translation plugins such as qtranslate? Sliders can become a nightmare for dual language sites and it would be great if translation compatibility was included as a listed feature before purchase. Thanks, great list.
nice slide shows…….thanks for share
DD Slider is a cool one. Sad to say, Nivo Slider in not included in this list.
Really awesome !!
Really awesome dud .. thanks to you !!
You forgot to mention NextGEN Gallery, which is an awesome plugin.
Thank you Dustin, this is a very attractive collection. I really like the image you include. I have looked several times for really good sliders, but was never really happy. Perhaps the premium plugins are the way to do? Best wishes for your law studies.
Great list! Thanks for the share. Are the free plug-ins for the effort or should one just spend the money and get a premium plug-in? Any experience?
I would say it depends on your needs. If you can find a free that solved your problem and you can accept that it may not be maintained in the future it is worth it. However many premium plugins sell for $5-10 and could contain more features and support/upgrade that follow WordPress major releases. I like codecanyon because it is possible to read the comments from other users.
Finally I solved my solider problem. Thanks for the content.
WOW, truly great selection of sliders, excellent job researching this too as most of these are not on the wp plugin’s market.
This is very good list of sliders – I recommend adding Mattew Ruddy’s ” easing slider ” to this list. Great post – thanks for sharing !
Thanks – yes it looks cool. Will add it ASAP
Hey I need a great slider and list help me a lot
Thank You!
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