With a great looking and easy to manage WordPress slideshow plugin you can showcase photos, illustrations, products etc. in a way that visitors gonna love. WordPress slideshow plugins typically offer a set of administration pages making it simple to upload and organize the image files to be part of the online slideshow.
On the page that visitors see there are various solutions to how slideshows look and work so, it is a good idea to check as many live demos as possible. Most plugins today are based on jQuery sliders and some even offer multiple transitions, navigation options and layout styles allowing you to test over time what works best on your site. Recently the more advanced slideshow solutions have introduced multiple layers, parallax effects, and unique caption effects (e.g. Ken Burns effects) ,and these in combination really makes your slideshows surface and stand out!
Check out the cool WordPress slider plugins we collected for you below. Let us know what your favorite is and if we missed it!
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Slideshow Gallery
Feature content in a JavaScript powered slideshow gallery showcase on your WordPress website. With this plugin you can easily display multiple galleries throughout your WordPress website displaying your custom added slides, slide galleries or showing slides from WordPress posts.
MORE INFO – by contrid (free plugin)
KenBurner WordPress Slideshow Plugin
This WordPress slideshow plugin offers the combination of Ken Burns Effect, state-of-the-art Slider and Text Animations. You can customize your slideshows with the drag&drop backend to fit your needs. It is possible to give each slider some captions to deliver the message effectively.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
Slider Revolution Responsive slider Plugin
Create a responsive (mobile friendly) or full width slider with awesome animation effects. Customize this slider with our convenient drag&drop back-end to your very needs. This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
vSlider Multi Image Slideshow Plugin for WordPress
vSlider is a 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.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by vibethemes (free plugin)
LAYERSLIDER WordPress Slideshow Plugin
With LayerSlider you can create awesome slideshow effects because you can set up as many layers and sublayers as you want. The way elements can be anymated and slide in and out individually creates a stunning effect. You should see the demo to experience this.
You can also use unlimited images with links in the slideshows. The script is user-friendly, you can add global settings or local (per slide) settings to each layer or sublayer. Finally it is possible to change delay times, easing types, durations and much more.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
WordPress UniSlider
The WP UniSlider plugin adds an elegant and sleek slider feature to your pages, You can use it as an images slideshow, or put any html content to slide.
There are many features and options included, easy to customize and implement.
MORE INFO / DEMO– by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
Paradigm Slider WordPress Plugin
This is a really great looking slideshow plugin for WordPress with great options for adding nice captions to the slides. Touch 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.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
3D Content Slideshow for WordPress
F3D WordPress Slider is based on jQuery Featured 3D Slider plugin that converts static HTML content into a 3D stage with smoothly moving objects. The effect is simply amazing and I have not seen it in other WordPress slideshow plugins so far. Check the demo to experience the cool 3D effect.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
ROYAL SLIDER – Touch Content Slideshow for WordPress
RoyalSlider for WordPress is a cross-device jQuery content slideshow plugin 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)
NextGEN WordPress Slideshow and Gallery Plugin
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with dozens of options and features. It also offers simple Integration of the great Monoslideshow.
It features AJAX based thumbnail generator, JavaScript Effects on images, Fully integrated slideshow as jQuery or Flash solution, Tag support for images, support for XML Sitemaps and many other useful functions.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by NextGEN Gallery (free plugin)
EASING SLIDER
You can create unlimited slideshows each with their own unique settings. It is possible to have infinite images in each slideshow, pull videos from Youtube and vimeo, 12 Elegant transitions etc.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Matthew Ruddy (free plugin)
ESTRO – jQuery WordPress Slideshow
“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.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
Content Slide
Content Slide is used to create fully customizable jquery Fading image slideshow anywhere within your WordPress site. Custom options include slideshow size, color, style and more. Created using Jquery Coin Slider and the fade effect is created using jquery inner Fade effect.
WordPress Media Slideshow With Ken Burns Effect
WordPress Media Gallery and Slideshow is a cool plugin for your WordPress site to showcase images. 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! This is the only gallery you will ever need!
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
DDSLIDER for WordPress Slideshows
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
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
SMOOTH SLIDER
Smooth Slider is a free WordPress Plugin for creating a dynamic slideshow for featured posts on a website or blog. The slideshow created by Smooth Slider are JavaScript and Text based, that’s why bloggers and site owners will get full benefit of Search Engine Optimization as the texts are readable by Search Engine.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Tejaswini Deshpande (free plugin)
WordPress 360º Image Slider
The WP 360 º Image Slider is a highly configurable plugin that adds slider functionality to your posts or pages. The mouse over columns effect is cool and not something I have seen before.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)
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Juicebox.
Thanks for the informations.
THANK YOU for this list. I’ve been struggling with slideshows and am so grateful for this guidance. Could you offer a bit more? Before I migrated to self-hosted, I used the built-in slideshow with WP.com and it wasn’t friendly to my needs. It imported the static pics in the post plus you couldn’t have more than one slideshow to a post bc it would use the same pics in both. Grr. On WP.org I can use a plugin but that becomes an issue when I use Mailchimp for delivery. Ideally I’d use the RSS feed email template within MC that sends the whole post so folks don’t have to click over to the site from just a summary, but it doesn’t pull slideshow plugins. 1. Do you know of any work arounds for MC? (I already went to their help desk) 2. Or is there a standard slideshow within WP.org that works better than within WP.com so I can use MC to its full capacity? Thank you!
after reading this more carefully, these are actually sliders more than slideshows. i’m looking for slideshows that work within a post, not ones that are for design of a page or a site. can you recommend actual slideshows? thanks!
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Thank you
Thank you for listing our WordPress Slideshow Gallery plugin, greatly appreciated! And the other ones listed are excellent plugins as well.
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great list. thanks for the tips!
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