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Best WordPress sliders, that I've found on the web

29 points by christinaC56 ↗ HN
Hi HN,

This week, for my WordPress project I was looking for the best content slider plugin solution. There're a lot of lists on the web, but none of them is really useful.

So I thought that this mini-topic might be useful to someone, here is my independent list of (mostly) commercial WordPress sliders that I bought for testing:

1. Estro for WordPress - http://pixelentity.com/estro-jquery-ken-burns-slider-wordpress-plugin/

    + Has great Ken Burns effect

    + Fast on mobile, because of CSS3 transitions and canvas drawing, but works slow in old browsers

    + Thumbnails option

    - Can't display content from WordPress posts

    - Useful only when you need Ken Burns effect
2. SlideDeck for WordPress - http://www.slidedeck.com/wordpress/

    + Can show content from WordPress post and RSS feeds

    + Can display slider inside slider

    + Has a free version

    + Thumbnails option

    + Great support, I had small issue and guys fixed my issue in a 3 hours.

    - Too overloaded with features, works sluggish on my phone
    - Works sluggish on mobile
3. TouchCarousel for WordPress http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/touchcarousel-wp/

    + Very cool touch swiping navigation and fast CSS3
transitions, works fast even on my old BlackBerry phone

    + Templating system to create custom layout in admin

    + Can display multiple images per view, which allows to create carousel and mail slider for site with same script

    + Slides any post type and taxonomies from it

    - Has no option to create slides with manually (only from WordPress posts)

    - Has no free version
4. Smooth Slider for WordPress http://www.clickonf5.org/smooth-slider/

    + The only one free slider, that works relatively fine and can display posts.

    - Doesn't work on Android, works sluggish on iOS
5. RoyalSlider for WordPress http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/royal-slider-wp/

    + Touch navigation, CSS3 transitions, responsive layout

    + Option to add animated captions with built-in wysiwig editor

    + Can be displayed as gallery with thumbnails, or as simple slider

    - As Estro, doesn't have an option to slide content from WordPress

    - Has no free version

    - Scales only images and slider wrapper, text content inside doesn't scale
Please share your thoughts too.

8 comments

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kaily8503
Thank you. So what's your favourite?
mikecolton1
It depends what you need to slide, but I like TouchCarousel for WordPress most of all.
waterloo
Thanks for sharing. Here's another one I've had success with: MenuCool Image Slider: http://www.menucool.com/slider/image-slider

+ Only 10kb of pure JavaScript goodie + Thumbnails option + Fully customizable + Cross-browser compatible (even ie6..) + Really helpful customer support, helped me out through the entire process.

teddmacklow
Looks old ;(, and this is WordPress sliders list.