Image/Content Sliders are meant to improve the interactivity and accessibility of a website, being used in portfolio pages, news websites, blogs to feature posts, small presentations etc. Not only they make your site user-friendly but they can also feature content in a small space. Years ago, Flash used to be the most popular choice to make Image Slideshows because of its animation capability. Things changed and JavaScript Sliders have taken over the territory helping you to feature the content in an eye-candy way without worrying the visitor does not have Flash enabled, especially the mobile users.
In this post, I’ve compiled a list of 10 Premium Image/Content Sliders that are one of the most popular and best rated sliders on Codecanyon:
1) RoyalSlider – Touch Content Slider for WordPress
RoyalSlider for WordPress is a cross-device jQuery content slider with touch-based navigation and responsive layout. Having a user-friendly admin area where you can manage slides, change slider settings, customize interface and add blocks-captions using custom WYSIWIG editor, RoyalSlider is one of the most professional content sliders I’ve used.
Features include:
- Touch navigation for mobile
- Animated captions
- Fluid layout
- Smart lazy-loading
- Simple shortcode embed
- WYSIWIG blocks editor
- Support and free updated
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2) Slider PRO – WordPress Premium Slider Plugin
Slider PRO is probably the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress out there (some buyers have been stating that it’s actually the best).
The slider is fully responsive and mobile-ready. It provides 150+ options, 100+ possible transition effects, from simple ‘fade’, ‘slide’ or ‘swipe’ effects to more advanced ‘slice’ effects, 15+ skins and even 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 meticulously coded, using WordPress development best practices.
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3) uBillboard – Premium Slider for WordPress
uBillboard is a Premium Slider for WordPress. It’s a jQuery based slider having a multitude of transitions and options for you to be able to customize it to your requirements without overwhelming you with options you never needed. Version 3 was an innovative release with most of the codebase rewritten from scratch. This has enabled the developers to integrate many features that were requested during the first year of development. In version 3.5, they’ve added mobile support with touch controls, responsive design, retina graphics and performance improvements.
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4) DDSliderWP – 11 Transitions – Slide Manager Panel
DDSliderWP is a easy-to-go slider with 11 different unique transitions that support Inline Content. You can also have multiple sliders in the same page. It offers a custom admin panel, with total management of slides.
Features include:
- Slide manager – Manage your slides the way you want, don’t depend on pages and posts.
- Upload Images via AJAX direct from the slide manager page
- Extremely user interactive panel – Tooltips on all fields and jQuery driven panels
- Over 11 different transitions
- Inline content support
- TimThumb integration
- ColorPicker included
- Access documentation directly from admin panel
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5) Slider gallery shortcode
This plugin creates a new shortcode for WordPress useful to generate a slider gallery in seconds just by typing [slider] while you’re writing your post or page. The slider will displays images that you have uploaded to the current post or page.
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6) Sugar Slider – Premium WordPress Slider Manager
Sugar Slider eases the creation of gorgeous sliders for your WordPress powered site. Forget nasty custom fields, image URLs and manually resizing every image before you upload it.
With a big list of features, Sugar Slider is among the most advanced and powerful slider manager for WordPress.
Create a limitless number of sliders with customized settings for every one, and put them anywhere on your WordPress website with ease.
Sugar Slider is so filled with features you won’t ever need another slider manager.
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7) Premium Featured Posts Slider
You can see a demo of this slider if you go to the home page of Bit Repository and check the “Featured Posts”.
Features include:
- Feature any post, page or custom post type
- Includes 6 predefined layouts
- Customize layouts with 18 variables
- Global and per-post options
- Intuitive admin GUI with inline help
- Thumbnails, arrows and pagination slide controls
- Uses your theme’s CSS styles
- Extensive user friendly documentation
- No template editing needed if you use
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8) LayerSlider WP – The WordPress Parallax Slider
This 5 stars WordPress Parallax Slider allows you to create as many layers and sublayers as you want. You can use images or any other HTML elements, including Flash movies as layers. 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 with the WYSIWYG editor!
Features include:
- Use with ANY content you want (images, HTML elements, Flash movies, YouTube videos, etc.)
(best view with semi-transparent PNG images or CSS3 styled HTML elements) - Sliding from / to 4 directions or fading in / out (sublayers only)
- Multiple animations and easing
- Responsive layout
- Customizable UI
- Touch control for mobile devices (iOS tested)
- WYSIWYG editor (Real-time dragging, reordering and styling layers and sublayers)
- SEO Friendly
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9) Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin
Slider Revolution is Royalty customizable, Mobile Optimized WP jQuery Slider Plugin featuring 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.
- Sliding, Fading, Slots, Box (Unlimited) Transitions
- Responsive & Mobile Optimized
- Customizable Navigation Arrows, Bullets, Thumbs
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10) Slider Evolution for WordPress
Slider Evolution for WordPress is a JQuery plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript sliders with very nice transition (fade, bars, square, slide, explode, swipe, slip) 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.
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