18 Magical Featured Content Slider Roundup

1. 3D Content Slider WordPress Plugin

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F3D Wordpress Slider is based on wordpress featured slider 3D Slider plugin that converts static HTML content into a 3D stage with smoothly moving objects. Slides are just wrappers of whatever HTML content you can imagine – images, captions, links, buttons, icons. Featured 3D is highly configurable. Please, check the live preview of this slider.Slides are HTML content (can be anything – links, texts, images, video embeds, etc.Easy to place a slider in the page header

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2. CSS Slider

CSS Slider

non jQuery Slider, pure CSS image slider.

Responsive Slider with Pure CSS. Awesome animations and templates. Visual Maker - No scripting!

No more jQuery, No more JavaScript, No more image icons, Hardware-accelerated CSS animations, Icon font for controls, All browsers, Fully responsive, Mobile friendly

Retina-ready, Awesome effects and skins, Full width option, No more coding, Super easy drag-n-drop slider maker

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3. Nex - Blazing Fast FullScreen Slider

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“Nex” – Blazing Fast Fullscreen Slider

Nex slider is a blazing fast fullscreen slider optimized for best performances and compatible with all platforms. It allows you to embed images, videos and even google maps in the same slider.That said Nex, doesn’t need any other libraries at all (except jquery) to implement all it’s functionality, you can see the speed of the slider on the demo page. Then all you have to do is init the Nex slider like so:

If you would like to use google maps in the slider you will need to include this script above any other scripts:

Customizable slider look

Different Content types: image, video, map

Big thanks to Joanna Kustra which allowed me to use her awesome images in the slider

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4. jQuery Featured 3D Slider

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Featured 3D Slider is a slider image jQuery plugin that converts static HTML content into a 3D stage with smoothly moving objects. Slides are just wrappers of whatever HTML content you can imagine – images, captions, links, buttons, icons. Featured 3D is highly configurable.Please, check the live preview of this slider and get answer of the question “Is this possible without Flash, but just pure jQuery?”

Slides are HTML content (can be anything – links, texts, images, video embeds, etc.

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5. Premium Featured Posts Slider

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Show off your content the real way – in a slider!

* added {content-short} variable and an option to truncate content to a custom length

* slider now continues to auto-play on mouse-out

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6. ImgSlider

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Ideal for featured posts, banner ads, popular products, etc.Easily add to any existing website or dynamically generated content

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7. AllSlider - WordPress Responsive Slider Carousel

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AllSlider is a responsive, touch enabled, slider carousel plugin for WordPress that allows you to create multiple sliders using a drag & drop interface and show them using a shortcode or a widget.Using the slider

You can also add them in a jQuery slider download description or in general in any custom post type content.Slider features

Each slider features:

And as shown in the screenshots, when editing the slider, you can sort the slides using drag and drop to achieve the order you want.Post slide allows you to select a post to display in the slide and choose whether to show the title or not, show the excerpt, content or nothing, and display a wordpress featured image size in post or not.If you have the Woocommerce plugin installed and active, you can display products in the slider, choosing whether to show the title or not, the price, the add to cart button, the product description or the short description and the image size, where the additional image sizes available for Woocommerce are also shown.The settings page allows you to customize the appearance of the slider to match your site, from choosing colors for title, content or excerpt and thumbnails pagination using Iris slider plugin wordpress the standard color picker bundled with WordPress, to adding your own CSS rules using the custom styling field provided.

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8. Dynamic Grid: WordPress Posts Feed Slider

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They served us well, but it’s time for something new and more powerful… and cooler than a slider. Dynamic Grid: Posts Feed is a next generation slider for your homepage, sidebar, footer, you name it.Featured Images

One of the cool features of this plugin is that it takes the wp featured image slider (or the first image in your post) and fills the cells with it, bringing even more life and color to the grid.Fixed an issue where the featured images weren’t being fetched from the posts.fixed an issue where unstyled content appeared on page load

Fixed an issue where unstyled content was showing during page load.

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9. AA-Accordion Slider - CSS3 Featured Projects

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Custom caption with title, content & link

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10. Slider with independent rows

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Pretty slider, where the rows are scrolled independently.Slider features:

opportunity to create a slider with an unlimited number of rows

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11. RoyalSlider - Touch Content Slider for WordPress

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New RoyalSlider for WordPress is wordpress image slider gallery and jQuery HTML content slider plugin with touch-swipe navigation. Plugin is mobile-friendly and allows creating completely custom slideshows and css3 banner rotators with images, videos or image slider HTML in slides. You can also dynamically populate data from Flickr, 500px, or featured posts wordpress slider free of any post type – like WooCommerce products.Image and/or HTML menu code for each slide.Slider files are included only to posts where slider is used.Animated blocks editor that allows adding reponsive blocks — add blocks-captions to each slide and edit their content inline.Live slider preview in admin. Slider admin page requires Chrome, Firefox, IE9+ due to usage of HTML5 technologies. Slider itself works in IE7+.All slider designs are copyrighted by their authors.

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12. li JQuery Slider/Image Rotator

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We are not providing support and there will not be updates to the slider.li JQuery JavaScript image slider / banner rotator with many cool features.jQuery Slider Banner Image Rotator for HTML

li jQuery Image Slider / Banner Image Rotator is carefully crafted slider/image rotator, full of features, very easy to install and customize. Whenever you need a full featured slider image rotator or you need a simple ad banner, li jQuery Image slider will do the job with ease!

This robust and yet elegant guy, has everything you need to build your next “to-impress” image slider.Easy to Use and Modify – it is extremely easy to use powerful slider/banner image rotator. The slider size has to be defined only on ONE PLACE and to set the options and the images.Multiple Sliders / Banners – you can have many slider/image rotators on single HTML page.PrettyPhoto Support - when a link is included and the link points to YouTube, Vimeo, an image or QuickTime move, li-slider automatically will recognize what is the link type and will display it in a modal window.Repeat Slides / Continues Sliding – with this options you can tell the slider to repeat the slides infinitely, to play all slides once and stop or to repeat all the slides given number of times.Define Transition per Slide – you can tell the slider to play certain slide with specific transition.Pause onMouseOver – if the slider is in play mode and you move the mouse over the slider, this option if “true” pauses the slider.Tooltip Size – defines the tooltip width size in percents of the slider from 0 to 100.Auto Hide – auto hide the buttons after certain amount of time if the mouse is not over the slider.5 Public Methods – so you can control the slider from outside. This means that if you need to change the slider you do not need to tweak the JavaScript code. We’ve optimized slider. We made it versatile, so you know your content will be delivered to all devices and platforms.9 different animated GIF Slider Preloaders – There is nothing better than to aware the visitor that something will show up soon. We pre-loaded li jQuery Slider with total of 104 transitions, so you can open up your imagination and create the most impressive sliders, ads banners and image rotators. Animation speed, number of sectors vertical or horizontal, custom transitions per slide, custom link per slide and many more, allows you to build your banner or slider without limiting your creativeness. li jQuery Slider / Banner Image rotator has native support for skins. The slider architecture is extremely simplified and the layout is entirely CSS driven. You are required to define the slider size on ONE place within the HTML and you are good to go. Have you ever thought about having slider/banner and ads on one page and all they are JavaScript driven? Imagine how cool it is! You can have one JavaScript file and multiple sliders. If you already have one li slider, just add another unordered list and initialize the new slider / banner. Done! You have an additional slider or ad banner. We built li Slider from ground up, thinking from the very beginning about optimization. Usually our competitors do not support more than one slider/banner on one page. And accordingly to our tests li Slider could run efficiently up to 5 banners simultaneously on one page. The number of sliders depends on how many images each slider has, how many transitions are included, but all after li Slider could handle with easily up to 5 complex sliders/ ads per page. li jQuery Slider is especially developed to support Ad Banners (small size banner /slider) and with li jQuery it is extremely easy to create an AD BANNER – in no time! Define your images in the HTML and upload your Ad in less then 5 minutes.Although we can’t promise huge free upgrades, we’d love to hear what you think about li jQuery Image Slider/Rotator and some of your suggestions will be implemented in the future versions. If you have an issue or you feel that you desire to share your excitement about your new slider, we’d love to see a website link with the slider or just to receive a comment. Last but not least, we will greatly appreciate if you rate this slider on your Downloads page.

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13. Recent Posts Revolution

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The gallery generated by wordpress recent posts slider plugin Revolution needs only the first configuration, then will be automatically displayed and updated, all the images displayed in the gallery are the featured images of your posts/custom posts/pages, for this reason you don’t have to manually create the gallery or to upload images, if your are a lazy administrator this is the perfect plugin for you.How to define the content of the gallery

As administrator you can define your custom selection of posts/custom posts/pages in the Content area:

Slider Animation’s Speed -> This is the speed of the animation in ms.Show the gallery minimized -> When activated the gallery is displayed minimized and the gallery content is hidden.

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14. Ether Grid Slider jQuery Plugin

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Ether Grid Slider is an extremally functional jQuery plugin designed for transforming any type of content into practical grids and/or sliders. You can use it with any type of mixed content types such as images, videos, services, testimonials, featured stories or blog feeds to name a few. A good and successful example of such application is our Ether Content Builder plugin for WordPress that takes advantage of all the options Ether Grid Slider offers.Fixed: Responsiveness of vertical slider jQuery

Highly customizable slider navigation

ctrl_always_visible: Slider controls visible at all times or on hover only

ctrl_arrows_pos_shift_x: Custom horizontal offset of slider arrows

ctrl_arrows_pos_shift_y: Custom vertical offset of slider arrows

ctrl_arrows_pos_x: Horizontal position of slider arrows

ctrl_arrows_pos_y: Vertical position of slider arrows

ctrl_pag_pos_shift_x: Custom horizontal offset of slider pag

ctrl_pag_pos_shift_y: Custom vertical offset of slider pag

ctrl_pag_pos_x: Horizontal position of slider pag

ctrl_pag_pos_y: Vertical position of slider pag

hide_grid_cell_overflow: Advanced: Useful when there’s a grid gallery of images with column spacing and images are higher than column content height (practically it means vertical margins seem to be half the size). This option set to false by default allows content (such as tooltips) within the column to overflow outside column borders and is generally less invasive

loop: Behaviour of the slider on the last-to-first and first-to-last element transition

slider: Transform element into a slider (0 will create a grid only)

Main focus of this plugin is to facilitate creation of grids and sliders out of any content and being as little invasive on the code output as possible. Grid and slider functionality do not affect actual content behaviour. You can see a couple of practical implementation examples on the vertical jQuery slider demo page or by browsing the examples available inside the package upon download.Fixed: Responsiveness of slider navigation

10+ premade examples including: classic slider, clients slider, custom text content slider, dynamic slider, external linking, image feed, services slider, testimonials slider and more

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15. TouchCarousel - Posts Content Slider for WordPress

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TouchCarousel is a wordpress content slider WordPress plugin with touch navigation for mobile devices.Display content from post meta custom fields.SEO friendly – content is not hidden. Post featured images are resized using built-in WordPress functions. it’s a great little slider.My featured plugin

Fixed slider deleting issue in some rare cases.

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16. TouchCarousel - jQuery Content Scroller and Slider

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TouchCarousel is mobile-friendly and lightweight jQuery slider control content scroller with touch navigation for mobile and desktop.SEO friendly, content is not hidden.Each item can have any html content(except video) and can be any size. If you’re looking for slider plugin wordpress – use my RoyalSlider plugin, you can put multiple items in one slide in it, so it’ll look like carousel.My featured plugin

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17. Roundabout - WordPress Carousel Slider Plugin

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Roundabout  WordPress Carousel Slider Plugin is ready-to-go straight out of the box carousel slider, it’s highly-customizable with more that 65 main configurations.Image and Content slider: Full Control Over HTML via WYSWYG Editor: Build your custom HTML design in WordPress Native and familiar editor.Auto Generate WordPress Shortcodes: Each slider has its own settings and a shortcode to be used everywhere.

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18. Vertical Sidebar Gallery - jQuery Slider

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Vertical Sidebar Gallery is a image slider jQuery plugin and theme templates that create a stunning vertical image slider with three rotation degrees. You can use it as an image gallery or wordpress thumbnail gallery scroller. Put unlimited amount of content in limited space! You just need to generate the HTML of your content and the gallery will do the rest. optionsSliderHorizontal: {}, // Flow Slider options for the wordpress content horizontal slider

optionsSliderVertical: {}, // Flow Slider options for the vertical sliders

optionsSliderThumbnail: {} // Flow Slider options for the thumbnail sliders

To better understand the Flow Slider’s option you are encouraged to visit its website. For example, to make horizontal slider to change its position without an animation, but instantly, just set optionsSliderHorizontal: {animation: “None”}

Just create an element over the slider with one of the skin classes: . Change the Size of Your Slider

3-in-1 Slider

Three sliders power this template: horizontal panel slider, vertical thumbnail slider, and horizontal image scroller rotator.Place your cursor over the slider to scroll top panel content using mouse scroll wheel. Create a slider with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions. Flow Slider

This template is powered by Flow Slider Free jQuery plugin, which is endlesly customizable and ensures flawless sliding.

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19. Slider PRO - WordPress Premium Slider Plugin

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Slider PRO is one of the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress on the market. The slider is fully responsive and mobile-ready. 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 wordpress is carefully coded, using WordPress development best practices. Please take a look at the list of features below and visit the slider’s dedicated website, sliderpro.Slider Features

Responsive – Slider PRO is fully responsive.Dynamic content/Featured slider – Automatically load data from posts, pages and custom post types, based on any taxonomy.Skins – More than 15 slider skins and 7 scrollbar, few of them also providing color variations

Lightbox inside slider – Built-in Lightbox support, that supports a variaty of content, like images, YouTube/Vimeo videos, HTML pages

Slider inside Lightbox – It’s possible to open the slider inside a lightbox

Slider Admin Features

Optimized to include the slider scripts only on pages where the slider is used

Possibility to preview the slider in the admin area

Easy slide and slider management

The slider is translation ready

Skin Editor which allows you to edit the skin’s CSS from within the slider’s admin area

Custom Widget for easily inserting a slider in the widget’s area

Shortcode generator for easly inserting a slider in a post/page

PHP call to insert the slider in your PHP code

If you have any questions or need assistance installing and using the slider, please feel free to ask; I will gladly help you. Also, if you like this slider, please take a moment to rate it A lot of work was put into this and most customers rate it 5 stars, so if you plan to rate it lower than 5 stars I would really appreciate if you contact me first with your suggestions/complaints; maybe I can explain/resolve those issues Thank you!

added option to disable right-clicks on wordpress slider plugin

added “Operator” option for “Posts Content” slides

added the possibility to open the slider in a lightbox

added video shortcodes, which will make it easier to insert videos into the slider

improved the slider’s admin bar menu

added the ‘Title’ field for the Slider’s custom widget

added character escaping for a few text fields in the Slider’s admin area

added the possibility to navigate through the lightbox content

made a few modifications to the Slider’s admin area

fixed the slider pro wordpress plugin free download rich editor button, which accidentally got broken in v 1.

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