Top 14 Professional Wordpress Thumbnail Slider Ideas

1. Lightspot Slider

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Lightspot Slider is a wordpress thumbnail slider that allows you easy and fast to create and control image slider for your page header. Thumbnail description box with option for individual background color (optional).A new menu should now appear in your Admin Menu called “Lightspot Slider”. By default the slider displays images from all categories. From your Admin Panel go to Lightspot Slider -> Categories -> Add Category. From your Admin Panel go to Lightspot Slider-> Slides. You may also like Lightspot Slider – Standalone Version

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2. WOW Slider

WOW Slider

WOW Slider is a fantastic responsive image slider with

killer animations and tons of professionally made templates. NO Coding - WOW Slider is packed with a drag-n-drop wizard to create beautiful slideshows in a matter of seconds without coding and image editing. Wordpress plugin and Joomla module are available.

Also, you can share your slider on Facebook.

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3. 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.Fully customizable navigation controls: Use custom sized dots, thumbnail, custom HTML message, custom colors for background, hover and active slide, custom positioning, custom radious, custom border.Auto Generate WordPress Shortcode: so you can put sliders on Posts, Pages, Custom Post types, Sidebar,.Supports WordPress Shortcodes as slide contents.Auto Generate WordPress Shortcodes: Each slider has its own settings and a shortcode to be used everywhere.Export and Import Roundabout via WordPress admin.

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4. Cute Slider WP - 3D & 2D HTML5 WordPress Slider

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Cute Slider WP Features List

5 ready to use skins with skin editor & variable controls (thumbnail list, hover thumbnails, bullets)

Transition gallery included a tool that provides the fastest way to select and use them in your slider

Fully customizable it’s possible to customize or redesign all parts of slider

Option to preview thumbnail over navigation

Option to enable / disable pause on hover slider

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5. Frontend Builder - Wordpress Content Assembler

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Frontend Builder – Wordpress Content Assembler

Wordpress Frontent Builder / Assembler

Every element in our WordPress Frontend Builder can be cloned and then dragged to a different position.Wordpress Shortcodes

Frontend builder uses wordpress shortcodes as display functions.Core elements of Frontend Builder for Wordpress

- Slider

An example of Fronted Builder for Wordpress with & without controls

WordPress Front-end Builder elements explained

The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”.Slider

Insert a slider into your web page. It can be used to display a classic image slider or it can display a Text/HTML versions.Title: SliderUsage: Inserts a image or text sliderFrontend settings: Set the number of elements/slider that you want in your slider, add a HTML image slider with text or image, align the text, choose vertical or horizontal mode, set how many sliders are displayed preview, set the autoplay option, set the bottom marginBackend settings: Set font options for slider text: font family, font style, font size, line height

The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”. The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”. The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”.Title: TestimonialsUsage: Display testimonial or similar contentFrontend settings: Name, profession, quote, URL (if you want to link the testimonial), insert thumbnail (80×80px), choose between 3 styles: clean, squared, rounded, bottom margin, name color, quote text color, main color, background color. The options for editing your heading styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”. The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”. The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”. The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”. The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”. A simple field for formating your text area that can also be used to place any HTML content that you have (slider, custom plugin, . Display a wordpress sidebarTitle: Icon menuUsage: Display a wordpress sidebarFrontend settings: Select a wordpress content slider that you want to display, set bottom marginBackend settings: None

The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”. Displays a nav menu from WordPress. The options for editing text styles can be found in the backend of the WordPress Frontend Builder “Wordpress menu > Frontend builder > Typography options”.Title: Nav menuUsage: Displays a WP nav menuFrontend settings: Choose a wordpress nav menu, choose the type of the menu, bottom margin, set colors for: text, hover, hover text, background, sub-menu background, sub-menu textBackend settings: Set font options for main text, sub-menu text: font family, font style, font size, line height

- Content is now saved in native wordpress DB tables

- Included wordpress editor (TinyMCE)

- Included link and link type options for slider

- Included wordpress admin bar buttons:

- Fixed vertical option on revolution slider shortcode

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6. FX News | Wordpress Animated Shortcodes

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Slider: Info displayer as slideshow

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7. Recent Posts Revolution

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Recent Post Revolution offers a new amazing way to display a selection of your posts, custom posts or pages in your WordPress blog.Slider Animation’s Speed -> This is the speed of the animation in ms.

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8. Flare - Responsive Lightbox WordPress Plugin

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The pixelentity team is once again proud to bring you our new product: Flare – a responsive, touch enabled, mobile optimized lightbox WordPress plugin, which can be used to display single images/videos or entire galleries with caption support. WordPress Features

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9. WebCinema

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WebCinema is an easy to wordpress gallery theme Video Plugin with jQuery image slider responsive design that gives you the possibility to display your videos or video playlists on your website.Draggable Vertical or wordpress image slider playlist.Optionally you can specify the Title and wordpress thumbnail link to post plugin for the Video or you can leave them blank to be automatically filled.

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10. ZoomFolio - WordPress Portfolio Plugin

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WordPress 3.WordPress Portfolio Intro

Uses the WordPress’s Custom Post Types for you to create Portfolio items in the WordPress intuitive way.tweaked big image to use the native wordpress media uploader

WordPress Portfolio Showcase

WordPress Portfolio FAQ

Nice plugin – I’m wondering is it possible to link the thumbnail to an existing gallery using a link. Rather than clicking on the thumbnail to get a bigger image ?

Using the accordion view, once you click the picture and the secondary content populates, where the images slider appears….I assumed it would have functionality with existing wordpress categories.ZoomFolio WordPress plugin – get creative!

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11. Inject - Control WordPress Dynamic Content

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Inject is a very special WordPress plugin. It was developed to give WordPress users more control over their contents in an elegant way.In WordPress, if you want to show things in an original way, you can write custom page template, use great user friendly plugins or widgets.It shows that each websites are different, each customers are different and that WordPress is great, but can’t do every thing we want by default.Inject relays on Twig, an easy to use template engine (that dispense to work with PHP) and common WordPress functions which allow to query your WordPress content.display a list of posts as a slider, as a simple list of title, excerpt and thumbnail, as a gallery…

display a gallery, slider of images linked to a post

Reuse the content already present in your WordPress site without rewriting complex php template.Add flexibility to your WordPress sites.Create templates and add functionalities directly from the WordPress admin.), to be used anywhere on WordPress: posts, pages…

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12. Allground - Fullscreen Backgrounds for WordPress

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Allground is a wordpress slider plugin that allows you to create responsive fullscreen backgrounds using:

Mobile devices are served an uploaded image or use YouTube’s default thumbnail for better performance.AllSlider – Responsive Slider Carousel for WordPress

Alldion – Responsive Accordion for WordPress

Rotating Tabs Widget for WordPress

Product Slider Carousel for WooCommerce

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13. Infinite Slider - Innovative Slider Plugin for WP

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Read about the infinite slider image jQuery in the Website Magazine, WP Themes News!

2 – Built up from special small pictures thumbnail grid

3 – Slider built from random blocks of different sized thumbnails to achieve special outlooks that is always different

6 – Infinite horizontal sliding (the Infinite Slider rebuilds itself infinitely behind the scenes)

9 – Slide by grabbing and dragging the whole slider

10 – On mobile devices swipe the slider

12 – Full wordpress integration to display the free image slider your existing or newly added featured images and their post data (title, description)

13 – Central picture turns into a link for that particular wordpress post where it is the featured image url wordpress

17 – Fully responsive, the Infinite Slider fills out the screen up to retina view width while also adjusts to below 300px small mobile screens

19 – Many adjustable options to customize your version of the Infinite Slider (filter based on drop CSS menu type, categories, tags and many many more features)

* Added options to limit to/by WordPress categories and/or tags

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14. EZ Carousel - Modern Wordpress Carousel Slider

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EZ Carousel is a free simple wordpress themes plugin that helps you build simple yet shiny Photos/Posts carousel. We understand that time is money, that is why we created EZ Carousel to save your time and effort in developing and customizing photos/post slider. + Choose any custom thumbnail sizes

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15. Lightspot Slider - Standalone

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Lightspot Slider is a standalone plugin that allows you easy and fast to create and control image slider for your page header. Thumbnail description box with option for individual background color (optional).You may also like Lightspot Slider for Wordpress

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