thehappycactus

The Cactus Info Slider is a simple plugin whose purpose is to display sequential information. As opposed to the many sliders that exist whose main purpose is to showcase photos, Info Slider’s main purpose is to showcase information. Its best use is for anyone looking to display a step-by-step process with both text and a visual aid.
Info Slider uses 2 simple shortcodes and 3 simple attributes to create the slides:
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<li>[cactus-slider] – Open and close your entire set of slides with this shortcode.</li>
<li>[slider-item] – Open and close a single slide with this shortcode. All informational text you want displayed should be between this open/close shortcode.
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<li>[slider-item nbr=”1″] – The “nbr” attribute gives the slide a numerical value for easier tracking.</li>
<li>[slider-item title=”My Slide”] – The “title” attribute gives the slide a title, which will be represented as an h2 header.</li>
<li>[slider-item img=”http://server.com/myImage.jpg”] – the “img” attribute is a URL to the image you want to be associated with the slide.</li>
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Cactus Info Slider

A very simple slider devoted to displaying sequential information.  Explanatory text on left, image on right.

Ron Rennick

marksabbath

Nathan Rice

StudioPress

This plugin allows you to create a simple responsive slider that displays the featured image, along with the title and excerpt from each post.
It includes options for the maximum dimensions of your slideshow, allows you to choose to display posts or pages, what category to pull from, and even the specific post IDs of the posts you want to display. It includes next/previous arrows and a pager along with the option to turn both on or off. Finally, you can place the slider into a widget area.
The slideshow is also responsive and will automatically adjust for the screen it is being displayed on.
Note: This plugin only supports Genesis child themes.
<h3>Child Theme Integration</h3>
To adjust the slider defaults for a child theme use a filter similiar to the following:
<pre><code>add_filter( 'genesis_responsive_slider_settings_defaults', 'my_child_theme_responsive_slider_defaults' );

function my_child_theme_responsive_slider_defaults( $defaults ) {
 $defaults = array(
 'post_type' => 'post',
 'posts_term' => '',
 'exclude_terms' => '',
 'include_exclude' => '',
 'post_id' => '',
 'posts_num' => 5,
 'posts_offset' => 0,
 'orderby' => 'date',
 'slideshow_timer' => 4000,
 'slideshow_delay' => 800,
 'slideshow_arrows' => 1,
 'slideshow_pager' => 1,
 'slideshow_loop' => 1,
 'slideshow_height' => 400,
 'slideshow_width' => 920,
 'slideshow_effect' => 'slide',
 'slideshow_excerpt_content' => 'excerpts',
 'slideshow_excerpt_content_limit' => 150,
 'slideshow_more_text' => '[Continue Reading]',
 'slideshow_excerpt_show' => 1,
 'slideshow_excerpt_width' => 50,
 'location_vertical' => 'bottom',
 'location_horizontal' => 'right',
 'slideshow_hide_mobile' => 1
 );
 return $defaults;
}
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Genesis Responsive Slider

This plugin allows you to create a simple responsive slider that displays the featured image, along with the title and excerpt from each post.

Cactus Info Slider vs Genesis Responsive Slider