CryoutCreations

<h4>Overview</h4>
Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress.
Create beautiful, responsive slideshows within seconds. Use minimum styling and JavaScript with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions to create a really fluid experience.
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Serious Slider uses the very familiar WordPress dashboard interface for creating slides and sliders so there’s absolutely no learning curve. You just select the media image and press “Create Slider”. After that it’s like adding or editing WordPress posts, using featured images and other meta information like buttons and URLs.
Serious Slider works with all WordPress themes and has been designed to integrate seamlessly with our own <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/author/cryout-creations/" title="Cryout Creations WordPress Themes" rel="ugc">selected themes</a>.
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited sliders with unlimited slides. The only limit is your imagination on how to use them.</li>
<li>Add titles, texts, buttons and links to each slide. All slide texts support HTML tags and even other shortcodes.</li>
<li>Easy to use media button. Effortlessly add slideshows in posts, pages or custom post types via the “Add Slider” media button in the WordPress text editor. Then just select your desired image slider from a dropdown list, no need to remember or copy slider IDs</li>
<li>Auto-generated Shortcodes and PHP integration. Use the auto generated shortcode to include slideshows with themes or other plugins. Copy-paste the auto generated PHP code to integrate with custom code.</li>
<li>Serious Slider Widget. Display slideshows in sidebars via the provided Serious Slider widget</li>
<li>Use multiple sliders in the same page.</li>
<li>Familiar admin user interface. Create sliders and slides with the familiarity of managing posts and categories, without having to learn another user interface</li>
<li>Lightweight and powerful. Only minimum JavaScript and CSS3 are being loaded on your site</li>
<li>Fast slider creation. Create awesome, responsive WordPress slideshows in a matter of seconds</li>
<li>Browser compatibility. The image slider looks and behaves great on various devices and browsers</li>
<li>7+ Appearance Styles. Choose from different appearance styles to make the navigation arrows, bullets, buttons and colors match your site.</li>
<li>7+ Transition Effects. Fade, Slide, Overslide, Underslide, Parallax, Horizontal flip and Vertical Flip.</li>
<li>5+ Caption Text Animations. Choose how caption text appears on the slide: Fade, Slide, Blur and Zoom In/Out.</li>
<li>Highly customizable. Customize image sizes, timings, text size and alignment, text shadow, background color and accent color.</li>
<li>Individual options for each slider. All the customization options and set individually for every slider.</li>
<li>Translation ready. Every single line of text in the slider is translatable both in the front-end as well in the back-end. Compatible with multi-language plugins (WPML, qTranslate, PolyLang).</li>
<li>SEO friendly. Built with search engines in mind, the slider uses correct HTML semantics.</li>
<li>Accessibility ready.</li>
<li>Once click demo content. It’s that easy, you’re one click away from a working image slider to get you started.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Customization Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add individual URLs to target specific pages</li>
<li>Add slide buttons with customizable link, link text and “open in new window” option</li>
<li>Choose how to make text over images more visible: either add text shadow, multiline text background or full caption background</li>
<li>Choose from 7 slider styles, 7 transition effects and 5 caption text animations</li>
<li>Customize your slider’s transition duration and delay</li>
<li>Choose between auto-height and fixed size for your images</li>
<li>Customize your slider’s font size, text alignment, caption size and accent color</li>
</ul>
<h4>Functionality Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Our image slider uses WordPress core functionality only, providing you with the familiar WordPress interface for creating both slides and slides.</li>
<li>Easily transfer existing slides from one slider to another</li>
<li>Schedule slides to automatically become visible at any time in the future.</li>
<li>Quickly restore deleted slides from the Trash</li>
<li>Use WordPress’ text editor to add HTML content and even shortcodes to your slides</li>
<li>Bulk edit slides and slides</li>
</ul>

Serious Slider

Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress. Seriously!

Constantin Boiangiu

CodeFlavors

Featured Articles is a <a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/featured-articles-pro/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=fa_lite" title="Best WordPress slider plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress slider plugin</a> that allows you to create sliders in your blog pages directly from your already written content, be it posts or pages. 
For a quick tutorial see <a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/documentation/featured-articles-pro-3/creating-sliders/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=fa_lite" title="Best WordPress slider plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">How to create a WordPress slider with Featured Articles</a>.
Coming with multiple, configurable WordPress slider themes and the possibility to extend it with new themes and slider scripts, Featured Articles is the best WordPress slider plugin available.
Lite version features:
<ul>
<li>Responsive and mobile ready;</li>
<li>Allows you to create sliders based on Nivo slider by implementing a slider theme compatible with Nivo slider;</li>
<li>Post and page sliders;</li>
<li>Navigation arrows and pagination;</li>
<li>Multiple slider themes;</li>
<li>Third party slider scripts implementation;</li>
<li>Preloading functionality on page load;</li>
<li>Lots of actions and filters for customizing output and functionality;</li>
<li>SEO friendly;</li>
<li>Packed with layout and animation options;</li>
<li>Various slider publishing methods: shortcodes, widgets, automatic placement, PHP code that can be used in templates.</li>
<li>… and more.</li>
</ul>
With the ability to change any slider aspect by making use of slider themes that are delivered with the plugin, almost anything is possible.
Also, it offers the possibility to create additional themes (with some PHP, CSS and JavaScript knowledge) that can have custom written animations by extending the base functionality of the main slider script.
Please note that the video presents PRO features not available in Lite version. 
https://vimeo.com/113921051
Sliders can be published in WordPress by any of these ways (or all at the same time):
<ul>
<li>manual placement directly into your WordPress theme template files (requires editing the template file you want to place a slider in and add a small piece of code);</li>
<li>shortcode placement directly into a post or page content;</li>
<li>widget placement into any widget areas your theme has;</li>
<li>automatic placement in any page just above the page loop.</li>
</ul>
While Lite version of Featured Articles provides all the neccessary tools for creating a beautiful WordPress slider, PRO version comes in addition with:
<ul>
<li>more slider themes, all video enabled and responsive;</li>
<li>video enabled custom slides for YouTube and Vimeo that can embed videos in your WordPress sliders;</li>
<li>custom slides that can be created using the visual editor;</li>
<li>sliders can be created from any post type (including custom post type) registered on your WordPress website;</li>
<li>for posts and custom post types, selection of posts by taxonomies;</li>
<li>mixing of posts, custom posts, pages and custom slides into the same slider;</li>
<li>visual color scheme editor that allows you to blend-in slideshows into your overall blog design without having to write a single line of CSS;</li>
<li>priority support and debugging for 3’rd party plugins and themes conflicts;</li>
<li>cached sliders for faster page loading time;</li>
<li>possibility to attach videos to any slide (post, custom post, page or custom slide);</li>
<li>possibility to import video title, description and image as slide title, content and slide image or featured image;</li>
<li>dynamic slider areas management that allow slider publishing in your WordPress website by simple drag and drop;</li>
<li>sliders created from WordPress Gallery images;</li>
<li>and more…</li>
</ul>
Important links:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/documents/featured-articles-pro-3/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=fa_lite" title="Featured Articles for WordPress documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> on plugin usage and slider theme structure;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/codeflavors-forums/forum/featured-articles-3-0/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=fa_lite" title="CodeFlavors Community Forums" rel="nofollow ugc">Forums</a> (while we try to keep up with the forums here, please post any requests on our forums for a faster response);</li>
<li><a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/featured-articles-pro/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=fa_lite" title="Best WordPress slider plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress slider plugin homepage</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/news/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=fa_lite" title="CodeFlavors news on Featured Articles for WordPress plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">CodeFlavors News</a> – <a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=fa_lite" title="CodeFlavors - devoted to WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">CodeFlavors</a> is our new home.</li>
</ul>
These are just a few of the things this plugin can do so just go on and try it for yourself!
The plugin can be used to display your fresh content on your homepage, display related posts on single post pages, put special offers into sliders to create attention and any other way you see fit.
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
Plugin is guaranteed to work on a clean WordPress install. Since themes and other plugins don’t always play nice, there are a few things you could check if sliders won’t work in your pages:
<ol>
<li>Check that only one jquery file is loaded. Most times, a manually loaded jQuery version in theme header or by a plugin may be the cause. Look in your page source in browser and see if that’s the problem.</li>
<li>Plugins merging JavaScript and CSS files may also cause problems. In this case, it’s all about god intentions with bad results.</li>
<li>Use the proper WordPress version (4 +).</li>
<li>See if your theme footer.php file calls wp_footer().</li>
</ol>
If all options are exhausted, you can always ask for help on our forums at <a href="http://www.codeflavors.com/codeflavors-forums/forum/featured-articles-3-0/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=fa_lite" title="Featured Articles 3 for WordPress forum" rel="nofollow ugc">CodeFlavors Featured Articles WP forum</a>. We’ll help you figure out things.

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