MatthewRuddy

<p>Creating sliders with WordPress has always been a tricky business. Similiar plugins try to provide a solution but none really hit the mark. Easing Slider aims to fix that. This plugin focuses on achieving it’s core purpose – to create and manage sliders with ease. It aims to keep slider creation simple, require little to no learning curve, and fit into the WordPress admin area like it was included from the start.</p>
<p>Put simply, Easing Slider makes creating sliders simple by providing just the features you need.</p>
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<p>Need additionals features? Easing Slider is fully flexible and can be enhanced with add-ons available to license holders only. Want to gain access? <a href="http://easingslider.com/#product-pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">See Pricing</a>.</p>
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<p>Some of the best Easing Slider features include:</p>
<h4>Primary Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Responsive & ready for all devices</li>
<li>Seamless integration with the WordPress admin area</li>
<li>Full WordPress Media Library integration</li>
<li>Smooth transitions thanks to hardware acceleration</li>
<li>Professional & reliable code by experienced PHP developers</li>
<li>Lazy Loading for extremely fast page loading times</li>
<li>Lots of add-ons to enhance functionality greatly (<a href="http://easingslider.com/addons" rel="nofollow ugc">See our Website</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Need help & support? No problems. If you ever run into any trouble, don’t hesitate to <a href="http://easingslider.com/support" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact Us</a>.</p>
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<p>Easing Slider is highly focused to ensure a solid user experience. To ensure this, we offer our additional features as installable add-ons. This ensures that you’re using only the features you require, with nothing else to pollute your product experience. Some additional feature available include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Simple Captions</strong> – Add captions to your slides with minimal effort!</li>
<li><strong>Posts Feed</strong> – Source slides from WordPress posts, pages, or a custom post type.</li>
<li><strong>Thumbnails</strong> – Use thumbnails as for slider pagination, instead of icons.</li>
<li><strong>Video Slides</strong> – Add videos to your sliders from YouTube, Vimeo or Wistia.</li>
<li><strong>Carousel</strong> – Turn your slider(s) into a carousel, showing multiple slides at once.</li>
<li><strong>Lightbox</strong> – Link images to a jQuery Lightbox</li>
<li><strong>External Images</strong> – Add images from external sites via URL</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<p>Easing Slider is fully open source. We welcome all contributions, issues and criticism. Please don’t hesitate to follow & contribute through Github. You can find our repository <a href="https://github.com/easingslider/easing-slider" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>


Easing Slider

The easiest way to create sliders with WordPress.

CryoutCreations

<h4>Overview</h4>
<p>Serious Slider is a free highly efficient SEO friendly fully translatable accessibility ready image slider for WordPress.</p>
<p>Create beautiful, responsive slideshows within seconds.  Use minimum styling and JavaScript with hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions to create a really fluid experience.</p>
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<p><a href="http://demos.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress/serious-slider/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a> | <a href="https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress-tutorials/create-slider-serious-slider-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress-plugins/cryout-serious-slider" rel="nofollow ugc">Features</a> | <a href="https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/forums/f/wordpress/plugins/serious-slider" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a></p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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>.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Create unlimited sliders with unlimited slides.</strong> The only limit is your imagination on how to use them.</li>
<li><strong>Add titles, texts, buttons and links to each slide.</strong> All slide texts support HTML tags and even other shortcodes.</li>
<li><strong>Easy to use media button.</strong> 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><strong>Auto-generated Shortcodes and PHP integration.</strong> 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><strong>Serious Slider Widget.</strong> Display slideshows in sidebars via the provided Serious Slider widget</li>
<li><strong>Use multiple sliders in the same page.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Familiar admin user interface.</strong> Create sliders and slides with the familiarity of managing posts and categories, without having to learn another user interface</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight and powerful.</strong> Only minimum JavaScript and CSS3 are being loaded on your site</li>
<li><strong>Fast slider creation.</strong> Create awesome, responsive WordPress slideshows in a matter of seconds</li>
<li><strong>Browser compatibility.</strong> The image slider looks and behaves great on various devices and browsers</li>
<li><strong>7+ Appearance Styles.</strong> Choose from different appearance styles to make the navigation arrows, bullets, buttons and colors match your site.</li>
<li><strong>7+ Transition Effects.</strong> Fade, Slide, Overslide, Underslide, Parallax, Horizontal flip and Vertical Flip.</li>
<li><strong>5+ Caption Text Animations.</strong> Choose how caption text appears on the slide: Fade, Slide, Blur and Zoom In/Out.</li>
<li><strong>Highly customizable.</strong> Customize image sizes, timings, text size and alignment, text shadow, background color and accent color.</li>
<li><strong>Individual options for each slider.</strong> All the customization options and set individually for every slider.</li>
<li><strong>Translation ready.</strong> 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><strong>SEO friendly.</strong> Built with search engines in mind, the slider uses correct HTML semantics.</li>
<li><strong>Accessibility ready.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Once click demo content.</strong> 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!

Easing Slider vs Serious Slider