Aldert Vaandering

<p>NextGen NivoSlider allows you to create a <a href="http://nivo.dev7studios.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">NivoSlider</a> as a widget or with a shortcode.<br />
This plugin uses the ‘NextGen Gallery’ plugin to obtain the images using tags or gallery IDs.</p>
<p>NivoSlider is a great responsive image slideshow that is highly customizable. With a large array of effects and many additional options you are sure to find a combination that will suit your website.</p>
<p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/" rel="ugc">NextGen Gallery Plugin</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<p>NextGen NivoSlider has been completely overhauled and is continually being added to. It currently supports all the of NivoSlider’s original functions and even has some extra’s!</p>
<ul>
<li>Responsive!</li>
<li>Fully integrated with NextGen gallery</li>
<li>Theme support</li>
<li>Automatic URL linking (put a mailto:, http://, ftp:// or local / into your alt text)</li>
<li>Extra effect(s)</li>
<li>Shortcode and Widget support</li>
<li>Touchscreen support (experimental)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Parameters:</strong></p>
<p>You can use the following parameters in the [ngg-nivoslider] shortcode.<br />
Defaults, where applicable, are shown between parentheses (), available options between brackets [].</p>
<ul>
<li>title: Title for slider. Leave blank for no title. (ex: title=”My Slider”)</li>
<li>gallery: Leave blank to use all galleries or choose a gallery to use. (ex: gallery=”galleryid”)</li>
<li>order [random”|”asc”|”desc”|”sortorder”]: Order to display results in. You can choose; Random, Latest First, Oldest First, or NextGen Sortorder. Random will still work when a page is cached. (ex: order=”random”)</li>
<li>tags: comma separated list of tags to filter results by. (ex: tags=”tag1, tag2″)</li>
<li>shuffle [boolean]: If order is random and this is true will shuffle images with javascript. Useful if your are caching your pages. (ex: shuffle=”true”)</li>
<li>max_pictures: The maximum amount of pictures to load. (ex: max_pictures=”6″)</li>
<li>html_id (“slider”): HTML id to use. Defaults to ‘slider’. Needs to be different for multiple sliders on same page. (ex: html_id=”custom-slider”)</li>
<li>width: Width to use on slider. (ex: width=”200″)</li>
<li>height: Height to use on slider. (ex: height=”150″)</li>
<li>center: Centers content in container. Requires width to be set. (ex: center=”1″)</li>
<li>resize: Resizes the images using TimThumb(v2). Available options are: (ex: resize=”3″)<br />
      1 – Resize to Fit specified dimensions (no cropping)<br />
      2 – Crop and resize to best fit the dimensions (default)<br />
      3 – Resize proportionally to fit entire image into specified dimensions, and add borders if required<br />
      4 – Resize proportionally adjusting size of scaled image so there are no borders gaps</li>
<li>resizewidth: The width TimThumb will use to resize the image (sc: resizewidth=”800″)</li>
<li>resizeheight: The height TimThumb will use to resize the image (sc: resizeheight=”600″)</li>
<li>resizebg (“ffffff”): The color (denoted in hex) to use for the borders that are generated when using resizing option 3 (ex: resizebg=”a0fb69″)</li>
<li>caption [“alttext”|”description”|”both”]: Show a caption with the slide, showing either the alttext or description as set up in NextGen gallery or both as “Bolded AltText – Description”</li>
<li>htmlcaption: HTML formatted caption to show on all images (ex: htmlcaption=”<strong>Title</strong> Welcome to <a>this website</a>“)</li>
<li>showgallerytitle [boolean]: Display the gallery title (ex: showgallerytitle=”true”)</li>
<li>showgallerydesc [boolean]: Display the gallery description  (ex: showgallerydesc=”true”)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Nivo slider settings:</strong></p>
<p>Please check the NivoSlider website for <a href="http://nivo.dev7studios.com/#usage" rel="nofollow ugc">more details</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li>effect: What effect to use as transition. You can specify sets like: ‘fold,fade,sliceDown’. See list below for available effects.(ex: effect=”sliceDown,sliceUp”)</li>
<li>slices: The amount of slices to divide the image to for the slice effects(ex: slices=”3″)</li>
<li>boxCols: Amount of columns to split the image into for the box effects (ex: boxcols=”10″)</li>
<li>boxRows: Amount of row to split the image into for the box effects (ex: boxrows=”8″)</li>
<li>animSpeed: Slide transition speed in milliseconds (1000ms = 1 second). (ex: animspeed=”300″)</li>
<li>pauseTime: Time to pause in milliseconds (1000ms = 1 second) before continueing to the next image (ex: pausetime=”5000″)</li>
<li>startSlide: Set starting Slide. It’s 0-index so use 0 for the first slide. (ex: startslide=”3″)</li>
<li>directionNav [“true”|”false”]: Whether to display the Next & Prev controls or not. (ex: directionnav=”true”)</li>
<li>controlNav [“true”|”false”]: 1,2,3… (ex: controlnav=”setting”)</li>
<li>controlNavThumbs [“true”|”false”]: Use thumbnails for Control Nav if set to true. (ex: controlnavthumbs=”true”)</li>
<li>thumbsWidth: Resize thumbnail to this width. Recommended to set if using thumbnails. (ex: thumbswidth=”20″)</li>
<li>thumbsHeight: Resize thumbnail to this height. Recommended to set if using thumbnails. (ex: thumbsheight=”20″)</li>
<li>thumbsContainerHeight: Height for thumbnails container. Calculation should be ‘number of thumbnail image rows’ x ‘thumbsheight’. (ex: thumbscontainerheight=”20″)</li>
<li>thumbsGap: Gap between thumbnails. (ex: thumbsgap=”5″)</li>
<li>controlNavThumbsFromRel: Use image rel for thumbs. (ex: controlnavthumbsfromrel=”setting”)</li>
<li>controlNavThumbsSearch: Replace this with… (ex: controlnavthumbssearch=”setting”)</li>
<li>controlNavThumbsReplace: …this in thumb Image src. (ex: controlnavthumbsreplace=”setting”)</li>
<li>keyboardNav: Use left & right arrows. (ex: keyboardnav=”setting”)</li>
<li>pauseOnHover: Stop animation while hovering. (ex: pauseonhover=”setting”)</li>
<li>manualAdvance: Force manual transitions. (ex: manualadvance=”setting”)</li>
<li>prexText: Text to display for previous (ex: prevtext=”prev”)</li>
<li>nextText: Text to display for next (ex: prevtext=”next”)</li>
<li>randomStart [“true”|”false”]: Start with a random slide (ex: randomstart=”true”)</li>
<li>captionOpacity: Universal caption opacity. (ex: captionopacity=”setting”)</li>
<li>disableCaptions: (ex: disablecaptions=”1″)</li>
<li>beforeChange: (ex: beforechange=”setting”)</li>
<li>afterChange: (ex: afterchange=”setting”)</li>
<li>slideshowEnd: Triggers after all slides have been shown. (ex: slideshowend=”setting”)</li>
<li>lastSlide: Triggers when last slide is shown. (ex: lastslide=”setting”)</li>
<li>afterLoad: Triggers when slider has loaded. (ex: afterload=”setting”)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Nivo Effects:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>random</li>
<li>sliceDown</li>
<li>sliceDownLeft</li>
<li>sliceUp</li>
<li>sliceUpLeft</li>
<li>sliceUpDown</li>
<li>sliceUpDownLeft</li>
<li>fold</li>
<li>foldReverse</li>
<li>fade</li>
<li>slideInRight</li>
<li>slideInLeft</li>
<li>boxRandom</li>
<li>boxRain</li>
<li>boxRainReverse</li>
<li>boxRainGrow</li>
<li>boxRainGrowReverse</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Shortcode examples:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>[ngg-nivoslider html_id=”about-slider”]</li>
<li>[ngg-nivoslider title=”Hello” gallery=”1″ html_id=”about-slider” width=”200″ height=”150″ center=”1″]</li>
<li>[ngg-nivoslider html_id=”about-slider” directionnav=”false” controlnav=”false”]</li>
<li>[ngg-nivoslider tags=slideshow order=”random” effect=”fade” shuffle=”true” max_pictures=”12″ html_id=”slider” resizebg=”fdfdfd” resizewidth=”900″ resizeheight=”620″ resize=”3″ center=”1″ directionNav=”false” controlNav=”false” pauseTime=”10000″ animSpeed=”1000″ pauseOnHover=”false”]</li>
</ul>
<h3>To do</h3>
<p>Feel free to suggest new features or things you’d like to see in this plugin!</p>
<ul>
<li>Create some extra themes.</li>
<li>Scrollable thumbnails?</li>
</ul>


NextGen NivoSlider

This plugin does not taken title attribute in image which is bad for SEO. Also not working with updated version of NextGen gallery plugin. 

didn't work

The NextGen Nivoslider plugin allows you to create a NivoSlider, using images from your NextGen gallery, with a simple shortcode or widget.

BracketSpace

Wojtek Szałkiewicz

<p>Easy Watermark can automatically add watermark to images as they are uploaded to wordpress media library. You can also watermark existing images manually (all at once or an every single image). Watermark can be an image, text or both.</p>
<h4>See the demo</h4>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xM_0Y0oX4o0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h4>Plugin features</h4>
<p>On one image you can have two watermarks! One of them can be text watermark and the other image watermark. You can control their position and size and apply them to your media independently.</p>
<ul>
<li>Image watermark can be a JPG, PNG or GIF</li>
<li>Full support for transparency and alpha chanel in PNG and GIF files</li>
<li>JPG and GIF files and text can have opacity set (from 0 to 100%)</li>
<li>Text watermark is created using ttf fonts</li>
<li>Text color, size and rotation can be set</li>
<li>All built-in image sizes can be watermarked (thumbnail, medium, large and fullsize) as well as all additional sizes registered by themes or plugins</li>
<li>Plugin can create image backups and allows to easily restore images</li>
</ul>
<h4>Image watermark</h4>
<p>Easy Watermark supports three most popular image formats for watermark: JPG, PNG and GIF. For JPG watermarks you can control the opacity as well.</p>
<p>Watermark can be applied in on of the 9 positions on the image and you can controll the exact sizing of it.</p>
<h4>Text watermark</h4>
<p>Text watermark have a powerful feature of placeholders, which can be dynamically applied to the image. Ie. you can put the name of user who uploaded the image as well as the upload date. Watermark text will be automatically generated and applied.</p>
<p>The plugin supports a few fonts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Arial</li>
<li>Arial Black</li>
<li>Comic Sans MS</li>
<li>Courier New</li>
<li>Georgia</li>
<li>Impact</li>
<li>Tahoma</li>
<li>Times New Roman</li>
<li>Trebuchet MS</li>
<li>Verdana</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also place the text watermark in one of the 9 positions on the image, control the angle, color, opacity and size.</p>
<h4>Custom development</h4>
<p>BracketSpace – the company behind this plugin provides <a href="https://bracketspace.com/custom-development/" rel="nofollow ugc">custom WordPress plugin development services</a>. We can create any custom plugin for you.</p>


Easy Watermark

Worked a treat

Allows to add watermark to images automatically on upload or manually.

NextGen NivoSlider vs Easy Watermark