Aldert Vaandering

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. 
This plugin uses the ‘NextGen Gallery’ plugin to obtain the images using tags or gallery IDs.
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.
Requirements:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/" rel="ugc">NextGen Gallery Plugin</a></li>
</ul>
Features:
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!
<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>
Parameters:
You can use the following parameters in the [ngg-nivoslider] shortcode. 
Defaults, where applicable, are shown between parentheses (), available options between brackets [].
<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″) 
 1 – Resize to Fit specified dimensions (no cropping) 
 2 – Crop and resize to best fit the dimensions (default) 
 3 – Resize proportionally to fit entire image into specified dimensions, and add borders if required 
 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=”Title 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>
Nivo slider settings:
Please check the NivoSlider website for <a href="http://nivo.dev7studios.com/#usage" rel="nofollow ugc">more details</a>.
<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>
Nivo Effects:
<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>
Shortcode examples:
<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>
Feel free to suggest new features or things you’d like to see in this plugin!
<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. 

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

jjcoder

The ‘JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel’ allows you to create a ‘JCarousel’ (http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/) as a widget or as a shortcode. 
This plugin uses the ‘NextGen Gallery’ plugin for its images.
Requirements:
<ul>
<li>NextGen Gallery Plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)</li>
</ul>
NextGen Gallery Integration:
<ul>
<li>This plugin uses the original width and height of the image uploaded so make sure the images are the correct dimensions when uploaded.</li>
<li>If a width and height are defined under the configuration all images will be resized to those dimensions (Highly recommended).</li>
<li>Alt & Title Text Field: Provide a full url here and the image will link to this. Only works if alt field starts with either of these; /, http, or ftp.</li>
<li>Description Field: Will be used as image alt text. If alt text is present but not a valid url alt text will be used instead for image alt text.</li>
</ul>
You can specify the following parameters:
NOTE: sc means shortcode:
<ul>
<li>Title: Title. Leave blank for no title. (sc: title=”My Carousel”)</li>
<li>Gallery: Leave blank to use all galleries or choose a gallery to use. (sc: gallery=”galleryid”)</li>
<li>Order: 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. (sc: order=”random”|”asc”|”desc”|”sortorder”)</li>
<li>Shuffle: If order is random and this is true will shuffle images with javascript. Useful if your are caching your pages. (sc: shuffle=”true”|”false”)</li>
<li>Max pictures: The maximum amount of pictures to use. (sc: max_pictures=”6″)</li>
<li>HTML id: HTML id to use. Defaults to ‘jcarousel’. Needs to be different for multiple instances on same page. (sc: html_id=”jcarousel”)</li>
<li>Skin class: Class of skinning to use. Defaults to use the tango skin. (sc: skin_class=”jcarousel-skin-tango”)</li>
<li>Image width: Width of image. Defaults to 75. (sc: width=”200″)</li>
<li>Image height: Height of image. Defaults to 75. (sc: height=”150″)</li>
<li>Image gap: Gap between images. (sc: gap=”5″)</li>
</ul>
JCarousel settings:
Please check the JCarousel home page for more details (http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/#Configuration).
<ul>
<li>vertical: Specifies wether the carousel appears in horizontal or vertical orientation. Changes the carousel from a left/right style to a up/down style carousel. (sc: vertical=”setting”)</li>
<li>rtl: Specifies whether the carousel appears in RTL (Right-To-Left) mode. (sc: rtl=”setting”)</li>
<li>start: The index of the item to start with. (sc: start=”setting”)</li>
<li>offset: The index of the first available item at initialisation. (sc: offset=”setting”)</li>
<li>size: Size of existing elements if size is not passed explicitly uses the number of total items. (sc: size=”setting”)</li>
<li>scroll: The number of items to scroll by. (sc: scroll=”setting”)</li>
<li>visible: If passed, the width/height of the items will be calculated and set depending on the width/height of the clipping, so that exactly that number of items will be visible. (sc: visible=”setting”)</li>
<li>animation: The speed of the scroll animation as string in jQuery terms (“slow” or “fast”) or milliseconds as integer (See jQuery Documentation). If set to 0, animation is turned off. (sc: animation=”setting”)</li>
<li>easing: The name of the easing effect that you want to use (See jQuery Documentation). (sc: easing=”setting”)</li>
<li>auto: Specifies how many seconds to periodically autoscroll the content. If set to 0 (default) then autoscrolling is turned off. (sc: auto=”setting”)</li>
<li>wrap: Specifies whether to wrap at the first/last item (or both) and jump back to the start/end. Options are “first”, “last”, “both” or “circular” as string. If set to null, wrapping is turned off (default). (sc: wrap=”setting”)</li>
</ul>
Shortcode Examples:
<ul>
<li>[jj-ngg-jquery-carousel html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”1″]</li>
<li>[jj-ngg-jquery-carousel title=”Hello” html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”1″ vertical=”true”]</li>
<li>[jj-ngg-jquery-carousel html_id=”about-jcarousel” gallery=”2″ width=”150″ height=”100″ visible=”2″ scroll=”1″ auto=”3″]</li>
</ul>
Try out my other plugins:
<ul>
<li>JJ NextGen JQuery Slider (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-slider/)</li>
<li>JJ NextGen JQuery Cycle (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-cycle/)</li>
<li>JJ NextGen Unload (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-unload/)</li>
<li>JJ NextGen Image List (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-image-list/)</li>
<li>JJ SwfObject (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-swfobject/)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributors</h3>

JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel

Allows you to pick a gallery from the 'NextGen Gallery' plugin to use as a 'JQuery JCarousel'.

NextGen NivoSlider vs JJ NextGen JQuery Carousel