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.

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