Linus Lundahl

sexyCycle is a lightweight yet very sleek jQuery plugin for making sliding image galleries. And to quote it’s creator: “One of the good things about sexyCycle is that you’re not forced to stick with a fixed width of all images. It’s actually quite nice to use different width on each image.” Actually, it’s now also possible to use different height thanks to Nick O’Neill.
This WordPress plugin makes it possible to add this image sliding functionality to galleries in WP, you can simply just override the <code>[gallery]</code> shortcode generated by WP or you can use it’s own <code>[sexy-gallery]</code> shortcode. Galleries are handled the same way as usual by the ‘Add an Image -> Gallery function’.
It’s now possible to use per gallery settings, see the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sexycycle-for-wordpress/installation/" rel="ugc">Installation page</a> for documentation.
An examples of sexyCycle in action can be seen at <a href="http://unwise.se/sexycycle-for-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">sexyCycle for WordPress</a>, more examples can be found at <a href="http://www.suprb.com/apps/sexyCycle/" rel="nofollow ugc">sexyCycle image jQuery plugin</a>. (These examples are not implemented in WordPress, but they show the functionality)
sexyCycle for WordPress created and maintained by <a href="http://unwise.se/" rel="nofollow ugc">Linus Lundahl</a>. 
sexyCycle jQuery plugin created by <a href="http://suprb.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Andreas Pihlström</a>. 
Contributions by <a href="http://thewebpreneur.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Nick O’Neill</a>.

sexyCycle for WordPress

sexyCycle is a lightweight yet very sleek jQuery plugin for making sliding image galleries. This plugin adds that functionality to WP galleries.

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No Frills Gallery is a simple image gallery with optional slideshow feature. There are a number of gallery plug-ins for WordPress, but many 
are either too complex, too rigid or too expensive for some developer’s needs. No Frills Gallery has been developed for simplicity, but also 
for customisation. Thanks to it’s use of shortcodes, which are generated after you have chosen your specific requirements, both the gallery 
and slideshow can be placed anywhere on the site, either in a page or as part of a sidebar, header or any content area via either the standard 
shortcode or PHP’s do_shortcode syntax.
The styling has remained purposefully simple, allowing you the flexibility you need to build on your own style. All front-end stylings can be 
view in the /css/no-frills.css file. While you can edit this directly, it is not advised as it may be replaced on future plug-in updates. 
Instead simply copy the styles inside this css file and add them to your own theme’s style.css file. Then customise them to suit your needs.

No Frills Gallery

A very simple, easily customisable image gallery. Uses shortcodes to display your picture gallery and/or slideshow.

sexyCycle for WordPress vs No Frills Gallery