WordPress Image Slider Plugins For Beautiful Blogs

Collection of best wordpress image slider plugins for beautiful blogs. In this post I have listed of few of the best free and premium plugins. They all are top rated by different bloggers from all around the globe. I have also given emphasis on jquery wordpress image slider plugins. Since they are most loved and feature rich addons for your blog.

Many of the slider plugins listed here are optimized for mobile screens. I mean they are responsive as well as they support touch swap feature. This allows you to bring more uniqueness to your website, and your readers will always love to visit your site again.

Actually if you have any premium theme or template, then you might get free inbuilt sliders. But they don’t offer too many customization options. So its always better to use external addon for this purpose.

Free WordPress Image Slider Plugin

The list provided below consist of all free plugins. You can use them all for any purpose and for any project without any restrictions. Few of their common features have been already discussed above.

Few of their great features :

• Compatibility with latest WordPress update 3.4.2
• Usually runs on java library
• Can be used with almost any kind of theme
• Supports lots of transition effects
• Lots of them are responsive to almost every browser
• Free to use and modify
• Great support
• Few of them are completely search engine friendly

jQuery Slider Shock

This is one of most advanced image slider plugin. It offers hundreds of options to customize your slideshows. The best part is, it has ability to manage both images and video in single slideshow. You have options to add custom text for each image or video. You can also import videos from external sources like YouTube, Metacafe and others.

Considering the design options, you can assign any patter or image as background. It also supports lots of inbuilt skins and transition effect ( Premium ). You can also assign the image width, different arrows for navigation, different styles for typography. It offers ability to select either responsive ( premium ) or fixed layout.

So you can say its the best and one of the most powerful addon for your blog. It also offers extensive documentation and full support for WordPress latest updates. So what are you waiting for, get hold of it today.

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Soliloquy Lite

Its one of the best responsive image slider plugin available for blogs or websites. It has been developed by the lead WordPress developer Mark Jaquith. It also have one premium upgrade available. With premium one you can even embed YouTube videos in the slide shows.

Few of the fantastic features are :

• Create infinite numbers of shows with infinite images
• Very light weight
• Search engine optimized, since title tags and texts can be read by bots easily
• Very clean and compact coding, considering the protection of your site.
• Very responsive to almost every screen.
• Have touch enabled swiping for touch screen phones
• Intelligent JS, which makes the codes load only on the pages where the slider has been embedded
• Easily add the images with media uploaded button
• Has drag and drop functionality.

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v-Slider

One of the most elegant and powerful addon. You can put up to 20 slides per slideshows. So it means it doesn’t support unlimited number of images, and who needs them ( since they will make you page load time a lot more ). It has been developed by Vibe Themes. They are really cool.

Some Custom Qualities :

• It loads your images much faster than the cache
• It can automatically gather images from the posts
• It has built-in image re-size
• You can set the image quality
• Almost 9 different transition effects
• It has support for short codes and widgets
• You can add the title and the text
• It also supports the PHP codes for its implementing in your theme

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Meteor Slides

Do you really need something really powerful. Then you must go with this Meteor. Its full of features and trust me, you will just love it. I have personally used it on my test website and it is awesome. It is powered by j Query Cycle and has been developed by jleuze.

Check out it’s ” awesome ” features :

• Love short codes, it gives you functionality to integrate your slide almost anywhere on you site.
• Very easy integration
• You can show multiple slides on any page
• You get custom control page for setting up slide shows
• There are more than 20 different beautiful and sleek transition effects
• Easy translation to different languages
• Completely mobile responsive

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Smooth Slider

Completely SEO friendly image slider plugin for wordpress, designed specially for you. As the name suggest, its transition is really smooth and it loads very fast. The best part is that the whole task is carried on JavaScript and text. Since the text are readable by bots, so it doesn’t affects your SEO. You can select your different posts, media files and pages and can easily add them into your slide show.

You will like it’s really long features :

• Power of SEO
• Easy to use and install
• Completely customizable css files
• You can customize your slides as per the theme design
• Premium quality support
• You don’t need to have knowledge of PHP, Java etc
• You get options to set background as transparent
• Add your own images instead of numbers
• Supports template tags for WPMU
• Permission settings : Based on user level
• Specify the custom inks for any particular slide
• Uses WordPress cropping system to re-size the images and many others

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Oik Nivo Slider

Its one of the simplest, easy to use and yet beautiful plugin. It is based on Nivo, which is considered as one of the best JavaScript based slider available in the market. There is one thing you have to know. And its important too. This plugin is based on oik plugin and so its important to install in first before going with this one.

I have added this plugin in my list just because it’s really easy to integrate anywhere on your website. You have to just place a short code : ” [nivo] ” and you are done.

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X-Technos

It’s a combination of both content and image slider. You can showcase both of them and they will look really great. This plugin is based on J Flow. Its offers custom php short code for better implementation. It’s really very simple to use and install.

• The slideshows can contain both images and text
• You can change the size of the slide form setting page
• Edit or delete them
• Fully customizable custom style sheet files.
• Redesign the while slider as per your need.

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Premium WordPress Image Slider Plugin

Now all the plugins listed below are premium once. I have used them on my test blog, and they work really very fine. You can give them a simple try, as they don’t cost too much.

uBillboard

This one is the latest, most powerful and among the best selling plugin in this category. The complete code have been rewritten so that you could get what you desire. It offers lots of options to control almost every aspect of the gallery and design. But they are not overburdened, so that you could use it in best way. With the updates, now it also supports almost every touch screen mobile phones with special support for them.

Now lets talk little about its features :

• Fully responsive design
• Gives special touch controls to mobile visitors
• Fully retina display ready
• Lots of configurable screens
• Tons of transition effects. It has also 20 different effects
• Inbuilt content editor
• Supports count down
• Import and export functionality
• Automatic image resize

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Royal Slider

I think this plugin has made the biggest sale in this category. Its also very famous among the designers, artist and bloggers. It offers complete set of options and it has very vast list of power packed features.

The most important thing is update. With every purchase you will get free update and support for life. It has hardware accelerated sliders with touch navigation, all driven with J query. It also has very user friendly administrator area, where you can control all slides, settings, blocks, captions and many more.

• WYSIWIG editor for blocks, so that you could add captions in the way you want.
• Very powerful engine
• Options for lazy loading, so that you content loads first and then the images
• Different HTML supported blocks with lots of different transition effects
• Fully search engine optimized
• Three different skins
• You can use thumbnails and bullets for navigation
• And their lot more.

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I wish you wold have liked my collection. Please leave your suggestion and questions regarding those wordpress image slider plugins. If you have any suggestions then please leave it in the comment area.