Having a WordPress slider or simply a jQuery Slider implemented into the top of a blog or website front page, category page etc. not only looks good it also can have a significant positive effect on conversion rates i.e. getting visitors to sign up, buy products etc. This is also true for jQuery Carousel style scripts. In most professional themes for building WordPress website sliders are included but what if you have an existing WordPress website and want the benefits from a slider right now? It is actually quite simple because a bunch of skilled programmers have create plug and play solutions and provide this in the form of a WordPress Slider Plugins. They are easy to install, configure and integrate into most WordPress sites. Many of them also support multiple slider models and can be used to run multiple sliders in various spots on the same site. This post has just been updated with new slider plugins and all links have been checked.

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SLIDEDECK2.1

SlideDeck2.1 is one of the most feature rich slider solutions available as a WordPress plugin with many different layout options. You can create custom SlideDecks with images, video, text and HTML and pull content from a long list of sources. This plugin is worth checking out for sure if you are looking for a slider plugin! You can use the Coupon “SD2_TRIPWIRE” and get 20% discount.

Here you see some of the available layout possibilities where content is pulled from different sources.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by dtelepathy (premium plugin)

WordPress UniSlider

The WP UniSlider plugin adds an elegant and sleek slider feature to your pages, You can use it as an images slideshow, or put any html content to slide.

There are many features and options included, easy to customize and implement.

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Chop Slider 2 WordPress Plugin

Chop Slider uses full power of CSS3 animation (2D and 3D transform transitions), has own CSS3 2D Transforms and 3D Transforms support detection and works a little bit different (but still awesome) in old (and Internet Explorer) browsers. Chop Slider comes with Transitions Library – additional script file that contains a lot, lot, lot of predefined amazing transition effects.

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ROYAL SLIDER – Touch Content Slider for WordPress

RoyalSlider for WordPress is a cross-device jQuery content slider with touch-based navigation and responsive layout. It has user-friendly admin area where you can manage slides, change slider settings, customize interface and add blocks-captions using custom WYSIWIG editor.

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LAYERSLIDER (MUST SEE EFFECT)

This is the WordPress plugin of LayerSlider! You can create as many layers and sublayers as you want. You can use unlimited images with links. The script is very user-friendly, you can add global settings or local (per slide) settings to each layer or sublayer. You can change delay times, easing types, durations and much more.

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vSlider Multi Image Slider for WordPress

vSlider is a wordpress image slider plugin where you can host multiple image sliders and upto 20 slides per slider.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by vibethemes (free plugin)

SMOOTH SLIDER

Easing Slider

You can create unlimited slideshows each with their own unique settings

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Matthew Ruddy (free plugin)

DDSLIDER for WORDPRESS

Manage your slides the way you want, don’t depend on pages and posts. Upload Images via AJAX direct from the slide manager page. Over 11 different transitions

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ESTRO – JQUERY WORDPRESS SLIDER

“Estro” meaning “creativity”, “talent” or “inspiration”, in Italian, is a fitting moniker for this beautiful slider. For the design of this slider we wanted to create a price of work which could form the centerpiece of your next web project. A starting point, who?s design and execution would inspire you and supercharge your own work.

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Fullscreen Background Image Slider WP Plugin

his plugin allow you to have fullscreen background image slider for your wordpress site. You can set the background image for each posts (including custom post types that comes with your active theme), manage the thumbnail settings for each post too.

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WordPress 360º Image Slider

The WP 360 º Image Slider is a highly configurable plugin that adds slider functionality to your posts or pages.

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WORDPRESS SLIDER GALLERY SHORTCODE

This plugin creates a new shortcode for WordPress. With this new shortcode, you can create a slider gallery in seconds just by typing [slider] while you’re writing your post or page. The slider will display the images that you have uploaded to the current post or page. If you need more options, this simple shortcode features multiple attributes that you can set

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TOUCH CAROUSEL

TouchCarousel is a posts content slider WordPress plugin with touch navigation for mobile devices. The Touch feature also works when you use a mouse…pretty cool actually. You can slide custom post types, with custom taxonomies (categories, tags, e.t.c.) and create layout templates using simple templating system

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WORDPRESS LI JQUERY SLIDER

liJQuery Image Slider plugin for WordPress is carefully crafted slider/banner image rotator, full of features, easy to install and customize. It comes with intuitive – user friendly WordPress admin interface.

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Thumbnail Scroller

This Plugin will help you to easily add a thumbnail scroller to your WordPress website or blog. The scroller is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with an inbuilt short code generator.

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Lowrider Triple Slider

Lowrider Triple Slider is a non-traditional slider for WordPress showing more than one image at the time. with the right material the effect can be really cool.

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FEATURED POSTS WORDPRESS SLIDER

Show off your content the real way – in a slider! This WordPress slider includes 6 predefined layouts and allows you to customize layouts with 18 variables. Intuitive admin GUI with inline help. Try the preview now.

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KenBurner WordPress Slideshow Plugin

This WordPress slideshow plugin offers the combination of Ken Burns Effect, state-of-the-art Slider and Text Animations. You can customize your slideshows with the drag&drop backend to fit your needs. It is possible to give each slider some captions to deliver the message effectively.

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Pristine Slider: pure CSS3 interactive slider

Pristine Slider is a unique product, the first of it’s kind. It’s a fully interactive slider, written entirely in CSS , no JavaScript. That makes it incredibly light and snappy, it works on all modern browsers. And for our beloved Internet Explorer there is a JS fallback included, so no worries there.

The slider is easily customizable through the options page in the dashboard. You can change various settings like timings, transition duration, transition effect, width, height etc. Additionally, you can easily style the slider with CSS .

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CCSLIDER WP

CCSlider WP makes it easy to embed the CCSlider jQuery slideshow plugin in your WordPress theme. CCSlider is an unique slideshow plugin because of the fact that it supports 3d transitions! There are 10 stunning 3d transitions available, and also 10 stylish 2d transitions.

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WP Slideshow Gallery

With the WordPress slideshow gallery plugin you can embed a slideshow gallery into any WordPress post/page with the use of the “sideshow” shortcode. You can hardcode a slideshow gallery into any of the PHP files of your WordPress theme using just a few lines of code. This WordPress Slider plugin have thumbs below the image being presented, text overlay and looks pretty cool – and then it is completely free.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by tribulant.net (free plugin)

SLIDER PRO – WORDPRESS SLIDER PLUGIN

Slider PRO is one of the most powerful slider plugins for WordPress on the market (some buyers have been saying that it’s actually the best). The slider offers you 100+ customizable properties, 100+ possible transition effects, 10+ skins and much more. Also, the slider’s administration area is very powerful and uses the default WordPress design, which WordPress users are already familiar with. This slider plugin is carefully coded, using WordPress development best practices, to avoid conflicts with other themes and plugins that are well coded. Please take a look at the list of features at the feature page.

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SLIDER EVOLUTION FOR WORDPRESS

Slider Evolution is a JQuery plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript sliders with very nice transition effects. Enhance your website by adding a unique and attractive slider! Create an unlimited number of sliders with customized settings for each one, and place them anywhere on your WordPress website with ease. You must check out this WordPress slider demos

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SUGAR SLIDER – WORDPRESS SLIDER

Sugar Slider makes it as easy as it could possibly be to create gorgeous sliders for your WordPress powered site. Forget nasty custom fields and image URLs. You can even forget about manually resizing every image before you upload it. With a huge list of features, Sugar Slider is on of the most advanced and powerful WordPress slider manager.

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3D Content Slideshow for WordPress

F3D WordPress Slider is based on jQuery Featured 3D Slider plugin that converts static HTML content into a 3D stage with smoothly moving objects. The effect is simply amazing and I have not seen it in other WordPress slideshow plugins so far. Check the demo to experience the cool 3D effect.

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UBILLBOARD WORDPRESS SLIDER

uBillboard is a Premium Slider for WordPress. It is a jQuery based slider with a multitude of transitions and options for you to be able to customize it to your needs while not overwhelming you with options you never wanted or needed. Version 3 is a revolutionary release with most of the codebase rewritten from scratch. This has enabled us to integrate many features that you have been requesting during the first year. Make sure you see this WordPress Slider demo in action!

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Multipurpose Bookshelf Slider – WordPress Plugin

Multipurpose Bookshelf Slider – WordPress Plugin is useful for displaying products such as books, magazines, dvd, cd and others. It’s a way to showcase products in an attractive manner. Features of “lightbox” to display images, videos (Youtube and Vimeo) and any html content (WordPress editor). Can be added detailed content to each product. Easy to add into WordPress using widgets or shortcodes.

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FLIP BOOK WORDPRESS SLIDER

Flip Book WordPress Pluginis based is on XML Flip Book / AS3 one of the three top selling items of all times on ActiveDen . It has been built from scratch. Almost everything you see on the page is easily customizable through the WordPress administration panel – easy installation, no coding skills required.

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