Slideshow is a brilliant method to stack and present series of items (such as images) in your website especially when space is a constraint. It is also commonly used by webmasters and bloggers to showcase portfolios, artwork, products, latest posts, etc. It saves time and efficiently draw visitors’ attention.
In WordPress, installing and adding slideshow to posts can be done in a breeze, thanks to developers among the WordPress community. We’ve ran through all WordPress slideshow plug-ins we can possibly find and compiled this list of best and free WordPress slideshow plug-ins.
We hope it will come in handy for you whenever you feels like putting up one. Full list after jump!
NextGEN Gallery
Full integrated WordPress Image Gallery plugin with tons of interesting features like uploading images via compressed zip file, able to import meta files (EXIF, IPTC or XMP), watermaking images, thumb generating and more. Add-on: NextGEN-FlashViewer – Adobe Flash Plugins from for NextGEN Gallery, NextGEN-ImageFlow– picture gallery for NextGEN Gallery.
Demo | Download
Page Flip Image Gallery
Image gallery with page flip effect.
Demo | Download
Featured Content Gallery
Creates an automated rotating image gallery of your posts or pages for use anywhere within your theme.
Demo | Download
kPicasa Gallery
Displays your Picasa Web Galleries in a post or in a page simply by creating a post or a page with a special keyword.Demo | Download
Shutter Reloaded
Image viewer for WordPress that works similarly to Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. Supports all standard features like image resizing, preloading images, etc. Does not require any external libraries.
Demo | Download
Grand Flash Album Gallery
Full integrated (flash skin based, slideshow) Image Gallery plugin with a powerfull admin back end.
Demo | Download
Yet Another Photoblog
Convert WordPress blog into full feature photo blog with easy usable photo management system. Comes with several additional plugins to enhance your photoblog.
Demo | Download
Dynamic Content Gallery
Creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest or featured content selected from one or more normal post categories, pages, Custom Post Type posts, or a mix of these.
Demo | Download
WordPress Content Slide
Create fully customizable jquery Fading image slideshow anywhere within your WordPress site.
Demo | Download
Lazyest Gallery
Upload your images via FTP, and Lazyest Gallery will index your images automatically.
Demo | Download
Meteor Slides
Create slideshows with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides.
Demo | Download
Lightview Plus
Seamless integration of Lightview to create a nice overlay to display images and videosDemo | Download
Slideshow Gallery
JavaScript powered slideshow gallery that is flexible with all aspects can easily be configuredDemo | Download
Cleaner Gallery
Integrate with many Lightbox-type scripts (Lightbox, Slimbox, Thickbox, Lightview, Shutter Reloaded, prettyPhoto, etc) and allow you to do much cooler things with your galleries using the
shortcode.Demo | Download
Lightbox Gallery
Turns all gallery photos into lightbox view.Demo | Download
DM Albums
Displays images and thumbnails perfectly sized to your blog. Allow visitors to view entire album without leaving the post.
Demo | Download
SlideDeck Content Slider
Create managable dynamic content slider in WordPress template or post easily without writing a single code.
Demo | Download
Slideshow Gallery Pro
Photo and image viewing plug-in that integrates seemlessly with the WordPress image upload and gallery system.
Demo | Download
More
- WP Slideshow – Photo slideshow player that can be used on any kind of WordPress blog, including photographer and designer portfolios, real estate and other business websites, all sorts of picture galleries and product pages. (premium)
- Fotobook – Link to your Facebook account and import all of your photo albums to WordPress.
- Picasna – Create gallery from your Picasa album with ease.
- Flickr + Highslide – Displays your flickr photos using Highslide JS.
- Flickr slideshow wrapper – Yet another plugin that calls Flickr albums into your content.
- Slideshow – A plugin previously developed for New theme, that pulls image attachments and formats them into slideshow.
- SuperSlider-Show – A gallery plug-in powered by Mootools, build upon Slideshow2 that is highly customizable.
Did we missed any good WordPress slideshow plugins? Let us know in comments!
(bellefoong)