Slick Slideshow is a highly customizable, but easy-to-use JQuery Slideshow Plugin for WordPress, to show dynamic images or contents on your website. Inspired by a tutorial from sixrevisions.com, we adapted the extended work from Blog Monnet USA. Our part was finally to create a WordPress-Plugin from that, which we were not able to find in the codex this way.

Demo

Custom HTML example

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Features

• All Styles, Animation Parameters and Contents are customizable easily over the backend
• Can use Image URLs (unexperienced users) or custom HTML (experienced Users)
• Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, Valid CSS 2
• Compatibility to other JQuery WordPress Plugins (you can use a Lightbox like Colorbox for example for images in the Slideshow)
• Fast and efficient
• Does not require extra-tables in your database (actually this might be required one day, but currently everything works fine)
• GPLv2 licensed as it is a requirement of the WordPress Codex (donations for the efforts and further development are fair and welcome)

Download & Donate

slick-slideshow-0.1.2.rar

Installation

1. Upload the “slick-slideshow” directory in wp-content/plugins/ or use the the WordPress auto-installer for plugins.
2. Activate the Plugin through the Plugins page.
3. Embed the slick slideshow by either pasting the shorttag (remove whitespace)

into the content of a post or page or just call

from any position inside your theme.

4.Go to Settings->Slick Slideshow to style and customize your Slideshow in any way!

Current Feature Requests

• add advanced navigation possibilities between slides
• add possibility to navigate through a set of Buttons / Thumbnails
• add possibility to fade slides (not just scrolling)
• add possibility to create more than one and categorize by ids

Known issues

- The Plugin is not tested in combination with the use of other Javascript-Frameworks than jQuery (like Prototype). There might obviously be compability issues.

Changelog

==  1.1.2 ==

Initial Release for the Plugin directory.

Enjoy the Plugin, be free to comment. You also can write Bug or Feature Requests as a comment or send and E-Mail to admin@blackbam.at.