Meta Slider is a powerful flexible, intuitive slider plugin for WordPress. It provides you 4 different jQuery sliders you can use with custom options and features.
- Nivo Slider: It is a responsive slider with 16 different transition effects and 4 themes
- Coin Slider: It provides you 4 different transition effects
- Flex Slider 2: It is a responsive slider with 2 different transition effects and carousel mode
- Responsive Slides: Provides you a lightweight responsive fade effect slider
Installation & Usage:
Install and activate Meta Slider plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Meta Slider Lite page and use + button for adding new sliders. See the following video tutorial:
Including a slideshow in header of your website:
Open your theme’s header.php file via FTP or from Dashboard -> Appearance -> Editor and paste the following template replacing 123 with your slider ID (watch video tutorial here):
<?php
if (is_front_page() || is_home()) {
echo do_shortcode("[metaslider id=123]"); //replace 123 with slider ID
}
?>Features:
- Lightweight
- Fully localised
- AJAX powered admin panel
- In-Built Widget and Shortcode
- Smart intelligent image croping
- Add unlimited slideshows and slides
- Reorder slides using dag and drop interface
- You can add captions (with HTML) and URLs to slides
- Well integrated with the new WordPress 3.5 media manager
- Use different settings per slideshow like speed, theme, hover pause, width, height, easing etc