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Top 7 Free Slideshow Plugins for WordPress

Nowadays, everything becomes more visual, including the web. Hence, high-quality image and display are essential if you want to get and retain your visitors’ attention. And, the best way to achieve that is by using a slideshow plugin. Yet, choosing the one that’s best for your site can take some time because there are tons of them.

For that reason, we’ve come up with a list of some of the best and highly-rated free slideshow plugins for WordPress. Just continue reading and choose the one that best fits your needs and requirements.

 

  1. Slideshow

You can really tell which plugins are good by checking their ratings at WordPress.org. That being said, Slideshow is one of the best with whopping 800+ 4 or 5-star ratings, and only 11 1 or 2-star ratings.

But, what makes it so good? Namely, it enables you to create as many slideshows as you need using a combination of YouTube videos, images, and text. Plus, it is fully responsive, suitable for any device, offers a light or dark background style, and allows multiple slideshows on one page.

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  1. Meteor Slides

This plugin makes creating and publishing slideshows such an easy task to do using shortcodes, a widget, or a template tag. What’s more, Meteor Slides is powered by jQuery Cycle and offers more than 20 transition style options, which is hard to beat. It’s very responsive and features fluid themes that can fit any device. And, its interface is clean and simple to use.

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You can add slideshows to pages or posts by using shortcodes, to themes by using php code, or to widgets by using the Meteor Slides Widget.

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  1. Meta Slider

Here’s yet another popular WordPress slideshow plugin. However, this one features four pre-packed slideshow types including Flex Slider (responsive, 2 transition effects, carousel mode), Coin Slider (4 transition effects), Nivo Slider (responsive, 16 transition effects, 4 themes), and Responsive Slider (responsive & incredibly lightweight), all of which can be customized completely in order to fit your and your website’s requirements.

Furthermore, Meta Slider gives you the possibility to choose different dimensions and colors, and to add destination URLs and captions to every single image. Also, these slideshows are suitable for mobile devices.

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  1. Easing Slider “Lite”

Easing Slider “Lite” is a very simple plugin which serves its purpose – provides a slideshow with a great look. Yet, its user interface is a bit weird to use which can be considered as a drawback. Another disadvantage is that in order to create multiple slideshows you have to upgrade it and install the pro version.

easing slider lite

In addition, there aren’t many customization options. To be more specific, it is limited to only a couple of transitions (fade and slide), next and previous arrows, changing dimensions, pagination icons, and auto playback.

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  1. Smart Slider 2

This plugin has more than 100,000 downloads which gives you an idea of its quality. One of its greatest advantages is being highly customizable. It even gives you the chance to choose the style of the arrows the slider’s using. But, the user interface seems a little bit confusing at first, yet easily manageable after some time.

Furthermore, the built-in preview is one of the best features of this plugin. The slideshow appears within the admin area right after clicking on the Create button. This can save quite a lot of time since it doesn’t require adding a shortcode to the page, saving the draft, and then clicking on Preview.

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  1. Cyclone Slider 2

Here’s another WordPress slideshow plugin that is extremely simple and easy to use. In fact, it is one of the most user-friendly plugins. Cyclone Slider 2 features an admin area that is very well designed with many options available.

Even though the slideshows are responsive by default, you can still make some customization like changing the width or applying different transitions to each of the images. What’s even more convenient, similar to Smart Slider 2, its admin area gives you the chance to preview the slideshow.

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  1. Soliloquy

Last but not least, this is the plugin which has been proven to be the easiest of all to use. Soliloquy enables you to create slideshows and embed them on a site in a matter of seconds. Plus, the output looks pretty good and it serves the job pretty well, too. Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?

soliloquy slideshow

Still, the Lite version offers only a few customization options. Yet, you can achieve that by using custom CSS. Alternatively, for the same purpose, you can upgrade it to pro version which will offer you plenty of customization options.

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Thank you for reading this article. We hope we were able to help you choose the perfect plugin for your website. If you have any question regarding this article, or you need any additional help, please feel free to ask below in comments, and we will do our best to help you in any way we can. 

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Editorial Staff at 85ideas is a team of WordPress experts led by Brian Harris. Here to share amazing tuts, guides and collections.

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