Best WordPress sliders, that I've found on the web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3586515Hi HN,
This week, for my WordPress project I was looking for the best content slider plugin solution. There're a lot of lists on the web, but none of them is really useful.
So I thought that this mini-topic might be useful to someone, here is my independent list of (mostly) commercial WordPress sliders that I bought for testing:
1. Estro for WordPress - http://pixelentity.com/estro-jquery-ken-burns-slider-wordpress-plugin/
+ Has great Ken Burns effect
+ Fast on mobile, because of CSS3 transitions and canvas drawing, but works slow in old browsers
+ Thumbnails option
- Can't display content from WordPress posts
- Useful only when you need Ken Burns effect
+ Can show content from WordPress post and RSS feeds
+ Can display slider inside slider
+ Has a free version
+ Thumbnails option
+ Great support, I had small issue and guys fixed my issue in a 3 hours.
- Too overloaded with features, works sluggish on my phone
- Works sluggish on mobile
+ Very cool touch swiping navigation and fast CSS3 + Templating system to create custom layout in admin
+ Can display multiple images per view, which allows to create carousel and mail slider for site with same script
+ Slides any post type and taxonomies from it
- Has no option to create slides with manually (only from WordPress posts)
- Has no free version
+ The only one free slider, that works relatively fine and can display posts.
- Doesn't work on Android, works sluggish on iOS
+ Touch navigation, CSS3 transitions, responsive layout
+ Option to add animated captions with built-in wysiwig editor
+ Can be displayed as gallery with thumbnails, or as simple slider
- As Estro, doesn't have an option to slide content from WordPress
- Has no free version
- Scales only images and slider wrapper, text content inside doesn't scale