20 Killer Image Sliders & Carousels
Whenever I am developing a new website or WordPress theme, I try and look for new kind of content sliders and carousel scripts (that can scroll images & HTML content). Over a period of time, I have bookmarked some efficient sliders that can also be easily integrated into WordPress if you have the skills. I am sure these will be helpful to both moderate and advanced developers alike. Here is the list :-
1. Sproing!
This is a lively script that make your images grow in size whenever someone hovers their cursor over the thumbnails.
2. Easy Slider JQuery Plugin
An easily configurable content slider plugin for JQuery that supports both horizontal and vertical scrolling. I have used this for my last Premium theme – Freedom.
3. Floom
This is the prettiest of them all! It uses Mootools to beautifully transition between images and overall a very cutting-edge image slider.
4. Lightweight JQuery Content Slider
This is another JQuery slider plugin with the lightest footprint of only 380Kb. A great option if you quickly need to integrate a slider into your website.
5. Automatic Image Slider with CSS & JQuery
A nifty styled Image slider using CSS and JQuery script. This can be used quickly by just replacing the images with your own.
6. JQuery Pager Plugin
This is another content scroller with navigation links to scroll between slides – hence the name, Pager.
7. Image Rotator
A great way to display portfolio pieces, E-Commerce product images, or even as an image gallery.
8. Anything Slider
This is a HTML content slider that comes with both navigation tabs, scrolling arrows, autoplay feature and much more.
9. JQuery Coda Slider
This is an accessible ‘Coda’-like slider interface that also allows you to place links to the sliding content anywhere on the page and have the effect (and navigation) still work.
10. S3slider
A very sleek content slider that scrolls transparent, layered content over your images.
11. Featured Content Slider
With this slider, you can show off the best content of your website or blog in a nice intuitive way that will surely catch more eyeballs.
12. Moving Boxes
With zooming panels (in/out) and scroller buttons, this content slider is a total winner!
13. Sliding Boxes & Captions
This script lets you make animated boxes with sliding layers of content on mouseovers. Very neat looking!
14. GalleryView
GalleryView aims to provide JQuery users with a flexible, attractive content gallery that is both easy to implement and a snap to customize. You can even create your themes for this slider if you wish to do so.
15. JQuery Scrollable
The purpose of this library is to make it extremely easy to add scrolling functionality to a website. Whenever you wish to scroll HTML elements in a visually-appealing manner, this is the only library you need. It scrolls with mouse clicks and even with mouse wheel scrolling action.
16. Carousel WordPress Plugin
This is actually a WordPress plugin that lets you insert a content slider into your posts or pages with ease.
17. JQuery Easy Slides
Possibly the easiest to use JQuery plugin for making slideshows!
18. Looped Slider
Again, a JQuery based slider that lets you display images and content in the form of slides. It uses little dots for navigation.
19. YoxView
YoxView is a free image and video viewer for websites. It’s written in javascript using JQuery and is available as a JQuery plugin.
20. Slick Slideshow
This is a slick and web accessible slideshow widget for your site using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (JQuery). The site also includes the tutorial where you can learn to do this yourself.
Thank you for sharing these collection of sliders,
Reading the comments below I was surprised to find references to http://www.flashxml.net. I know this website very well, I even use some of their components on my website and I am very pleased, I recommend it. You should take a look, too.
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real good slider i like its.
The products are cool but I need something more like http://www.flashxml.net anyway, nice job!
Can I add this Sliders To blogger ? think for this site is nice
Thank you for the sensible critique. Me & my neighbor were just preparing to do some research on this. We got a grab a book from our area library but I think I learned more clear from this post. I’m very glad to see such great information being shared freely out there.
Hey,
Nice collection! I would recommend also this slider: http://www.flashxml.net/magnetic-photo-slider.html I think it is a bit different from what the web generally offers. It can also be customized according to one’s will.
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My personal favorite vslider4.0 by vibethemes
http://www.vibethemes.com/vslider-4-0-now-available-for-download/
Thanks for sharing this Sandy!
Nice article, I used S3Slider before. Easy slider looks nice too for some sub pages. Have to test them with IE9, recently had lot of problems with with my sites in IE9
Nice collection. Wondering the Nivo slider and CU3ER was left out though
If you’re interested, I created an image slider a while back and released it for free to the community. It’s very minimalistic with a 3D flip as the transition between images. All settings are tweakable via XML.
Anyway, you can download it or check out a demo of my free image slider here: http://ahrengot.com/likes/free-flash-based-3d-image-slider/
Hi,
Thanks for the link. Loved the scroller and it made me think about another piece of kit I’ve stumbled upon on the net, looking for a free slider.
It’s Flash, so no IPhone support, unfortunately, but the Photo Rotator looked awesome, and you could customize it directly online, upload images and all. If you think it’s worth checking out, just http://www.flashxml.net/photo-rotator.html
Je te salue! P-L
How do I install the anything slider in my html code…hint, I am using FrontPage 03
Thanks so much this was just what i was looking for:)
I wonder if this could be implemented on my prestashop site, I try to find some prestashop plugin but WOW… a simple image slider cost 40 Euros. I better to do it my self…
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Thanks you very much, i need to a few time to it. Wonderful slider and working in IE6, thanks again!
hi..
thanks for sharing this..
but still a little bit confuse about the code..
where should i put them?
before / after what part code in my css file?
Can I add this Sliders To blogger ?
Yeah, featured content and image sliders are really not that hard to implement in your site. A simple plugin and adjusting the settings and your off and sliding.
If you need any help with this, let me know and we can give you a hand.
Thanks.
Nice post Jai
It’s truly killer image/content Sliders & Carousels list
Thanks for the great listing of image sliders.
I love this one too:
http://www.suchmaschinenoptimierung-hamburg.de/xt-commerce-flash-shop-produkt-rotator-modul-kostenlos.html
It is an product image slider for online-Shops. Very cool stuff too. Maybe you can use it.
Kind regards from germany
Melanie
I just forget:
ITS FREE TOO!
The german word “kostenlos” means “for free”.
Just to make it more clear ;o)
Thanks for pointing out some of these. I’ll be testing the sproing one out on my blog next week.
An awesome list, they can be alternative for my favourite Carousel WP Plugin..
Great resources. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing these plugins, they are very useful and well made!
I do not understand English, can not understand!
Honestly out of all the lists for awesome image sliders and carousels, this is by far the best. I haven’t even seen half of these before! Thanks
Nice list…liked it…thanks..
Good roundup, but you missed my favourite one: http://nivo.dev7studios.com/
Actually, yeah I’m surprised that one didn’t make the list. I’ve used that one quiet a bit
I will see this template on my friend website, because he like it and he will buy it.