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.
