A WordPress with a slider brings a lot of pre-defined statement in front of readers, but if in case it has not been added up properly, then it will lose its shine. While there are plenty of themes which comes including the slider at par, but one can also find the slider plugins (the best one) for their next WordPress site. In this article, I have showcased the best such WordPress slider plugins.
Smooth Slider
The plugin creates a dynamic slideshow for featured posts on a blog. The slideshow are JavaScript and Text based, which lets bloggers and site owners to get full benefit of Search Engine Optimization as the texts are easily readable by Search Engine.
Fullscreen Background Image Slider WP Plugin
The plugin allows you to have fullscreen background image slider for your WordPress site. It allows you to set the background image for each of posts, including custom post types which comes with your active theme, manage the thumbnail setting for each post too.
SlideDeck 2
The plugin is a responsive slider plugin which allows you to easily create content sliders out of almost any content. You can connect to a variety of Content Sources like YouTube, Flickr, WordPress posts and Pinterest to create gorgeous, dynamic sliders in a few clicks with the best pros is that no coding is required.
Slider gallery shortcode
The plugin will create a new shortcode for WordPress with all you have do is just create a slider gallery in few seconds by putting up [slider] while the time you are writing your post or a page. The slider will then display the images which you have uploaded to the current post or page.
KenBurner Slider WordPress Plugin
The plugin brings in Ken Burns Effect, slider and Text Animations all under one hood. You can customize this slider with drag and drop backend feature available. The plugin is totally customizable: Start-, End Point, Zoom In or Out, Zoom Factor are all in the different slider parameters with allowing you to add transitions to your pictures but the elements on each of slide too.
Promotion Slider
Promotion slider is a jQuery slider which makes it easy to insert a simple slideshow or to implement multiple rotating ad zones on a webpage. Since it is highly customizable, you are in complete control of what shows on the slider, what shows on your promotion pages and over the top on how it all works.
Z-News Multimedia Post
The plugin will bring in multimedia options. You can be configured video (Youtube, Vimeo, MP4 and FLV), audio (MP3), image and html content (using the WordPress editor). The plugin has features include Touch Swipe, Drag and responsive layout.
Premium Featured Posts Slider
The plugin allows you to show off your content in the real way, all in a slider. You can feature any of your post, page or custom post types. It includes six predefined layouts with 18 variables available with each.
WP Parallax Content Slider
WP Parallax Content Slider is a plugin which adds automatically a content slider of your last posts where you want on your WordPress blog or website. It includes a customizable JQuery content slider with CSS3 animations and parallax effects.