Content and image sliders have become very popular in recent years.The reason is that you can add very dynamic and advanced effects in your websites and blogs.Especially featuring important articles is a perfect effect for blogs.
Well,you can find many free or premium content and image sliders but today we bring together popular yet free jQuery content and image sliders from 2011.
Galleria
Galleria uses canvas and other techniques to create thumbnails and scale images on the fly, great when trying different sizes and themes without opening photoshop.
Slicebox – A fresh 3D image slider with graceful fallback
Slicebox makes use of the 3D transforms properties and allows different kind of effects. The main idea is to create three-dimensional image slices that will rotate and reveal the next image as another side of the 3d object.
Diapo
Diapo slideshow is an open source project.You can download it and use for free, you can also include it in your projects and sell it as part of a bigger work.Diapo slideshow requires jQuery 1.4+
Circular Content Carousel
It’s a simple circular content carousel.The idea is to have some content boxes that we can slide infinitely (circular). When clicking on the “more” link, the respective item moves to the left and a content area will slide out.
Content Rotator
It shows some image with a headline and sub-headline in each slide and allows navigating through the slides using the thumbnails that also contain a headline
Vertical Sliding Accordion
The main idea is to expand the accordion slices on click and show some more information
Sliding Background Image Menu
This menu will have several panels, each one corresponding to a different background image that will show on all panels when we hover over a panel label.
JQuery Based Flipped Image Gallery with Bounce Effects
A simple jQuery based flipped image gallery. On hover the images will expand.
Orbit:Countdown Image Slider Plugin
jQuery plugin lets you create a simple, effective and beautiful slider for images of any size, and even includes some parameters for making awesome captions and a sweet timer.
Fullscreen Gallery with Thumbnail Flip
The idea is to have a thumbnail of the currently shown fullscreen image on the side that flips when navigating through the images.
Easing Slider
The Easing Slider is an image slider plugin for WordPress which uses the jQuery Easing plugin.The Easing Slider comes with various options that allow you to choose different sources to get the images from and also multiple styling options so that you”ll never have to edit any files directly & with ease. Create your own unique elegant slider
Simple Nivo Slider
The Simple Nivo Slider plugin provides easy access to Gilbert Pellegrom’s excellent jQuery-based Nivo Slider. The admin panel makes it easy to tweak the most commonly used Nivo Slider options from within WordPress.
SlideDeck Lite for WordPress
SlideDeck was designed to replace the web’s current model of text heavy services pages, unclear product tours and confusing process diagrams with a fun, quick and beautiful way to interact with websites.
TheThe Image Slider – a Free WordPress Plugin
TheThe Image Slider is a WordPress plug-in that provides you with one of the most powerful, the most creative and the most versatile of image sliders built using jQuery. This sleek Image Slider plug-in is great for all those who are looking for a quick and easy way to get their portfolio online.
Featured Articles Lite
FeaturedArticles for WordPress slideshow plugin allows you to create sliders in your blog pages directly from your already written content, be it posts or pages.
Dynamic Content Gallery
Creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest or featured content posts, categories, pages and Custom Post Type posts.
Promotion Slider(WordPress)
Promotion Slider is a jQuery slideshow populated by the promotions you enter into the WordPress admin area.
dualSlider
TN3 Gallery Lite (Free Version)
TN3 Gallery is a jQuery image gallery with slideshow, transitions effects, multiple album options, CSS skinning and much more. It’s compatible with all modern desktop and mobile browsers.
WOW Slider
WOW Slider is a jQuery image slider with stunning visual effects (Blast, Fly, Blinds, Squares, Slices, Basic, Fade, Ken Burns, Stack, Stack vertical and Basic linear) and tons of professionally made templates
Cloud Carousel
The carousel features realistic perspective. Many 3d carousels only apply perspective scaling to the size of the images, not their positions. This results in disproportionate gaps appearing between items as they shrink in the distance which looks odd.
Slidorion
The Slidorion displays beautiful images along with a variable length description. With slides linked to each tab, and accompanied by a large array of effects, the Slidorion is a great alternative to the traditional jQuery slider.
Nice selection but not a single demo link? Odd.
Click on each of the headings (hint: they’re links)
Nivo slider effects are super i will definitely use it