Smooth Slider

The slideshow created by Smooth Slider are JavaScript and text based, that is why bloggers will get full benefit of search engine optimization as the texts are readable by search engines.

It works for WordPress and WordPress Mu as well.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Features:

• Search Engine Optimized Slideshow
• Fully Customizable CSS
• Choose Posts and Pages as Featured Posts/Pages on Single Click
• Simple but Decent Slideshow
• Match Slideshow With WordPress Theme
• No Need Of Knowledge of PHP, HTML or CSS
• Easy To Install Plugin
• Full Support Available
• Readable by search engine as you can see the screenshot on Lynx browser available on our blog
• Option for transparent background, so that rounded corners can be supported
• Slider Preview in admin panel
• Can convert to pure image Slider
• Facility to put Custom Images in place of navigation numbers
• Images Original Size as well as custom size Option, also an option to crop the images so that they appear in proportion when custom sizes are selected
• Pick image from content or the custom field
• New custom field implementation, to allow not to display images on selective posts
• A new template tag to display Category specific posts on Smooth Slider
• A new template tag for WPMU, to get slider posts from all over the WPMU site
• Option to change Read More text and also put it in your language
• Permission setting option to restrict the users from adding posts to Smooth Slider
• Remove posts and pages from Smooth Slider selectively or remove all the posts from the slider at one go from the settings page itself
• Option to retain specific HTML tags in the slider posts
• Option to specify custom text or HTML in place of navigation numbers or buttons
• Smooth Slider complete uninstall on plugin Delete
• A new custom field slide_redirect_url can be added to featured post/page to redirect the slide to another URL

What is new in this release:

• Fix:
• In case of multi-site WordPress installation there was an issue while saving setting set.

What is new in version 2.6.1:

• Fixed:
• Smooth Slider coming before content in case of shortcode
• Words breaking improperly in the slider content area
• JS conflict with ShareThis plugin

What is new in version 2.3.5:

• Fixes:
• An extra div tag at the end of the slider HTML was causing the slider break on Safari in a particular case. Thanks to Michael Preisner for pointing out the issue.
• On new pages, posts, the default slider sltysheet should be the one selected thru Smooth Slider settings and not the actual 'default' stylesheet.
• noscript tags should have the text enclosed in 'p' tags to make Smooth Slider validate on XHTML strict. Thanks to Martin Wilcke for pointing this out.
• The shortcode stripping was not working when there was an immediate anchor tag within the shorcodes. Rectified this bug. Thanks to Oscar of Innovacionweb for pointing this issue.
• Using the WP Minify 1.1.6 plugin with Smooth Slider 2.3.4.1 caused a 400 Bad Request error and the resulting html page ended up with no composite CSS file since Minify failed. This was in a special case when the slider is embedded on single page or a post and you updated from the older version of Smooth Slider (2.3.2 or less) to new version. Added a fix for this. Thanks to Doug Foster of theideamechanics.com for pointing this out.
• New:
• Option to enable the 'Flash of Unstyled content' while page load, which is disable by default. By default the slider will load once complete DOM elements are loaded (HTML page is ready to be served). Due to this default setting, some users feel that slider is loading slow.

What is new in version 2.3.2:

• Minor fix to release of version 2.3 1.
• Fix: Pages added to Smooth Slider were not displayed.
• Smooth Slider was turning empty. Fixed this issue 2.
• Along with posts, pages and media images, Smooth Slider now supports Custom Post Types.

What is new in version 2.3:

• New - Smooth Slider Widget
• New - Smooth Slider Shortcode
• New - Slides can now be re-ordered thru the 'Slider Admin Panel'
• New - Images existing and new images added to WordPress Media Gallery can be added to Smooth Slider along with posts and pages.
• New - Now images in the slider can be extracted in very intelligent manner. Added support for 'Post Thumbnails (WP 2.9+)'.
• New - Videos can be embedded in the slider. Ad can be added to the slider.
• New - Some slides can be linked to a webpage and others can be without a link as well.
• New - Multiple settings to the sliders on different pages thru CSS files.
• Fixed - Scheduled Posts issue.
• Fixed - Image Caption Issue
• Fixed - Retain HTML tags issue.
• Fixed - Permissions issue (Who can add post/page and slides to the slider and who cannot).

What is new in version 2.2:

• New - Multiple Sliders can now be created from the settings page. Post/Pages can be selectively put in the slider of your choice. Also, you could decide which post/page should display which slider (from the Edit Post/Page), though the page/single post template file contains regular Smooth Slider tag only.
• New - Added an option to limit the content on the slider by 'words'. Previously it was only with number of characters due to which sometimes for some posts the last word on the slider was shown broken. Now you can use any of the two, either limit content by number of characters or number of words
• Fix - Fixed the issue with get_smooth_slider_cat tag. There was a bug when this tag ws used for home page. Now it is working as per the specifications.
• Fix - For using the custom images for navigation, there was an issue with 'getimagesize' php function for some servers. Removed this fuction and directly put options to specify the custom images height and width.
• Fix - When the navigation numbers are used, there was some clicking issue, like the numbers needed to be douoble clicked in order to go to that slide number. This issue was observed with some installations of Smooth Slider (like on demo page). Hopefully this would get fixed with this release.
• Fix - Changed the name of the database table from slider to smooth_slider to avoid any database conflicts and be more specific.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3 or higher