Meta Slider

Meta Slider provides one of the easiest ways of adding an image slideshow to a post or page.

It allows developers to create a slideshow using one of four slideshow technologies it includes and then publish it via a shortcode or template tag.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• New feature:
• Smart pad option (for Image Slides & Flex Slider only).
• Portuguese language files added.
• Russian language files updated.

What is new in version 3.3.5:

• New feature:
• Smart pad option (for Image Slides & Flex Slider only).
• Portuguese language files added.
• Russian language files updated.

What is new in version 3.3.4:

• New feature:
• Smart pad option (for Image Slides & Flex Slider only).
• Portuguese language files added.
• Russian language files updated.

What is new in version 3.3.2:

• New feature:
• Smart pad option (for Image Slides & Flex Slider only).
• Portuguese language files added.
• Russian language files updated.

What is new in version 3.3.1:

• New feature:
• Smart pad option (for Image Slides & Flex Slider only).
• Portuguese language files added.
• Russian language files updated.

What is new in version 3.3:

• New feature:
• Smart pad option (for Image Slides & Flex Slider only).
• Portuguese language files added.
• Russian language files updated.

What is new in version 3.2:

• Change slide image (click top right of slide thumbnail).

What is new in version 3.0.1:

• Fixed:
• Escape admin setting text fields
• Escape admin tab names
• Changed:
• Allow shortcode parameters to be filtered

What is new in version 2.9:

• New feature:
• Japanese Language Pack added
• Persian Language Pack added
• Switch between tab and list view
• Added ms-left and ms-right CSS classes to align slideshow to left or right
• Improvement:
• Flex Slider updated to 2.3.0-bleeding (fix initial image fade)
• Fixes:
• Reference to window.parent in media library
• Thumbnail outline in Firefox

What is new in version 2.8.1:

• CSS resets to avoid theme conflicts
• Autoload visibility conflict
• Layer Editor in IE11 - text fields not accessible in modal windows
• FlexSlider IE11 Fade transition

What is new in version 2.8:

• New feature:
• Shortcode parameter added to restrict slideshow to displaying on homepage only
• Russian Language Pack added
• Fix:
• Carousel image scaling in Firefox
• wpautop issue with double ampersand
• Improvement:
• Save slideshow after reordering slides

What is new in version 2.7.2:

• Fix:
• Only apply carousel margin to slides.
• Enqueue Easing library when carousel mode is enabled, regardless of effect selection.

What is new in version 2.7:

• New feature:
• Croatian language pack added
• Carousel margin option added
• Process shortcodes in captions
• Improvement:
• Tab rename UX
• Admin save spinner functionality improved
• CSS Resets updated
• Use plugins_loaded action to initialise plugin
• Fixed:
• PHP Warnings when one slideshow exists
• Smart Cropping sometimes not returning smart cropped image
• Added z-index to meta slider, attempted conflict fix for themes with drop down menus.
• Only include the easing library when transition effect is set to slide
• White Label Branding plugin compatibility.

What is new in version 2.6.3:

• Improvement:
• Filters added for complete slideshow output
• Filter added for slide image label
• 'No Conflict' mode refactored
• 'slider' parameter added to flexslider before/start/after etc callbacks
• Change:
• Renamed in admin menu from "Meta Slider Lite" to "Meta Slider"

What is new in version 2.6.2:

• Fixed:
• Vantage background image tiling.

What is new in version 2.5.1:

• Fixed:
• JetPack Photon conflict.
• Improvement:
• German Language pack added.
• Chinese language pack updated.

What is new in version 2.5-beta1:

• Fixed:
• Center aligned slideshow.

What is new in version 2.4.2:

• Fixed:
• qTranslate caption & URL parsing for image slides.

What is new in version 2.4:

• Fix:
• FlexSlider styling in twenty twelve theme
• IE10 - "Caption" placeholder text being saved as actual caption
• Improvement:
• Settings table tidied up
• New slides are resized during addition to the slideshow
• Default slideshow size increased to 700x300
• Image filename now displayed for each slide (instead of image dimensions)
• Replace deprecated 'live()' jQuery call with 'on()'
• Polish Language pack added

What is new in version 2.3:

• Change:
• 'scoped' attribute removed from inline CSS tag until browsers catch up with supporting it properly. A new filter has been added: "metaslider_style_attributes" if you wish to add the scoped attribute back in.
• wp_footer check removed due to confusion
• New Feature:
• 'metaslider_max_tabs' filter added to convert tab list to ordered drop down menu
• Fixed:
• Remove 'Insert Media' tab from 'Add Slide' modal (WP 3.6 only)
• New Feature:
• Filters added to allow modification of image slide HTML
• Improvement:
• Settings area tidied up
• Image URL Field less restrictive
• HTML Output tidied up

What is new in version 2.1.4:

• Fixed:
• Widget markup invalid.

What is new in version 2.1:

• New feature:
• Widget added
• System check added (checks for required image libraries and WordPress version)
• Fix:
• Multiple CSS fixes added for popular themes
• Flex slider shows first slide when JS is disabled
• Improvement:
• Display warning message when unchecking Print JS and Print CSS options

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.5 or higher