Friday 1 February 2013

Free Slideshow Plugins For WordPress – Best Of

Slideshow is a brilliant method to stack and present series of items (such as images) in your website especially when space is a constraint. It is also commonly used by webmasters and bloggers to showcase portfolios, artwork, products, latest posts, etc. It saves time and efficiently draw visitors’ attention.
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In WordPress, installing and adding slideshow to posts can be done in a breeze, thanks to developers among the WordPress community. We’ve ran through all WordPress slideshow plug-ins we can possibly find and compiled this list of best and free WordPress slideshow plug-ins.
We hope it will come in handy for you whenever you feels like putting up one. Full list after jump!

NextGEN Gallery

Full integrated WordPress Image Gallery plugin with tons of interesting features like uploading images via compressed zip file, able to import meta files (EXIF, IPTC or XMP), watermaking images, thumb generating and more. Add-on: NextGEN-FlashViewer – Adobe Flash Plugins from for NextGEN Gallery, NextGEN-ImageFlow- picture gallery for NextGEN Gallery.
Demo | Download
NextGEN Monoslideshow

Page Flip Image Gallery

Image gallery with page flip effect.
Demo | Download
pageflipgallery

Featured Content Gallery

Creates an automated rotating image gallery of your posts or pages for use anywhere within your theme.
Demo | Download
Featured Content Gallery

KPicasa Gallery

Displays your Picasa Web Galleries in a post or in a page simply by creating a post or a page with a special keyword.
Demo | Download
kPicasa Gallery

Shutter Reloaded

Image viewer for WordPress that works similarly to Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. Supports all standard features like image resizing, preloading images, etc. Does not require any external libraries.
Demo | Download
shutter reloaded

Grand Flash Album Gallery

Full integrated (flash skin based, slideshow) Image Gallery plugin with a powerfull admin back end.
Demo | Download
Grand Flash Album Gallery

Yet Another Photoblog

Convert WordPress blog into full feature photo blog with easy usable photo management system. Comes with several additional plugins to enhance your photoblog.
Demo | Download
Yet Another Photoblog

Dynamic Content Gallery

Creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest or featured content selected from one or more normal post categories, pages, Custom Post Type posts, or a mix of these.
Demo | Download
Dynamic Content Gallery

WordPress Content Slide

Create fully customizable jquery Fading image slideshow anywhere within your WordPress site.
Demo | Download
WordPress Content Slide

Lazyest Gallery

Upload your images via FTP, and Lazyest Gallery will index your images automatically.
Demo | Download
Lazyest Gallery

Meteor Slides

Create slideshows with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides.
Demo | Download
meteor slides

Lightview Plus

Seamless integration of Lightview to create a nice overlay to display images and videos
Demo | Download
Lightview Plus

Slideshow Gallery

JavaScript powered slideshow gallery that is flexible with all aspects can easily be configured
Demo | Download
Slideshow Gallery

Cleaner Gallery

Integrate with many Lightbox-type scripts (Lightbox, Slimbox, Thickbox, Lightview, Shutter Reloaded, prettyPhoto, etc) and allow you to do much cooler things with your galleries using the shortcode.
Demo | Download
Cleaner Gallery

Lightbox Gallery

Turns all gallery photos into lightbox view.
Demo | Download
Lightbox

DM Albums

Displays images and thumbnails perfectly sized to your blog. Allow visitors to view entire album without leaving the post.
Demo | Download
dm albums

SlideDeck Content Slider

Create managable dynamic content slider in WordPress template or post easily without writing a single code.
Demo | Download
slidedeck

Slideshow Gallery Pro

Photo and image viewing plug-in that integrates seemlessly with the WordPress image upload and gallery system.
Demo | Download
slideshow gallery pro

More

  • WP Slideshow – Photo slideshow player that can be used on any kind of WordPress blog, including photographer and designer portfolios, real estate and other business websites, all sorts of picture galleries and product pages. (premium)
  • Fotobook – Link to your Facebook account and import all of your photo albums to WordPress.
  • Picasna – Create gallery from your Picasa album with ease.
  • Flickr + Highslide – Displays your flickr photos using Highslide JS.
  • Flickr slideshow wrapper – Yet another plugin that calls Flickr albums into your content.
  • Slideshow – A plugin previously developed for New theme, that pulls image attachments and formats them into slideshow.
  • SuperSlider-Show – A gallery plug-in powered by Mootools, build upon Slideshow2 that is highly customizable.
Did we missed any good WordPress slideshow plugins? Let us know in comments!

7 Free E-Commerce WordPress Plugins


With more and more people relying on the Internet to buy things, there is a considerable boom in e-commerce ventures. With big names such as Amazon and eBay already doing great business, the internet has evolved to become a great platform for product and business exposure. With the help of WordPress and various plugins available, you can create an e-commerce site for your business quite easily.
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The following are some of the best (free) WordPress plugins for an e-commerce site.

Cart66 Lite

Cart66 lite is an e-commerce plugin for your WordPress blog. Unlike other e-commerce plugins, it is quite light yet powerful. You can easily sell digital as well as physical products with it. With multiple shipping and currency options, it can also help you can give your business an international edge. You can easily place ads in any page and also use affiliate marketing for more profit.
Cart66 Lite

EShop Plugin

eShop is an easily accessible WordPress plugin. It has simple controls and provides various methods for listing products. Adding products and customizing settings is easy on eshop. Also it has a simple interface for quick browsing and purchase. It also provides multiple merchant payment gateways, statistics for purchase, multiple shipping options (including by weight) etc.
eShop

Jigoshop WordPress E-Commerce Plugin

Jigoshop provides many features which are essential to host an e-commerce website. It will take only minutes to create your full-fledged online shop with various Jigoshop products and services. You can group your products and provide various attributes for your products, (like S, M, L sizes for clothing) to help your visitors easily refine the items as per their needs.
Jigoshop

Woocommerce Plugin

The Woocommerce plugin comes from the developers of the famous Woothemes. This Woocommerce plugin promises to provide powerful e-commerce facilities as well as elegance. It provides a whole lot of features including a dashboard widget so that you can easily check the progress of your online businesses. It is highly customizable and comes with multiple payment options including Paypal, Cheque, Cash on delivery and many more options. Also you can add multiple extensions to the plugin from a wide range of Woocommerce extensions.

WP E-Commerce Plugin

With over 1.5 million downloads, WP e-commerce is the most popular e-commerce WordPress plugin in the market now. It is easy to install and can be easily used with any WordPress theme. It provides a wide range of payment options including Manual (cheques), PayPal etc. It is highly customizable and you can easily change the look and modify the templates to your convenience.
Wp e-commerce

Quick Shop Plugin

Quick Shop adds a sidebar which displays the visitor’s shopping cart along the page. Quick Shop supports built-in Paypal and Email functionality. It also provides the option to add products to your pages with a TinyMCE button. Visitors can also remove any item from their shopping cart.
Quick Shop

YAK Shopping Cart Plugin

The YAK shopping cart plugin associates your products with weblog entries and hence your post ID becomes your product code. You can easily categorize the products and configure settings for the shopping cart. It provides custom payment options like cheques, credit cards, paypal and various other payment gateways. You can configure the shipping option based on weight or a flat rate.
YAK

50 (Most) Beautiful Blogger Templates



There are tonnes of Blogger templates out there, but we all know it’s hard (or perhaps take times) to find the really nice and high quality ones. So for those who are bored with their current Blogger template and intend to change, we thought your time can be spent better on browsing only the best and nicest among the free Blogger themes. Here’s 50 most beautiful Blogger templates we managed to compile. Prepare to scroll after jump.
  1. Blogy Decorativo

  2. GossipCity

  3. Minyx

  4. Glass

  5. Colibri

  6. Jeans

  7. Leia

  8. Integral

  9. Mr. Techie

  10. Your Blog 2.0

  11. Hemingway Black

  12. Hemingway White

  13. Bella

  14. Feminina III

  15. History Channel

  16. Black Minimalism

  17. Glued Ideas Subtle

  18. Ocean Mist

  19. The Late Show

  20. Fleur

  21. WP-Polaroid

  22. Ads Theme

  23. WP Premium

  24. Aspire

  25. Blogging Pro

  26. Dilectio

  27. ITheme

  28. Vinery

  29. SImpress

  30. Erudite

  31. Blue Marine

  32. Flower Template

  33. Red White Web 2.0

  34. IWork

  35. Softlight

  36. Pannasmontata

  37. Underground

  38. Florascent

  39. Art Imagination

  40. Dark World

  41. Forte

  42. Morning

  43. Colorful Day

  44. Smashing Template

  45. Grey Press

  46. Tierra

  47. Vertical

  48. Sweet Blog

  49. Mosaico

  50. Blogy Rosa