LayerSlider WP is a premium multi-purpose slider for creating image galleries, content sliders, and mind-blowing slideshows with must-see effects, even from your WordPress posts and pages. It uses cutting edge technologies to provide the smoothest experience that’s possible, and it comes with more than 200 preset 2D and 3D slide transitions. It has a beautiful and easy-to-use admin interface with supporting modern features like drag n’drop WYSIWYG slider builder, real-time previews, timeline view, Google Fonts and transition builder for custom animations.
It’s device friendly by supporting responsive mode, multiple layouts, touch gestures on mobile devices, and uses techniques like lazy load and conditional script loading for optimal performance. You can add any content into sliders, including images, text, custom HTML, YouTube and Vimeo videos or HTML5 self-hosted multimedia contents. It’s also SEO friendly by allowing you to build semantic markup with custom attributes that search engines can index easily. LayerSlider comes with 13 built-in skins, and it has tons of options to entirely customize the appearance and behavior of your sliders at the smallest detail.
Full list of features
General Features
- Super smooth hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions with jQuery fallback
- Fully responsive & multiple layouts support
- High compatibility with many fallback features for old browsers
- Lazy loading images for beter performance
- Unlimited layers with image, video, audio, text or custom HTML content
- Powerful API for more customization
- SEO friendly
- Multiple sliders can be added on the same page
- Included free slide transition gallery
- Very detailed documentation with examples
- Unlimited variations of usage (image slider, image slider with text, content slider, video gallery slider, mixed content slider, banner rotator, carousel, etc.)
- Free updates & support
WordPress specific plugin features
- Build dynamic sliders from WordPress posts and pages
With advanced filters for finding posts or mixing them with static content - WYSIWYG editor with real-time previews
Build sliders with modern techniques like drag n’ drop - Timeline view
Review your layer timings like in a movie editor - Multisite ready
With network-wide activation support - Translation and localization ready
Supports popular plugins like WPML and qTranslate for multilingual sliders - Transition builder, Skin and CSS Editors
Customize the built-in skins and transitions easily - Automatic updates
Receive update notification and install new versions with one click - Import / Export feature
Move sliders between sites easily - Plugin permissions
Provide plugin access to different users to collaborate on working sliders - Use Google Fonts
With built-in search and configuration options - Advanced settings to improve performance
Scripts in the footer, conditional script loading, etc - Use self-hosting video & audio
Easily upload and insert HTML5 multimedia contents - Sample sliders included
You can see our settings to get started - Interactive tooltips and integrated docs
Receive instant help for a specific problem whenever you need it
Slider Layout & Appearance
- Responsive, full-width, full size or fixed dimensions layout
- Responsive under & Layers container features for full-width sliders
- 13 skins included
- Skins PSD file included for easily creating your own skins
- Option for specifying a global background color or image to the slider
Slide Options
- More than 200 2D & 3D transitions
- Option for create your own slide transitions
- Option linking the whole slide
- Option for adding a deep link to a specified slide
Layer Options
- Layers can slide (axis-free), fade, rotate (in 2D or 3D), scale and skew, or mixed of these
- Option for setting the transform origin of transition
- Option for linking layers
- Option for adding a link to layers which will change the slider to a specific slide
- Optional parallax effect on layers
Slideshow
- Auto-start slideshow (can be disabled)
- Pause slideshow on hover feature
- Starting with specified slide
- Optional random slideshow feature
- Option for fade in the first slide without animating the layers
- Option for backwards-slideshow (Two way slideshow)
- Loops feature
Navigation
- Bullets, hover thumbnails or thumbnails
- Touch navigation on mobile browsers
- Keyboard navigation
- Option for disabling prev / next buttons or bullets
- Option for showing prev / next buttons or bullets on hover
- Two types of timers: bar timer and circle timer
- Option for customizing the thumbnail area and the size of thumbnails
Video & Audio
- Easy to use with YouTube, Vimeo or HTML5 videos or audios
- Auto-pause slideshow while videos or audios are playing
- Auto-play videos and audios (optional)
- YouTube and Vimeo thumbnail images
YourLogo
- Option for adding a fixed image over the slider
- Option for styling and adding a link to this image
Compatibility
- Requires jQuery 1.7 (working with 1.10.x or 2.x versions, please note that jQuery 2.x is no more compatible with IE7 and 8!) & Greensock Animation Engine
- Requires WordPress 3.5, compatible with WordPress 3.8+
- Working in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE7-11, Opera
- Working in mobile browsers
- Most of the 2D slide transitons are working under all browsers
- The 3D slide transitions are working under Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, iOS and the latest Android versions (2D fallback mode under other browsers)
