Easily create responsive slideshows with WordPress that are mobile friendly and simple to customize.
Meteor Slides makes it simple to create slideshows and publish them with a shortcode, widget, or template tag. The slideshows scale with responsive and fluid themes to fit any device and have touch support. Powered by jQuery Cycle with over twenty transition styles to choose from.
Meteor Slides Homepage
Visit this plugin’s homepage for documentation, tutorials, and additional videos.
Video Overview
This screencast shows some of the plugin’s features, such as different transition and navigation options, multiple slideshows, plugin settings, and metadata. Watch more Meteor Slides videos.
Features
- Easy integration: Add the slideshow to your site using a template tag, shortcode, or widget.
- Mobile Friendly: Scales to fit any device, supports touch navigation for mobiles and tablets.
- Multiple Slideshows: Organize your slides into multiple slideshows.
- Slideshow settings page: Control the slide height and width, the number of slides, the slideshow speed and transition style, and the type of navigation.
- Slideshow metadata: Customize individual slideshows or configure more jQuery Cycle options with the MetaData jQuery Plugin.
- Slideshow transition styles: blindX, blindY, blindZ, cover, curtainX, curtainY, fade, fadeZoom, growX, growY, none, scrollUp, scrollDown, scrollLeft, scrollRight, scrollHorz, scrollVert, slideX, slideY, turnUp, turnDown, turnLeft, turnRight, uncover, wipe, zoom.
- Slideshow navigation: Optional previous/next and/or paged slide navigation.
- Multiple languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Greek, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.
- Multisite Compatible: Add Meteor Slides to any site on your network.
Got a question about Meteor Slides?
Screenshots
Slideshow Preview
New Slide Page
Edit Slide Page
Slides Column View
Manage Slideshows
Meteor Slides Settings
Meteor Slides Widget
FAQ
Meteor Slides is awesome, what can I do to help?
You can help right on this page by rating the plugin or voting for its compatibility with the latest version of WordPress. Blog about Meteor Slides to get the word out, or visit my blog to post feedback or just say hi. You could also translate Meteor Slides into another language or make a donation.
I add a slide, save or publish it, and then it’s missing or not found, what gives?
Every post needs a title, make sure to give your slide a title where is says “Enter title here”. This title is mostly used just to label them in the backend, but it will also be used as the title of your link if you add a link.
I added an image to my post, why isn’t it showing up in the slide?
Make sure to click “Use as featured image” after uploading your image. If the image is added correctly to the slide, you should see a thumbnail of that image in the Slide Image metabox.
How can I switch the order of the slides?
The slides load in the order they were published, you can change the publish date of a slide post to switch the order. If you’d like drap-and-drop slide sorting, try a plugin like Post Types Order.
ChangeLog
1.5.7
- Updated security best practices for shortcode attributes
- Compatibility fixes for PHP 8.1.9
1.5.6
- Updated support for version 1.1.0 of the Members plugin
- Added Meteor Slides capabilities group for Members plugin role editor
- Changed slideshow JavaScript function hook for greater plugin compatibility
1.5.5
- Added support for responsive images using srcset in WordPress 4.4
- Updated stylesheet with conflict fixes for the TwentySixteen theme
1.5.4
- Updated slideshow widget to use PHP 5 constructor
1.5.3
- Added Norwegian translation
- Updated Swedish translation
- Updated stylesheet with conflict fixes for TwentyFifteen and other themes
1.5.2
- Updated icons to match WP 4.0
- Added Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, and Greek translations
- Updated Japanese translation
- Updated screenshots for WordPress 4.0
1.5.1
- Added slideshow alignment option to metadata
- Fixed bugs related to caching, touch navigation, and theme compatibility
- Added support for slideshows with one slide
- Added Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese translations
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, and Swedish translations
1.5
- Updated slideshow to scale for responsive and fluid width themes
- Added slideshow taxonomy selector to widget
- Added jQuery Touchwipe plugin to enable touch navigation
- Updated and expand contextual help
- Updated JQuery Cycle to 2.9999.5, switch to un-minimized version
- Added Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, and Persian translations
1.4
- Replaced slideshow skin with new navigation graphics and layout
- Added support for custom slideshow script
- Added support for Members plugin
- Added uninstall functionality
- Moved admin functions to separate file and reorganized some files
- Updated JQuery Cycle to 2.99, switch to minimized version
- Updated Swedish translation
- Added Hebrew, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian translations
1.3.3
- Updated generic function with prefix.
1.3.2
- Improved support for multiple slideshows of different sizes
- Fixed transparent PNG bug
- Updated functions for WordPress 3.1 compatibility
- Updated screenshots for WordPress 3.1
- Updated JQuery Cycle to 2.94
- Added message filters for slides
- Added contextual help
- Added Chinese translation
1.3.1
- Fixed post thumbnail registration conflicts
- Added support for custom slideshow loop
- Fixed navigation for multiple slideshows
- Improved support for transparent images
- Fixed slideshow layout issues
- Updated French translation
1.3
- Added custom slideshows taxonomy for multiple slideshows
- Optional slideshow and metadata parameters for template tag and shortcode
- Optional title, slideshow, and metadata parameters for the widget
- Added settings link to plugins page
- Added Slide image and link to slides column
- Removed slides from menu editor and search
- Expanded navigation options
- Added Metadata jQuery plugin
1.2.3
- Centered slides, fixed navigation bugs, added slideshow navigation buttons, updated translation files.
1.2.2
- Added slideshow navigation, added Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish translations.
1.2.1
- Added French and Romanian translations.
1.2
- Added localization functionality, added Indonesian and Turkish translations.
1.1.1
- Fixed featured image array conflict with some themes, hide slides from revealing on load, added unique id to each slide.
1.1
- Added slideshow widget, added stylesheet, updated JQuery Cycle to 2.88.
1.0.2
- Fixed shortcode bugs, positioning of slideshow and loop within loop.
1.0.1
- Removed “menu_position” to prevent conflicts with other plugins.
1.0
- Initial release of Meteor Slides.