Which has better reviews, Easy Nivo Slider or Home Page Slideshow?

Home Page Slideshow has the higher average rating (5.0★ from 3 reviews) compared to Easy Nivo Slider (2.3★ from 3 reviews). Both are tracked daily by AppRanks, so the figures here update each refresh cycle.

Should I choose Easy Nivo Slider or Home Page Slideshow?

Home Page Slideshow holds the higher average rating (5.0★ vs 2.3★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.

Which is faster to set up, Easy Nivo Slider or Home Page Slideshow?

Both apps are one-click installs from the WordPress Plugin Directory. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly, and the WordPress Plugin Directory publishes no review base that would let us infer it for these two — read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Easy Nivo Slider typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (3 reviews). Home Page Slideshow typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (3 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

Can I migrate data between Easy Nivo Slider and Home Page Slideshow?

Migration support varies by app and category. Easy Nivo Slider and Home Page Slideshow both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from Home Page Slideshow" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.

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Easy Nivo Slider vs Home Page Slideshow — WordPress

Easy Nivo Slider vs Home Page Slideshow

Name: Easy Nivo Slider
Rating: 2.3 (3 reviews)

Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points

Easy Nivo Slider

2.3·3reviews·200+installs

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1. Listing metadata

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	Easy Nivo Slider	Home Page Slideshow
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Description	2506 / 5000 chars50% used	1758 / 5000 chars35% used
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Platforms	WordPress	WordPress
Developer	ecurtain	jethin
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Feature comparison between Easy Nivo Slider and Home Page Slideshow
Metric	Easy Nivo Slider	Home Page Slideshow
Rating	2.3 ★	★ 5.0 ★
Total reviews	3	3
Active installs	200+	100+
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3. App details

Long-form description · keyword frequency

Easy Nivo Slider

Easy Nivo Slider allows you to easily add the awesome Nivo Slider to any post, page, or sidebar without writing any code. This plugin generates the slideshow for you, allowing many customizations including size, speed, type of animation, navigation behavior, etc. Select which images are used in the slider – all images attached to a post/page, featured images from a category/custom post type/taxonomy/term, or images in a NexGen gallery. Define up to three slider configurations, setting the slider size and navigation behavior. Then add as many sliders as you want using those configurations, customizing each one for image selection, animation, and speed. A plugin for the visual editor makes adding shortcodes a snap. Choose the options you want with a form and the plugin generates the shortcode for you. Add sliders to your sidebar with widgets, which also allow images selection and slider behavior. Easy Nivo Slider uses WordPress’s thumbnail support to automatically create copies of images you add to your site, re-sized and cropped to fit the slider exactly. Features: * Generates a slider using the attached images from a post or page. * Generates a slider using the featured images from posts. * Generates a slider using images from a NextGen gallery. * No coding required, not changes to the them files needed. * Add slider to any post or page with the Visual Editor button * The shortcode system writes the shortcodes for you. * Slider widgets to add sliders to the sidebar. * Preview mode lets you see how the sliders and widget will appear. * Customize behavior, navigation, and captions. * Customize transition animation and speed. * Images (optionally) link to the posts where they are featured * Add as many sliders as you want to a page – each with its own settings. Acknowledgements This plugin was developed around the Nivo Slider, “The world’s most awesome jQuery slider” by dev7studios. It’s really an amazing piece of work. Check out their site at http://nivo.dev7studios.com/ Plugin settings allow you to exclude the Nivo plugin if it’s installed separately. This plugin uses the very handy Custom Image Sizes plugin by Filosofo to support resizing the sliders. The Custom Image Sizes plugin is automatically included, but settings allow you to exclude it if it’s installed separately. Known Issues This plugin doesn’t handle resizing of NextGen galleries very well. NextGen images are handled a little differently, and I’m working on a way to address this.

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images11×2.71%
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nivo6×1.48%
sliders6×1.48%
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page5×1.23%
post5×1.23%
behavior4×0.99%
nivo slider4×0.99%
allow3×0.74%
animation3×0.74%

Home Page Slideshow

This plugin creates a “Home Slideshow” options page under the “Settings” menu in the WordPress admin. Editors and admins can create and manage individual slides on this page. These slides can then be displayed as a dynamic slideshow on a site’s home page using the simple ‘[home_slideshow]’ shortcode. (View an example slideshow) The plugin supports one optional “options” shortcode attribute: [home_slideshow options="timeout=5000"] options: This attribute can be used to override default slideshow options or set custom options. Attribute values use query string format, e.g.: ‘option1=value1&option2=value2’ etc. Option names are in standard Cycle2 format without ‘data-cycle-‘ prefix. See the Cycle2 website for documentation and supported options. Notes Slides include image (required) and optional title, subtitle and link. Links and image size can be set when selecting image. (Full size images recommended.) Slideshows and slides are 100% the width of their container. Upload images that are at least as wide as the slideshow you want them to appear in. Default Display: Aspect ratio of slideshow image area is set by the first image; images appear at 100% width / height of the slide container; images will show scaling in slideshows that contain both horizontally and vertically aligned images. Default CSS ids begin with “hss-“, Cycle2 classes with “cycle-“. Default slideshow id is “home-slideshow”. Default CSS styles were created using Twenty Thirteen theme — some theme CSS customization may be necessary for other themes. Slideshows look and perform best if images are sized to desired slideshow container / aspect ratio. This plugin uses jQuery Cycle2. Cycle2 may conflict with previous versions of Cycle if used on the same page.

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options7×2.57%
images6×2.21%
cycle25×1.84%
default5×1.84%
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Easy Nivo Slider vs Home Page Slideshow

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Which is faster to set up, Easy Nivo Slider or Home Page Slideshow?

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Can I migrate data between Easy Nivo Slider and Home Page Slideshow?

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