Slidy vs WP Headmaster

Slidy is a reponsive jQuery slider that uses slick carousel by Ken Wheeler and it’s fully integrated into WordPress, so it’s possible to add and administer slides via the Dashboard. You just need to set the image that you want to see in Slidy as the featured image in each post. Slides can be categorized and in this way you can have different sliders on your website. With the functionalities slick carousel brings, it is possible to create sliders in different ways, such as having multiple items unlike many sliders. Also, with the wide range of settings, you can customize your slider in various ways such as inifinite looping, mouse dragging, swiping, arrow key navigation etc. You can also add links to the individual slides via Add/Edit Slide interface. The slides are posts at the same time so you can use them as contents but you may have to edit your theme to view slide images. Note that this version doesn’t cover all functionalities slick carousel provided but the present functionalities are very sufficent for you to create awesome sliders. Check out Slidy’s screenshots here. How to use Slidy Find the example below for inserting it directly into the template $args = array( 'category' => 'home-page', 'autoplay' => 'true', 'autoplaySpeed' => '500', 'dots' => 'true', 'slidesToShow' => '3', 'slidesToScroll' => '1' ); if( function_exists( 'slidy_create' ) ){ slidy_create( $args ); } Find the example below for inserting it using shortcode [slidy category="" title="false" autoplay="true" autoplaySpeed="500" dots="true" slideToShow="3" slideToScroll="1"] Options you can set for the template insert / shortcode category (none) – category of the slides (must be slug) number (5) – number of sliders to be shown title (true) – title of the slides autoplay (true) – autoplay of the slides autoplaySpeed (3000) – speed of the autoplay arrows (true) – navigation arrows cssEase (“ease”) – CSS3 Animation Easing dots (true) – navigation dots draggable (true) – desktop mouse dragging fade (false) – fade transition (only possible when slidesToShow is 1) infinite (true) – infinite looping of the slides pauseOnHover (true) – pause when hover the slides pauseOnDotsHover (false) – pause when hover the navigation dots slidesToShow (1) – number of slides to show in one time slidesToScroll (1) – number of slides to scroll in one time speed (300) – speed of the scrolling swipe (true) – swiping touchMove (true) – touch move touchThreshold (5) – threshold of the touch move useCSS (true) – CSS transitions The plugin is written in English and has been translated into Turkish by myself. You’re welcomed if you want to translate it into your language. Use translations.pot, rename it as slidy-LANGCODE.po (e.g. slidy-tr_TR) and open it in Poedit. Translate and save. There should be a MO file created by Poedit. Send PO and MO files to me, then I will add them in the next release.

WP Headmaster is a free plugin to help correctly include, organise and enqueue common items into your theme’s head tag. WP Headmaster has been designed to work perfectly alongside other popular plugins like Yoast’s WordPress SEO, without any cross-over. WP Headmaster will continue to develop, but at present comes with the following features: Google Analytics – Simply add in your unique tracking ID and select from either Universal or Classic tracking. The GA tracking code will be added last within the head. Page/Post specific CSS and JavaScript – Add inline scripts and styles from a handy Meta Box available on each post and page. Icons – Upload your website’s Favicon and Apple Touch Icon. jQuery – Choose to include jQuery either locally or from Google’s hosted API. Script Library – Enable popular JavaScript files including Respond.js and Modernizr. Inline JavaScript – If you wish to add any inline site-wide JavaScript to your simply include it in the field. Web Fonts – Embed your chosen fonts from Google Web Fonts, Adobe Edge Web Fonts and Typekit. Meta Author Tag – Is dynamically populated with the original author and last to modify the page. You can learn more about WP Headmaster and our other free WordPress plugins on our website. You can also track progress and contribute to WP Headmaster on GitHub.