Creative Clans Slide Show
A free widget to use the Creative Clans Slide Show in your Wordpress website.
The facts
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 22 Apr 2015
- Added
- Jan 2009
- Requires WP
- 2.7
- Tested up to
- WP 4.1.42
- Downloads
- 51,773
Our analysis
AI-assistedCreative Clans Slide Show is a free WordPress plugin designed to create flash slide shows for your website. It allows for a high degree of personalisation through various parameters, such as setting titles, captions, and background transparency. The plugin supports multiple image formats and offers options for dynamic XML creation to address write permission issues.
This plugin is suitable for photographers and creatives looking to showcase their work through visually appealing slide shows. With features like adjustable dimensions, multiple transition types, and the ability to include watermarks, it provides flexibility for users who want to enhance their site with image displays.
Best for: Photographers and creatives seeking to display images in a slide show format on their WordPress site.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Supports multiple image formats: jpeg, gif, and png
- ✓Offers 28 different transition types
- ✓Allows for multiple slide shows on a single page
- ✓Customisable captions for each slide
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in April 2015, may not be compatible with newer WordPress versions
- •Limited information on user ratings and active installations
- •Flash-based, which may not be suitable for all browsers or devices
Verdict
Creative Clans Slide Show offers a range of customisation options for creating flash slide shows, but its outdated nature and reliance on Flash may limit its usability in modern web environments.
From the developer
tonnaer's own description of Creative Clans Slide Show, lightly tidied.
A free, small (only 13Kb) flash slide show widget, that can easily be integrated
into your WordPress 3.4 website, and can be entirely (or almost) personalized
through a bunch of parameters.
New features:
* A title can be set
* Slides can be loaded through a proxy, enabling cross domain image loading
* The transparancy of the slide show’s background can be set
* A watermark image, its transparancy, position and full-window display can be set
* A new border type: image
* The possibility to set a different target window for each slide
* The possibility to load all images (jpeg, gif and png) in a folder
* The possibility to use dynamic xml creation, which should resolve any write permission problems
* The possibility to choose if images must be resized to fit the slideshow window
Other features:
* also works if you’ve given WordPress its own directory
* works with redirects
* works with permalinks
* height and width can be set
* 28 transition types
* links can be enabled (one for the whole slide show, or one for each slide)
* slides can be shown in forward, backward or random order
* border style, color, width and transparancy can be specified
* caption can be text or image
* caption can be the same for the whole slide show, or a different one for each slide
* caption characteristics (position, style, font, fontsize, color, transparancy, etc)
can be specified
* you can have more than one slide show on your pages.
* etc.