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Home Page Slideshow
Create a simple, lightweight, responsive slideshow for your site's home page.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 3
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 20 Oct 2014
- Added
- Aug 2014
- Requires WP
- 3.0
- Tested up to
- WP 3.9.40
- Downloads
- 15,805
Our analysis
AI-assistedHome Page Slideshow is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create and manage a slideshow for your site's home page. It adds a dedicated options page under the 'Settings' menu in the WordPress admin, where you can create individual slides that include images, titles, subtitles, and links. The slides can be displayed using a shortcode, making it easy to integrate into your site.
The plugin supports customisation through an optional shortcode attribute to override default settings. It is designed to be responsive, ensuring that slideshows adapt to the width of their container. This plugin is suitable for users who want to enhance their website's visual appeal with a slideshow feature.
Best for: This plugin suits users looking to add a slideshow feature to their WordPress home page.
What it does well
- ✓Creates a dedicated options page for managing slides
- ✓Supports images, titles, subtitles, and links
- ✓Displays slideshows using a simple shortcode
- ✓Responsive design for various screen sizes
- ✓Customisable slideshow options
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in October 2014, which may affect compatibility
- •Tested only up to WordPress version 3.9.40
- •May require CSS customisation for themes other than Twenty Thirteen
Verdict
Home Page Slideshow offers a straightforward solution for creating a home page slideshow, but its age and limited compatibility may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
jethin's own description of Home Page Slideshow, lightly tidied.
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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Speed & Performance
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