Top 9 Best Free and Premium WordPress Slider Plugins 

Top 9 Best Free and Premium WordPress Slider Plugins

While there is controversy over the drawbacks of sliders on site speed, it’s undeniable that they will help presenting more beautiful contents on your website. If you are in need of a slider with one content input types only, in the below list, we suggest some best free and premium slider plugins which is optimized for the speed concerns. If you also care about the sliders that can help you organize existings posts, products, galleries, events, check out our multi-purpose free WordPress content slider plugin.

Meta Slider Plugin ( Free – Premium)

Meta Slider is an easy-to-use, responsive and powerful WordPress slider plugin. It also called “4 in 1” slider because you can choose from different slider types including Nivo Slider, Flex Slider 2, Responsive Slides, Coin Slider to create slider style for your site. Moreover, Meta Slider uses Smart Crop which is functioned as a perfect image resizing tool. In addition to adding image into each slide, Meta Slider can support video from Youtube & Vimeo and creating completely customised HTML Slides using the inline editor.

Demo | Download Free | Download Pro version

Easing Slider Plugin (Free – Premium)

Easing Slider is a super easy-to-use WordPress slider plugin for all users from beginners to developers: no bloat, no configuration and no coding. You will feel enjoyable that you can link your slides to videos (Youtube & Vimeo) as well as webpages, you can only click image and the video will play.

Demo | Download Free | Download Pro

Responsive Slider With Responsive Lightbox Plugin

One important feature in Responsive Slider With Responsive Lightbox is that users can also add link for lightbox image caption and title. If not set it will just display image with lightbox.
Demo | Download Free | Download Pro

Dbox 3D Slider Plugin (Free – Premium)

Dbox is regarded as the best 3D responsive WordPress slider plugin coming with awesome 3D look, unlimited sites, unlimited settings, 50+ options to customize sliders and multi demo version.
Demo Free Version | Demo Pro Version

WP Slider Plugin

WP Slider Plugin with logo “create a responsive and beautiful WordPress slider in 30 seconds” is the simple and easy to use plugin. You can be free to create nice sliders with 9+ design and to easily import image and their captions from Instagram. Besides, it provides 4 slider style: Nivo Slider Skin, Light Accordion Skin, another accordion skin, Flipbook Slider.  
Download Free | Download Premium

Huge – IT Slider

Huge – IT Slider is an amazing WordPress Slider helps you add unlimited images containing their title and descriptions and others outstanding features. Using shortcode makes easier for users to add slides to the location they want.
Download Free | Download Premium

WordPress Thumbnail Slider

This is a beautiful plugin helps users easily add, edit and manage number of sliders included in each slide. For Pro version, you can use WordPress Media Uploader (wp>3.5) to upload image and Slider Easing Effects with 16 available easing effects.
Demo Pro: | Download Free: | Download PRO

 Slider WD

Slide WD is an effective way to create responsive sliders with various awesome effects: multi-layer slider, 3D full-width slider, Filmstrim slider, Zoom-effect slider. Slider WD supports for  adding both images and videos from Youtube and Vimeo. The number of the slides for each slider is not limited. Various layers and numerous transition effects can be put inton each slide. Three major layer styles designed for sharing textual content, images and social share buttons (Google+, Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook.) are included.
Demo | Download Free | Download Premium

Vertical Image Slider

This is responsive and SEO – friendly WordPress plugin. You can add, edit any number of images to vertical slider. Admin can set slider as slide with arrow left and right arrow. Before adding slider to your site, admin can preview a slider. Admin can change height,width of slider images and also change slider speed.

Demo | Download Free | Download Pro