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WordPress themes for consultants and start ups focus more on content and information that any other website because they want to explain their business and services to the world and hence we have these themes focus more on content.
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Slider Plugins You Can Use with Your WordPress Themes It is always important that the start of a website leaves a lasting impression and that’s the reason why we use sliders on the top of any website or on the front page of the website. This is to make sure that the reader or visitor gets a good first impression while visiting your website. It is also important that they understand what the website is all about and idea about your services or products in few seconds. Hence the use of sliders in any website is very important and hence we develop WordPress themes which can maximize the use of sliders and check its compatibility with any of the WordPress themes and templates we build. Here in the following list we will consider the best WordPress themes slider plugins which get along with any theme and are responsive and easy to use: Cyclone Slider 2: Cyclone Slider 2 is a successor of the popular Cyclone Slider which wasn’t responsive. This Cyclone Slider 2 is a great responsive plugin with compatibility with all the browsers. It is very easy to use and one can create unlimited slides and sliders using this. It also has a Pro version. The free version is sufficient for normal usage and has animation effects as well as CSS can be easily changed. Also allows for Videos into the slider. So one can give a nice look and feel by use of this slider into their WordPress templates and websites. Layer Slider: Layer Slider is one of the most popular premium sliders createdby Kreatura Media. It allows for layers just like Photoshop does and hence is very advanced. However it isn’t easy to use and requires a lot of understanding. But once anyone understands how this works can create wonderful animated slides using this layer slider. Many WordPress themes developer use this slider as a standard attachment and bundle it along with their themes. The main reason for using this is the advanced features and functionality it provides as well as the 2D and 3D slide transitions and video playback it provides. Fully responsive this slide loads faster and has a good delay and pause effect on all its slides. Revolution Slider: Revolution slider by Theme Punch is another most popular WordPress theme slider plugin which comes bundled with many themes. It is again powerful and is a layered slider which offers different layers to play animated slides. However as with layer slider above this is also tedious to work with and requires time to get a hang of. Both sliders are responsive and this slider also offers import and export similar to the layer slider. It can be used to load dynamic posts and pages as well and works well with the latest version of WordPress. Both revolution and layer have video tutorials for better understanding on how to use them.
Meta Slider: Meta Slider is another good WordPress plugin. It consists of 4different sliders clubbed into a.Flex Slider 2: Responsive and includes 2 transition effects. It also allows for video slides b.Nivo Slider: Similar to Flex but allows for 16 transition effects and 4 themes. c.Responsive Slides: Light weight and simple and responsive d.Coin Slider: 4 transition effects. Specialities of this slider is it is free to use and also has a Pro version for more options. It is compatible with translation plugins as is the case with other sliders as well. It is fast and very easy to use. Since it is free to use has become a popular choice among WordPress templates and its websites. Over 600,000 active installs which means that so many users are using it for their website making it the most used plugin out of these 5. Master Slider: Master slider is another good and popular WordPress themeslider which touch navigation similar to revolution and layer slider. Fully responsive and drag and drop creation of slides. Similar 3D installs. Pro version of the theme has layers and has timeline preview similar to those layer sliders above. It is another multilingual ready plugin which can be bundled with templates by developers. Supports slides from any post type and has lots of templates as well. Transitions as well as video support is also present. Flexible to include any size of image and is fully customizable.