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Authors: Tejaswini Deshpande, Sanjeev Mishra

Smooth Slider is a Wordpress and Wordpress MU Plugin for creating a dynamic slideshow for featured posts on a blog. The slideshow created by Smooth Slider are JavaScript and Text based, that is why bloggers will get full benefit of Search Engine Optimization as the texts are readable by Search Engines. You can choose some of your posts as featured posts and show them into a slideshow on your blog home page (i.e. Index) as well as in Sidebar.

Features:

1. Search Engine Optimized Slideshow
2. Fully Customizable CSS
3. Choose Posts and Pages as Featured Posts/Pages on Single Click
4. Simple but Decent Slideshow
5. Match Slideshow With Wordpress Theme
6. No Need Of Knowledge of PHP, HTML or CSS
7. Easy To Install Plugin
8. Full Support Available
9. Readable by search engine as you can see the screenshot on Lynx browser available on our blog
10. Option for trasparent background, so that rounded corners can be supported
11. Slider Preview in admin panel
12. Can convert to pure image Slider
13. Facility to put Custom Images in place of navigation numbers
14. Images Original Size as well as custom size Option, also an option to crop the images so that they appear in proportion when custom sizes are selected
15. Pick image from content or the custom field
16. New custom field implementation, to allow not to display images on selective posts
17. A new template tag to display Category specific posts on Smooth Slider
18. A new template tag for WPMU, to get slider posts from all over the WPMU site
19. Option to change Read More text and also put it in your language
20. Permission setting option to restrict the users from adding posts to Smooth Slider
21. Remove posts and pages from Smooth Slider selectively or remove all the posts from the slider at one go from the settings page itself
22. Option to retain specific html tags in the slider posts
23. Option to specify custom text or html in place of navigation numbers or buttons
24. Smooth Slider complete uninstall on plugin Delete
25. A new custom field slideredirecturl can be added to featured post/page to redirect the slide to anothr url

Demo | Plugin Information | Release 2.0