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Smooth Slider is a WordPress Plugin for creating a dynamic slideshow/s for featured posts, pages and media images on a blog. The slideshow created by Smooth Slider are JavaScript and Text based, that is why site owners and bloggers will get full benefit of Search Engine Optimization as the texts are readable by Search Engines. You can choose some of your posts,pages and media images as featured posts and show them into a slideshow on your blog home page (i.e. Index) as well as in sidebar. Also, you can show category posts in reverse chronological order.

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Do Not Upgrade if using Smooth Slider 2.3.2 or older version - We changed the slider JS because of licensing issue and that may cause issue for existing users with version 2.3.2 or older than that.If you find problem after upgrade, revert back to older version. Get older versions

!!IMP!! Do not upgrade to 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 if you have highly customized previous version of Smooth Slider, you may lose some CSS formatting as in the new versions the slider javascript is changed (due to licencing issues) and is different from previous versions.

Highlighted Feature (from version 2.3) : Smooth Slider Widget and Smooth Slider Shortcode

Highlighted Feature (from version 2.2) : Ability to create 'Multiple' sliders and an option to decide which post/page should show which slider

Along with posts, pages and media images, Smooth Slider now supports Custom Post Types

1. Search Engine Optimized Slideshow
2. Fully Customizable CSS
3. Choose Posts, Pages and images from Media Library (from ver 2.3) as Featured Posts/Pages/Media on Single Click
4. Simple but Decent Slideshow
5. Customized Slideshow as per your WordPress Theme
6. No Need Of Knowledge of PHP, HTML or CSS. But for those having knowledge of CSS, can have multiple settings for the slider on different pages of the same WP site.
7. Easy To Install Plugin
8. Premium Support Available
9. Readable by search engine as you can see the screenshot on Lynx browser available on our blog
10. Option for transparent background, so that rounded corners can be supported
11. Slider Preview in admin panel
12. Can be converted to pure image Slider
13. Facility to put Custom Images in place of navigation numbers
14. WordPress Internal Image cropping feature used, so no need of any external PHP script to crop the images. You just need to select the width of the thumbnail image.
15. Pick image from custom field, from "Featured Post" (Post Thumbnail feature), from post/page attachment, or from content. As well you can set priority in which you wish to search the image for the content.
16. The posts/pages/media library images added to the slider can be re-ordered
17. You can explicitly specify the link to which any particular slide should be redirected to once clicked. As well, you can specify if you do not want any particular slide to be linked to any webpage.
18. A template tag to display Category specific posts in reverse chronological order on Smooth Slider
19. A template tag for WPMU, to get slider posts from all over the WPMU site
20. Option to change Read More text and also put it in your language
21. Permission setting option to restrict the users from adding posts to Smooth Slider
22. Remove posts and pages from Smooth Slider selectively or remove all the posts from the slider at one go from the settings page itself
23. You can reorder the entries in slider as well as choose to show the slider entries in RANDOM form.
24. Option to retain specific html tags in the slider posts
25. Option to specify custom text or html in place of navigation numbers or buttons
26. Smooth Slider complete uninstall on plugin Delete

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