Slider Advice

We currently have such a system in place but it seems sloppy and has issues. We need a slider for our users profiles. We have an auto play banner slideshow at the top of their profile that they upload banner images too. Then a gallery slideshow at the bottom that needs to have image thumbnail & arrow navigation. Both simple slideshows just with a fade. We use Front End Pro so our users can customize their profiles and upload images to the custom fields for the slideshows.

Then in the author template we are able to call the slideshow and then load the custom image fields via html in the template.

Problem is that alot of the good wordpress sliders are using shortcodes for templates instead of html so I can’t add the images custom fields. They want you to create the slides in the wp-admin etc rather then letting me load the images from custom fields in a template. I know there is some non-wordpress ones out there but my concern with those is the potential pain in the butt updating and staying up to date as well as putting random scripts in my header that I don’t have good control over.

Thanks