Title: Best Slideshow Plugin
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Best Slideshow Plugin

 *  [Dan Stramer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstramer/)
 * (@danstramer)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-slideshow-plugin-1/)
 * Pros:
    - Very easy to customize
    - Built on a custom post type
 * Cons:
    - Video,Video,Video…
    - a bit more control over slide order (for my clients…)
    - a bit more docomentation regarding slider cycle effects
    - Thank you very much Josh!

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 *  Plugin Author [Josh Leuze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jleuze/)
 * (@jleuze)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-slideshow-plugin-1/#post-7741721)
 * Thanks a lot for your feedback Dan!
 * A few people have inquired about video. I haven’t needed to add video slides 
   to any of my own projects before so I haven’t looked into this much. But I have
   integrated the slideshow with a lightbox and linked a still from the video to
   the video embedded in a lightbox.
 * That worked out pretty well, I guess if you were going to do it as a video slide
   you’d want to disable the auto advance of the slides so that you could actually
   watch the video without it cycling away. I suppose this could be automated too.
   What are your thoughts, how do you want to use video?
 * Do you prefer drag-and-drop sorting, like [Post Types Order](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-types-order/),
   or something simple like an order number field?
 * What kind of documentation are you looking for for the cycle effects, examples
   of the different transitions [like this](http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/browser.html),
   or more like a basic description of what each one does?
 *  Thread Starter [Dan Stramer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstramer/)
 * (@danstramer)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-slideshow-plugin-1/#post-7741722)
 * Hi Josh
    Regarding the video, I would think about being able to embed a youtube/
   vimeo video, and to have a selected still image representing the video. When 
   clicked, the video starts playing inside the meteor-slides window and the cycle
   of course stops. when the video ends, the cycle continues. I don’t have to tell
   you how much video is popular and I have been getting plenty of requests regarding
   video in slideshows. Look at this site I made a couple of months ago using meteor
   and video: [http://www.mychic.com/](http://www.mychic.com/) All the requests 
   above would work great with this site.
 * I would prefer drag and drop sorting – it is the easiest and most understandable(
   similar to ACF repeater field – if you are familiar).
 * Documentation – actually if there were some more demos with the different meta’s
   in the shortcode and php template code.
 * Another point – maybe you could create a tinyMCE button when clicked the user
   can select which slideshow he want’s to add to his page (like the one nextgen
   gallery has).
 * Thanks alot!
 * Dan
 *  Plugin Author [Josh Leuze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jleuze/)
 * (@jleuze)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-slideshow-plugin-1/#post-7741725)
 * That looks great Dan, I love how you have customized the slideshow on that site.
   I’ll experiment with video slides and see what I can come up with.
 * Yeah, ACF is an awesome plugin, but I haven’t tried out the repeater field yet.
 * I can add some more examples, my next goal with the documentation is to have 
   a video screencast for each page in the documentation, so that could help cover
   more of that ground too.
 *  Thread Starter [Dan Stramer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstramer/)
 * (@danstramer)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-slideshow-plugin-1/#post-7741726)
 * A video would be great, and maybe even add some more help items to the help area
   in the wordpress admin, like you did.
 * Dan
 *  Thread Starter [Dan Stramer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstramer/)
 * (@danstramer)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-slideshow-plugin-1/#post-7741755)
 * Hi Josh,
    Could you help me out – I would like to have an image in my slideshow
   when clicking on it would play a video in the same slide window – without a lightbox,
   just inside the window. Can that be done?
 * Thanks
    Dan

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