Fancy Slideshows free WordPress plugin

Include beautiful slideshows on your website in an instance Multiple slide sources, including images, posts, pages and links Include slideshows as multi-widgets or in any page or post using shortcode (including TinyMCE Button) Automatic smart cropping of images to fit slideshow container aspect ratio. No time-consuming manual resizing of images required Different transition effects, including carousel slideshows Animated overlays to show off your content Include arrow and button or thumbnail navigations Re-activate WordPress Link Management System Featured images for posts (post-thumbnail) Easy customization of slideshows Addition of slide sources through wordpress filter Exclude the chosen slideshow links category from the WordPress internal links widget Credits The plugin uses the jQuery Cycle2 Plugin The icons were designed by Yusuke Kamiyamane (http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/) Known Issues The slideshow is powered by the jQuery Cycle2 Plugin, which does not work together with version 1 of the plugin. HowTo Include fancy slideshows on your website in an instance. The plugin offers different sources for generating slideshows including links, images or posts Links Create at least one category and add links including Image Address Choose corresponding links category as source Images The plugin enables media galleries Upload images and add the desired images to a gallery Choose corresponding image gallery as source Posts/Pages Add featured images to posts or pages Choose corresponding posts or pages category as source In addition to the featured image, post title (slide title) and an excerpt (slide description) are displayed above linking to the post. This can be also customized through a post meta box Additional Slide Sources Probably a unique feature of the plugin is the possibility of adding additional external slide sources. It allows easy generation of slideshows from virtually any source and involves two wordpress filters. The first step is to add slide sources to the selection menu add_filter(