SlideDeck Plugin for Great Looking and Responsive Website Sliders

SlideDeck is one of the most established slider plugins that is available for WordPress, first introduced in the year 2009. Today, they have launched a 3.0 version of the plugin which has a lot of improvements to the SEO, speed with a responsive facility.

With the help of the plugin, you can get great looking plugins with a lot of options for the customization.

Some of the plugin features are as follow:

·         Twelve Lenses:

There are 12 lenses which you can choose from the slider display and can easily change and edit according to your requirements from scratch.

·         Multiple Options for Content

You can have HTML, Videos, Text and Images also published.

·         Dynamic Sources of Content

You can put in the content from the social sites such as Facebook, Flickr, Dribble and so on.

There are options for you to change the fonts, effects, navigation options and an addition of your own CSS.

·         Multiple Uses

You can use the slider into the themes, posts/pages according to your choice.

INSTALLATION AND SETUP

After you have successfully downloaded and activated the plugin, the very first step, you need to do is to enter the keys for a license, enabling the automatic updates and support. This you can easily do by visiting the “Slide Deck” -> “Advanced Options” in the menu items.

When you are on this page, you will see an option through which you can turn the JS and CSS off for every page if you want. As you don’t need the slider on every page and this option makes a lot of sense.

Also, at the bottom of the page, you can put in details such as Twitter username, API Keys for the Google+, YouTube, Dribble, and Instagram.

Use Lenses

Under the option of “SlideDeck”->Lenses, you would find the available listed lenses. These are actually the styles which control the appearance of the slider. There are 12 available sliders, with 9 free ones and 3 premium ones costing $9 each or all 3 for $24.

You can also create a new lens from scratch, and copy the existing lenses to edit it. However, you need to do the changes in CSS and if you don’t have any knowledge regarding CSS, you can hire a professional Medialinkers web design company in Kennesaw.

Create a Slider

For getting started, you first have to create your slider, visit the “Manage” menu link and then choose the “Dynamic Source” option, which is where you can put in all the content from the different sites, and the profiles of social media. The custom content option also allows you to design the slider using videos, text and images etc.

After, you have chosen, which type of slide you would be creating, you need to setup screen, put the name at the top of the slider, and add the source username, API credentials and check the preview of the slider if it’s looking okay.

Underneath the preview option, you can also choose a lense for using the slider. The best part about the plugin is that whenever you click on a new lense, the slider appearance would change automatically without any page refreshes.

After you have chosen the lense, you can then click the “Setup” tab and change some options in it such as the size of slides, overlay etc and your changes will go live.

•    Through the appearance tab, you can change and edit the color scheme.

•    The content tab is where you can change the title length, text options, and date formats.

•    The navigation gives you options such as a keyboard, slide controls, and tough navigation.

•    You can choose slide order, speed and animation from the playback plugin

After, you are happy with all settings, you can choose “Save” and you would be presented with a few options to put the slider on your website. With a button from the visual editor, you can choose to post the slider on the page or a post, depending on your requirements and where you want it to appear.

PRICING

As it’s a premium plugin, the initial price for it is $49 for a regular license and $99 for the professional license, $119 for the developer license containing all the content sources and lenses.

The plugin is extremely easy to activate and use and presents a great looking slider on your website. For more help configuring the plugin or wanting to have one built according to your requirements, feel free to contact our Medialinkers,web design company.