Top Most 18+ Useful jQuery Slideshow (Gallery) Plugins – Makes Your Life Easy

By Shafqat Mehmood on July 23, 2011

Every Programmer mostly prefer to use jQuery. It gives you the freedom to display images in the galleries most effective way you may like and that too with very little coding. When the slide shows have become an integral part of Web sites, the importance of jQuery not be ignored.

Now we can use the jQuery plugin to display images of fantastic ways much more interesting. Verification and display galleries of images covered a long way in terms of development.

Following are Top Most 18+ Useful jQuery Slideshow (Gallery) Plugins – Makes Your Life Easy

Nivo Slider – Image Slider

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Webmasters often try to showcase different slogans or captions about their business in a prominent position. You may also find webmasters looking to showcase their products, portfolio or services in a prominent position of the website. Nivo Slider can be a great option for them.

Flickrgallery

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Millions of people use Flickr to showcase or host their images. If your client is one of them and reluctant to use 2 separate places (Flickr and the Website) to update images, this jQuery plugin can help you a lot. It can dynamically pull images from a photoset in Flickr. Try this.

jQuery.popeye 2.0

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Does your 200 word content needs 10 images to explain or showcase and you do not want to make the page clumsy? jQuery.popeye 2.0 is an awesome plugin that can save your soul. Try this.

s3Slider jQuery plugin

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Do you want to use a bold & smart image or product slideshow in the header section of the page? Do you have some texts to use with each image may be with some link to internal pages? This is a plugin that you may try.

easySlider

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Here is yet another professional jQuery image slider plugin with (or without) prominent side buttons for navigation. It has got similar features like numeric navigation and continuous scroll.

jQuery Lightbox plugin

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Do you just want to overlay the image on your page like Lightbox? Try this.

Galleria

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Now here is another awesome photo gallery plugin – just take a look at the full screen showcase and you will know what I mean. However, resolution may seem to be a BIG problem.

Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect

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Everybody plays with the image. Would you like to play with the thumbnail? Here is the plugin that you may try.

Spacegallery

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Now here is another plugin that you may use to showcase images in a different style.

AD Gallery

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Here is another plugin that is highly customizable and got loads of built in features that should take care of most of your requirements.

ColorBox

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Now here is another plugin which is highly customizable according to your need.

Pirobox

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Do you want to offer download option to your images in the slide? Try this one.

Shadowbox

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Like prettyPhoto, let’s not call it just another image viewer plugin built in jQuery. It is a complete media viewer inspired by lightbox.

prettyPhoto

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Now here is something really powerful and awesome. It is not just about images or content – it is so powerful that you can do hell lot of things with that. Just take a look at the demo and you will know what I mean.

Slick Accessible Slideshow

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Here is yet another image slider that you may try. You may use it to showcase products in the header section of your website.

Slider Gallery

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I know that you love Apple style. Here is a image gallery almost similar to that. You may use it to showcase products in Apple Style.

Supersized

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Do you want to showcase some super sized images in your photo gallery – that will in fact cover the full screen? This is the plugin that you may try. The best thing is this plugin maintains image dimension ratio. Just cool.

Galleriffic

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Do you want to develop a photo gallery for your photographer client? This can be an awesome plugin to showcase the images with minor modifications or design adjustments. Try this.

Sliding Image Gallery

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Just as the name suggests, it is yet another image gallery. It may look a bit unprofessional to you as far as the look and feel of the demo version is concerned but it got some good features too. Look at the demo 4 and find the arrow at the top right hand corner of the image – click it for information on the image.

Simple Controls Gallery v1.3

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Just looking for a simple photo gallery plugin that will showcase images with captions? Try out Simple Controls Gallery v1.3. Try this.

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