Killer Effects
For Windows & Mac
An image slider is an image slider and they’re all about the same, right? Not so fast.
What are the main requirements for choosing any kind of web component?
Compatibility, easy setup, high performance, and nice look and feel.
With WOWSlider we've tried to create the perfect html slider that covers all these needs and even more:
&Widest compatibility for all possible browsers, devices, web standards
WOWSlider looks and works flawlessly on all mobile devices, modern and legacy browsers, including IE6,
thanks to the standards compliant, valid, semantic markup and thoroughly optimized script
&Fast, lightweight, error-free
WOWSlider is light (6kb gzipped), loads fast, utilizes hardware-accelerated animations. It is successfully used and tested on millions pages (yes, millions), so we can say for sure that it's virtually bug-free.
&Minimum efforts to learn, create and embed in your web project
You don't waste your time for coding, learning yet another API, testing and photoshopping. The drag-n-drop maker generates the slider automatically with the export as HTML page or Joomla/Wordpress plugin.And with visual Insert-to-Page Wizard you won't need to touch a single line of code to embed it in your page.
&Awesome look to "wow" your visitors
Huge collection of beautiful skins and breath-taking effects is included and ready to go. Select and apply them in a single click.
Recent Demos
Epsilon Skin
with Collage Animation
Galaxy Design
with Turn Animation
Angular Design
with Collage Effect
Simple to Use
The interface is easy and straightforward - just 3 steps:
1. Drop the images you want to add as slides.
2. Choose skin, effects, options.
3. Save slider as a stand-alone page, , ; embed in page with Insert-to-Page W publish to server via built-in FTP client.
Highly Customizable
Every slider parameter can be easily customized to fit your web site design and your needs. Enjoy features like: navigation control (with thumbnails, prev/next and stop/play buttons, bullets, filmstrip), auto-play, loop, random order, text descriptions, hide/show controls or stop on mouseover,
image and thumbnail size, crop mode, slide delay, transition speed, watermark and much more!
Lightweight and fast
Most sliders put all supported features in one bloated script. WOWSlider generates the engine script depending on setting you chose, so the final code is compact and has the required functionality only. For example the slider created with default settings is only 6Kb!
Touch/swipe navigation
With the growing trend of mobiles it is important that your website be accessible on all devices. WOWSlider includes the support for touch screen
gestures to ensure that your visitors receive a smooth, native-like experience.
Responsive Design
WOWSlider is brilliantly responsive with any template, effect, options you choose. No matter what device people access your site from, the slider will look consistently perfect.
Live Preview
Manage all parameters of your slider using a live preview area.
See exactly how it will look before you publish. Enjoy easy and fun customization "on-the-fly"
Visual Insert-to-Page
Not a coding guru? Don't know what is an HTML code? Just run Insert-to-Page Wizard, open a page, and click a place where you want the slider to appear. WOWSlider takes care of the rest. Truly NO coding experience!
All Browsers
WOWSlider runs perfectly on all old and new browsers, including IE6+, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome on PC, Mac, iOs and Android. It has a well-structured and clear HTML code, readable by any search-engine spiders and text browsers.
Hate jQuery?
If you don't use jQuery in your project at all, it is not a good idea to add the heavy library just to slide pictures. Ok. Remove all Javascript and .js calls from a page - the WOWSlider will still work as a pure CSS slider! This pure CSS fallback also works great when Javascript is not supported or has been disabled.
Spectacular Theme Set
With theme collection, you are not stuck with only one look. Pre-designed templates help your sliders look professional from the start. The controls, fonts, colors, frames and backgrounds in each template are perfectly coordinated. Just drop photos or images and add your own words.
Impressive Animations
Use over 25 stunning transitions and effects for images and text that will affect your visitors in a big way. Keep your customers' attention focused on your website.
Joomla and Wordpress plugin
WOWSlider comes with
plugin export so publishing your slider to your Wordpress or Joomla site was never as easy as this.
Full width slider
In contrast to boxed layout, full width option allows you to set your slider to span the whole width of the browser to make your images stand out.
Video Slides
Online video and Youtube particularly is now more popular than cable television.
WOWSlider provides a support for YouTube and Vimeo
that allow you to liven up your slides by supplementing the regular images.
On-Demand Loading
Imagine you have a slider with 128 images. If to put all pictures to the plain HTML code it will dramatically slow down the page loading and performance. For this case WOWSlider has the "On-Demand Loading" option also known as "lazy loading" that loads only images that enter or are about to enter the viewport.
38-language interface
It doesn’t matter what is your native language, the WOWSlider app interface is already translated to 38 languages, from Africans to Vietnam! This greatly benefits users - who don't know English good enough - to quickly and efficiently start creating sliders.
Import from Flickr, Picasa
You can easily add photos from Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket to slider. Just paste the URL of photostream, photoset, album or single photo and define the number of imported images!
Mac and Windows
If you work cross-platform, on PC and Mac machines you can seamlessly set up and run WOWSlider on both Windows and Mac OS and use the same interface, features, and project files.
Publish to Facebook
Sharing your content on
is getting more and more popular. Right from the toolbar, click Share and the slider is there. Turn your slideshow into a worldwide event.
FTP client
Built-in FTP client lets you instantly and securely send your slider files directly to your server, without having to use the separate FTP software.
SEO Friendly
The slider is built using plain HTML5, making it easy for search engines to efficiently crawl the site, while still looking really cool. This gives you the ability to not only please the search engines from sites like Google, but your site will be pleasing to customers as well, all at the same time.
Automatic Sizing and Cropping
Different images have the different size, resolution, orientation.
With WOWSlider you'll not need several photo editors to get your pictures ready for slider. WOWSlider create perfectly proportioned slide images specifically tailored around your size/crop settings.
Background Music
Images and text alone are often not enough to engage and capture the attention of your audience.
Easily add pace and dynamism to your slider by including audio soundtrack.
Free Download
WOWSlider is free for non-commercial or testing purposes. If you want to set the WOWSlider on a university site, non-commercial blog or simply want to try to see if it fits your needs, just download the full-functional free version and use it for free.
jQuery Slider Features
Awesome and unique transitions (, , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Graceful degradation to
Youtube & Vimeo video support
No Flash required
All browsers, all devices
Search engine friendly
Clean and valid markup
Lightweight (5-12Kb gzipped)
Descriptions
Prev/Next controls
Bullet navigation
Customizable speed, delay, size etc.
Wizard Features
Point-&-click - no hand coding
For Mac and Windows
Drag-n-drop images
Flickr or PhotoBucket support
Easy tweaking of all parameters
Built-in FTP client
Visual insert-to-page
38 language interface
Sort, rotate, resize images
Add logo or watermark to slides
Save/Open projects
For troubleshooting, feature requests, and general help, contact Customer Support at
Make sure to include details on your browser, operating system, WOW jQuery gallery version, link to your page.
In most cases you'll get a reply within 1 business day.
Please check our
first to see if your question has already been answered.
See also: , , , ,
WOWSlider creates not only fantastic looking sliders but ones that are optimized for performance, accessibility, and built with all the latest features and functionality. WOWSlider allows you with the simple click of the mouse to make an endless amount of adjustments to your slider. Responsive slider with touch/swipe support? Full-width slider with thumbnail filmstrip and play/pause control? 3D effects and text descriptions? No problem! Even better, you have 50+ completely unique designs, 32 transitions to choose from and hundred of live demos that illustrate what you can achieve with WOWSlider.
WOWSlider is free for non-commercial use. If you want to use WOWSlider on a school site,
your non-commercial blog or non-profit organization website, just download WOWSlider and use it for free.
A license fee is required for commercial use. For more info about commercial licenses , please
Jan 22, 2016 WOWSlider v8.7
* New templates: ,
* Support for retina screens
* Fixed bugs with adding slides from Youtube and Flickr
* Minor fixes
Sep 23, 2015 WOWSlider v8.6
* New effect:
* GUI translation for Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish languages
* Wordpress plugin is updated for latest version
* Bug fixes
Aug 12, 2015 WOWSlider v8.4
* GUI translation for Chinese, Dutch, French, German languages
* Bug fixes
Jun 9, 2015 WOWSlider v8.2
* Now you can add targets "_parent" and "_top" to your links
* Added support for Joomla 3.x versions
* Fixed import from Youtube
Apr 28, 2015 WOWSlider v8.0
* New templates: ,
* New effect:
* Now you can publish your sliders to
and Google Drive
Mar 25, 2015 WOWSlider v7.8
* New templates: ,
* New fonts: Lora,
Indie Flower
* PNG images with "Image fill color" bug fixed
Mar 5, 2015 WOWSlider v7.7
* New templates: ,
* New effects: ,
* New fonts: Bitter, Khula
* jQuery updated to 1.11.2
* Fixed some problems with playing audio
Jan 30, 2015 WOWSlider v7.5
* New templates: ,
* New effects: ,
* New color and font size option for the description
* Fixed problem with adding sound files
Jan 12, 2015 WOWSlider v7.4
* New templates: ,
* New effects:
* New custom font option for the description
Dec 16, 2014 WOWSlider v7.3
* New beautiful templates: , , ,
* Improved 'Insert to page' wizard with new interface
* Now you can set the description effect to 'none'
Oct 10, 2014 WOWSlider v6.7
* Brand-new GUI - New right templates/effects panel and Live Preview window. See exactly how the slider will look "on-fly"
* Bug fixes
Sep 25, 2014 WOWSlider v6.6
* New fantastic ,
effects and
animation for descriptions
* Now you can select several transitions for one slider and they will play randomly
* Improved Seven, Photo, Kenburns, Squares effects - now much smoother
* Bug fixes
Aug 27, 2014 WOWSlider v6.2
* Support for Full-Width, Full-Screen layout
* New Parallax effect for slides and descriptions
* New "Animated" template
* Bug fixes
Aug 14, 2014 WOWSlider v6.1
* Support for YouTube and Vimeo video
* App interface face-lift - more flat and convenient
* Fixed import from Photobucket
* Bug fixes
July 22, 2014 WOWSlider v5.6
* New 3D effect:
* New skin:
* Improved touch-swipe support for native-like mobile experience
* Most of effects are rewritten to use the hardware-accelerated animations
* Wordpress plugin updated
* Some errors fixed
June 18, 2014 WOWSlider v5.5
* New skins: ,
* Fixed problems with adding images from Flickr
* Bug fixes
April 23, 2014 WOWSlider v5.4
* New skins: ,
* Support for music on mobile devices. Just slide image to start the playing. Please see our
* Bug fixes
April 10, 2014 WOWSlider v5.3
* New effects:
* New skin:
* Improved the transition performance on mobile devices
* Bug fixes
March 5, 2014 WOWSlider v5.1
* New templates:
* Bug fixes
February 12, 2014 WOWSlider v5.0
* New templates: ,
* Responsive feature improved: descriptions, navigation arrows and filmstrips adapt to the viewing environment.
January 21, 2014 WOWSlider v4.9
* New templates: Simple, Shuffle and Zoom
* Cube transition effect is compatible with Internet Explorer 10 (and higher) now
* Improved Book transition effect. Now it works with IE 9+
* Bug fixes
November 1, 2013 WOWSlider v4.8
* New templates: Sky, Salient and Dot
* New transition effect: Seven
* Book transition effect is compatible with Internet Explorer 10 now
* Support for .png image files with preserving transparency. Please see our . To preserve image transparency, you should disable "Image fill color" option at the Gallery-&Properties-&Images tab.
* Wordpress plugin update: support for RTL mode and multi- improved compatibility of new transition effects.
* Bug fixes
October 2, 2013 WOWSlider v4.7
* New templates: Pure, Box and Book
* New transition effect: Book
* Bug fixes
September 3, 2013 WOWSlider v4.5
* New template: Fresh
* New transition effect: Cube
* Bug fixes
August 22, 2013 WOWSlider v4.4
* New templates: Ionosphere, Luxury and Sunny
* Updated transition effect: Page
* Bug fixes
July 24, 2013 WOWSlider v4.2
* New demos: Premium, Gothic, Chess
* New transition effects: Page and Domino
* Pause/Play option. See :
* Bug fixes
July 10, 2013 WOWSlider v4.0
* New flat skins: Premium, Gothic, Chess
* Improved templates: Metro, Balance.
* Bug fixes
June 25, 2013 WOWSlider v3.9
* New templates: Metro, Geometric, and Elegant
* Improved templates: Plastic, Cloud and Calm.
May 22, 2013 WOWSlider v3.7
* New templates: Surface and Vernisage
* Now you can
* Bug fixes
April 11, 2013 WOWSlider v3.4
* New templates: Plastic and Flat
* Now you can export your slider jquery as a joomla 2.5 module
* Bug fixes
March 20, 2013 WOWSlider v3.3
* New templates: Studio and Push
* Background music for slideshow (mp3 file)
* Updated Wordpress plugin
* Improved support for old IE (IE6,7,8)
* Minor GUI changes
* Bug fixes
February 28, 2013 WOWSlider v3.0
* New templates:
* Support for new jQuery 1.9
* Single-line iframe embed code. When you "publish to folder", the app additionally creates iframe_index.html containing the Single-line iframe code to embed to your page.
Use this method to ease the slider insertion or prevent possible CSS/JS conflicts
* Filmstrip scroll speed reduced with large number of thumbnails
Support for .png image files
Fade effect for description
"Image fill color" option was added. Now you can control the color of empty areas around the images
January 9, 2013 WOWSlider v2.8
* New templates:
* Updated export to
* Compatibility of "Filmstrip" with iOS and Android was improved
November 11, 2012 WOWSlider v2.7
* Minor fixes
October 19, 2012 WOWSlider v2.6
* New templates:
Prime Time,
Dark Matter,
* "Random order" option to play slides randomly
* "Filmstrip"
option for thumbnails with touch swipe support
* "Thumbnail size" option
* "Change Effect" buttons with every online
- Test available effects
* Chinese translation for site
* Bug fixes
August 22, 2012 WOWSlider v2.5
* New Quiet template
* New Rotate effect - see
* New Elastic Move effect for description
July 19, 2012 WOWSlider v2.4
* Bug fix version
* Updated guide and video
May 25, 2012 WOWSlider v2.3
* WOWSlider is fully responsive now, see
* New Elemental, Shady, Numeric template
* Fixed conflict with previously installed sliders in Wordpress
* Bug fixes
March 30, 2012 WOWSlider v2.1
* Fully accessible as a 100% , if the Javascript is turned off
* Improved import to Wordpress
* New Aqua template
* New Flip effect
* "Delay between slides" and "Effect duration" maximum increased to 60 sec
* "Use relative paths to image in project" option
* "On-demand image loading" option - good for slow servers or large number of images (see huge
demo with 100+ slides)
* Option to set page color
* Parameter to start from specified image or random image
* Parameter to run slideshow in specified or random order
* Image settings panel is always visible
* Fixed bug with "Preserve aspect ratio" on Mac
* Updated translations: Bulgarian, Finnish, Gujarati, Indonesian, Montenegrin, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Ukraine
October 27, 2011 WOWSlider v2.0
* New Blur effect - see
* New Terse template
* "Remove frame and shadow" option
* Sinhalese interface
translations
September 30, 2011 WOWSlider v1.9
* Improved
effect - now much smoother
* Option to disable a right-click on slides
* Japanese and Hebrew interface translations
* Now you can add more than one
* Improved support for
* "stopOn" parameter - defines the number of slide to stop on.
* List for target parameter added
June 22, 2011 WOWSlider v1.7
* New Stack, Stack Vertical, Basic Linear effects -
* New templates - Digit and Mac
* Now you can stop slider after one loop
* Now you can specify target for images links in WOWSlider app
* Support for
events for iPhone / iPad / Android
March 16, 2011 WOWSlider v1.5
* New Ken Burns transition effect -
* Now you can control position of navigation bullets one the page
* Now you can pause slider on mouseover
* Improvements in 'Insert to Page' wizard: now you can specify unique ID for the each slider and add several sliders to one page
February 15, 2011 WOWSlider v1.3
* Now you can create thumbnail preview for bullet navigation
* Also you can export
* Picassa support. Add Picassa album or a single photo to your slider gallery.
* Description support for Photobucket and Flickr
January 20, 2011 WOWSlider v1.1
* New Slices, Fly and crazy Blast effects - ,
* New templates - Flux, Pinboard and Mellow
December 3, 2010 - First release!