20+ Beautiful Photo Slideshow Plugins for WordPress

I have been long time a fan of photo slideshows rather using photo gallery because it conserves so much space. It has really given me a lot of goose chase in search of some of the best available wordpress plugins to perform a photo slideshow in my blog. I decided to compile and document these hard to find plugins for wordpress developers like me.

Please note that most are free ones but few are only available under commercial by paying a small fee. Enjoy!

NextGEN Monoslideshow

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-monoslideshow/

The NextGEN gallery plugin for wordpress is a free photogallery plugin, but to perform slideshows you will need JW Imagerotator or Monoslideshow to perform smooth slide transitions with zoom effect. Both JW imagerotator and monoslideshow are commercial.

Smooth Slider

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smooth-slider/

Free Plugin to create featured slideshows in your wordpress blog. It the best i have seen and easy to customize.

SlideShow Plugin

http://bit.ly/djxzjo

Easy to use wordpress plugin to create professional slideshows for your blog. You just need to upload the images easy and specify the dimensions of the images to create the slideshow. It is COMMERCIAL.

Showtime Slideshow

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/showtime-slideshow/

This plugin displays slideshow on pictures attached to blog post or page. It also performs a zoom effect and amazingly simple to work with.

Vertical Scroll Slideshow

http://gopi.coolpage.biz/demo/2009/07/18/vertical-scroll-image-slideshow-gallery/

This plugin is a sidebar widget which can perform a veritical scrolling slideshow in your blog. it is FREE to download. If you want to perform scrolling horizontally, you can use the variant Horizontal Scroll Slideshow plugin

WP SuperSlider

http://wp-superslider.com/superslider/

Superslider is a an image slider plugin which uses javascript mooflow and highly configurable with custom animations.

SlideDeck

http://www.slidedeck.com/wordpress/

SlideDeck is very easy use fully featured slideshow plugin. It can insert slidedeck to your wordpress posts, pages or a theme template. It is commercial.

FlippingBook Gallery Plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-flip-image-gallery/

A beautiful image slideshow plugin works just like flipping pages in a book. It is FREE to download.

DM Albums

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dm-albums/

A free wordpress plugin to showcase photo albums with thumbnails. It is meant to showcase photos and does not perform slideshows but it is worth looking at, because it is FREE.

WP Featured Content Slider

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-featured-content-slider/

WP Nivo Slider

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-nivo-slider/

This plugin runs a slider with post thumbnails in your posts for a particular category of your wordpress. It is free to download.

WP Cycle

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cycle/

Upload of images from the settings page and you can showcase photos with smooth transition and slideshow using jquery cycle option. This plugin is free.