To have a full screen or wide slider with image or video in background and call to action button, get Cosmo Slider.
Demo 2
Multiple Images as Slider Background
Demo 3
Self Hosted Video as a Background
Demo 4
Slider with RSS Feed From 500px.com
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Change Selected Text Color
Cosmo Slider for WordPress is a ready to use featured slideshow plugin with an elegant design and feature rich dedicated settings panel. It is deeply integrated with the WordPress CMS to fetch and add default or custom post type, category specific slides, latest posts, images from media library, videos and much more. One can add a full width slideshow at any location on WordPress site by either using shortcode, template tag or widget. The settings panel with more than 60 basic and advance options allow the user to control the elements of the slider without any knowledge of PHP or HTML. For any specific CSS customization, it is having a special CSS box to add extra lines of CSS (if required) as there is no need to edit the theme’s CSS files.
One can create unlimited sliders using Cosmo with different contents and apply different settings (effect, width, height, design) to each slider using skin settings set feature. On Cosmo Slider settings page, one can create unlimited numbers of settings panel and apply each panel on desired slider. One can also embed multiple Cosmo Sliders on single page using shortcode, widget and template tag. There are many shortcodes for easy implementation of Cosmo inside page, front page or post content area.
Front-End Features
Parallax Scroll Effect
Slider comes with Parallax effect to make the text and large size images look good on site
Events Slider
Create Slider of Events using the Event Manager WordPress Plugin. Events look awesome in Cosmo Slider.
YouTube and Vimeo Slider
YouTube and Vimeo Slider looks great in Cosmo. Very easy to create and auto fetch slides from these video hubs.
WooCommerce and WP Ecommerce Slider
Create WooCommerce and WP Ecommerce sliders with products using Cosmo Slider plugin.
Video as Background
Add self hosted or YouTube videos as the background of the slider for a dynamic and different look
Responsive Design
Looks good on Smartphones as well. With responsive design, it adjusts to width of iPhone, iPad and others
Elegant Look
Adds elegant look to any theme with Cosmo implementation in less than 5 minutes
Call to Action
Convert traffic into action with call to action button. Add internal or external link for action button
Meta Info
Show up to 3 meta informations e.g. Category, Author, Date, No. of Comments on slider with custom format
Facebook Album Slider
Show Facebook Album Slider in Cosmo without much effort and it looks great.
Flickr, 500px Slider
Convert traffic into action with call to action button. Add internal or external link for action button
Recent Posts, Category, Taxonomy Slider
WordPress core sliders such as recent posts, category, tags and custom slider in Cosmo.
Other Important Front-End features:
- Touch and swipe support for iOS and Android
- HTML and Images retains formatting in slider
- SEO optimized as all slides indexed by Google or other search engines
- Optimized images for slider
- Everything is responsive including title text and content
Dashboard Features – Cosmo Settings
More than 50 Setting Options
Slider setting options are divided in tabs and sections to make it easy to use
WPML and mqTranslate Ready
Preview the slider before implementation. Preview slider with all possible shortcode or template tag on settings page.
4 Lightbox Scripts to choose from
With one click, you can enable the Lightbox or prettyphoto effect on Cosmo Slider
Custom Style Box
To change the CSS for slider, no need to edit the .css file. Apply changes from ‘Custom Styles’ box on admin area
Drag and Drop Reorder
On ‘Sliders’ page, one can easily reorder added slides with drag and drop feature
No Branding
There is no branding of SliderVilla on the admin area of Cosmo Slider.
Auto Update for Lifetime
Slider setting options are divided in tabs and sections to make it easy to use
Smart QuickTag
Preview the slider before implementation. Preview slider with all possible shortcode or template tag on settings page.
Smart Image Cropping
With one click, you can enable the Lightbox or prettyphoto effect on Cosmo Slider
600+ Google Fonts to Choose
Slider setting options are divided in tabs and sections to make it easy to use
Shortcode, Template Tag and Widget
Preview the slider before implementation. Preview slider with all possible shortcode or template tag on settings page.
Powerful Settings Panel
With one click, you can enable the Lightbox or prettyphoto effect on Cosmo Slider
Other Important Front-End features:
- Set and change width, height, effect, background color, text color, element location and much more
- Apply Google Fonts on title, content
- Default image to load if no image found for slide
- YouTube, Vimeo, MP4, WebM format boxes to apply video background
- Customize Call to Action button, link
- Export/Import Settings Set to same domain or other domains (test to live environment)
- Reset setting values to default or to another setting set
- Auto update from WordPress dashboard
Easy Implementation
Shortcodes
It is very easy to embed the slider inside post/page content. For example, [cosmorecent] will embed a Cosmo Slider with recently published posts (auto fetched).
Template Tags
Inside PHP files like theme files, easily insert the template tag to get the slider at your desired location on the installed theme. Read more about the template tags on Knowledge Base page.
Widgets
Drag and drop Cosmo Slider widgets like Custom Slider, Category Slider and Recent Post Slider and choose the settings set to apply to that widget.
Guaranteed Support
Premium Support Forum
After purchase, you get access to our premium support forum. We are always available on that forum and you can expect a reply within couple of hours (sometimes in minutes).
24×7 Email
We also provide support through email. Just fill up this contact form to send us an email and our support team will reply within in next few hours.
Twitter/Facebook
We have started providing support through Twitter and Facebook as well. Follow us on our Twitter handle and FB page and you can support over there as well.
Hassle Free Purchase – PayPal Security
We use PayPal as the payment gateway for SliderVilla. It is widely used and the most popular and secured way of online purchases. Our server automatically sends an email with download link, receipt and membership access details just after the transaction completes on PayPal.
Installation
- Uzip the
cosmo-slider.zip
folder. - Upload
cosmo-slider
folder to/wp-content/plugins
directory. - In WordPress dashboard, head over to the Plugins section.
- Activate Cosmo Slider.
Embed Options for Cosmo Slider
Shortcodes
Shortcodes | Result |
---|---|
[cosmorecent] | To have a slider with recently published blog posts automatically appearing inside the slider, you just need to paste the shortcode inside the page or post content area where you want the slider to embed |
[cosmoslider] | Manually add any post to the slider using Cosmo Slider meta box available on edit post/page window. To embed a slider with those added posts/pages, use this shortcode. |
[cosmocategory catg_slug="social-media"] | Embed a slider with posts from specified category. For example, this shortcode will embed Cosmo Slider with posts from category with permalink as ‘social-media’ |
[cosmoslider set="3" id="2"] | Get Slider ID from Sliders sub-page on dashboard, and setting ID from Settings sub-page. This shortcode will embed a custom slider with setting set 3 and will show slides of Slider ID 2 |
Template Tags
Like shortcodes, Cosmo is also having similar template tags to embed the slider inside theme template files like page.php, index.php, home.php etc. Template Tags are PHP code which executes to call certain functions and show the slider at desired location. Get the template tags for Cosmo Slider on our Knowledge Base page.
Widgets
Drag and Drop widgets are also available in Cosmo Slider. It means, you can place the Cosmo Sliders (recent posts, custom slider, category slider etc.) in widget ready areas eg. Sidebar by dropping the widget in Widgets window on dashboard. Multiple widgets should be visible on the Widgets page after activating the slider plugin. To read more about the ready widgets for Cosmo Slider, please read the Widget Knowledge Base of Akkord Slider.
Settings and Admin Page of Cosmo Slider
A Dedicated Settings page should appear on the dashboard after activating the plugin. Cosmo Slider is having two sub-pages – Settings and Sliders. Settings page is to create multiple settings and customize the width, height, image pick preference and so many other elements of the slider. Almost 99% slider customization can be done from settings page only. It is also having a “Custom Styles” box where you can enter a custom CSS to override/change the final CSS of slider plugin.
Sliders page is to manage the added slides to the slider. You can create unlimited sliders and add unlimited slides to each of them. Using the parameter in shortcode or template tag, you can easily embed any slider by mentioning the slider ID.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-LwHbld4 & Save Changes.
If you want to set a mp4/webm/ogg format video as a background in the slider, then write the URL of the video in the specified text field.
e.g. http:///example.com/nature.mp4 & Save Changes.
- Support Forum and Email ETA – 12 hours
- Instant Support for urgent requests
- Free basic slider setup using remote access
- Dedicated support team available 24X7
We offer a 100% Money-back guarantee within 14 days of purchase of Cosmo Slider.