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Demo 2
Only Image and No Text Slider
Demo 3
Just Blocks, No Sliding Effect
Demo 4
Slider with RSS Feed From 500px.com
Demo 5
Video Slides with Player and Lightbox
Highlight selected posts, pages or media images in an elegant and effective way using Featured Slider WordPress plugin. It shows multiple blocks at a time with different sizes and looks amazing. With the help of template tag, shortcode and widget, you can have Featured Slider running on your site’s current theme in no time. It also auto fetches latest posts, category specific posts by just pasting any of these embed options.

19 Different Type of Sliders
Easily create 19 different type of Featured Slider with different data sources. Options are Recent Posts Slider, Category Slider, Custom or Featured Content Slider, YouTube and/or Vimeo Slider, Facebook Album Slider, WooCommerce and WP Ecommerce Slider and much more.

WooCommerce and WP Ecommerce Slider
If you are using WooCommerce or WP Ecommerce plugins as shopping cart system, you can have products appearing inside the slider.

Create Event Slider
Event Calendar and Event Manager plugins are compatible with Featured Slider. Which means if you are using any of these plugin to showcase events on your site, now you can show the events inside Featured Slider.

YouTube and Vimeo Slider
Easily create YouTube video slider based on playlist or search. Enter Playlist ID or search term to create Featured Slider with the same. It also allows to create Vimeo video slider for a particular video channel. Apart from these custom video slider with YouTube and Vimeo videos can also be easily created.

Facebook Album Slider
Create Featured Slider with the photos and album on a public Facebook page. For example, by providing the page URL of Coca Cola FB page, you can create Featured Slider with the recently uploaded images over there. It requires to enter Facebook API key.

Flickr, 500px Slider
If you hosted images on Flickr or 500px, you can easily embed a Featured Slider with auto fetching capabilities from these sources. Create Flickr or 500px sliders with Featured Slider WordPress plugin without much effort.

600+ Google Fonts Ready
On settings page, Featured is having list of 600+ Google Web Fonts to quickly implement on different texts such as title, content etc. No need to paste the font CSS in header area or add any code.

20+ Transition Effects
Apply different transition effects to the elements such as image, text inside the slider. Effects such as bounce, flash, shake, fade, zoom, wooble, rollin and much more to choose and apply using the setting panel.

More than 50 Setting Options
There is no need to know PHP, HTML or CSS to make changes and customize the slider. It comes with more than 50 setting options to easily customize the slider as per need. Set font size, color, slider width, height, image transition, lightbox effect and much more using the setting panel.

WPML and mqTranslate Ready
For multilingual sites, Featured is the perfect choice. It is compatible with WPML Translate plugin as well as qTranslate and mqTranslate plugins.

SEO Ready
We know the important of Search Engine Optimization and that’s why Featured is developed with SEO in mind. Headline tags like H2, H3 are placed properly and all the images will have alt tag. Even the slider will help you featured or special contents get crawled frequently on search engines.

NextGen Gallery Slider
If you are using NextGen gallery WordPress plugin, you can easily create Featured Slider with those galleries. Enter the NextGen gallery ID and Featured will create a slider with the same.

4 Different Lightbox Effect
Featured comes with four different type of Lightbox effects to choose from. Options are

Auto Update for Lifetime
Once you purchase Featured Slider, you are eligible for lifetime updates. Featured updates will be available as auto update when you entered the purchased license key. If the license key is entered, you will receive auto update notification and can update from dashboard.

Shortcode and Template Tag
To embed Featured Slider inside a page content or anywhere on your theme, you can use Featured shortcode and template tags. Some smart template tags are also there for quick insertion of recent posts slider, category slider.

Widget
To put Featured Slider in widget ready areas, you can use Featured Widget. Insert any type of Featured Slider using drag and drop widgets for quick insertion.

Smart QuickTag
Featured Slider comes with smart QuickTag button to insert Featured inside page or post content area.

W3C Validated Code
The generated embed code our of Featured Slider Generator is W3C validated which means it follows all the standards and search engines like Google or Bing are going to love your site. W3C validation helps in better user experience on cross browser as well as in search engine crawling.

Smart Image Cropping
Image should appear good even if the slider aspect ratio is different than the original image. Featured uses smart image cropping technique to crop the image such a way that it will look good inside the slider.

Awesome Support
Real people giving real support for SliderVilla products. We are a team of 7 experts and we remain available on SliderVilla.com 24×7. Our ETA for support replies via forum or email is 6 hours which means we are committed to reply within that time frame and sometimes you may get an instant reply.
Front-End Features
Blazing Fast Load Time
Featured Slider loads in less than 2 seconds and starts auto sliding as well. Even if you are having 50+ images inside the slider, it loads really fast.
Best Responsive Design
Looks good on Smartphones as well. With responsive design, it adjusts to width of iPhone, iPad and others
Multiple Blocks Design
Featured content appears in separate blocks which gives your existing site design an amazing touch.
9 Navigation Arrow Designs
Choose navigation arrow as per your choice as we have provided 9 different designs. You can also create your own arrows and apply the same in no time.
Gallery + Content Slider
Upload Images to Media Gallery or bulk upload from Sliders page and have gallery in no time. Or add featured posts, auto fetch latest posts, category specific posts in Featured Slider
Perfect for SEO
All images appears with alt tag and title information. Followed good SEO practises in the slider.
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 – Featured Slider Settings
Powerful Settings Panel
Slider setting options are divided in tabs and sections to make it easy to use
Live Preview on Settings page
Preview the slider before implementation. Preview slider with all possible shortcode or template tag on settings page.
Show/Hide Content Text
There is an option to make pure image slider or show text like title, content, caption etc.
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 Featured 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, Self hosted videos as slides
- Option to show or hide information
- 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, [featuredrecent] will embed a Featured 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 Featured 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
featured-slider.zip
folder. - Upload
featured-slider
folder to/wp-content/plugins
directory. - In WordPress dashboard, head over to the Plugins section.
- Activate Featured Slider.
Embed Options for Featured Slider
Shortcodes
Shortcodes | Result |
---|---|
[featuredrecent] | 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 |
[featuredslider] | Manually add any post to the slider using Featured Slider meta box available on edit post/page window. To embed a slider with those added posts/pages, use this shortcode. |
[featuredcategory catg_slug="social-media"] | Embed a slider with posts from specified category. For example, this shortcode will embed Featured Slider with posts from category with permalink as ‘social-media’ |
[featuredslider 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, Featured Slider 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 Featured Slider on our Knowledge Base page.
Widgets
Drag and Drop widgets are also available in Featured Slider. It means, you can place the Featured 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 Featured Slider, please read the Widget Knowledge Base of Akkord Slider.
Settings and Admin Page of Featured Slider
A Dedicated Settings page should appear on the dashboard after activating the plugin. Featured 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 Featured Slider.