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Featured Articles Lite for Wordpress is a powerful plugin that enables a very easy and intuitive setup for a JavaScript slider that will display and rotate posts or pages.
Having plenty of options that can be set directly from Wordpress admin, it allows an imaginative use to suit the style of the blog displaying it.

Except the admin parameters and default themes that come with it by default, it can be customized even more by creating new themes to suit the general look requiring only some medium knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Starting with version 2.3 (compatible with Wordpress 3.1+), all JavaScript for the slider is written in jQuery; this prevents any conflicts between various JavaScript frameworks you might be running on your Wordpress blog. Other improvements are multiple sliders creation and management, widget support to easily display any slider into your widget areas, clear manual implementation code that you can put into the theme files to display any slider anywhere you want it to.

Bottom line, from start to finish, it will take only minutes to display articles into the slider and to choose where to have it shown in your blog. (more…)

SlideItMoo plugin for Wordpress implements the MooTools plugin having the same name into an easy to use plugin that allows you to set image galleries into your posts and pages with only a few clicks. The JavaScript source can be found here with various examples and implementation instructions.

If you know SlideItMoo, you know that it can be used in various ways ( as banner rotator, image slider, featured content presentation etc. ) but this Wordpress plugin only implements the image slider functionality for the horizontal slider. As for features, it allows displaying as many image sliders as needed into a post or page, each having its own properties and images. Also, you can call the plugin from your template files by passing it only 2 arrays, one containing the slider settings and one containing the images ids. Everything is kept as simple as possible to allow you to easily define sliders into your posts. (more…)

WP MyTube is the Wordpress plugin implementation for YouTube MooTools player embed with attached playlist. Simply put, this plugin will allow you to easily insert YouTube videos into your Wordpress blog posts based on username or video id only. The attached playlist will display the user videos giving you the possibility to add several videos and only one player in your blog posts. This is very useful, for example, if you are a publisher that wants to display his youtube videos into a blog post.

Videos are added to your posts when you either add them or on edit. No special other settings for it except the stylesheet if you want to change the looks. To add videos to you blog posts, when you add/edit a post you’ll notice a new “add media” icon in shape of a tv. Simply click it, fill in the necessary information and the plugin will add the custom code to your pages. Hit save and that’s it.

If you want to add more than one player into a single post, well, you can do that. The plugin allows any number of players to be displayed in a single post without problems.

Further more, you can style the player to have a default look and if you want a second player to have a different look, you can add custom CSS class to it by passing the class name when you insert a new player. (more…)

Featured articles gives the wordpress blog admin the possibility to display posts in a slick n cool way on the home page, just above the first post from the loop. It’s developed for Wordpress 2.7.1 with the help of MooTools 1.2, probably the best JavaScript framework around ( please don’t try to argue on this on the comments ).

From the available plugin options I’ll mention the possibility to display any number of posts you feel comfortable with, the order in which they will appear ( newest, oldest or random ) and thumbnail display. Since I remembered the thumbnail, some explaining on it. The thumbnail represents the first image encountered in each separate post. If none available, none displayed.

For further settings on display options, there’s the JavaScript class. The script itself resides inside the script folder of the plugin directory. For this you can set timings between slides, whether to show numbered paging or not, how the slides will slide ( left or top ) and other. (more…)