RoyalSlider is a robust WordPress plugin designed to create responsive image galleries and content sliders with touch swipe navigation. Here are the detailed features for both the frontend and backend:
Frontend Features:
- Responsive and Touch-Friendly:
- Supports touch swipe navigation for various devices, including iOS, Android, IE, Blackberry, and others that support touch or pointer events.
- Utilizes hardware-accelerated CSS3 transitions for smooth animations.
- Content Variety:
- Allows creation of custom slideshows with images, videos, or HTML content in slides.
- Supports YouTube and Vimeo videos within slides.
- Performance & Optimization:
- Implements smart lazy-loading for nearby images and memory management to optimize performance.
- Offers multiple transition types for slides – move or fade.
- Navigation Options:
- Provides options for navigation, including vertical or horizontal thumbnails, bullets, tabs, etc.
- Responsive layout down to mobile screens.
- Fullscreen Support:
- Includes full-screen feature with native HTML5 fullscreen support, ideal for showcasing high-resolution photography.
- Customization:
- Four unique skins provided, easily editable using CSS.
- Customizable HTML blocks with various effects for each slide.
- Accessibility & Compatibility:
- Allows multiple sliders per page with different skins.
- Supports permalinks (deeplinking) for direct linking to any slide.
- Provides physics-based touch thumbnails image scroller.
Backend Features:
- User-Friendly Admin Area:
- Admin area designed for ease of use by editors and customizable for developers.
- Simple embedding via shortcode, PHP function, or widget.
- Image Management:
- Supports bulk image uploading with WordPress 3.5 media manager.
- Integration with Flickr and NextGEN gallery plugin for fetching images.
- Customization and Editing:
- Slide markup editor to create custom markup for slides directly in the admin.
- Animated blocks editor to add responsive blocks and set custom effects for each animated block.
- Live Preview and Image Handling:
- Live slider preview within the admin.
- Supports image addition via WordPress media uploader or URL pasting.
- Compatibility and Requirements:
- Compatible with WordPress 3.3+ and PHP5.
- The admin page requires modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE9+), while the slider itself works in IE7+.
RoyalSlider is optimized for performance, accessibility, and device compatibility, offering various customization options for creating engaging and responsive image galleries or content sliders within WordPress.