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I'm trying to find a dead simple plugin for creating slideshows. There are tons of these out there, but they all seem to be limited mostly to just photos. I'd like to create a slider that could have one slide be a photo and the next be a YouTube video, the next another photo, etc...

I don't need thumbnails or links or captions or anything, but it would be nice to have some slider controls (next/prev, maybe a list of slides that I could jump to) - I'm not a big fan of NextGEN which seems to be the most popular way to go. Just looking for something super simple. Any suggestions?

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if you dont mind to pay for it ( >30$ ) then you might find something on codecanyon.net – ungestaltbar Jan 31 '12 at 22:50
Portfolio Slideshow Pro can combine images and YouTube/Vimdeo slides in the same slideshow: madebyraygun.com/wordpress/plugins/portfolio-slideshow-pro. Full disclosure, I wrote it, I don't know if recommending my own plugin is bad form. – Dalton Jul 25 '12 at 12:59

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I don't know about plugins since I avoid them whenever possible, but take a look to http://www.gmarwaha.com/jquery/jcarousellite/ or my personal favorite Step Carousel Viewer from dynamicdrive.com. With both of them you can simply define what content are you going to show You can further refine the content with custom fields or special conditional templates, for example, if it's in category video you can include the video template, and if it's in category pictures you can include a post thumbnail as big as your slider panel is. Well, guess youu get the point.

And of course, both scripts are 100% free and way more customizable than any plugin, so as long as you know what you're doing, this should be perfect for you :)

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Thanks Fabio - I have also used jQuery Cycle a bunch of times, which I really like - but was hoping to save the time of writing my own WP plugin based on this. Especially since this would seem to me like something other people would want. There has been at least one other post on this site about a plugin (to make something similar to Huffington Post's slider) but haven't found a good solution. May just have to roll my own... – Tim Feb 1 '12 at 3:37

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