Home page slide show for WordPress

A classic, designer look free slide show for your WordPress homepage. This WordPress home page slide show plug-in can also be used as news slider. Home page slide show plug-in for WordPress is free and highly customizable. You can customize all start and end gradient colors, font colors, font sizes, scroll speed, auto slider time. This free image slideshow is re-sizable as usual and the corner radius can be customizable. If you want the square corners (like the slide show in the below) just make corner radius as 0(zero). The visual documentation below will be useful to you to map the customizable parts of this beautiful WordPress plug-in.

  1. Download the Plugins
  2. Login to your wordpress/wp-admin
  3. Go to Plugins > Click on Add new>Upload
  4. Click on Browse and locate “wp-homepage-slideshow.zip” plugin click on Upload file and click on Install
  5. Click on plugin “Activate" to enable the plugin.
  6. click on the "Home Page Slide Show settings" on leftside menu in admin side and Configure the width, height, font sizes, colors, background colors etc..
  7. Still if you have problems in using this plugin please open a support ticket at http://support.xmlswf.com

How to use it as a widget


After installing "homepage slideshow" plugin in your theme just follow below instructions
  1. Go to Appearance > Widgets, we can simply drag & drop "Homepage Slideshow" widget where ever you want to display it.
  2. To configure your slideshow settings click on "Homepage slideshow settings" on the leftside, and edit settings and click on "make config.xml" button.
  3. If you want display this widget on any certain pages of your site just you need to install "widget-context" (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-context) plugin .

How to use plug-in in pages/posts


After installing "homepage slideshow" plugin, follow the instructions below.
  1. Use the shortcode [homepage_slideshow] on any page/post editors from admin To display this slideshow on your posts/pages, for more info see screenshot screen shot

How to use plug-in in the template code


After installing "homepage slideshow" plugin, follow the instructions below.
  1. Open your theme php file and add the line <?php echo do_shortcode('[homepage_slideshow]');?> where ever you like to show the slide show.




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