“Nex” – Blazing Fast Fullscreen Slider
General Overview
Nex slider is a blazing fast fullscreen slider optimized for best performances and compatible with all platforms. It allows you to embed images, videos and even google maps in the same slider.
This is the WordPress implenetation of this plugin
It’s speed is based upon the fact that it is based on the Animo library which implements custom features from modern browsers like “requestAnimationFrame” and “Gpu Acceleration”
Intuitive
Easy to understand controls
Draggable Slides
A lot of customization options
Key Features
- Beginner Friendly
- Comes with a lot of settings
- Touch Support
- Keyboard Support
- Pattern Support
- Easy to manage sliders and slides
- 10 types of effects:
- Fade
- Slide from left
- Slide from right
- Slide from top
- Slide from bottom
- Zoom
- Skew
- Rotate
- Random
- None
- Support of image filters: brightness,contrast,grayscale,hue-rotate,saturate,sepia. (Note that they currently are working only under chrome, opera and safari)
- Different Content types: image, video, map
- Customizeable map style: ROADMAP, SATELLITE, HYBRID, TERRAIN
- Customizable maps: zoom size, show infowindow, or hide it
- Video Support from youtube and vimeo AND HTML5 videos!
- 2 types of thumbnails: circles and squares
- Compressed and uncompressed files
Credits
Big thanks to Joanna Kustra which allowed me to use her awesome images in the slider
Licenses:
jQuery – Released under the MIT license
Animo Library written by me (Rise Ledger). Released under the MIT license
Google Maps – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Update History
Version 1.1.7 — September 3th, 2013
- NEW FEATURE: added touch support - NEW FEATURE: added keyboard support
Version 1.0.0 — August 30th, 2013
- Nex Release Version