oik-nivo-slider

[nivo] shortcode for the jQuery Nivo slider; “The Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider”; reputed to be the world’s most popular jQuery image slider.

New features in nivo v1.14.1

• Now supports theme=custom

New feature in nivo v1.14.0

• Add support for link=full, to open the original full sized image rather than the selected thumbnail= size

New feature in nivo v1.12

• Choose the contents of the caption area using the format= parameter

Note: The format parameter was first made available for the [bw_pages] shortcode and is also supported in [bw_cycle]; both part of the oik base plugin.

Features of jQuery Nivo 3.2

• Flexible slider
• 16 transition effects
• 4 responsive slider themes
• Built in directional and control navigation
• Thumbnail image navigation

See also Nivo Slider for more information about the jQuery Nivo code.

Features of the oik nivo slider WordPress plugin

• [nivo] lazy smart shortcode
• Displays attached images
• Displays images attached to related content
• Profile for nivo slider settings
• Display slideshows with/without links
• Display slideshows with/without captions
• Displays slideshows with HTML captions, using the format= parameter
• Transition effect can be defined in the shortcode
• Supports custom links to your content
• Supports jQuery Nivo 3.2 for responsive sliders
• nivo slider can be put into any part of your website: content, header, footer and sidebar text widgets
• 1 additional responsive slider theme
• Supports jQuery Nivo 2.7.1 for backward compatibility
• 4 additional themes for jQuery Nivo 2.7.1
• Works with existing content, does not add its own custom post type
• Uses the oik plugin’s shortcode API for lazy smart shortcodes
• The [nivo] shortcode is interchangeable with other oik shortcodes such as [bw_images], [bw_thumbs] or [bw_pages]
• Supports display of images from a NextGEN gallery, using a “special post type” of nggallery.
• Supports display of a plugin’s screenshots
• Supports display of images with fancybox

Note: oik-nivo-slider is dependent upon the oik plugin.
You can activate it but it will not function correctly unless the pre-requisite version of oik is also activated.
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Further reading

If you want to read more about the oik plugins then please visit the
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