Parallax scrolling sites have been a pretty hot UX thing of late, being showcased on various blogs. To help you choose a plugin for doing this sort of thing, in this post I’ve put together a list of WordPress parallax slider effect plugins to choose from.
WP Parallax Content Slider
WP Parallax Content Slider is a plugin which adds automatically a content slider of your last posts where you want on your WordPress blog or website. This plugin is written upon the code of Manoella Ilic, you can see the simple JQuery and CSS version here. Transitions between slides are made using a powerfull combination of CSS3 and JQuery to display a beautiful parallax effect.
LayerSlider
LayerSlider is the most advanced Responsive jQuery Slider Plugin with the famous Parallax Effect and optional 3D Transitions! You can create as many layers and sublayers as you want. You can use images or any other HTML elements, including Flash movies as layers. The script is very user-friendly, you can add global settings or local (per slide) settings to each layer or sublayer. You can change delay times, easing types, durations and much more with the WYSIWYG editor!
Slider Revolution
Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin is incredibly responsive plug-in that works across a wide range of dimensions and widths. It also offers a big selection of transitions and is highly customizable with regard to captions. The navigation styles include arrows, thumbs and bullets. Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin also offers advanced API features and comes complete with a full setup screencast. Experience this highly useful plug-in today and increase your slider’s functionality.
Paradigm
The premium way of using a slider in your WordPress website. A combination of Parallax Effect, state-of-the-art Slider and Text Animations defines this slider. Customize unlimited sliders with our own Drag&Drop Slider Editor to your very needs. Give each slider a parallax caption to transport your message. Touch swipe for iOS and Android mobile devices is of course included. So it works on every modern browser (including IE7 /8) and on mobile devices.
slider4all
Slider4all is a plugin created for CMS WordPress. This user friendly plugin comes with a simple and clearly organized administration. You can put it to your website as a widget or use shortcodes. Responsive parallax slider plugin Slider4all offers a wide range of animations and transitions so you’ll no doubt choose the one for you and be able to create fascinating animations. Slider4all can also be set as a content or custom slider, each of these coming with several types of themes to accommodate to the design of your website.
PX Slider
Try this an awesome Parallax Slider. Cool plugin plugin to add a parallax effect to your web page.
