Image galleries, slider and slideshows provide a good user experience and make viewing images more pleasant and intuitive on your website. With the advent of powerful JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, Prototype, Mootools etc., the quality of JavaScript based image galleries and slideshows have improved dramatically. Here are 55 most powerful jQuery plugins which you can easily use to create an image gallery/slideshow for your website.

jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow

This is a jQuery banner rotator plugin featuring multiple transitions. The thumbnails and buttons allow for easy navigation of your banners/ads. The banner rotator is also re-sizable and configurable through the plugin’s parameters.

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RoyalSlider – Touch-Enabled jQuery Image Gallery

RoyalSlider is easy to use jQuery image gallery and content slider plugin with animated captions, responsive layout and touch support for mobile devices. As navigation you can use thumbnails, tabs or bullets. Use it as image slider, slideshow, HTML content slider, gallery, banner rotator, video gallery, carousel or even presentation. Build in best practises of HTML5 , CSS3 transitions are used for all animations (with fallback).

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Estro – jQuery Ken Burns & swipe effect slider

This jQuery plugin uses unobstrusive javascript to transform a block of simple HTML markup into a georgous elegant slider, which can be completely customized using HTML5 data attributes. The markup is valid HTML5 and SEO optimzied, with all content always being available to search engines. When using this plugin, your page layout will be consistent even if javascript has been disabled.

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Advanced Slider – jQuery XML slider

Advanced Slider is one of the best (probably even the best!) jQuery sliders on the market, built to be used in a wide range of contexts.Advanced Slider is fully responsive, mobile-ready, SEO -friendly, and offers you the option to use either HTML markup or XML . The plugin also provides an easy to use API which will allow you to further enhance the functionality of the slider and will make it possible to integrate it into your own application.

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LayerSlider – The Parallax Effect Slider

This is a jQuery content slider using the famous parallax-effect! 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.

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AviaSlider – jQuery Slideshow

AviaSlider is a very flexible and easy to use Image slideshow plugin for jQuery with a set of really unique transitions that were nver available before, as well as some basic transitions, so the slider will fit into every project.It comes with an image preloader so the slider starts when images are ready to be shown.

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jQuery Banner Rotator / Content Slider / Carousel

Advanced Jquery Slider which comes in 5 flavors: Banner Rotator, Thumbnails Banner, Banner with Playlist, Content Slider, Carousel. It allows you to easily create powerful sliders with animated text using HTML standard tags, making the slider very easy to setup and maintain.

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Sexy Slider

SexySlider is a JQuery plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript Sliders with very nice transition effects.

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jQuery Slider Evolution

Slider Evolution is a JQuery plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript sliders with very nice transition effects. Enhance your website by adding a unique and attractive slider!Create an unlimited number of sliders with customized settings for each one, and place them anywhere on your website with ease.

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DDSlider – 10 Transitions – Inline Content Support

DDSlider introduces a new easy-to-go slider with 9 different unique transitions (+fading & random—11 total) that support Inline Content.

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jQuery Horizontal Image Scroller w/ Lightbox

This is a jQuery image scroller with lightbox. The scroll bar/indexes and directional buttons allow for easy navigation of your image gallery.

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li JQuery Slider/Image Rotator

jQuery Image Slider / Banner Image Rotator is carefully crafted slider/image rotator, full of features, very easy to install and customize. Whenever you need a full featured slider image rotator or you need a simple ad banner, li jQuery Image slider will do the job with ease!This robust and yet elegant guy, has everything you need to build your next “to-impress” image slider.

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TouchCarousel – jQuery Content Scroller and Slider

TouchCarousel is mobile-friendly and lightweight jQuery content scroller with touch navigation for mobile and desktop. May be used as carousel, banner rotator and image gallery.

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FSS – Full Screen Sliding Website Plugin

FSS is a jQuery plugin for creating full screen sliding websites. The live preview is just a sample of what can be accomplished with FSS .

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Accordionza – jQuery Plugin

Accordionza is a very flexible and lightweight jQuery (v1.4+) accordion plugin.

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siteFeature

siteFeature is an unobtrusive jQuery plugin that simplifies the creation of an interactive.

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jQuery Carousel Evolution

jQuery Carousel Evolution is a jQuery plugin that allows you to easily create powerfull carousel slider using HTML markup. The plugin also provides an easy to use API which will allow to further enhance the functionality of the carousel.

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Boutique carousel

A ready to use jQuery slider/carousel to present your images in a unique, smooth and customizable way.

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UnoSlider – Responsive Touch Enabled Slider

UnoSlider is a jQuery content slider plugin with an unlimited transition animations (really, unlimited!) and a wide range of a features like touch enabled, mobile optimized interface, animated layers, responsiveness and a lot of other features.

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jQuery Homepage Banner Slideshow / Product viewer

This file is suitable for homepage banner, slideshow, product viewer, Gallery even though you can use as an intro. All animations are customizable so it suitable for any type of banners. You can use any number of layer on each slider.

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jQuery Image Gallery

This is an image gallery jQuery plugin featuring a horizontal thumbnail layout. The sliding thumbnails and buttons allow for easy navigation of your image portfolio.

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KenBurner Slider jQuery Plugin

Kenburner is the premium way of using a slider in your website. A combination of Ken Burns Effect, state-of-the-art Slider and Text Animations defines this slider.Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very needs. Give each slider some captions to transport your message.

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M.I.N.I Touchable Showcase & Portfolio Slider 8in1

Mini – jQuery Showcase and Portfolio Slider Plugin is not only one but unlimited(!) way of showing your items and contents in a stylish way.

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Showbiz Business Carousel jQuery Plugin

This is a highly customizable plugin to show you or your customer’s services, portfolio items, blog contents… basically all business information thinkable.

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ZoomShowcase – A jQuery Banner Rotator

Looking for a different kind of jQuery banner? ZoomShowcase is a unique jQuery Banner that will add a fresh look to your website.

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Responsive KenBurner Slider jQuery Plugin

Responsive KenBurner Slider jQuery Plugin is the premium way of using a slider in your website. A combination of Ken Burns Effect, state-of-the-art Slider, Text Animations and Responsive rebuilding defines this slider.

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mbSlider

mbSlider is a multi-purpose, highly customizable content slider. It can slide anything from videos and images, to iframes, flash and html markup. What really makes mbSlider is its customizability. mbSlider has over 18 customizable properties from slide direction, slide speed and animation easing to dynamically generated controls and pagination, slide orientation and customizable return to start animation.

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BLADES jQuery – A jQuery Banner Rotator

BLADES jQuery is a flexible jQuery banner rotator that makes an impression. Easy to customize with several options including 5 unique transitions, BLADES jQuery is the type of banner that can easily headline your next project.

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jquery Slider Ken Burns Effect Fully Responsive

Ken Burns Sliders Full Collection comes in 4 versions: Fixed Dimensions, Full Width, Full Screen and SideBar.

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Jawdropper Slider

Jawdropper Slider is a jQuery image slider that comes with some really unusual transition effects.

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Zuper Responsive Multitouch Slider

This Zuper Slider uses unobtrusive javascript and a powerful configuration panel for effects and design elements to transform a block of simple HTML markup into a beautiful elegant slider. When we create the Zuper Slider is lightweight, fast loading, mobile ready, responsive, easy to use,has multiple skins and much more. Zuper Slider is the most complex and powerful slider that you can use.

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jQuery Image Slider Plugin

This is a jQuery plugin that creates a scrollable image list out of an HTML unordered list of images. By default, each item will open a link, but it can be easily integrated with third party plugins (e.g. lightbox or similar plugins).

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AsyncSlider

It’s an innovative jQuery content slider with asynchronous move of each elements for each slide. Plenty of options are available to customize and make your slider unique to other ones.

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Elegant carousel

Elegant carousel is a carousel slider with two different effects. You can also choose between 2 orientation.

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i’Slider – infinity loop slider!

i’Slider created to be a simple but effective instrument which can be used to solve a wide range of problems.

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jQuery Timeline Slider

Timeline Slider is the definitive plugin to build your history timelines. Its main configuration can be
easily customized due to its compact config parameters, directly from the html file. Also more configurations can be edited through the css style sheet file. It comes with 2 skins, Dark, Light, to make easy the integration on your web project. The powerful jQuery library makes this component cross-platform.

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WeatherSlider – jQuery animated weather widget

This is a beautiful weather slider widget with animated weather effects and 48 weather types.

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Rama – The jQuery Slider Plugin

Rama – The jQuery Slider Plugin animates your image and text slides with transition effects of the wide library (21 transition and 10 object animation effects available). Easy installation, state-of-the-art transitions and text animations define the freshline style.

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Evo Slider Pro – jQuery Slider Plugin

Evo Slider is an all in one jQuery slider that lets you create any type of content slider and give you the flexibility to use it in a variety of ways – whether you’re building anything from an image gallery, to a banner rotator and lots of things in-between.

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Paradigm Slider jQuery Plugin

Paradigm Slider jQuery Touchable Plugin – The premium way of using a slider in your website.A combination of Parallax Effect, state-of-the-art Slider and Text Animations defines this slider.

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ImgSlider

ImgSlider is a jQuery plugin that simplifies the animation of images when hovered. Ideal for featured posts, banner ads, popular products, etc.

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jQuery Marquee Animation Plugin

Marquee Animation is a jQuery plugin by Fusiondevs.com for creating amazing animated marquees using jQuery and jQuery.easing frameworks.It supports the use of text and images as part of the animation, and does not interfere with div blocks classes, allowing the designer to customize the marquee without limitation.

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Before-After Slider&Banner jQuery Plugin

Before-After allows you to place two images on top of each other and use a draggable slider to hide and reveal each image. This is especially useful for highlighting a Before/After makeover or Untouched/Photoshopped images side by side.We build a slider around this feature to build a unique showcase of sets of Before and After pictures.

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Thumbnail Scroller (jQuery Plugin)

A very customizable jQuery Plugin, that can be edited from a HTML , JSON or XML files. The scroller is completely resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (compatible with iOS & Android).

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Briliant Web Boxes – Multi Task

This item was made by taking all web 2.0 standards into account and has many stunning and unique usages and effects which you will not find anywhere else, takingadvantage of multi task capabilities.

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Slider Revolution Responsive jQuery Plugin

This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects. All customization can be handled via jQuery Options, HTML 5 data-attributes and CSS !

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Saloon – The jQuery Banner Rotator Plugin

Saloon – The jQuery Banner Rotator animates your image and text slides with transition effects of the wide library. Easy installation, state-of-the-art transitions and text animations define the freshline style. See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page!

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Timeliner

A jQuery plugin that enables you to easily create slideshow presentations showing the progress in an animating timeline. The slides can contain any content and can be skipped and paused.

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jQuery UniSlider

The jQuery UniSlider plugin adds an elegant and sleek slider feature to your pages, You can use it as an images slideshow, or put any html content to slide.There are many features, options, events and methods included, easy to customize and implement.

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jQuery Tweet Rotator / Slideshow

Tweet Rotator gets the latest Tweets from a user, a hashtag or another search operator and publishes it in an interactive banner. It is completely written in JavaScript using the jQuery framework.

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Multipurpose Bookshelf Slider – jQuery Plugin

Multipurpose Bookshelf Slider is useful for displaying products such as books, magazines, dvd/cd and others. It’s a way to showcase products in an attractive manner. Features of “lightbox” to display images, videos (Youtube and Vimeo) and content with iframe.

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Point of ViUU

This perspective slideshow plugin using jQuery framework is really flexible, you can use it as an original carousel that will fit all kind of projects.With 4 differents orientations display in one unique plugin.

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JQuery Stack Banner Slideshow with Captions

Use this sexy and stylish banner slideshow to spice up your website. Place images, inline HMTL content, media (video etc) vie prettyphoto inside the slider.

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Dab News Slider

Dab News Slider is a mootools based slider which rotates the news in a very nice way.It is very customizable so you can theme it yourself as you want,can change the time for which a news will appear,the time in which the news change.

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Diamond Slider – Ken Burns Image Slideshow

Diamond is highly customizable and powerful image slider carefully crafted to enrich website and target wide spectrum of applications.

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