What's new in WOW Slider 9.0
Dec 13, 2019
- New templates: Angular, Epsilon, Stream, Utter, Dodgy
- New effects: Shift, Louvers, Cube Over, TV
- Added new hi-res slide sizes: 4K, FullHD, 1600x900 etc.
- Improved image quality
- Support for retina screens
- GUI translation for Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish languages
- Minor fixes
New in WOW Slider 8.8 (Aug 4, 2017)
- New templates: Angular, Epsilon, Stream, Utter
- New effect: Shift
- Support for retina screens
- Fixed bugs with adding slides from Youtube and Flickr
- Minor fixes
New in WOW Slider 8.7 (Jan 21, 2016)
- New templates: Angular, Epsilon
- Support for retina screens
- Fixed bugs with adding slides from Youtube and Flickr
- Minor fixes
New in WOW Slider 8.6 (Sep 23, 2015)
- GUI translation for Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish languages
New in WOW Slider 8.4 (Aug 12, 2015)
- New templates: Angular, Epsilon
- New effect: Turn
- GUI translation for Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish languages
- Wordpress plugin is updated for latest version
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 8.2 (May 28, 2015)
- New templates: Angular, Stream, Utter, Dodgy, Boundary
- New effects: Turn, Shift * Google Drive export
- Now you can add targets "_parent" and "_top" to your links
- Added support for Joomla 3.x versions
- Fixed import from Youtube
New in WOW Slider 8.0 (Apr 29, 2015)
- New templates: Stream, Utter
- New effect: Shift
- Now you can publish your sliders to Google Drive
New in WOW Slider 7.8 (Mar 24, 2015)
- New templates: Boundary, Dodgy
- New fonts: Lora, Indie Flower
- Updated Cube Over effect
- PNG images with "Image fill color" bug fixed
New in WOW Slider 7.7 (Mar 3, 2015)
- New templates: Rhomb, Zippy
- New effects: Louvers, Cube Over
- New fonts: Bitter, Khula
- jQuery updated to 1.11.2
- Fixed some problems with playing audio
New in WOW Slider 7.5 (Jan 29, 2015)
- New templates: Convex, Fill
- New effects: Lines, TV
- New color and font size option for the description
- Fixed problem with adding sound files
New in WOW Slider 7.4 (Jan 12, 2015)
- New templates: Absent, Material
- New custom font option for the description
New in WOW Slider 7.3 (Dec 16, 2014)
- New effects: Lines, Carousel, Carousel Basic
- New beautiful templates: Cursive, Slim, Bootstrap, Showy
- Improved 'Insert to page' wizard with new interface
- Now you can set the description effect to 'none'
- New custom font option for the description
New in WOW Slider 6.7 (Oct 9, 2014)
- Brand-new GUI - New right templates/effects panel and Live Preview window. See exactly how the slider will look "on-fly"
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 6.6 (Sep 23, 2014)
- New fantastic Glass Parallax, Bubbles, Dribbles effects and Twist skin
- New Traces animation for descriptions
- Now you can select several transitions for one slider and they will play randomly
- Improved Seven, Photo, Kenburns, Squares effects - now much smoother
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 6.2 (Sep 5, 2014)
- Support for Full-Width, Full-Screen layout
- New Parallax effect for slides and descriptions
- New "Animated" template
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 6.1 (Aug 14, 2014)
- Support for YouTube and Vimeo video
- App interface face-lift - more flat and convenient
- Fixed import from Photobucket
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 5.6 (Jul 22, 2014)
- New 3D effect: Brick
- New skin: Transparent
- Improved touch-swipe support for native-like mobile experience
- Most of effects are rewritten to use the hardware-accelerated animations
- Wordpress plugin updated
- Some errors fixed
New in WOW Slider 5.5 (Jun 17, 2014)
- New skins: Megalopolis, Puzzle and Contour
- Fixed problems with photo hostings
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 5.4 (Jun 17, 2014)
- New skins: Gentle, Easy and Tick
- Support for music on mobile devices. Just slide image to start the playing. Please see our demo with music
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 5.3 (Apr 9, 2014)
- New effects: Photo and Collage
- New skin: Grafito
- Improved the transition performance on mobile devices
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 5.1 (Mar 7, 2014)
- New templates: Grafito, Strict and Galaxy
- New transition effects: Photo and Collage
- Improved the performance of transition effects on mobile devices
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 5.0 (Feb 12, 2014)
- New templates: Emerald, Glass and Turquoise
- Responsive feature improved: descriptions, navigation arrows and filmstrips adapt to the viewing environment.
New in WOW Slider 4.8 (Oct 31, 2013)
- New templates: Sky, Salient and Dot
- New transition effect: Seven
- Book transition effect is compatible with Internet Explorer 10 now
- Support for .png image files with preserving transparency. Please see our demo with transparent images. To preserve image transparency, you should disable "Image fill color" option at the Gallery->Properties->Images tab.
- Wordpress slider plugin update: support for RTL mode and multi-sites mode; improved compatibility of new transition effects.
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 4.7 (Sep 20, 2013)
- New templates: Pure, Box and Book
- New transition effect: Book
New in WOW Slider 4.5 (Sep 20, 2013)
- New template: Fresh
- New transition effect: Cube
New in WOW Slider 4.4 (Sep 20, 2013)
- New templates: Ionosphere, Luxury
New in WOW Slider 4.3 (Aug 8, 2013)
- New template: Sunny
- Updated transition effect: Page
New in WOW Slider 4.1 (Jul 23, 2013)
- New demos: Premium, Gothic, Chess
- New transition effects: Page and Domino
- Pause/Play option
- Pause/play button
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 4.0 (Jul 9, 2013)
- New flat skins: Premium, Gothic, Chess
- New flat image sliders
- Improved templates: Metro, Balance.
- New languages for site: Portuguese Brazilian, Dutch
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 3.9 (Jun 24, 2013)
- New templates: Metro, Geometric and Elegant
- Improved templates: Plastic, Cloud and Calm.
New in WOW Slider 3.7 (May 22, 2013)
- New templates: Surface and Vernisage
- Now you can share your slider on Facebook:
- New languages for site: Spanish, French and Italian
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 3.4 (Apr 10, 2013)
- New templates: Plastic and Flat
- Now you can export your slider as a joomla 2.5 module
- New languages for site: German, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Swedish, Japanese and Dutch
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 3.3 (Apr 10, 2013)
- New templates: Studio and Push
- Background music for slideshow (mp3 file)
- Updated Wordpress plugin
- Improved support for old IE (IE6,7,8)
- Minor GUI changes
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 3.0 (Feb 27, 2013)
- New templates: Balance, Cloud, Drive, Subway
- Support for new jQuery 1.9
- Single-line iframe embed code. When you "publish to folder", the app additionally creates iframe_index.html containing the Single-line iframe code to embed to your page.
- Use this method to ease the slider insertion or prevent possible CSS/JS conflicts
- Filmstrip scroll speed reduced with large number of thumbnails
- Support for .png image files
- Fade effect for description
- "Image fill color" option was added. Now you can control the color of empty areas around the images
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 2.8 (Jan 8, 2013)
- New templates: Silence, Dominion, Calm
- Updated Wordpress plugin
- Compatibility of "Filmstrip" with iOS and Android was improved
- Minor fixes
New in WOW Slider 2.7 (Nov 9, 2012)
- Updated Wordpress plugin
- Minor fixes
New in WOW Slider 2.6 (Nov 9, 2012)
- New templates: Prime Time, Dark Matter, Catalyst, Catalyst Digital
- "Random order" option to play slides randomly
- "Filmstrip" option for thumbnails with touch swipe support
- "Thumbnail size" option
New in WOW Slider 2.5 (Sep 26, 2012)
- New Quiet template
- New Rotate effect
- New Elastic Move effect for description
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 2.2 (May 15, 2012)
- WOWSlider is fully responsive now, see responsive slider demo
- (This feature works with some limitations in IE6 and with Squares and Flip effects)
- New Elemental template
- New Shady template
- New Numeric template
- Fixed conflict with previously installed sliders in Wordpress
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 2.1 (May 15, 2012)
- Fully accessible as a pure CSS slider, if the Javascript is turned off
- Improved import to Wordpress
- New Aqua template
- New Flip effect
- "Delay between slides" and "Effect duration" maximum increased to 60 sec
- "Use relative paths to image in project" option
- "On-demand image loading" option - good for slow servers or large number of images (see 100+ slides jQuery Slideshow Demo)
- Option to set page color
- Parameter to start from specified image or random image:
- add 'startSlide' parameter in engine1/script.js
- startSlide:Math.round(Math.random()*99999)
- Parameter to run slideshow in specified or random order: add 'onBeforeStep' parameter in engine1/script.js
- onBeforeStep: function(curIdx,count){ return (curIdx+1 + Math.floor((count-1)*Math.random())) }
- Image settings panel is always visible:
- Updated translations: Bulgarian, Finnish, Gujarati, Indonesian, Montenegrin, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Ukraine
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 2.0 (Dec 13, 2011)
- New transition effect - Blur
- New template - Terse
- "Remove frame and shadow" option
- Sinhalese interface translations
- Major an minor fixes
New in WOW Slider 1.9 (Oct 4, 2011)
- Now you can save your slider as a Wordpress slider plugin.
- Improved Ken Burns effect - now much smoother
- Option to disable a right-click on slides:
- set 'preventCopy' parameter in engine1/wowslider.js to '1' to prevent right-click on slider images.
- Japanese and Hebrew interface translations
- Now you can add more than one slider to Joomla
- Improved support for swipe touch events for iOs / Android
- "stopOn" parameter - defines the number of slide to stop on.
- Add 'stopOn: 2' parameter to the engine1/script.js file and specify number of the slide you want the slider to stop on
- List for target parameter added
- Major an minor fixes
New in WOW Slider 1.7 (Sep 6, 2011)
- New transition effects - Stack, Stack vertical and Basic linear;
- New templates - Digit and Mac:
- Now you can stop slider after one loop :
- Now you can specify target for images links in WOW Slider app:
- Support for swipe touch events for iPhone / iPad / Android
- Bug fixes
New in WOW Slider 1.5 (Sep 6, 2011)
- New transition effect - Ken Burns;
- Now you can control position of navigation bullets one the page:
- Now you can pause slider on mouseover:
- Improvements in 'Insert to Page' wizard: now you can specify unique ID for the each slider and add several sliders to one page
New in WOW Slider 1.3 (Sep 6, 2011)
- Now you can create thumbnail preview for bullet navigation
- Also you can export Joomla! module for you Joomla! website.
- Picasa support. Add Picassa album or a single photo to your slider gallery.
- Description support for Photobucket and Flickr
New in WOW Slider 1.1 (Sep 6, 2011)
- New transition effects - Slices, Fly and Blast;
- New templates - Flux, Pinboard and Mellow;