WOW Slider Changelog

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;