You've seen a number of sites with a custom slider showing all types of great content in one place. This is a great way to spruce up your homepage and show off blog posts and other types of content on your site. If you use WordPress, you can easily add a featured content slider to your website.
<h2>Choosing the Plugin</h2>
A featured content slider may come with your WordPress theme, but if not, you will need the right plugin. There are quite a few choices and you want to make sure you choose the one that fits your specific needs. Once you have the right plugin, you can simply follow the instructions to make the slider active on your website.
<h2>Easing Slider</h2>
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The <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easing-slider/">Easing Slider</a> plugin provides a good option and it's free. You can choose from different image sources and use multiple styling choices to make this slider fit your site perfectly.
<h2>Meteor Slides</h2>
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If you want a plugin that is easy to use and makes it easy to manage your slideshows, this is the one for you. It's powered by JQuery Cycle and provides more than 20 styles to choose from. Using the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/meteor-slides/">Meteor Slide</a> plugin is free.
<h2>Content Slider by SlideDeck</h2>
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One of the best choices for your slider is the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/slidedeck-lite-for-wordpress/">Content Slider by SlideDeck Plugin</a>. This plugin comes in a lite version free of charge and has an upgrade with even more features. The lite version has many free skins and will automatically add posts from your WordPress site.
<h2>Soliloquy</h2>
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One of the best choices you can use is &gt;a href="http://soliloquywp.com/"&gt;Soliloquy. This isn't a free plugin and does come with a cost depending on how many sites you plan to use it on. However, it will allow you to use many addons and will provide more features than most free plugins.

All of these slider plugins work well for a featured content slider on your WordPress website. Make sure you research each one and choose the right option for your specific needs.