As of April 2026, Home Page Slideshow is a WordPress home plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Easy Custom Auto Excerpt.
5/53 reviews
100active installs
15K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
This plugin creates a “Home Slideshow” options page under the “Settings” menu in the WordPress admin. Editors and admins can create and manage individual slides on this page. These slides can then be displayed as a dynamic slideshow on a site’s home page using the simple ‘[home_slideshow]’ shortcode. (View an example slideshow)
The plugin supports one optional “options” shortcode attribute:
[home_slideshow options="timeout=5000"]
options: This attribute can be used to override default slideshow options or set custom options. Attribute values use query string format, e.g.: ‘option1=value1&option2=value2’ etc. Option names are in standard Cycle2 format without ‘data-cycle-‘ prefix. See the Cycle2 website for documentation and suppor…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2
- Minor display improvements
Contributors
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