As of April 2026, JJ NextGen JQuery Slider is a WordPress image plugin with 900 active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 129K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
4.3/54 reviews
900active installs
129K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
The ‘JJ NextGen JQuery Slider’ allows you to create a ‘Nivo slider’ (http://nivo.dev7studios.com/) as a widget or as a shortcode.
This plugin uses the ‘NextGen Gallery’ plugin for its images.
Requirements:
- NextGen Gallery Plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)
NextGen Gallery Integration:
- This plugin uses the original width and height of the image uploaded so make sure the images are the correct dimensions when uploaded.
- Alt & Title Text Field: Provide a full url here and the image will link to this. Only works if alt field starts with either of these; /, http, or ftp.
- Description Field: Will be used as a caption.
You can specify the following parameters:
NOTE: sc means shortcode:
- Title: Title for slider. Leave blank for…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.34 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
- 1.3.9: Trying to get wordpress to update properly.
- 1.3.8: Tag filter now works with max picture limit.
- 1.3.7: Ability to filter results by tags. (Thanks to #henare)
- 1.3.6: Got rid of border on image and added alt text even though alt text its pretty useless for nivo slider but should validate. (#Chad)
- 1.3.5: Arrow fix. Make sure stylesheets and javascript is refreshed. (AGAIN!)
- 1.3.4: Arrow fix. Make sure stylesheets and javascript is refresh…
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