bxSlider for WordPress integrates the great responsive content slider bxSlider jQuery plugin in your very own WordPress site. Galleries are turned into beautiful sliders, but you can also roll you own sliders using special shortcode. The best thing is that you are not limited to the number of sliders or galleries per page, you can have as many as you want!

Why should you use this slider? I'll quote the bxSlider's website:

• Fully responsive - will adapt to any device
• Horizontal, vertical, and fade modes
• Slides can contain images, video, or HTML content
• Advanced touch / swipe support built-in
• Uses CSS transitions for slide animation (native hardware acceleration!)
• Full callback API and public methods
• Small file size, fully themed, simple to implement
• Browser support: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, iOS, Android, IE7+

Why isn't bxSlider's XXXXX option available in the plugin's settings page or shortcode?

I have not yet found the use of all the bxSlider options. If you need to access any of them, please open a new topic in the plugin support forum, I will add that option as soon as possible.

You can in the meantime use the shortcode parameter "extra_options" (or the setting to have those parameters set for every gallery/slider).

1.7.2 (2015/03/02)

• New: Better structure for the plugin sources and release system
• New: Be part of our translator community at wp-translations.org

1.6.0 (2014/05/15)

• New: Added a parameter to the gallery and bx-gallery shortcodes to specify image size and thumbnail size to use (respectively defaults to 'full' and 'thumbnail')

1.5.3 (2014/04/23)

• New: Tested with WordPress 3.9
• New: Updated bxSlider script from version 4.1 to version 4.1.2
• Fix: a javascript syntax error on sliders

1.5.2 (2014/04/10)

• The sliders get assigned to a JS variable so they can be re-used somewhere else (for instance to reload the slider)

1.5.1 (2014/01/17)

• Added an option to avoid adding the bxSlider javascript when the theme (or another plugin) already includes it

1.5.0 (2013/11/06)

• Added a shortcode to shuffle the gallery images.
• Fixed URLs when using an alternate wp-content folder

1.4.2 (2013/08/20)

• Fixed typo in javascript and css links.

1.4.1 (2013/07/29)

• Fixed bug where some settings from 1.4.0 were switched between slider and gallery shortcodes.

1.4.0 (2013/07/17)

• Added an option to set the duration of slides
• Added an option to set the speed of transitions
• Added an advanced option to directly inject javascript bxSlider options

1.3.3 (2013/05/06)

• Fixed bug with translations not properly loaded
• Added French translation

1.3.2 (2013/04/30)

• Updated the documentation

1.3.1 (2013/04/25)

• Fix for an error occuring on the latest WordPress 3.6 build

1.3.0 (2013/04/11)

• Added an option and a shortcode parameter to set the transition type (fade/slide horizontally/fade vertically)

1.2.0 (2013/04/09)

• Added an option and a shortcode parameter to enable/disable adaptive height
• Added an option and a shortcode parameter to enable/disable slideshow automatic start

1.1.1 (2013/04/08)

• Fixed a bug on activation ([function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in bxslider-integration/includes/core-classes/settings.class.php)

1.1.0 (2013/03/29)

• Added a template function to output the post gallery from within a theme
• Added an option to exclude the post featured image from its gallery
• Added a generic slider shortcode
• Corrected a bug in attachment listing (images incorrectly pulled)

1.0.0 (2013/03/29)

• First plugin release.
• Replaces the default WordPress galleries with nice ones using the bxSlider jQuery plugin

Nothing special, just upload the files, activate and you can then visit the settings page if you want. Really, it's just like any other simple plugin.